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.
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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. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories If you visit a cemetery you might have some trepidation, mostly because you don't want to come face-to-face with the restless shade of someone interred on the grounds. The last thing you expect will cross your path is a werewolf. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories There is a ritual tradition that spans three centuries practiced by Dutch settlers in Pennsylvania known as "hexerei"—witchcraft of evil intent, and "braucherei"—casting of spells with intent to do good and faith in "pow-wow doctors". by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Mary Hoge's slashed body was found stuffed in a steamer trunk, and the suspect was none other than her stepson. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories The Belvedere Orphanage in Newfoundland was slated for demolition after it was damaged by fire in April, 2017. 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Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Beware the insane, because they might have lost their mind, but not the capacity to deceive. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories A family outing became the most unexpected moment when an otherworldly being made its presence known. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories When you see a horror movie about a cursed house, once the credits roll you sigh with relief because you live in an ordinary house. Everything changes when it comes to actually buying one, and then living in a home that's stigmatized either by murder, suicide or an actual haunting. |
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