By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Late on the afternoon of October 7, 1949, 26-year-old, bit-part actress Jean Elizabeth Spangler left her Los Angeles home, which she shared with her 5-year-old daughter and other family members. This was the last ever seen of pretty Jean.
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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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Lonely stretches of road all over the country are said to be haunted by the spirit of lost hitchhiker ladies, always trying to reach their final destination.
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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.
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Many people keep secrets, especially from childhood, but Ronald Edwin Hunkeler's was unique. He was the boy that inspired the novel The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty, and released as a film in 1973. 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 In the last 1.4 billion years the moon has moved further from the earth, increasing the length of a day by six hours, thus days are 30% longer.
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The summer of 1969 three couples had parked by a clearing on the shores of Lake Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. A favorite hangout place for the teenagers of the area changed on the night of July 9, when a beast straight out of a horror movie jumped on top of one of the automobiles, and tried to grab one of the girls through the open car window. They sped away before it could pull her out. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In August 1900, it was reported that a mansion known as the Page House was haunted by a white lady. For over a hundred years it was a famous inn in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was Halloween, 1969, and St. Petersburg police was called to the scene of a gruesome murder. The body of a woman dressed only in a filmy, green nightgown was discovered neatly wrapped in plastic bags, and concealed in a black, steamer trunk near the parking lot of the Oyster Bar Restaurant at 4200 34th Street South. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories A young legend tripper and ghost hunter was found dead in an abandoned church in Italy's Asota Valley. The condition of her body points to a sinister motive for her untimely death. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories On December 3, 1994, a troubled 26-year-old hired a pilot to take her out in a small Cessna for what she claimed was a trip to take aerial photographs. It turned out to be a trip into oblivion. 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 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. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories De Mello house sits abandoned somewhere on Goa, approximately 180 miles south of Bombay. The dark folklore surrounding the house stems from a dispute that supposedly led to murder between family members. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Perhaps older, but just as lethal, an 83-year-old convicted serial killer was indicted in 2022, for the murder of a woman whose dismembered body was found in a shopping cart at a Brooklyn street corner. 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 Three boys were playing near an old mill pond on the outskirts of Crisfield, Maryland. An old man arrived carrying two bundles. He told the boys the sacks contained either puppies or kittens, which he meant to drown. After the man threw the sacks into the water and left, they retrieved one of the bags intent on saving the animals only to make a gruesome discovery.
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A few days before Christmas 1900, a twelve-year-old girl named Inez came home from school on Friday afternoon. She told her younger brother she was going inside for a moment, and when she failed to return he went to search for her; he saw something reflected in the mirror that faced the open closet that sent him screaming from the room. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories On September 19, 1911 Lady Frances M. Garnett-Orme was found dead in her room at the Savoy Hotel in the hill station of Mussoorie in northern India. The body was carefully laid out, as if posed after she died, and the doors were locked from the inside. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories The Endurance was found four miles from where her captain, Frank Worsely reported her going down in 1915. It wasn't only the loss of the ship which made this endeavor so famous, but the tribulations the crew had to endure in order to reach safety. 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 the fall of 1923, a woman's savagely beaten body was found under the portico of the deserted Hussey Mansion at Center Avenue and Cypress Street, adjacent to the Homeopathic Hospital in Pittsburgh. Underneath her body was found an envelope with the "hand of death", consisting of the playing cards an ace, a deuce, a tray of diamonds and the five of spades. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Wyoming Frontier Prison is known as The Old Pen, with a reputation of being the most haunted prison in the state. Of all the inmates that were held there, one of the most grisly and psychopathic was Andrew Pixley who was executed in the gas chamber in 1965. It's claimed he's not moved on from where he met his demise and justice was served. However the area is rich in a history of bloodthirsty outlaws. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Two officers of the bicycle police brigade of Fresnes-sur-Marne were patrolling the road to Claye, when they came in the night upon a smoldering hayrick in a field belonging to Farmer Ernet. Under the rick about 100 feet off the main road and up a cart track, they smelled the odor of burning flesh. It was the body of a slender girl, and it was obvious by the charring of her body someone had set her on fire. |
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