Many entities of unknown origins stalk the halls of many medical facilities It's ironic that a place devoted to healing and saving lives is also a hotbed of supernatural occurrences. Hospitals and nursing homes also seem to harbor a large amount of demonic entities.
Most people think of haunted hospitals as abandoned buildings, but in truth if you speak to a nurse there's plenty afoot in a hospital while it's occupied with the living, and those dying.
Poyang Lake is a large 1400 square mile body of water in China's Jiangxi Province. The lake was formed around 400 A.D. when the Gan River backed up, and the flood swallowed the countryside sending people fleeing for their lives. Was this ravenous hunger from the newly formed lake a foreshadowing of a hunger that is never satisfied?
There are places on earth, which like a magnet to steel draws in things and people to a doomed ending. Sometimes there are no clues left in order to answer the question of what exactly happened.
Kevin is a psychic medium who discusses his experiences providing readings from those who have passed on, as well as his school for psychics, Academy of Real Magick.
Despite our ignorance about the vast oceans that cover the majority of our planet's surface, many find it difficult to believe that gargantuan, humanoid-type animals have been seen in different parts of the Pacific Ocean.
Ningen translates as human in Japanese, and it was given this name by the fisherman who saw it in the 1990s. They were shocked by its large size, albino appearance and humanoid profile. It's considered an Unidentified Mysterious Animal (UMA).
In 1970 Carol Anne Fitzmaurice, a 23-year-old nurse, without any known enemies was savagely stabbed to death in her home. Both her family and the investigators in the case, not only question the identity of the killer but the motive as well. Despite the passage of more than 50 years both of these questions have never been answered.
Carol Ann Fitzmaurice née Manzo was murdered on October 20, 1970 in her home at the corner of West Five Mile Home and Chapin roads in Allegany, New York. She was found stabbed to death on her living room floor; her husband Dan (who would die in motorcycle crash in 1972) found her body around 6:00 pm.
Human sacrifice, animal slaughter, human trafficking and child pornography are some of the terrifying crimes that have been investigated in South Africa by a police unit that is tasked specifically to uncover the perpetrators of these heinous acts. However the work has become so dangerous that for the last few years amid rumors they were disbanded is the belief that they have gone underground.
Sangomas or traditional healers are very common in the Dark Continent, especially in the area of South Africa. Sangomas or isangomas describe themselves as herbalists who prepare muti from herbs, roots and sacrificed animal parts. According to them there are other practitioners who have strayed off the path of healing, who practice very dark magic and are known as baloyi.
This 19-foot crocodile-like reptile roamed China about 1000 B.C. Remains have been found ritualistically beheaded and scientists believe this new species was driven to extinction by being over-hunted.
The fossil remains of two creatures were killed between 1400 to 1000 B.C. during southern China's Bronze Age.
Texarkana is a small town that straddles the state line between Texas and Arkansas, and in the spring of 1946 an unidentified assailant attacked eight people in the span of ten weeks. Five of them were killed. The news media named him the "Phantom Killer"
Between February 22 to May 3, 1946, this killer who only struck on weekends, terrorized a town. Police suspected that because he would not kill during a weekday, he held down a steady job, or perhaps he lived elsewhere and would drive to Texarkana to commit the crimes.
How or why the number thirteen has acquired a connection to bad luck is not quite clear, but this superstition dates back hundreds of years to the Vikings, the Romans and even to present day when many buildings don't have a 13th floor. However at the end of the 19th century a club was formed whose purpose was to fly in the face of all superstitions including the dreaded number 13.
The club's inaugural meeting took place on Friday, January 13, at eight-thirteen in the evening, in room 13 of the Knickerbocker Cottage. (It was on Sixth Avenue and Twenty-Eighth; apparently nothing had been available on Thirteenth Street.) The following appeared in the Philadelphia Recorder in June, 1892:
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.
