Showing posts with label historical mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical mystery. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

The Bones at Ponce Park | M.P. Pellicer

White cottages were found under the live oaks at Ponce Park, which was known for being the haven of women with children, and anglers who came to fish. This normally placid place was stirred up when seven skeletons were discovered by postmaster Frank Stone when he dug up his back lot.


PONCE PARK, DAYTONA, FEBRUARY 1, 1915

Stone had been "grubbing" some palmetto, live oak and bay bushes near the east line of his property, and along the road leading south to the Ponce de Leon Inlet lighthouse. He broke the skull with his hoe, and once he realized it was a cranium he began a careful excavation. The entire skeleton was unearthed, and he kept digging and finally exhumed seven skeletons.




Monday, February 19, 2024

The Missing Mr. Tod | M.P. Pellicer

A man was found nine years after he disappeared. It made the papers in Daytona, however the one question never asked is what happened to him.


James S. Tod was 23 years old when he was discharged from the Union army for a disability in 1863. He had served in the 1st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company E as a hospital steward.

Sunday, January 28, 2024

The Fate of the Marlborough | M.P. Pellicer

In 1913, a telegram was sent from New Zealand to London, which solved a 23-year-old mystery.


The Marlborough sailed from Lyttleton, New Zealand with several passengers and a crew of 33 under the command of Captain W. Hird in January, 1890. She was a vessel of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's fleet, measuring 228 feet long, 35 feet broad and 21 feet deep with 1124 tons. The ship carried a cargo of frozen mutton and wool.

Friday, January 26, 2024

The Wreck of the Coos Bay | M.P. Pellicer

On October 22, 1927, the lumber schooner Coos Bay went wrecked outside Golden Gate off Mile Rock, while a thick fog covered the area. It had a crew of 30 and no passengers, but it seemed in the coming days that there was a 31st person on the ship.


The ship started as the collier Vulcan owned by the Pacific States Lumber Company. In it last incarnation it was named the S.S. Coos Bay. She was captained by B.W. Olsen.

Sunday, January 7, 2024

The Mountain of the Dead | M.P. Pellicer

In 1959, a group of hikers were found horribly mutilated and killed in a part of Russia's Ural Mountains. Until this day who murdered them remains a mystery, and since then other persons have died or disappeared there.


Dyatlov Pass is one of the most impassable regions of the Urals. Even the name of the region is shrouded in mystery and death. After the disappearance in 1959 of Igor Dyatlov and the hiking group he led, it has been known by this name.

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Zona's Revenge | M.P. Pellicer

Since time immemorial there have been stories of the spirits of murder victims coming back to point a finger at their killer and seek justice for themselves.

Such is the sad story of Zona Heaster Shue who lived in rural West Virginia at the turn of the 20th century.

ZONA AND THE STRANGER

Born Elva Zona Heaster in 1873, in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Zona’s life is something of a mystery before she met her eventual husband Erasmus Stribbling “Trout” Shue in 1896. Shockingly only a year prior to their meeting, the records of Greenbrier County indicate that when she was twenty-two years old on November 29, 1895, she bore an illegitimate male child, who’s supposed father was an unskilled laborer named George Woldridge.




The Ghosts of LaLaurie Mansion | M.P. Pellicer

In New Orlean's Vieux Carre sits a house with an old-fashioned facade. Even before the turn of the 20th century, the Franco-Spanish residents of the old faubourg would whisper, "la maison est hantee",


After nightfall many walked past it with hurried steps. They were afraid to peer upwards and see the figure of a ghost child that haunted the rooftop once decorated by a latticed belvedere.

The three-storied home at 1140 Royal Street (Rue Royale) stood empty and ruined for many years.




GHOSTS OF THE MAGIC CITY | M.P. Pellicer

Prickly skin, a feeling that you're being watched or there's someone standing right behind (when there isn't) and a drop in temperature are all the hallmarks of the unearthly.


In Miami there are certain places where you're more likely to have these encounters with the other side.


"It was a dark and stormy night", the overused trope of gothic novels and low-budget films, can cause one to overlook that amongst the humming of insects, and the stillness of sub-tropical humidity the spirits of those who don't lie easy in their grave make their presence known. The Magic City has its own sordid history of murder, suicides, violence and secret burials that can provide a cast of thousands that can cause a shiver down your spine even in 80 degree weather. These are some of those places.




Sunday, November 26, 2023

Haunted City Halls | M.P. Pellicer

There are many typical places where ghosts are expected to be found, but government offices are not usually one of them.


Child Ghost Haunts Spanish Town Hall

The story began February 3, 2017, when a councilor of the City Hall of Vegas del Genil had to stay late in the building to finish a project.





On the Trail of the Head Hunters | M.P. Pellicer

In the early 1900s, shrunken heads known as tsantsas were acquired at U.S. museums. Despite being macabre they fascinated the public.


During the early 20th century, travelogues of life in the darkest jungles of the Amazon were written by Lewis Cotlow and Robert Ripley of Ripley's Believe it or Not fame.

Thursday, October 12, 2023

BURIED IN OBSCURITY | M.P. Pellicer

July 31, 1973, was the last time Mary Raskin knew exactly where her son Joseph “Joey” Norman Spears was at.


He was only 17 years old when he escaped from the Harrison County Youth Detention Center in Mississippi. Since then it was as if the earth had swallowed him up, and in a way it had.

Monday, September 18, 2023

The Hexham Dog Man | M.P. Pellicer

In 1971, two boys made a discovery near a privet hedge in their yard, which opened the gateway to something sinister.

 Colin and Leslie Robson, ages 9 and 11, dug up tennis ball-size, carved heads in the garden of their home in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1971.

When their mother Jean took a closer look, she realized faces were etched on the stones.

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Friday, July 21, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO SCANDAL | M.P. Pellicer

SAN FRANCISCO SCANDAL | M.P. Pellicer: ​Some time in 1913, A. H. Wood moved into the Fillmore Hotel located at Fillmore Street and Golden Gate Avenue. To all appearances he was 50-something businessman, but within a few months he would be dead, and the truth was exposed.



Sunday, July 9, 2023

The Fate of the Legio IX Hispana | M.P. Pellicer

The Fate of the Legio IX Hispana | M.P. Pellicer: In June, 2023, it was announced that a silver military metal with a Medusa motif, was found in what was once the northern edge of the Roman Empire in Britain. Could it have belonged to an ill-fated member of the 9th Legion?



Tuesday, June 13, 2023

THE MYSTERY OF THE FRENCH SHIPWRECK | M.P. Pellicer

THE MYSTERY OF THE FRENCH SHIPWRECK | M.P. Pellicer: One of the greatest mysteries of the Great Lakes' region is the fate of the ghost ship Le Griffon, which disappeared in 1679, while on its maiden voyage.



Thursday, February 24, 2022

THE ADVENTURES OF CARRIE AND FLORIE | Podcast

Caroline "Carrie" Holbrook and her daughter Florence "Florie" Chandler, moved in the highest circles of American and European society. As Victorian ladies they were taught to run from any hint of scandal, but by the time they passed from this life their names were linked to infidelity, secret marriages, murder and even Jack the Ripper. 

 

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Tuesday, October 9, 2018

The Ghost of the Eerie Spaniard | M.P. Pellicer

In 1883 a local historian of San Luis Obispo wrote of place that many considered was haunted by a proud Spaniard who had made a dying request that his body should be interred at lonely, seaside home he had built called "El Morro".

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