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A new study finds that many of the benefits related to meditating turn out to be false. It was found that it does not make a person calmer or more compassionate, and just as aggressive or prejudiced if this was in their nature to begin with.
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by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Shipwrecks and treasure have inspired adventurers through the years. Whether it's the hunt or the hunger for riches, it's an obsession that can last a lifetime. Some ships have been found, others not, however they all share an air of mystery that haunts the imagination.
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One of the most famous apparitions is a hitchhiking White Lady seen on the shore of White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas. Who was she, and is she the only one who haunts this place?
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For fourteen years, this mask of terror was what children saw as they were stolen from their homes by a depraved predator known as "The Beast of Jersey".
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Why do you think modern buildings are more likely to be graffitied versus older construction? Because people do not like them.
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Missing is a word that usually precedes a case that may end in tragedy where the person has committed suicide, or has been the victim of foul play. When nothing is forthcoming, it's a double edged sword for the family; not knowing provides a measure of comfort, but allows the imagination to run wild.
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Call it urban myth or a malevolent elemental spirit, the Goatman demon that is said to haunt the railroad trestle over the Pope Lick Creek is said to have lured many victims throughout the years; and that is the one real fact about this story, which is the amount of people that have met their death at this spot. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories A brutally slain couple was discovered on a roadside off Route 80 in 1979. Beyond the mystery of who killed them, is why the case remains unsolved after more than four decades.
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One day in 1885, a man named Martin Nelson slaughtered seven innocent people in the town of Bonito, New Mexico. As the years passed, it became a ghost town destined to be flooded and it exists only in the depths of Bonito Lake. Like many mining town of the Southwest it has its share of ghost stories.
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The "Treasure" is made up of a large stash of 4th century Roman coins discovered under the portico of a villa in the province of Seville, Spain.
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Mexico City was built on the ruins of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, and humans have lived there dating back to prehistoric times. If one wonders if there are ghosts in Mexico City, you only need to recognize that tales of skulduggery and murder abound in this ancient city, and the answer should be obvious.
At 4:10 a.m. on April 29, 1903 the inhabitants of Frank a small bootlegging and mining camp at Crow's Nest Pass heard a distant roar. The town sat at the base of Turtle Mountain in the southwestern corner of the District of Alberta, Canada. Little did they know that within less than two minutes, a landslide brought down over 80 million tons of debris that obliterated the eastern end of the town, including many inhabitants that have remained entombed until this day.
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She is mostly known as La Llorona, which is Spanish for the weeping woman. Depending on the source her story can vary, but she is commonly described as being a mother who either drowned her children, or they drowned in an accident and she is perpetually searching for them, usually in the vicinity of bodies of water. She is to be feared because she will drag an unsuspecting child and drown them thinking it is one of her own.
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A search for rare plants 18,000 feet up the Himalaya Mountains yielded a find, much rarer and macabre than what was being sought.
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In November 2017, a sphinx head standing six feet tall and weighing over three hundred pounds was unearthed by six archaeologists. It's not thousands years of old, it's not even 100 years old. It was left behind in 1923 when Cecil B. DeMille filmed the silent movie The Ten Commandments on the sand dunes on the central California coastline.
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In 1887, there was a report of a living mastodon in Alaska. The story was that a party of miners had learned of the existence of living mastodons near the headwaters of the White River. Up to then it was believed to be a fabrication of northern fur traders.
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They were lovers, sadists and serial killers. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were predators that from 1963 to 1965, killed five young victims.
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In 1890, a mystery dating back to 1823 was solved. The revelation disclosed how a murderer escaped justice by dying many years before, but his crime did come to light.
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In July 1927, police finally had their man. His name was Ludwig Halverson Lee, janitor of the Prospect Place House, where the hacked bodies of two women were found in the cellar of a brownstone in Brooklyn.
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In November, 1993 evidence of ritual murder was discovered when seven victims were found shrouded in camouflaged, coffinlike canopies in an area known as Executioner's Drop.
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Capone had many mistresses, but some held his interest longer than others. One of these allegedly was Mary Ann Brown, who also went by the name of Vera. She is a mysterious woman, because very little is known about her, if she ever existed at all.
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Jeffrey Dahmer was captured more than three decades ago, however mention of his name still causes a shudder.
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In 1965 a bride-to-be on the eve of her wedding day, lost her life and since then the stretch of road has been the scene of a phantom hitchhiker.
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There is a legend of a ghostly vessel which is said to be a portent of death if sighted. There are different versions as to what is the name of the ship. This is one of them.
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On March 20, 1980 Thomas Newman and Stanley O'Dell, maintenance workers, found a steamer trunk behind a dumpster at the Hudson View Apartments. Naturally they assumed someone wanted it to go out with the trash. Then they noticed blood on the outside. |
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