There is a 200 square-mile area in Eastern Massachusetts known as the Bridgewater Triangle, as well as the more ominous-sounding Black Triangle.
This piece of land in Eastern Massachusetts is believed to be the source for unexplainable cryptids and sightings. Bigfoot, UFOs, giant black panthers, ghosts and disembodied voices have been reported, as well as a weird energy especially at the center which is Hockomock Swamp, the largest swampland in New England. The 3 main points are Abington, Rehoboth and Freetown. It's a hard place to navigate, and many believe this allows unknown creatures to exist there.
According to the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah were so sinful, that God decided to punish them with total destruction. It came in the form of a fireball from the sky.
Now the accuracy of that story has been proven. Researchers describe that a meteor "cloudburst" incinerated the cities' 8,000 inhabitants in the blink of an eye.
Maxim W. Furek's background includes aspects of psychology, addictions, and rock journalism. He has written numerous articles for both addictions and rock publications. His books include: The Death Proclamation of Generation X: A Self-Fulfilling Prophesy of Goth, Grunge and Heroin, which traces the origins of the current opiate epidemic, Sheppton: The Myth, Miracle, and Music, Flying Saucer Esoteric: The Altered States of Ufology and Coal Region Hoodoo: Paranormal Tales from Inside the Pit.
Archaeologists had previously found a few hundred skulls in the the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan the site of present day Mexico City, however ongoing research has found this was only the tip of the iceberg and the human sacrifices numbered in the thousands.
Archaeologists were aware the Aztec performed human sacrifices, but the truth of how many were killed in the most horrific fashion became undeniable in 2015. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) found what was known as a "trophy rack" near the the site of the Templo Mayor, which is present Mexico City.
In 1960, Sharon Lee Gallegos, 4, was kidnapped by two persons, a man and a woman, driving an old-model green car. Despite a good description of one of the kidnappers and the vehicle, as well as reporting it right away to the police, the child's fate remained unknown for 62 years.
Within hours, police set up roadblocks across southern New Mexico with a description of the kidnappers and the vehicle they were driving. They also reported Sharon as having light brown hair, light complexion and brown eyes. She was wearing pink shorts and white shoes. In September, she would have celebrated her fifth birthday.
The Great Lakes has served as passage to the Atlantic Ocean for hundreds of years. There is an area between Manitowoc, Wisconsin to Ludington, Michigan and south to Benton Harbor that has its history of mysterious disappearances comparable to the Bermuda Triangle.
The first known ship to go missing on Lake Michigan was Le Griffon which disappeared in 1679 while on her maiden voyage. It's estimated 1,500 ships have wrecked in Lake Michigan, but only 300 have been found.
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.
Jean Elizabeth Spangler was born in Seattle, Washington on September 2, 1923 and had appeared in minor roles in Hollywood films and early television. She married Dexter Benner, had a daughter Christine born on April 22, 1944 and when the couple divorced he was granted custody of the child, due in part to Jean's infidelity during the marriage. Benner also cited her lifestyle as a party girl that did not coincide with being a good mother as part of the divorce suit. He denied Jean access to Christine.
John Olsen was raised in Cache Valley. As a child he began to realize that the old farmhouse he lived in was peculiar. Built in the mid-1880s, the family had strange experiences such as phantom knocks, loud boots running up the stairs, and missing objects became commonplace. With each run-in with what he called the “man in the hat,” John’s interest in the paranormal grew. He has spent the last 30 years documenting first-hand accounts of those who have witnessed all kinds of strange and unusual phenomena in the western United States, which contain firsthand accounts of ghosts, monsters, hauntings, glitches in the matrix, Sasquatch, and UFOs.
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.
The Ides of March in the ancient world heralded the arrival of spring, the renewal of earth and a promise of life. In Rome, the Feast of Anna Perenna was celebrated to complete the circle of the year happily. Sacrifices were made to her, publicly and privately to assure a healthy year. This date was important for an agrarian society, and soldiers upon retiring were given farmland to work.
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.
Like the opening of any gothic novel, it was a dark, stormy and foggy night on High Point Road (present day Main Street). A motorist carefully approached an underpass in Jamestown, North Carolina. The headlights illuminated a distant figure on the roadside. He thought perhaps it was a stranded driver, but he soon saw a woman wearing a long dress. Her dark hair blew around her expressionless face, and like an automaton she waved her arm to signal for him to stop. He pulled over to let her enter the vehicle despite a strange ripple that consumed his body that all was not right.
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.
Barbados is an island in the Lesser Antilles, and known as a tourist destination. Most are not aware of the mysterious events that took place in Christ Church Cemetery between 1808 and 1819. In those years it was part of the British Empire, and the industries of tobacco, sugar and cotton flourished.
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.
In order to protect his identity the teenage boy was referred to as "Robbie Mannheim" or "Roland Doe" by the Jesuit priests who exorcised him. A handful of lay people knew the real name of the boy who endured a series of exorcisms in 1949.
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.
Combermere Abbey located in Cheshire, England, was founded by Benedictine monks in 1133. In 1540, King Henry VIII ran out the Benedictines, and closed down the Abbey, which later became the Seat of Sir George Cotton KT, Vice Chamberlain to the household of Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII.
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.
The moon has been drifting slowly away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year, and the effect is longer days. The weakening pull of the planet's only natural satellite has resulted in a slower spin, and thus it takes longer for a complete 360° rotation to take place.