![]() 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.
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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. ![]()
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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. ![]()
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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. ![]()
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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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A discovery of "ancient beeswax" found on the Oregonian coast at Nehalem was reported in the newspapers throughout the years. It was assumed it came from a wrecked vessel that foundered on its way to a Catholic monastery in California. The wax was etched with Latin words. ![]()
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In 2014, Samuel Little was convicted of the murders of three women in Los Angeles. DNA had linked him to cold cases committed between 1987 to 1989. He received three life sentences. Authorities suspected he had probably committed other murders, but they never imagined what would be the final number once he decided to confess. ![]()
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"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry". - Carl Panzram, c. 1930 ![]()
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Starting in 1968, men started to show up dead floating in the Detroit River, especially in the month of June. Even after so many years they all remain unnamed. ![]()
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Few could imagine that inside a house in Lima, Peru, located on a busy street, close to where there was once a massacre, and doors away from a costume shop, a hospital that treated the insane and those suffering from syphilis had been erected 500 years before. ![]()
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Over 45 years ago, South Florida authorities were realizing they might have a serial killer dumping the bodies of young women along desolate roads and canals at the edge of the Everglades. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In 1799, a young woman named Gulielma "Elma" Sands was killed. Her reputation was shredded during her murder trial, however no one was ever punished for the deed. Most of those surrounding the incident, who perhaps cheated her of justice, suffered a series of misfortunes in the years that followed. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Can a place be tainted by the misdeeds of those that lived there? Can the land remember even when they have all gone to their graves? ![]()
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The house was built in 1918, a hundred years after the establishment of Uniontown, Alabama. It's derelict and crumbling now, built in the Neo-Classical Revival style with its fluted Ionic columns, it's not difficult to imagine how splendid it once looked. Even now it's seems the perfect setting for a southern gothic mystery. ![]()
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After six decades the murder of Irene Garza, a south Texas beauty queen was solved. It turned out her killer was a priest. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Several graves of British royalty dating back to the dark ages have been found. Originally they were overlooked because they were not lavish enough, and had no grave goods inside. ![]()
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Many entities of unknown origins stalk the halls of many medical facilities It's ironic that a place devoted to healing and saving lives is also a hotbed of supernatural occurrences. Hospitals and nursing homes also seem to harbor a large amount of demonic entities. ![]()
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Poyang Lake is a large 1400 square mile body of water in China's Jiangxi Province. The lake was formed around 400 A.D. when the Gan River backed up, and the flood swallowed the countryside sending people fleeing for their lives. Was this ravenous hunger from the newly formed lake a foreshadowing of a hunger that is never satisfied? |
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