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Over a hundred years ago on April 1, 1922, all the newspapers carried the news of the death of Josefa and Rosa Blazek conjoined Siamese twins who died two days before in Chicago.
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Burton Agnes Hall is a manor house built in the 17th century by Sir Henry Griffith. Close by is the original manor house that dates back to Norman times built by Roger de Stuteville. No doubt a structure with so much history has more than one phantom, but none as mysterious as the ghost of Katherine Anne Griffith. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was a freezing January morning in 1937, only months before Japan occupied the Forbidden City of Peking, when Pamela Werner's savagely, mutilated body was found near the Fox Tower just outside the city's Legation Quarter where the foreign embassies were located.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Despite our ignorance about the vast oceans that cover the majority of our planet's surface, many find it difficult to believe that gargantuan, humanoid-type animals have been seen in different parts of the Pacific Ocean.
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Human sacrifice, animal slaughter, human trafficking and child pornography are some of the terrifying crimes that have been investigated in South Africa by a police unit that is tasked specifically to uncover the perpetrators of these heinous acts. However the work has become so dangerous that for the last few years amid rumors they were disbanded is the belief that they have gone underground.
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In 1970 Carol Anne Fitzmaurice, a 23-year-old nurse, without any known enemies was savagely stabbed to death in her home. Both her family and the investigators in the case, not only question the identity of the killer but the motive as well. Despite the passage of more than 50 years both of these questions have never been answered.
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The Roaring Twenties were in full swing in Miami when the Cuban Consulate was established in NW Dade County. Little did anyone imagine, the building would go on to become one of Miami's most famous haunted houses.
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This 19-foot crocodile-like reptile roamed China about 1000 B.C. Remains have been found ritualistically beheaded and scientists believe this new species was driven to extinction by being over-hunted.
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Texarkana is a small town that straddles the state line between Texas and Arkansas, and in the spring of 1946 an unidentified assailant attacked eight people in the span of ten weeks. Five of them were killed. The news media named him the "Phantom Killer" or the "Phantom Slayer" because witnesses later described him as wearing a white mask or sack with holes cut for eyes.
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How or why the number thirteen has acquired a connection to bad luck is not quite clear, but this superstition dates back hundreds of years to the Vikings, the Romans and even to the present day when many buildings don't have a 13th floor. However at the end of the 19th century a club was formed, whose purpose was to fly in the face of all superstitions including the dreaded number 13. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories There is a 200 square-mile area in Eastern Massachusetts known as the Bridgewater Triangle, as well as the more ominous-sounding Black Triangle. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories According to the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah were so sinful, that God decided to punish them with total destruction. It came in the form of a fireball from the sky. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In 1960, Sharon Lee Gallegos, 4, was kidnapped by two persons, a man and a woman, driving an old-model green car. Despite a good description of one of the kidnappers and the vehicle, as well as reporting it right away to the police, the child's fate remained unknown for 62 years.
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The Great Lakes has served as passage to the Atlantic Ocean for hundreds of years. There is an area between Manitowoc, Wisconsin to Ludington, Michigan and south to Benton Harbor that has its history of mysterious disappearances comparable to the Bermuda Triangle. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Late on the afternoon of October 7, 1949, 26-year-old, bit-part actress Jean Elizabeth Spangler left her Los Angeles home, which she shared with her 5-year-old daughter and other family members. This was the last ever seen of pretty Jean. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories The Ides of March is linked to the assassination of Caesar in 44 B.C., however there were other tragedies that were marked by the full moon heralding the arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere.
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Lonely stretches of road all over the country are said to be haunted by the spirit of lost hitchhiker ladies, always trying to reach their final destination.
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Barbados' Christ Church Cemetery has been in existence for well over 200 years, but besides the obvious, which is that all its occupants are deceased, there was one family crypt that for many years suffered from unexplained events that even brought the governor of the island to the cemetery to get to the bottom of the mystery.
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Many people keep secrets, especially from childhood, but Ronald Edwin Hunkeler's was unique. He was the boy that inspired the novel The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty, and released as a film in 1973. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Lord Combermere died in 1891, and a photograph taken during the time he was being buried became renown for establishing proof of life after death. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In the last 1.4 billion years the moon has moved further from the earth, increasing the length of a day by six hours, thus days are 30% longer. |
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