By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Lemuel Smith was born into the least likely of bedeviled households on July 23, 1941. He was part of a strictly religious black family living in Amsterdam, New York. His father was a minister, and both of his parents lived in the household. There were no known reasons why Lemuel would have such a compulsion to kill, which according to him started as early as when he was twelve years old when he nearly smothered a nine-year-old girl to death.
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By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories There is a place in Indiana. It's a spacious house sitting on several, wooded acres, which for many years became the final, but not restful place for young men, the victims of a ruthless killer. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories The place was Sandtown Road, once known as the Sand Town Trail, near the West End in Atlanta where a man's skeleton was found. It was a swampy area, some distance from the road in a dense area of cane growth. Most noted that it was an "admirable spot for a murder." By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was a spring day in 1903 when the body of Bertha "Glory" Whalen was found in a thicket. Her family had last seen her when she left for school.
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Laden with memories, it's not surprising that a place has sprung up around a universal toy beloved of so many children. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In ancient Rome, crucifixion was a painful way to execute criminals and slaves, and to remind the populace the consequences of breaking Roman laws. Rare archaeological evidence has been found through skeletal remains that confirm this type of execution.
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Bones were found on the bank of the Miami Canal on April 12, 1917. The police immediately compared the crime to the murder of Eddy Kinsey, whose body had been discovered in similar circumstances a few months before. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories White cottages were found under the live oaks at Ponce Park, which was known for being the haven of women with children, and anglers who came to fish. This normally placid place was stirred up when seven skeletons were discovered by postmaster Frank Stone when he dug up his back lot. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories A man was found nine years after he disappeared. It made the papers in Daytona, however the one question never asked is what happened to him. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories The RAF Museum at Cosford houses hundreds of aircraft, but there is one craft, an Avro Lincoln RF398 which is said to be haunted by a pilot that was killed in a crash. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Tamworth has many ghosts that are said to be haunting it's ancient walls, but two of the most famous are the Black Lady and the White Lady. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories On Halloween, 1900, Sanitary Chief George Walker made a startling discovery while conducting a house to house inspection. He came upon the skeleton of a woman. It was in the rear of a vacant house at 817 Constant Street, Tampa. This neighborhood was known as the Scrub. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories What was left was just a skeleton found in a pine stand at a place called the Devil's Elbow. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories One of the greatest mysteries of the Great Lakes' region is the fate of the ghost ship Le Griffon, which disappeared in 1679 while on its maiden voyage. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In 1875, Henry Keech came to St. Augustine, Florida and established a farm a few miles away at Matanzas Inlet, named for the massacre of French sailors decades before. Little did he imagine that death stalked him as well. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Abraham Lincoln is widely claimed to haunt the White House, but his cousin Dennis Friend Hanks (1799-1892), who lived with him in his childhood home in Indiana, was reputed to haunt the house he owned in Charleston, Illinois. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In June 1884, a fire hydrant was being laid before the library of the University of Vienna, and an unexpected discovery was made.
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Waikumete Cemetery is located in Auckland. It is the largest cemetery in New Zealand, and the second largest in the southern hemisphere. It covers almost 300 acres, and has over 70,000 burials. Is it little wonder that it has a fearsome reputation as being very haunted. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories There are essentials in exorcism rites, but now the Vatican uses all the modern tools at its disposal including a cellular phone to connect clergy to assistance and prayers. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In March 2017, Franklin county officials found a grisly scene when they arrived at a house on U.S. Highway 64, in Raleigh, North Carolina. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories A hunter in pursuit of an elk he'd just shot found the unexpected: a human skull in the middle of nowhere. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was Halloween, 1958, when off a dirt road on Skinner Ridge south of Grand Canyon National Park, the skeletal remains of a young girl were found. Her body was nude and it was estimated she had been there nine to fourteen months. |
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