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Yellow Jack walked the streets of New Orleans the summer of 1853, leaving death in its wake. Where it visited a yellow flag or "Jack" was displayed to warn citizens away, but murderers were just as busy as the Grim Reaper.
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Ross Michael Cochran, 17, a change boy in a pinball arcade on Daytona Beach's boardwalk was strapped to a table, and tortured for a day before being murdered by a group of young satan worshipers as a sacrifice. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories During the 1980s, drug kingpin Pablo Escobar smuggled 4 hippopotamuses into his estate Hacienda Napoles. He was killed in 1993, and the animals were abandoned.
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In 1940, Lawrence Zarrilli, who taught Italian at Alcée Fortier High School in New Orleans, was writing a history of Italians in Louisiana. In the records of the Muttuo Beneficenza or Italian Benevolent Society, he came across a story concerning a costly tomb paid for by the society, which was believed to bring death to its creators. In modern times it became known as the "Hex Tomb".
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Some say that men believe in ghosts, in haunted houses and unlucky days as devoutly as they do in the Bible. For old New Yorkers, leases would not be signed if the occupancy was to start on a Saturday, which was considered an unlucky day. Also if a house got the reputation for being haunted, it would stand unoccupied for months.
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In September, 1919, a colony of lepers was offered to Florida by the government. The intention was to setup the colony on Cedar Key.
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In 1930, the water level of the Mississippi River had fallen to a 20-year low, and a bargeman trying to salvage coal found the unexpected.
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In February, 1844, a 12-year-old girl named Mary Johnson was arrested in Lincoln Castle accused of the murder of her two brothers.
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Unlike Lake Superior that never gives up its dead, Lake Mead with its unusual dropping water levels during the summer of 2022, gave up many of its secrets, including those who'd been enjoying a watery grave for at least 40 years.
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Has there ever been definite, incontrovertible proof that an alien race has visited earth? The answer is no, and researchers have a disturbing but plausible explanation why they haven't.
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England known for its ancients houses and ghost stories to go with it, had a spate of dark occurrences that harkened back to it pagan roots.
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Participants dressed in tiger costumes, lash at each other mercilessly in order to draw blood, and have their opponent submit. This is an indigenous tradition made as an offering to the rain god Tlaloc. |
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