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Some say that men believe in ghosts, in haunted houses and unlucky days as devoutly as they do in the Bible. For old New Yorkers, leases would not be signed if the occupancy was to start on a Saturday, which was considered an unlucky day. Also if a house got the reputation for being haunted, it would stand unoccupied for months.
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In September, 1919, a colony of lepers was offered to Florida by the government. The intention was to setup the colony on Cedar Key.
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In 1930, the water level of the Mississippi River had fallen to a 20-year low, and a bargeman trying to salvage coal found the unexpected.
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In February, 1844, a 12-year-old girl named Mary Johnson was arrested in Lincoln Castle accused of the murder of her two brothers.
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Unlike Lake Superior that never gives up its dead, Lake Mead with its unusual dropping water levels during the summer of 2022, gave up many of its secrets, including those who'd been enjoying a watery grave for at least 40 years.
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Has there ever been definite, incontrovertible proof that an alien race has visited earth? The answer is no, and researchers have a disturbing but plausible explanation why they haven't.
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England known for its ancients houses and ghost stories to go with it, even during modern times had a spate of dark occurrences, that harkened back to it pagan roots.
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Participants dressed in tiger costumes, lash at each other mercilessly in order to draw blood, and have their opponent submit. This is an indigenous tradition made as an offering to the rain god Tlaloc.
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Nearly 30 years ago the body of a teen female was found in the Arizona desert. She was unidentified, and the police department dubbed her Apache Junction Jane Doe. Finally her name and origins became known. She was only one of dozens who spend years unnamed and buried in a potter's field.
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Was it naivete, stupidity or a clash of cultures that led to the death of a young student?
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In 1940, an expedition was proposed to clear up the 75 year old mystery story that told of the frozen body of a climber encased inside an icy tomb on the slopes of Mount Begbie, British Columbia.
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Leonard Karl Humphrey, 35, wanted to be more of an Indian than he was. According to Larry Wickham a policeman who was once his business partner, "He was maybe 1/8 Apache, but he often tried to pass himself off as full-blooded. He was very proud of his Indian blood." However with Humphrey, his pride turned into an obsession especially with an Apache sun-god named Santos which in Spanish translates to saint. Deadly Superstitions by M.P. Pellicer
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Many believe the practice of human sacrifice was found only in ancient and superstitious civilizations. However this belief is not exactly accurate.
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In April, 1979, Dr. Earl S. Patterson, spoke at Conneticut's Meriden Public Library's "Literary Luncbox", a program that featured speakers from the book world. He was promoting his book series Case Books from Hell: Psychiatry and the Occult.
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The Devil's Slide is an infamous section of Highway 1 which is two miles south of Pacifica and it's been eroding since it was opened in 1936.
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Since 1999, a trail of disappearances and the discovery of human remains littered small towns in the South. Was it sheer coincidence or the work of one killer?
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The cult of Abakua (Abaqua, Abacua) originated as early as the 1700s, in West Africa, particularly in the Ivory Coast, Gabon, Liberia and Sierra Leone in Nigeria. It came to the Caribbean, South America and Cuba with slaves in the early 19th century. Its all-male members are known as Ñáñigos, and it's believed they could transform into leopards through the use of witchcraft to kill their enemies.
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In the last days of July, 1902, the body of Ada Wells who lived in a house she rented from Captain Rice, situated just south of the Grand View Hotel building in Titusville, was found lifeless on her cot.
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Buford Hayse Pusser who served as sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee inspired the Walking Tall movies and a television series, based on his image as a vice-fighting lawman. Recent evidence has been found that indicate he murdered his wife Pauline, which he claimed was killed during an assassination attempt against him.
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It was December, 1923, when headlines blasted "Seek 'Cat-Eye Annie' for Surdam Gem Theft". You may ask who is Cat Eye Annie? She was one of the most notorious jewel thieves of the early 20th century
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In October, 1931, a strange discovery was made about 2 miles east of Pasco County near the Snake River bridge. It was the torso of a woman nailed to a telegraph pole.
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It was a week before Halloween, 1966, when a family was found tied up, gagged and slain in their home in the suburbs of Tallahassee. More than five decades have passed and the case remains unsolved.
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In January 1980, Helene Pruszynski, 21, a young news intern was found dead in a field in ranch lands off Daniels Park Road in Englewood, Colorado. Her murder would go unsolved for close to four decades.
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In 1901, a group of French investigators claimed they discovered that the "Boxer atrocities in China were not instigated by the Manchus," but were the result of deliberate machinations of American and European satanists.
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In February, 1974 a man was found dead. His identity was unknown and remained that way. The county medical examiner was usually able to pair a name to remains, "except for an occasional fetus or skeleton found in the Everglades." He's been of those exceptions. |
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