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.

READ THE REST

Adults and Children Sacrificed to Serve in the Afterlife | M.P. Pellicer

In 2021, a mummified man was found in Peru, then a year later the remains of 20 sacrificed victims were discovered around him.

Cajamarquilla is an ancient city on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. The site is considered a pre-Hispanic mud city, which could have housed between 10,000 and 20,000 people in an area of 413 acres. It is here that the mummy of a man, bound in a fetal position was found inside a tomb. His age is estimated to be either in his 20s or 30s. He was dubbed "Chabelo".

READ THE REST

Farewell to the Master | Harry Bates | Nightshade Diary Podcast

Story on which the film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was based.

The Black Canon of Lyons | M.P. Pellicer

In early 1893, Joseph-Antoine Boullan died. A defrocked priest, he was the head of a schismatic branch called the Church of the Carmel. He was also known as the Black Canon of Lyons.

Born in 1824, Boulan was ordained in 1848. He became a follower of Eugene Vintras, once a foreman in a cardboard box factory who claimed to be the reincarnation of Elijah.

Vintras founded two sects, the Work of Mercy and the Eliate Church of Carmel. He was dogged by rumors of demonic rituals and sexual excesses. In an 1846 pamphlet he was accused of homosexuality, conducting black masses in the nude and masturbating on the altar. He was condemned by the Pope, which would have made him a very unsuitable person for a Catholic priest to fraternize with.

READ THE REST

Disturbed Paintings | M.P. Pellicer

Some paintings by the effect they have the subjects portrayed, or those who view them are known as disturbed. They carry the essence of the artist that in some instances turns out to be unlucky, or plain deadly.

ARSHILE GORKY

Arshile Gorky (born Vostanik Manoug Adoian) is an Armenian American artist born in 1904, in a village on the shores of Lake Van in the Ottoman Empire (present day Turkey). His mother starved to death in 1919, while living in Yerevan, Armenia. 

READ THE REST 

 

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. 

READ THE REST

 

Spoken of Only in Whispers | Volume 6 | Supernatural StoryTime E279

What Happened to these Cold Cases | Volume 4 | Stories of the Supernatural

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. 

READ THE REST

 

 

John Barrington Cowles | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Nightshade Diary Podcast

It's Waiting For Me | Volume 2 | Supernatural StoryTime E278

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. 

READ THE REST 

 

 

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. 

READ THE REST 

 

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. 

READ THE REST

 

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.

READ THE REST
 

 

Peculiar Stories | Volume 1 | Supernatural StoryTime E277

Lot No. 249 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Nightshade Diary Podcast

By Sword and Stone | Interview with David S. Brody | Stories of the Supernatural

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.

READ THE REST

 

 

 

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.

READ THE REST

 

 

 

Fear the Woods | Volume 2 | Supernatural Storytime Podcast E276

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".

READ THE REST 

 

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.

READ THE REST 

 

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.

READ THE REST