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In 1990, there was a Gallup poll that showed the percentage of Americans who believed the devil is real was 55%. In 2007, it had increased to 70%. It's estimated that least 50% believe in demonic possession.
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Doctors are mystified when they have patients complaining of nausea and vomiting more than 20 times in one day, and dropping weight to a life-threatening level. This is a condition that they are seeing more frequently in chronic, heavy pot users.
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It was a foggy night on August 2, 1921 when Father Patrick Heslin disappeared. He had not returned from a late night plea for last rites, and the fear was that he had driven off Highway 1, and plunged into the ocean below.
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In a duplex across from a pre-school and middle school, police made a disturbing discovery in 1990. Three strange people lived there. They were self-proclaimed satanists and killers for hire.
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In November, 2006 under unusual circumstances a woman fell from the second story of her home. She was left paralyzed below the waist. She had been sitting on the sill, and afterward she claimed it was not a deliberate suicide attempt.
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All that's left of of the town of Kane, Wyoming is a railroad marker and old bridge abutments. It's an isolated place, which proved a harsh landscape to live in 100 years ago, and not all who were buried in the town cemetery found their eternal peace.
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Most families resist the possibility that one of their members is not only a murderer, but a serial sexual sadist killer linked to one of the most infamous, unsolved murders of the 20th century.
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The area of West 44th Street in New York City was just a patch of farmland and forest in 1792. The American Revolutionary War had ended less than 10 years before, and maybe events that took place then caused the ghost that eventually became known as Lucy Ryan to haunt this area.
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In the far reaches of the largest fjord in Norway, perched on the side of a mountain is a 16,000 square foot castle overlooking the town of Luster. For all its fairytale appearance, when it operated as the Lyster Sanatorium, this was the place where many came to die.
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Over a hundred years ago, a frail nun who lived in a remote Michigan village was murdered and buried in a shallow grave, in the very basement of the holy grounds where she lived and worshipped. What was uncovered during the subsequent trials spoke of lies, sexual trysts by those holding holy office and the attempt to spare the Catholic Church embarrassment, even if it meant covering up a murder.
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In 2018, a couple is arrested transporting plastic-wrapped body parts in a baby carriage. Further investigation, found they were responsible for at least 20 other murders of mostly single mothers.
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The 27 Club is a death list of actors, musicians, artist and athletes who have died at the age of 27. The majority have died as a result of suicide. substance abuse, homicide and strange accidents. Many claim there is significance tied to the number of their age to Illuminati and occult groups.
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On October 29, 2018 renovations were being carried out in the Vatican close to the Villa Borghese. Builders were restoring a floor in the janitor's lodge. Considering the age of the buildings and the grounds, this type of work is commonplace, but not what was found which was a human skeleton.
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On a cold February evening in 1945 the body of 74-year-old Charles Walton was found in a field of the Firs farm, in which he had been working earlier that same day. He was considered a recluse, and no one who lived in the Warwickshire hamlet could understand who would want to kill him, much less mutilate him.
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The Somme Offensive was one of the biggest, bloodiest battles of the First World War. It's little wonder then that ghosts have been reported on the haunted Somme battlefield.
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Since 1896 Los Angeles County has been interring the indigent and unclaimed dead. Workers would log each name in large handwritten books. Most of them remained unnamed for years afterward, and some forever.
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Construction workers are used to finding unusual things in the walls of older buildings, but in Valdosta, Georgia they were dumbfounded when a stash of hundreds of human teeth were found buried inside of a second-floor wall, which was cracked during renovations.
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The Chateau des Noyers du Tourneur located in Normandy, France was known to be haunted by a white lady that walked the grounds, and a werewolf that stalked the peasants in the vicinity, however between October 1867 and January 1877 the terror that made itself known had no parallel.
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Bloody Mary has been invoked by many names, Mary Worth, Hell Mary, Mary White or Mary Jane, however the fate of all those who call upon her have always been terrible indeed. Identified as an evil spirit, her tale emerged from British folklore in the 1700s, and took on a new vengeful twist with the advent of the Internet in the 1990s.
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Within the span of only a few weeks, three women were killed in Melbourne, Australia. World War II raged in Europe, and police were at a loss as to who was committing the crimes.
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Caracas has become the murder capital of the world. In the heart of this city where poverty and violence are experienced by those living there on a daily basis is a shrine. The altar is not populated by recognized religious statues, but by colorful cap-wearing images with brightly-colored trousers and cigarettes hanging from their mouths. It is to these dead gangsters that the desperate come to pray for protection.
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Not only was the identity of Jack the Ripper a mystery, but also if indeed he was the author of several letters received by the police after the murders. A forensic linguist from the University of Manchester has found part of the answer.
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Sometimes known as "bioterrorism," these weapons involve infectious agents and toxins. These can include fungi, viruses and bacteria, and depending on their characteristics can kill human, animal and/or plant life.
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The belief in evil spirits and demons have been part of human history from time immemorial, however in recent times this phenomenon has spiked worldwide, and according to certain sources there is a reason for this increase. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories The ability to map a person's DNA is popular to verify your ancestors, but what if your actual roots turn out not to be what you've been told for years, but somewhere totally different? |
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