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It was high summer in 1984, and snowbirds had fled back up north from spending the winter in Reddick, Florida, just north of Ocala. Insects buzzed in the field, and all was quiet; too quiet inside the Wayside Antique shop, a two-story, white-washed structure just off I-75.
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The ghost of Duck Pond in Jamaica, N.Y. had been sighted for many years. He'd been frightening people who saw him when he appeared like a "mournful shade from the treetops when there is a ring around the moon." ![]()
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Battlefields hold horrors that only war can bring. Living in a world where death can claim you or your companions at any moment, creates a reality that forever changes all who exist in that moment. But there are things that slink in the hinterlands that wish to cheat every bullet of its prize in order to slake its blood lust. ![]()
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Like Tarzan's hidden home in the Mutia Escarpment with its tales of the elephants' graveyard, in the 1920s explorers found a mysterious place in Africa that became known as the Forbidden Pit. ![]()
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What predator could claim as prey a fully-grown, great white shark? There is only one that comes to mind, but you see it's supposed to be extinct. It is a prehistoric fish known as Carcharodon Megalodon, or as the sailors frequenting the Sea of Cortez have named it, El Demonio Negro (The Black Demon), and according to them it is still very much alive. ![]()
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In 1976, a maniac stalked the women in Nogent-sur-Oise a small town north of Paris. His first victim was claimed in 1969. During the intervening years the killer claimed 8 victims, and left them in run-down railway sidings and patches of bleak waste ground. The residents of the drab council flats were panicked. The press had dubbed the murderer "the killer in the shadows". ![]() by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories A cryptid that originated in American folklore during the 1880s, is an ordinary buzzard with a bell hung around its neck. The sound of its bell was believed to an omen of impending doom. ![]()
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Three women were found dead near the mouth of a cave in Starved Rock State Park, about 100 miles southwest of Chicago. Their bodies were on the floor of the cave in a towering sandstone canyon. They were all housewives without any enemies. ![]()
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On a hot summer night a blue vehicle glided along a narrow road known as the Old Spanish Trail. In the space of a few seconds the quiet was rent as the screech of twisting metal reverberated, and three of six passengers in the automobile met a violent death. One of them was named Jayne Mansfield. ![]()
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The winds were savage, the cold penetrating just below the timberline near La Garita Mountains in Colorado. John C. Fremont looked at his camp where 34 men faced starvation. ![]() by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Could you be a hitman with a sense of humor? Apparently there was one who worked for mobsters in Las Vegas. Rumors are that he would take snitches or those "who knew too much" on a one way trip to the desert, and give them a final resting place next to Spot and Kitty. ![]()
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In 1894, William Edmund Scott Hall sued the Earl of Abingdon over the purchase of property purported to be haunted by Amy Robsart, this supposedly being the place where she died. ![]()
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The battered nude body of a young woman was found by two teenage boys in Illinois Beach State Park, 45 miles north of Chicago. She lay in a ditch along the Chicago and North Western railroad tracks about 40 feet from the park's south entrance. ![]()
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Built in 1619, and located 15 miles south of Albuquerque, the adobe church of San Agustín is one of the two oldest surviving mission churches in New Mexico. However it's not the historical significance, but the identity of a priest buried in the 1700s under the church floor that has drawn visitors for hundreds of years. ![]()
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In Kalkajaka National Park 16 miles southwest of Cooktown (Queensland, Australia), black granite boulders create a maze that lead inside Black Mountain. Throughout the years it has developed a reputation for strange sightings and the disappearance of people without a trace. ![]()
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Long forgotten, mostly hidden in corners of old cemeteries are memorials to the most beloved of companions. No doubt by now, these pets have been reunited with those who grieved over their tiny graves so many years ago. ![]()
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For nearly a year, from December, 1969 to November, 1970, nine unsolved murders were attributed to one perpetrator by northern California police. ![]()
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From July to August 1975, over 25 patients at the Veterans Administration hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan were inexplicably stricken with respiratory crisis events. Some were saved, but 11 died before the doctors realized there was something unnatural about their deaths. ![]()
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Between 1971 and 1973 three young girls were taken, raped and killed. It was theorized the murderer specifically chose them based on their names so that their first name and surname started with the same letter, and the girls' bodies were dumped in parks that started with the same letter as their name. ![]()
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Adam Wenger Oberlin moved to Miami from Ohio in 1919. He invested in real estate and things went well, that is until 1921. ![]()
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It all started when George Pereira was directed by a Tibetan shepherd to the cave of a holy man. Pereira had left in March, 1920 on a marathon walk from Shanghai across Tibet, China and then to the Caspian Sea. He was traversing where none had gone before, and by himself. Several months passed until he arrived at the Tibetan holy man's cave. ![]()
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Is there any truth to the unwritten law that any business built on consecrated grounds is bound to fail? There was one establishment that violated this belief more than any other which were theaters. These are stories where misfortune haunted these places. ![]()
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Skeletons discovered in long-forgotten graveyards provide proof of not only gruesome deaths but the poor quality of life they led. ![]()
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Earl Wiseman, 25, and George Shanks, 44, were serving prison terms at the Missouri State Penitentiary. They were convicted of killing Arthur Robinson in 1934. The only thing left of Arthur was a small pile of human bones and teeth found in the ashes of a huge log fire on the banks of Mingo Ditch, about eight miles southwest of Puxico, just outside his cabin. ![]() by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was the winter of 1894, and in Waltham, Massachusetts many men were unemployed and eager to accept any job, however if the work was to be performed on the Walker estate there were no volunteers. One man said, "I would not undertake it again if they would give me the Walker Estate." |
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