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The Bible Code and the 2016 Presidential Election
Did Bible Code experts foresee a victory for Donald Trump?An example of code found in the Torah, pertaining to North KoreaProphecy is a funny thing. It's one thing to look for signs and codes and...
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Why have so many celebrities died in 2016?
When I heard about the passing of George Michael earlier today, it brought to mind several emails I've received from readers over the past few months, asking "What's up with all the celebrity deaths...
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Woman frightened by ghost jumps from railing
An interesting ghost story from Akron, Ohio. From the Richmond Item, October 17, 1895
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The Man With the Deadly Eyes
Did Louis C. Bauduy possess a stare that could kill?Newspaper drawing of Louis BauduyGuy de Maupassant, the French master of short fiction, once wrote a story about a man who possessed a stare that...
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The cult that buried itself alive
Russian Raskolniki, or "Old Believers"In 1896, a shocking tragedy took place in Russia that is little remembered today. It occurred in Liman, about twenty-eight miles from Tiraspol in the province of...
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A haunted hotel in Canada
Lake of Two MountainsThe following newspaper story from 1880 describes a haunting at a hotel in Hudson, on the shores of the Lake of Two Mountains in Canada.
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The man who built a table out of human bodyparts
A newspaper illustration of Sagatti's tableOne of the strangest pieces of furniture ever created was exhibited at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1886. An artist named Giuseppe Sagatti spent...
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How did a Confederate flag find its way to Samoa shortly after the Civil War?
Apia as it appeared in 1899President Grover Cleveland appointed an Alabama attorney named William L. Chambers to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Samoan Islands in 1898. It was a cushy gig,...
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The Mystery Letters of Camp Chase
Prisoners at Camp ChaseDuring the Civil War more than 25,000 Confederate prisoners were held at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio. More than 2,200 of them are buried on the grounds of the former prison at...
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Famous "Pennsylvania Unicorn" Skull For Sale
In April of 2013 Journal of the Bizarre featured an in-depth analysis of the strange "unicorn" skull found in a shallow cave in Union County, Pennsylvania. (read the original story about the skull...
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Haunted Landmarks: Mare Island Naval Shipyard
A classified Navy photo of the shipyard during WW2America's first naval base on the Pacific Ocean, Mare Island Naval Yard, can trace its military history back to 1852 when Commodore John Sloat...
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14th-century gargoyle bears eerie resemblance to Donald Trump
 Odd. Very odd.http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2017/02/tourists-flock-to-cathedral-to-see-gargoyle-that-resembles-trump-001448889.html
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An Ozark Ghost Story: The Connor's Bluff House of Horror
Strange things have happened in a home where an entire family was murdered-- very strange things. If this story is true, then the ghosts observed at the scene of the Crockett family's gruesome murder...
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William Seabrook goes searching for Haitian zombies
A Haitian zombie, as photographed by SeabrookBefore he decided to travel to Haiti to study zombies, journalist and occult writer William Buehler Seabrook was already well established within the...
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Trade Secrets of Victorian Era Hangmen
Today, hanging is universally condemned as a barbaric form of punishment. The very reason why the electric chair was invented was because the citizens of New York demanded a more humane form of capital...
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Telepathy through blood transfusion: The strange case of Frederick Lee
Facade of the Middlesex Hospital before its demolition in 2007.Blood has played a sacred role in religious rituals around the world for millenia, from primitive practitioners of human sacrifice to...
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The Hunt for the Osage River Monster
Osage RiverIt's spring of 1844 in St. Clair County, Missouri. A mile or so from the banks of the muddy Osage River a pioneer settler named Matthew Arbuckle is plowing his field when he hears a...
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JOTB Exclusive Report: The Politics of the Paranormal
JOTB presents a groundbreaking study on political preferences and the supernaturalJournal of the Bizarre staffers had a busy 2016, attending paranormal conferences all over the United States and...
View ArticleThe Argentinian Goblin: The least spectacular monster ever caught on film
It must have been a slow week in the world of the paranormal. From the once-relevant Coast to Coast AM website to the formerly-interesting Unexplained-Mysteries.com, everyone has been posting stories...
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Civil War Mysteries: The Strange Disappearance of Harvey B. Wentworth
Capitol construction during Lincoln's presidencyThe strangest casualty of the Civil War occurred not on the battlefield, but beneath the U.S. Capitol Building, and involved a young soldier from New...
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