On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine experienced a lethal nuclear accident. Several explosions culminated in an open-air reactor releasing radioactive contamination for nine days. In the aftermath stories circulated of a flying humanoid figure with glowing red eyes seen days before the incident.
About 150 years ago a French taxidermist named Jules Verreaux created a diorama named Lions Attacking a Dromedary, which portrays a man battling two lions.
Since it was first placed on the display, many have marveled at how realistic the man’s face was, and a discovery made as to what’s really under the plaster made it clear why it appeared so lifelike.
In 1869, two years after this taxidermy diorama also known as Arab Courier Attacked by Lions was created, it was shipped off to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Prickly skin, a feeling that you're being watched or there's someone standing right behind (when there isn't) and a drop in temperature are all the hallmarks of the unearthly.
In Miami there are certain places where you're more likely to have these encounters with the other side.
"It was a dark and stormy night", the overused trope of gothic novels and low-budget films, can cause one to overlook that amongst the humming of insects, and the stillness of sub-tropical humidity the spirits of those who don't lie easy in their grave make their presence known. The Magic City has its own sordid history of murder, suicides, violence and secret burials that can provide a cast of thousands that can cause a shiver down your spine even in 80 degree weather. These are some of those places.
Florence Pretz a native of Kansas City held the design patent for a slant-eyed pudgy figure granted on October 6, 1908, known as the Billiken. Little did she imagine it would inspire a cult-like following.
The Billiken appeared in The Canada West, A Magazine of the Sunset Provinces in 1907. For 8 months the Billiken appeared in five Canada West stories, written by Sara Hamilton Birchall and illustrated by Florence Pretz. They were both friends who hailed from Kansas City, and moved to Chicago.
In June 1932, Mamie Thurman was killed. But who would want to murder the pretty wife of a patrolman?
On June 23, scandal was in the air. Harry Robertson, the Logan city commission president, and Clarence Stephenson his servant were being held in connection to a murder. And it wasn't just any murder, but that of Mamie Thurman, the wife of Alvin "Jack" Thurman, who was a political friend and appointee of Robertson's. The Thurmans lived above a private garage at the rear of Robertson's house on Stratton Street.
In the span of six years three members of the same family were shot, two of them died. Now the grave of one of the victims was broken into and the head of the corpse removed.
Sabrina Tavares de Almeida, 31, was shot dead in Nova Iguaçu, Brazil in August of 2022. She was buried in Iguaçu Velho Cemetery which is also known as the Cemetery of the Slaves. It's located on a dirt road with land and brush bordering the graveyard.
Amy Murphy, 17, died mysteriously. Her body was found lying in the Golden Gate Park on February 2, 1900. It was in a partially secluded area, down on Hayes Street by the big eucalyptus tree that stood on the left just beyond the peacock walk. First there was a suspicion she died by her own hand, but others thought it was murder.
The gun which fired the bullet found in the girl's head mysteriously disappeared, which made the theory of "self destruction" questionable. Later it was found out she had pawned her watch in order to buy the firearm.
Ronny Dawson is a UFO experiencer/alien contactee. His alien encounters include being a witness to cattle abduction, alien home invasion, sighting a mile long mother-ship flyover, alien first contact and voluntarily used in alien clone hybridization.
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.
