Sarah's Sins | M.P. Pellicer

Most people are familiar with the notorious murder committed in Fall River, Massachusetts by the axe-wielding Lizzie Borden in 1892. However there was another crime just as heinous that occurred 60 years before.

In 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell, 30, died from what was assumed to be suicide by hanging. She was found fastened to a stake-pole used to dry hay. Her reason for ending her life was thought to be the shame of being pregnant and unwed. She was buried, but didn't stay there for long. 

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Cattle Mutilations: Who or What is the Culprit? | M.P. Pellicer

Reports of cattle mutilations date back for years, the latest occurred in Texas.

Ranchers in Texas are left scratching their heads after six cattle were found dead with the tongues "completely removed". Strangest of all there was no blood spilled around the carcasses.

The Madison County Sheriff's office were investigating the mutilation and death of cattle along State Highway OSR (OSR). This route is the Old San Antonio Road in east-central Texas. 

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The Curse of the Clown | M.P. Pellicer

If eyes are windows to the soul, then what are paintings produced by a human? What if that human is a killer?

 Many murderers have turned to producing art during the time they are incarcerated. Mostly the art is bad, and only the notoriety of their names brings it any attention. In some instances whether knowingly or subconsciously they give a glimpse into what feeds their souls. 

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The Phantom of Bel-Air | M.P. Pellicer

Ethel Allen disappeared, and eventually many believed justice failed her, but justice can be served in many ways.

The Volstead Act was repealed in 1933. The production of illegal alcohol, and the money tied into the vices found in speakeasies still flowed through the backwaters and scrub hammocks of Central Florida. A raid on the Blind Tiger, a pool room in Rockledge yielded 12 gallons of moonshine and case liquor. Authorities found more 160 proof hooch at the owner's house.

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Ghosts of South Florida: Abandoned Hospital and Biltmore Hotel | M.P. Pellicer

In North Miami off 441 at the Cloverleaf Interchange, where the Palmetto Expressway joins I-95 for over two decades a crumbling, graffitied building decayed while traffic whizzed below it. It was once a hospital, and it developed a reputation for being haunted.

Parkway Regional Hospital opened its doors in 1974, with enough room for 300 patients. There was a psych ward on the 7th floor, with a separate entrance for patients brought in due to a Baker Act.

There was a morgue in the basement.

As time passed the area became crime ridden, and the hospital closed in 2002. The empty building became more derelict as the years passed. It was demolished in July, 2023 after more than 20 years where, it stood untenanted, by the living that is.

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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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The Boy of Blackstock | Aylmer Vance Story | Nightshade Diary Podcast

 

 

Aylmer Vance, occult detective story. This character was created by authors Claude and Alice Askew. \ Narrator and Producer MP Pellicer | www.MPPellicer.com

The Season of the Sea Serpent | M.P. Pellicer

In 1939, reports came in that a sea serpent had washed up on Point Grey Beach in Vancouver. However sightings of these creatures off the North Atlantic coast go back more a hundred years.

On January 14, 1939, Johnnie Davies was fishing on Williams Lake, British Columbia when he hooked something that not only pulled ferociously, but which he could see was a huge, dark shape beneath the ice. He tried to hold on but ended up letting go. According to him he thought it was the famed Ogopogo usually seen at Okanagan Lake. Fishermen in the area said he had probably hooked a land-locked sturgeon.

It seems that January was a busy month for unusual finds. In the cornfields of C.B. Campbell, who lived near Lynch, Nebraska a dust storm exposed the fossil of a monster that later was dubbed a "sea serpent".

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Death of a Fortune Teller | M.P. Pellicer

In 2005, Ha "Jade" Smith and her daughter Anita were murdered. Was it a case of superstition or greed?

Tanya Nelson, 52, believed in fortune telling. She was a Vietnamese immigrant who came to the United States in 1979. Her family had done well in the Vietnamese community in Orange County, California, however in 2005, the mother of four had a downturn in her business.

She went to see Ha "Jade" Smith, a well-known fortune-teller known as "Miss Ha", who she had been consulting with for several years. The fortune teller drew clients from across the country, and was known to command a fee of $15,000.

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Death Visits the Alkimos | M.P. Pellicer

The Alkimos was a merchant ship, one of many that wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1963. What sets it apart are the persistent stories that it's a cursed ship.

Built in a Baltimore shipyard, misfortune seemed to have visited early on when it was said a welder was unintentionally riveted up inside the hull, and found a day later, after he had suffocated. There is another version, where it was several workers who were sealed inside its walls. Supposedly this occurred due to the tight deadline and hurried construction of the ship, which was one of over 2,500 being produced for the war effort.

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The Spider Named After an Evil Seductress | M.P. Pellicer

The Spider Named After an Evil Seductress: It's taken about ten years for the Joro spider, an invasive species to dominate the Eastern seaboard.

In February, 2022 the j​ournal, Physiological Entomology, describes where the palm-sized spider with its resistance to cold temperatures, and the ability to disperse its hatchlings as far as 100 miles has swarmed North Georgia, and threatens to take over the Eastern coast. 

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The Gribble House Axe Murders | M.P. Pellicer

On December 10th, 1909, Eliza Gribble and her daughter Carrie Ohlander were discovered beaten to death inside their home located at 401 West Perry Street, in Savannah, Georgia. Not too far from them Maggie Hunter was found clinging to life, she was also beaten and her throat was slit. She died three days later at the hospital.

The house stood on the outskirts of Savannah in an unsavory neighborhood called Frogtown, close by the railroad tracks. Later some theorized the killer could have been a railroad worker who committed the deed and then left the area. 

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The Eruption of Kilauea | M.P. Pellicer

The Eruption of Kilauea | M.P. Pellicer: The Kilauea volcano erupted on June 7, 2023, but this is not the first time. In 1997, a lava flow destroyed a 700- year old temple where human sacrifices were carried out.

 

 

Murder in the Low Country: The Murdagh Family Killings | M.P. Pellicer

Murder in the Low Country: The Murdagh Family Killings | M.P. Pellicer: On June 7, 2021, Maggie Murdaugh and her son Paul were gunned down on their property on the outskirts of Islandton, South Carolina. In the months to come the senseless crime sprouted more ugly heads than a hydra.

 

Folk Ritual Magic Gone Wrong | M.P. Pellicer

It was the dark of night on Thanksgiving Day 1928, when three farmers stole into the house of another man located in York County's Rehmeyer's Hollow. They tortured and murdered Nelson Rehmeyer spurred by the belief that he was a witch doctor steeped in the old Dutch mysticism known as Pow-Wows.

 

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Custer's Ghost | Old West Story | Podcast

Custer went down into history based not only on his military career but how he died. As the years went by, those that had survived that day eventually died themselves, all but very few who still remembered that moment in time and how it had changed their life forever. | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer

 

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