There are locations from around the world which are scenic, but for all their beauty and historical significance come with a turbulent past, and troubled souls that refuse to rest in peace.
SALTO DEL TEQUENDAMA Approximately 18 miles southwest of Bogotá, Colombia on a precarious cliff Hotel Estación del Salto de Tequendama was built between 1923 and 1927, by architects Pablo de la Cruz, Joseph Martens and Carlos Arturo Tapias.
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?
The snake-covered medal dates back approximately 1,800 years. It was unearthed on June 6, 2023, at the archaeological site Vindolanda. This was the site of a Roman auxiliary fort built about 100 A.D., about 20 years before the construction of Hadrian's Wall.
John Morgan was only 22 years old when he took a hatchet and killed three persons that had treated him like family.
1897, West Virginia
Chloe "Cloah" Koontz married Francis Marion Pfost and had eight children, five girls and three boys. The youngest Matilda "Tilley" was only 2 years old when her father died in 1873. Chloe Pfost remarried two years later. Her second husband was Edward H. Greene, who was 28 years older than her. He had lost his wife the year before and he had seven children by her. He would have another son with Chloe named James.
On a frigid day in January, 1910, the Chicago headlines trumpeted, "Chicago Fiend Second White Chapel Ripper".
The reason for the sensational story was based on the opinion of Assistant Police Chief Schuettler following the coroner's report for a post-mortem completed on the body of Mrs. Jennie Cleghorn (AKA Anna Furlong). She had been found mutilated and decapitated in a South Side rooming house, which doubled as a brothel situated over a saloon owned by James Seeley at 1702 Armour Avenue (also given as 51 West 17th Street). Little did the police or the public know that this grisly crime was only the beginning.
During the summer of 2023, archaeologists made a strange discovery under a Mexican church that proved a local legend was indeed true.
Before the birth of Christ, first the Zapotec and then the Mixtec people flourished in the valley of Tlacolula, which lay Approximately 300 miles south of Mexico City
They built a city and a temple named Mitla (Nahuatl word Mictlan, which means Place of the Dead). In adoration to their "cult of the dead" they built massive tombs filled with grave goods. It functioned as a cemetery for the Zapotec and Mixtec until the late 15th century, when the site was abandoned most probably due to attacks by the Aztec who sacked it in 1494.
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In February, 1998, human remains were unearthed near Bothell, outside of Seattle. It appeared to be skeletal remains of two persons. The first set of bones was found by a transient who spotted a skull lying on top of straw that was scattered over a newly graded construction site.
Before the month was out they were identified as the remains of Sammiejo White, 11, and Carmen Joy Cubias, 9, half sisters, who had gone missing in July, 1996. The King’s County M.E. said the victims had been killed probably soon after they disappeared.
From 1980 to 1991 several children were kidnapped and killed. Some cases were solved after many years, and some remain open and unsolved.
The first child to disappear was Suzie Bombardier, a 14-year-old honor student who was kidnapped, raped and stabbed to death on June 22, 1980.
Five days after her disappearance, she was found floating in the San Joaquin River east of Antioch, California by a fisherman. This was about 100 miles from where she lived. The girl was taken from her sister’s home while babysitting, leading her family to believe she knew her abductor.
There are persons who are never meant to hold positions of trust, and Hans B. Schmidt was one of them. Some are just untrustworthy, others are deadly.
Hans B. Schmidt was born in in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg; one of ten children. His mother Gertrude was Catholic and his father Heinrich was Protestant, but it was probably the beatings he received at the hands of his father that shaped the man he would become. He also witnessed domestic violence between his parents, brought about because Heinrich did not want her to practice her faith. Perhaps it was also a deep streak of mental illness that ran in his family.
The plunder of bodies from Harvard Medical School's morgue earlier this year has led to the arrest of another person.
Within weeks of the arrest of Cedric Lodge in June, 2023, the one-time manager of the Harvard Medical School’s Anatomical Gift Program, a lengthy title for the morgue, police arrested James Nott.
FBI agents searched the home of 40-year-old Nott, located in Mount Washington, Kentucky where they found 40 human skulls, spinal cords, femurs and hip bones.
In an abundance of precaution, they asked him if anyone else was in the home. His response of, "only my dead friends," was quite unexpected.
The agents found a skull on Nott's bed, and another wrapped in a head scarf. Others were positioned as decorations around his home. They also found a Harvard Medical School bag.
Why does death row inspire the artist in killers? The world may never know.
John Wayne Gacy spent 14 years on death row, before his final adieu. His artwork, if not for his name could be attributed to a grade schooler. After his execution in 1994, his pieces have increased in value. However it is a narrow audience that wants artwork produced by a hand that killed, sometimes in the most vicious and sadistic ways.
The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika by Curt Siodmak
Planet of Dread by Murray Leinster
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What is the perfect opportunity for a killer, than to find another murderer to blame for their deeds?
Kathleen Kimberly Robinson wasn't identified until November 26, 1977. The 17-year-old had been found in a parking lot not far from a brushy area of the Wilshire district, near the corner of Pickford Street and Curson Avenue. She'd been strangled but not sexually molested.
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.
Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was stabbed to death on April 5, 1980, Holy Saturday and the day before her 72nd birthday. There was nothing random about the identity of this victim, or when she was killed.
In 1968, Sister Annunciata became Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Only two years before the Sisters of Mercy had allowed the nuns to use their baptismal names. She had taken the habit over 50 years before.
Hiking is great exercise and exposes you to nature, however it can also become the gateway to death.
Even tour guides are not impervious, as one got lost during a group trip. His name was Morgan Heimer, 22, of Cody Wyoming. On June 2, 2015, the National Park Service received a report he had disappeared at Pumpkin Springs. The group was on the 6th day of an 8-day trip. He was last seen wearing a flotation device and carrying a water bottle. The search continued into late July, seven weeks after he disappeared.
