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The Roaring Twenties are remembered for speakeasies hidden in remote locations or the basement of a building. Slim flappers shimmied while drinking illegal hooch, and gangland killings made the front page of newspapers. But there were other dark deeds being committed, even against the innocent.
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The first military hospital in Aldershot, Hampshire was situated near a church. It was established as a lunatic asylum and pestilence hospital. Close by was the Union Hospital, which started out as a poor house. During the mid-1800s the Connaught Hospital for a while specialized in treating men with venereal disease, and ended as a dental facility which closed its doors in 1973. However long before it was abandoned there were stories about a mysterious gray lady. ![]()
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There is a little-known but very interesting case of a serial sexual killer who targeted older women. Between 1995 to 1997 he claimed fifteen lives in the city of Apulia (also known as Puglia) located in Italy's heel. ![]()
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Lone Pine, California has only one road with a traffic light. Whitney Portal Road heads westward across Highway 395, traversing the Alabama Hills and onto Mount Whitney which is nine miles away. It is the tallest mountain in mainland United States. Like many routes that started out as trails they are witness to human traffic and tragedy, and inevitably tales of hauntings. ![]()
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There is a solitary outpost in Afghanistan known as "The Rock", short for Observation Point Rock (OP Rock). It's situated southeast of Patrol Base Hassan Abad, and developed a reputation for being haunted. ![]()
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In 1875, Chicago's county hospital was located in the South Side. Even then it was considered old and rickety. The morgue was an out-house attached to the hospital. It was located apart from the main building because of the bad odor coming from it. Bodies would be stretched out on slabs awaiting burial. Only during winter months did the place not smell like a charnel house. ![]()
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Almost a year to the date before the infamous Villisca Axe murders in Iowa, a family of four were killed in Ardenwald, Oregon in a similar manner, and like that crime this one remains unsolved until this day. ![]()
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Along Old Sheldon Church Road stands the ruin of what was once known as Prince William’s Parish Church in Yemassee, South Carolina. Now it goes by the name of the Old Sheldon Church Ruins. Built between 1745 and 1753 it witnessed mundane family celebrations as well as history making events, so it is not surprising that it has a reputation for being haunted. ![]()
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In June 1934 in Brighton, England a steamer trunk was found in King's Cross railway station. It contained a woman's torso and legs. The arms and head were missing. Scotland Yard reached out to the public in trying to identify the victim. In the United States, Agnes C. Tufverson, 43, had married a former Czech officer six months before. She disappeared, and the last heard from her was when she visited London. Her family wondered if it was her body that had been found. ![]()
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Reports are received worldwide that in the aftermath of disasters those that perished appear to be ignorant that they are no longer among the living. Calls are received at emergency centers, taxis are hailed, and these lost souls try to reach homes that are demolished or connect with loved ones who are dead as well. ![]()
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A man is induced by his wife to strangle her sister, and is in turn put to death in a horrible manner, or so it was rumored. ![]() by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In North Carolina, on UNC campus east of Chapel Hill there is a monument to a mysterious student love triangle where a blood-stained rock is the only clue to the unknown fate of Peter Dromgoole. ![]()
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Macario Timon, a 58-year-old goat-raiser was found with his throat cut inside his home which was left in shambles. Originally it was believed the crime was tied to the whereabouts of a mysterious old mine that Timon was seeking. ![]()
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Delia McGrath married Victor Eloi a man almost 20 years older than her on December 6, 1881 at St. Mary's Church at 1116 Chartres Street which was part of the Old Ursuline Convent. The couple married contrary to the wishes of his family and the bride’s widowed mother. |
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