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Over forty years ago a small town in northeast Kansas got the unwanted attention of occultists and vandals, when stories started to surface that one of its cemeteries was a hotbed of dark paranormal events.
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In January, 2017 a discovery was made in Northamptonshire from the Romano-Britain period. The corpse was buried face down and his tongue had been cut out and replaced with a flat stone. These are all indicators that this individuals was considered odd or a threat to the community. ![]()
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All that's left of of the town of Kane, Wyoming is a railroad marker and old bridge abutments. It's an isolated place, which proved a harsh landscape to live in 100 years ago, and not all who were buried in the town cemetery found their eternal peace. ![]()
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Since 1896 Los Angeles County has been interring the indigent and unclaimed dead. Workers would log each name in large handwritten books. Most of them remained unnamed for years afterward, and some forever. ![]()
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Caracas has become the murder capital of the world. In the heart of this city where poverty and violence are experienced by those living there on a daily basis is a shrine. The altar is not populated by recognized religious statues, but by colorful cap-wearing images with brightly-colored trousers and cigarettes hanging from their mouths. It is to these dead gangsters that the desperate come to pray for protection. ![]()
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In 2005, archaeologists were called in following the discovery of human remains during the excavation of a trench for a new waterline behind the main building at Eastern State Hospital in Kentucky. Prior to this discovery, the known cemetery had grass that was almost as high as the fence and very little was known about its history. ![]() 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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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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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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Barbados' Christ Church Cemetery has been in existence for well over 200 years, but besides the obvious, which is that all its occupants are deceased, there was one family crypt that for many years suffered from unexplained events that even brought the governor of the island to the cemetery to get to the bottom of the mystery. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Lord Combermere died in 1891, and a photograph taken during the time he was being buried became renown for establishing proof of life after death. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Sometimes years, or perhaps decades pass before the fate of a person becomes known. Missing that doesn't always mean dead, but in some cases it most definitely does. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Bohnice is a district in northern Prague. It is home to a psychiatric hospital built at the beginning of the 20th century. The asylum was one of the largest in Europe. Small houses surround a large park with an Art Noveau church. However what attracts tourists and legend trippers is the cemetery that received the dead for fifty years. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In 1903, Colonel Barog, a British engineer made a mistake in the building of Tunnel No. 33 on the Kalka-Shimla train route. Subsequently he was fined for wasting government money and publicly reprimanded, which humiliated him deeply. He rode his horse to the dark entrance of the unfinished tunnel, and shot himself in sheer desperation near what now is the state government-run Barog Pine Wood Hotel. He has never left the place since. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In June 1884, a fire hydrant was being laid before the library of the University of Vienna, and an unexpected discovery was made. ![]()
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Waikumete Cemetery is located in Auckland. It is the largest cemetery in New Zealand, and the second largest in the southern hemisphere. It covers almost 300 acres, and has over 70,000 burials. Is it little wonder that it has a fearsome reputation as being very haunted. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Julie Mott's body disappeared in August, 2015. It was given to the Mission Park Funeral Home, and what happened to it is still a mystery. ![]()
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In the span of six years three members of the same family were shot, two of them died. Now the grave of one of the victims was broken into and the head of the corpse removed. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories During the summer of 2023, archaeologists made a strange discovery under a Mexican church that proved a local legend was indeed true. ![]() By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories The plunder of bodies from Harvard Medical School's morgue earlier this year has led to the arrest of another person. ![]()
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Some ghost stories of yesteryear, of those that do not lie quietly in their graves. |
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