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by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
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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