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It was a hot summer day in 1868, when hunters and dogs chased a quarry through a southern swamp. The tracks were those of a human foot, but the toes were turned backward.
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By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
All lands have their secrets, some more ancient than others, and at times all that's left are stories, however in the jungles of Guatemala, there are vestiges of an ancient civilization that pose a mystery, especially one which is apart from all the others. It was discovered in the 1930s.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Hearst Castle, once known as La Cuesta Encantada hosted the most lavish parties during Prohibition and into the 30's. Famous actors, politicians and notables of the day all vied for an invitation from William Randolph Hearst and his mistress Marion Davies. In short it was the center of California society.
By M.P. Pellicer | Strange Than Fiction Stories
Police get strange reports, especially about dead bodies. Some of them pan out, but alot don't. So when they got a report of a dead body at Fresh Pond Road, the information was taken, and a few hours later a detective was sent out.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
The shadow of Sing Sing prison cast it's dreaded pall over the mysterious death of a young woman whose decapitated body was found 500 feet from Ossining railroad station.
by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In July, 1874, a four-year-old child named Charles Brewster Ross was kidnapped from the streets of Germantown, Pennsylvania, while he was playing with his older brother Walter. The story held the country spellbound, and spawned an enduring mystery.
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Oxford College, Ohio has many ghost stories associated with it. The most famous being the unexplained disappearance of student Ronald Tammen Jr. in 1953. His fate has never been discovered. These are the lesser known mysteries associated with a campus which once served as a mental asylum.
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U.S. Route Highway 666 starts in Monticello, Utah and ends in Gallup, New Mexico. The desert scenery is beautiful, but it is also a land with a long history of strange phenomena, so much so that some travelers take pains to avoid it, especially after dark when there's a full moon.
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The Romanovs were executed July, 1918. The Russian royal family were: Tsar Nicholas II, the Tsarina, Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children, Alexi, Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia. In the aftermath of the massacre, there was a cloud of mystery and speculation, and the horror of the family's last few days were kept from the press. There was also doubt if the youngest, Anastasia and Alexei had been killed, and instead were spared.
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Echoes of the past, especially a violent one is heard sometimes years afterward. Stories of skulduggery and secret burials traveled from town to town, brought by visitors who stayed at roadside inns and taverns in the old West.
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John Mullowney was a bounty hunter who was tasked with hunting priests. He became so efficient at his work that he became one of the most despised but feared men in the land.
by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
It was a desolate, unlit forest about 50 yards off Arcadia Road. The street was unpaved, and this was a seldom used, industrial area. The patch of land was covered by cypress and pines, no doubt chosen as an ideal place to hide proof of a heinous crime, and that proof was eight bodies which had lain in their secret grave for years.
by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
In May, 1875, in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, on the corner of Market and Lawrence Streets stood a derelict building. What was described as "a poor perturbed spirit" made its presence known to any who came close to it.
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You might think that anyone can go missing, in any place, for any reason but in a rural town that in 1968, had a population of less than 100, there it's hard to understand how a woman could vanish so completely.
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His face is chalky, with eyes as dark as his mustache. The mouth is open below nostrils blackened from cigarette smoke, and his name is Uncle.
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Incubus was a 1966 American horror film, starring soon to be Captain Kirk, William Shatner. However its claim to fame has more to do with the streak of misfortune that struck many that were involved in the film.
by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Krystyna "Krys" Pawlowski at first glance would be the most unlikely crocodile hunter you could imagine, however in 1957, she nabbed an Australian saltwater crocodile which was said to measure 28 feet.
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The story goes that a desperado got caught cheating at cards. In 1890s Arizona, this was a killing offense. He got shot a couple of times, but he rode off into the desert and became an enigma. Who was he really?
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On a warm, spring night in 1961, a 20-year-old student shot a taxi driver on the outskirts of Tallahassee. She said she believed he was about to attack her, but it turned out that wasn't exactly accurate.
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In the 1860s, a family of German immigrants moved to a house on One Sandy Hollow Road in Port Washington, New York. They had a daughter named Suzanna "Suzie" Brunner. She lived there for the next 75 years, and led a very colorful life.
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It was a scenic spot, six miles north of Las Vegas, New Mexico, situated at the Gallinas Canyon. It would go through many incarnations including being the set for the 1978 film The Evil. |
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