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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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By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
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
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.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
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 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
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
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.
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Some ghost stories of yesteryear, of those that do not lie quietly in their graves. |
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