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The Ancient Ram Inn is touted as one of Britain's most haunted establishments, sitting on land that dates back to the Bronze Age.
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By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In a foreshadowing of things to come, in early March 1918, it was reported by the Navy that Willie J. Nettles, coxswain on the U.S.S. Cyclops was drowned on February 10, when he was swept overboard. His body was never recovered from the waters off Brazil.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In 2010, Forrest Fenn (1930-2020) the owner of a gallery in Santa Fe, hid a bronze treasure chest that weighed 20 pounds and contained gold nuggets, rare coins, jewelry, and gemstones estimated to be worth $2 million. He wrote a book with hints as to where the treasure was hidden. The romance and adventure titillated treasure hunters to search New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, however what many of them found was unusual and premature death. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories On May 16, 1980, Theresa Fillingim, 16, was reported missing to the Tampa Police Department. On April 3, 1981, several human remains were recovered from the property of Billy Mansfield. On July 20, 2022 with the help of DNA evidence one of the skeletons was confirmed as belonging to Theresa.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
The Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis once received powerful politicians and even President Lincoln in 1861, when it was the Bates House. However in the years that followed it could not escape the stigma of murder that stained its luxurious and upscale reputation.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
The cemetery is located off a dirt road on a wooded hillside. The grounds are overgrown, which seems to be the case even when the hospital was active. The cracked identical stones are marked only with an "M" or an "F", and a number. These numbers range through the hundreds to four full digits. These were the patients that died in the hospital that went unclaimed by their family.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
A small town in France is the destination of thousands of pilgrims every year. The faithful all come to pray before the reliquary of a saint that some say was Jesus' closest apostle, and possibly his wife. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Criminals are sometimes undone by their stupidity or desperation, but there are others who are discovered by sheer bad luck. Such is the case of a gravedigger named Jean Baptiste.
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In 2018 at the Chapra railway station in India a man was arrested under suspicion of smuggling skeletal human remains. Instead of being a one-off, it seems corpse smuggling is quite common. Question is, who wants them, and what for?
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Many people like to think that as people head towards death, especially if they can foresee it, either through illness or age, they try to make amends or at least heal the wounds of those they hurt. But that is not always the case.
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Over 100 years after it was commissioned as a war ship, what's left of the Sapona sits on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle, a silent witness to many eerie occurrences.
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Seventy five years ago a New Mexico rancher give a report to the local sheriff which was quite unique. It was something about finding metallic debris on a ranch about 80 miles from Roswell, New Mexico.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Norfolk, England has a history of witches, and it was one of the regions where most witch trials were prevalent. One who attended these trials was Matthew Hopkins, also known as the "Witchfinder General." by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In 1856 a huge mansion was built at 14 W. 10th Street, off Fifth Avenue in an area now known as Washington Square Park. In 1957, Jan Bryant Bartell moved into the house adjacent to the 100-year-old brownstone, and it was not long before she realized she was never alone within those walls. She eventually wrote a book about her experiences titled, Spindrift: Spray from a Psychic Sea which detailed her experiences in both homes that shared a wall.
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DNA has been used to solve recent cold cases, but now it's being used to expose the horrific killing of children a 1,000 years ago by the Maya at Chichen Itza. |
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