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When Silence Falls, The Murmuring Begins...
A meme floating about the interwebs states:"On August 29th, 1968, all the televisions in America shut down. There was a murmuring on the TV that some believe was the devil's voice. The televisions were...
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Roundup of the Rare: Strange (but true?) Stories From Around The World.
Roopkund is a glacial lake in India's Himalayan region full of ancient skeletons that become disturbingly visible when the snow melts. No one knows exactly why so many bodies lie at the bottom of this...
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Tesla's 'UFO'
Among the many apocryphal tinkerings of famed inventor Nikola Tesla, the most contentious might be his flying machine, which some sources claim was an ion-propelled vehicle that would fly without use...
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HOMETOWN HORRORS
Nothing like a good frightening local legend to both titillate and traumatize. Let's look at a few from around the country...Fairfax County, VA -- The Bunny Man is the legend of a man in a bunny suit...
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Hauntings on the High Seas
Haunted houses and forlorn forests are the domain of ghosts--for the most part. However, there exist many accounts from sailors and seafarers who have spotted spirits at sea, as well as phantom vessels...
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Cold War Era Mystery Satellites Set Americans On Edge
In February 1960, the North American Air Defense System picked up what seemed to be a rather large satellite in Earth orbit. But several striking features of the object became cause for concern. The...
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Mujina: The Faceless Spirit
Japanese folklore is filled with tales of the Mujina, a faceless spirit. The chilling accounts of those who claim to have met a Mujina read like urban legend, and go back a long way. In 1904, Lafcadio...
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The Great Moon Hoax
"On this day in 1835, the Great Moon Hoax was perpetrated by the New York Sun newspaper. They launched a series of articles about the supposed discovery of life on the moon, which they falsely...
View ArticleAn Assemblage of the Uncanny
"On November 21, 1987, Korrina Lynne Sagers Malinoski, a 26-year old woman from Mount Holly, South Carolina, mysteriously disappeared when she did not show up for work and her car was found parked in...
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Sinister Story of the Cecil Hotel
While many hotels, especially those that have stood for any length of time, have stories--even dark ones--Los Angeles' Cecil Hotel has some of that city's darkest.Built in 1927 as the ideal lodging for...
View ArticleAmerican Horror Story: Inspiration --
If you've seen the first iteration of American Horror Story, then you might have been intrigued enough to uncover the "true" tale that likely inspired some of its plot points: The "Congelier...
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Suicide Bridge for Dogs
In Dumbarton, Scotland, the Overtoun Bridge has been the nexus of a strange rash of canine suicides. Yep, you heard me.For half a century, more than fifty dogs have hurled themselves from not only the...
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New Mexico Cemetery's Strange Visitor
In Albuquerque, at the San Jose del El Rosario Cemetery (del El???) last month, a man who calls himself the "Light Wanderer" showed up on several occasions wearing a black cloak that covered his face...
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The Sin Eater
An ancient--and likely moribund--English tradition that hasn't well been studied is that of the Sin Eater, a person who through the ingestion of food or drink, absorbs the sins of the recently...
View ArticleThe First Horror Film
The first horror film was an 1896 Gothic vignette by French auteur Georges Melies entitled "Le Manoir du Diable."
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The Draugr, A Nordic Zombie
DraugrThe draugr or draug is a sort of zombie in Norse mythology, an undead being that appears as a mouldering corpse and often guards the treasures buried in the mound graves of important figures. In...
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The Magnetic Cloud
Many know of the apocryphal--and likely wholly fabricated--tale of the "Philadelphia Experiment," which purportedly managed to not only visibly cloak an entire ship (the USS Eldridge), but send it from...
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The Brit and the Beast
Captain Choate, Order of Distinguished Service, was stationed in Nigeria during World War I as Great Britain kept its grip on the former German colony.It was in October 1918 that local tribal leaders...
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