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High in the Sangre de Cristo Range is Colorado's Great Sand Dunes. Ancient arrowheads and bison bones are uncovered by stiff winds that chase the heat before it. Tragedy, mystery and legend have sprung from the sandy waves that cover 57 miles.
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Starting in the late 19th century, the rustic landscape of the Adirondacks Mountain range in New York became the favored summer getaway for many prominent families. This became known as the Great Camp Period. However even paradise has its dark moments.
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Some time in 1913, A. H. Wood moved into the Fillmore Hotel located at Fillmore Street and Golden Gate Avenue. To all appearances he was a 50-something businessman, but within a few months he would be dead, and the truth was exposed.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Traditional summer rains fell upon a well known haunted house which faced a square bounded by Washington and Tchoupitoulas Streets in New Orleans.
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Like Tarzan's hidden home in the Mutia Escarpment with its tales of the elephants' graveyard, in the 1920s explorers found a mysterious place in Africa that became known as the Forbidden Pit.
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The winds were savage, the cold penetrating just below the timberline near La Garita Mountains in Colorado. John C. Fremont looked at his camp where 34 men faced starvation.
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In 1897, on the corner of a building at the southeast corner of Geary Street and Grant Avenue, San Francisco the ghost of a missing man stalked the halls.
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Captain Meriwether Lewis was born into fortunate circumstances in 1774. He is best known for his expedition to the Pacific along with his friend William Clark. He was a diplomat, explorer, friend of the President and the governor of the Upper Louisiana Territory. The man who only three years before had survived a dangerous trek over the wilds of the Rocky Mountains, died of gunshot wounds at the age of 35. Many thought it was suicide, but from the beginning there have been whispers of murder.
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In July 1945, the battle of Okinawa took place, leaving over 200,000 dead, among them over one-third of civilians who lived on the island. Okinawans had been forced to commit suicide by the Japanese military or be executed. Lawlessness was rampant on the island and refugees lived in the hills. A month later atomic bombs would fall on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and amid this turmoil the disappearance of three young Marines was barely noticed.
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Historically whenever gold is discovered, it's rapidly followed by a swell of strangers all vying to strike it rich. With it comes opportunity, but also trouble, and even murder.
At 4:10 a.m. on April 29, 1903 the inhabitants of Frank a small bootlegging and mining camp at Crow's Nest Pass heard a distant roar. The town sat at the base of Turtle Mountain in the southwestern corner of the District of Alberta, Canada. Little did they know that within less than two minutes, a landslide brought down over 80 million tons of debris that obliterated the eastern end of the town, including many inhabitants that have remained entombed until this day.
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In 1890, a mystery dating back to 1823 was solved. The revelation disclosed how a murderer escaped justice by dying many years before, but his crime did come to light.
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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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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 Roaring Twenties were in full swing in Miami when the Cuban Consulate was established in NW Dade County. Little did anyone imagine, the building would go on to become one of Miami's most famous haunted houses.
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The Great Lakes has served as passage to the Atlantic Ocean for hundreds of years. There is an area between Manitowoc, Wisconsin to Ludington, Michigan and south to Benton Harbor that has its history of mysterious disappearances comparable to the Bermuda Triangle. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories The Ides of March is linked to the assassination of Caesar in 44 B.C., however there were other tragedies that were marked by the full moon heralding the arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere.
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Amelia Earhart disappeared July 2, 1937, on the last leg of a trans-world flight. Two years after their disappearance, Earhart and her navigator were declared dead. For all this time her fate has remained a mystery. Every few years someone claims to have found Amelia or her plane, but definitive proof has never been provided. |
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