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Nearly 30 years ago the body of a teen female was found in the Arizona desert. She was unidentified, and the police department dubbed her Apache Junction Jane Doe. Finally her name and origins became known. She was only one of dozens who spend years unnamed and buried in a potter's field.
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Was it naivete, stupidity or a clash of cultures that led to the death of a young student?
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In 1940, an expedition was proposed to clear up the 75 year old mystery story that told of the frozen body of a climber encased inside an icy tomb on the slopes of Mount Begbie, British Columbia.
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Leonard Karl Humphrey, 35, wanted to be more of an Indian than he was. According to Larry Wickham a policeman who was once his business partner, "He was maybe 1/8 Apache, but he often tried to pass himself off as full-blooded. He was very proud of his Indian blood." However with Humphrey, his pride turned into an obsession especially with an Apache sun-god named Santos which in Spanish translates to saint. Deadly Superstitions by M.P. Pellicer
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Many believe the practice of human sacrifice was found only in ancient and superstitious civilizations. However this belief is not exactly accurate.
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In April, 1979, Dr. Earl S. Patterson, spoke at Conneticut's Meriden Public Library's "Literary Luncbox", a program that featured speakers from the book world. He was promoting his book series Case Books from Hell: Psychiatry and the Occult.
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The Devil's Slide is an infamous section of Highway 1 which is two miles south of Pacifica and it's been eroding since it was opened in 1936.
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Since 1999, a trail of disappearances and the discovery of human remains littered small towns in the South. Was it sheer coincidence or the work of one killer?
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The cult of Abakua (Abaqua, Abacua) originated as early as the 1700s, in West Africa, particularly in the Ivory Coast, Gabon, Liberia and Sierra Leone in Nigeria. It came to the Caribbean, South America and Cuba with slaves in the early 19th century. Its all-male members are known as Ñáñigos, and it's believed they could transform into leopards through the use of witchcraft to kill their enemies. |
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