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The Mysterious Case of a Disappearing Town (and the mystery of it showing up...
So, my mom was cleaning out her inbox (a Herculean task no doubt) and kept finding interesting little e-mails with links to articles on strange phenomena or snippets of dialogue or nascent story ideas...
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Sinister Summer Travels: Florida
It's summer! For many, this means cookouts, pool time, and vacations. If you're hitting the road or jetting about this summer, here are some dark destinations for when you need a break from...
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Sinister Summer Travels: Texas Missions
When one thinks of colonial Spanish missions, we often picture those famous churches and presidios of California, but truth is the Spanish had missions all over New Spain. Many of these were located...
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European Bigfoot? Neanderthal legends?
Artist's depiction of a basajaun and its female companion, a basandere.In Basque mythology, Basajaun (plural: basajaunak) is a huge, hairy hominid dwelling in the woods. They were thought to build...
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Gothic Church of the Soul's Dark Night
There is a mournful funeral gathering in a gothic church beneath high vaulted ceilings, stained glass windows and finely crafted wooden paneling and fixtures. The Celtic cross high atop the looming...
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Ghost Caught on Film?
What is seen here in this close up of an empty sanctuary defies explanation. The image was shot last summer at an old gothic revival church in Oklahoma City. The lighting was too dark for a proper shot...
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A Gathering Of Ghosts
The story centers around this 1868courthouse, which was demolishedin 1927 and replaced by the County'snewer Art Deco structure.A story that ran in the mid-January papers of 1896 tells the weird tale of...
View ArticleLondon's Crime Museum Opens To The Public
Long shuttered away, the Museum of London's Crime Museum was once set up to train police and forensic officers. Now anyone can get a glimpse of these famous mementos of notorious crimes: masks used by...
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Strange Travels: Greece, Turkey, Croatia (Part I)
I recently returned from visiting Turkey, Greece, and Croatia. As always, I collected stories along the way as I visited ancient Greek and Roman ruins, Byzantine palaces, historic mosques, and more....
View ArticleDetroit Ghost City
Check out this haunting documentary about the spirits that haunt Detroit, MI, a city that is fast becoming America's haunted house.
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Crete's Petrified Monsters
Agii Theodori, the petrified monsters, are two small islands off the coast of Crete. Legend tells that long ago these islands didn't exist. A sea monster and its baby were coming to attack the...
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The Blue Man
Someone I know recently shared a strange encounter he had at a Walmart in Texas (I know, I know...narrow it down, right?) that left him a bit bewildered and somewhat unsettled. An elderly man in...
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The Lunacy of Lost 'London'
The famous lost Lon Chaney film, "London After Midnight" (aka "The Hypnotist") was said to be the driving force behind the murder of Julia Mangan in London's Hyde Park in October of 1928. The killer, a...
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Nemeta: Sacred Sites of the Ancient Celts
"No bird nested in the Nemeton, nor did any animal lurk nearby; the leaves constantly shivered though no breeze stirred. Altars stood in its midst, and the images of the gods. Every tree was stained...
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Strange Signals in September
As the story goes, in September 1953 in the town of Morecambe in Lancashire, England a specialist in the nascent technologies of broadcast television picked up an unusually long-distance transmission...
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Horrifying Vintage Costumes...by Kids
Remember when kids made their own costumes forHallowe'en? It was a simpler, safer, and moreinnocent time...or so you'd think. Check out thesevintage creepy AF costumes. All I can say is fewthings are...
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Haunted Travels: Bodiam Castle
I've just returned from two weeks touring Ireland and the UK, among the most haunted places in the world. Suffice it to say, I've come bearing gifts. Paranormal postcards in the form of haunted tales...
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Restless Rye: Exploring One of Britain's Most Haunted Towns
The storybook charm of medieval Rye, belies a dark history that has given birth to many restless spirits. In fact, it's meant to be one of the most haunted villages in England. As one of the Cinque...
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The Many Hauntings of Battle Abbey
In East Sussex, at the site of the Battle of Hastings in 1066, lies the ruinous hulk of Battle Abbey, which William the Conqueror commission to be built in 1070 to honor the fallen at that famous clash...
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Ghost Riders In The Sky: A Texas Legend
"For he saw the riders coming hard and he heard their mournful cry"*One evening, in the autumn of 1889, an exhausted team of cowboys drove their weary herd toward some prime grazing atop a cuesta they...
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