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In 1895, the residents of Clifton Park, Staten Island were reported as living in "deadly fear" of a wild animal roaming on the "Leavitt property, 200 feet from the Vanderbilt gold fish pond."
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Little snippets of stories from the 19th century of gruesome and sinister finds. 
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Carl Newton Mahan, 6, quarreled with his friend Roy Cecil Van Hoose, 7, over a piece of scrap metal they planned to sell for a little money. Cecil took it and hit the younger boy in the face. Carl went to his home, took his father's 12-gauge shotgun and returned to where the other boy was. He then aimed it at Cecil's chest and pulled the trigger. 
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In South Africa, modest estimates are that more than 50 people are murdered every day, children are not special and are not spared, especially since they are high in demand to be used in dark rituals or muti murders. 
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Dark Watchers are beings described as tall, featureless silhouettes. Not always, but sometime they wear a brimmed hat or carry walking sticks. Most often seen between dusk to dawn, they appear as motionless figures that watch travelers from afar. Their legend originates in the Santa Lucia Mountain Range, and if you try to approach them they disappear. 
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On January 1, 1929, an old structure in Nashua, New Hampshire was being demolished. Underneath the floor of the attic of what had once been a rookery, workmen were astounded when they discovered a human skeleton. 
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It was once a showplace home in Laurel Canyon, but only ashes were left of the 14-room house. Before its destruction on July 31, 1928, it was the scene of wild parties, a gun battle, an explosion and ultimately a fire. 
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In January, 1959 Larry Lord Motherwell, 42, former felon and construction worker went on a 10-day spending spree in Las Vegas. Perhaps a premonition tickled his spine that the proverbial ton of bricks was about to descend on him.  The Jockey's Ghost by M.P. Pellicer
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In 1885, a ghost story rooted in Long Island history made the newspapers. It all started in 1866, when a horse trainer was mysteriously killed at Centreville Course. 
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Back in 1874, there was a house on Jackson Avenue near the Dutch Kills Road in Long Island. "For a long time it stood tenantless, but last week... " A good beginning for a ghost story right? 
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Perched on a hilltop above the ancient city of Cusco sits an Incan fortress known as Sacsayhuaman, where it is said are situated the entrances to a network of tunnels that spread throughout the Andes, and where treasures were hidden. 
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On the night of August 21, 1955, Russell Greenwell, Hopkinsville’s (Kentucky) police chief received an unexpected call at his home from the officer on duty. He jumped into his clothes and drove to the station. There he met several scared adults and children. The family lived a few miles away in an area known as Kelly Station. He could tell by the look on their faces that something really happened to this group of people. 
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Chaonei No. 81 also known as Chaonei Church was erected at the turn of the century in Peking, China. Located at Chaoyangmennei Street it’s been designated a historic building and despite the surrounding area being renovated, this brick, three-story French Baroque-style structure remains tenantless. Many believe this is due to its notorious reputation as one of China’s most haunted houses. 
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The Pirate's House in Savannah, Georgia is over 250 years old. It's said to be one of the oldest and most haunted structures in the state. 
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Traditional summer rains fell upon a well known haunted house which faced a square bounded by Washington and Tchoupitoulas Streets in New Orleans. 
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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. |
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