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A headless phantom in West Virginia

 The story above appeared in the Pittsburgh Press on Nov. 29, 1915.

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The Unknown Dead: Secrets of Potter's Field

For centuries, the poor and unknown have been laid to rest in potter's field. The name is derived from the passage in the New Testament in which Judas Iscariot hangs himself after betraying Jesus. In...

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Did climate change cause Harvey and Irma? Don't be ridiculous.

By now you've probably heard some liberal elitist bonehead proclaim that Harvey and Irma are the result of climate change. And although these individuals love to flaunt their affinity for science, it...

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The strangest death in the history of baseball?

The above story appeared in the Ottawa, Kansas Evening Herald on October 11, 1906, and wins our vote for the strangest way to die on a baseball field.

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Mysteries of the Sea: The Lost Crew of the Lamorna

The steamer Tees, which found the wreckage of the Lamorna near Vancouver Island in 1904The British ship Lamorna sailed from Puget Sound on March 1, 1904, with a cargo of wheat destined for Australia....

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Baffling cases of poltergeist activity

The Borley Rectory in 1892Poltergeist is a German word translating, literally, into "racketing spirits". While a great deal of paranormal activity is of the silent variety, poltergeist activity is...

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The Tarcutta Mystery: Stumping Scientists Since 1949

Hume Highway near Tarcutta, New South WalesIn our previous post, in which we discussed a few of the most baffling cases of poltergeist activity, we mentioned the infamous Tarcutta Mystery, which took...

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The Suicide Feast of Ho Why

In the summer of 1913 a strange feast took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The culmination of the banquet resulted in six Chinese men being arrested, accused of playing a role in the bizarre...

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Las Vegas Mystery: The Secret Life of Jesus Campos

Our regular readers have probably noticed that we don't delve into conspiracy theories as much as we used to, the reason being that it's not a lot of fun receiving angry emails threatening us with...

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Jesus Campos Disappears; Las Vegas Mystery Deepens

Yesterday we delved into the mystery surrounding the Las Vegas shooting and the unanswered questions surrounding Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos, such as his peculiar GoFundMe page and the...

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Key Las Vegas shooting witness dies of 'natural causes' at age 28

The conspiracy surrounding the Las Vegas shooting intensified deeply over the past 24 hours, first with the unexplained disappearance of Jesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay security guard who was set to...

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Why did MGM Resorts CEO dump over 80% of his stock 3 weeks before massacre?

On September 8 James Murren, CEO of MGM Resorts International-- owners of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino-- sold over 80% of his stock shares. Just three weeks later, the deadliest mass shooting in...

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Campos union boss was target of fraud investigation, home raided by feds in 2012

Jesus Campos, the security guard reportedly shot in the leg by Stephen Paddock at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on October 1, has received a ton of media scrutiny for his sudden disappearance and...

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Las Vegas Conspiracy: Ellen DeGeneres' MGM connections

Jesus Campos, a.k.a. "The Vanishing Mandalay Bay Security Guard" finally emerged from hiding to give a highly-anticipated television interview. Being that he holds the key to solving the riddle of the...

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The man who used his arm as a piggy bank

A strange report from the Philadelphia Inquirer from April 26, 1902.

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Can Charles Brandon talk to the dead?

A photo of Charles' TV screen appears to show a ghostly hand."I am Charles Mark Brandon, duly authorized representative of the dead, and I am going to prove it!"These are the words of a man who, from...

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Las Vegas Mystery: Sudden death befalls three more witnesses

It seems that either something fishy is afoot, or that the survivors of the October 1 Las Vegas shooting are some of the unluckiest folks to ever walk the earth. First there was Kymberley Suchomel, the...

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The Headless Ghost of Allen Bayou

We came across the following article in the November 8, 1907 edition of the Pittsburgh Press and enjoyed the writer's first-person account of a spectacular haunting so much that we decided to reprint...

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Spooky Places: The Legend of Hangman's Grove

Abandoned church near Valley View, TexasLocated in north Texas, not far from the Oklahoma border, is the tiny rural village of Valley View. The village was born in the early 1870s when eighteen...

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Loch Ness Monster sightings (allegedly) hit record high

According to the UK's Daily Mail, sightings of the Loch Ness Monster have hit a record high, with a Michigan woman becoming the ninth person to spot "Nessie" in 2017.Diana Turner reportedly spotted the...

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