Monday, October 2, 2023
The Last Resting Place of the Boy Bandit King | M.P. Pellicer
On August 30, 1950, a tombstone with the inscription, "The Boy Bandit King — He Died as he Lived" disappeared from a grave in the Old Fort Sumner cemetery. It was also inscribed with "Truth and History, 21 Men", below this were crossed revolvers.
Fort Sumner was a military post in the 1860s. It was established on the east bank of the Pecos River in New Mexico. As many as 700 infantry and cavalry troops were stationed at the fort until 1869, then it was abandoned. The buildings and land were purchased by Lucien B. Maxwell. He lived there until his death in 1875.
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Thursday, September 28, 2023
The Cursed Women | M.P. Pellicer
Many of these creations on canvas are at times described by the artist as being inspired from something outside themselves. Are they portraits or portals?
THE RAIN WOMAN
Ukranian artist Svetlana Telets was a newly minted artist who graduated in 1996 from Grekov Odessa Art School. Then she started to suffer nightmares and the feeling of being watched, by someone or something. The spell she had endured for six months was broken one day, when she took her paintbrush and produced the painting The Rain Woman in only 5 hours. She had never seen this subject before.
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
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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Monday, September 25, 2023
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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Sunday, September 24, 2023
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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Saturday, September 23, 2023
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
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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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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Sunday, September 17, 2023
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
Saturday, September 16, 2023
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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Friday, September 15, 2023
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.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
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.
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
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 journal, 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.
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.
Monday, September 11, 2023
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.
Saturday, September 9, 2023
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.
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