When Freda Lesser was murdered in 1919, there was a comparison made to the killing of Freda Ward in 1897, not only because of their name, but because they were slaughtered over love.
In July, 1919, the murder of a girl made the newspapers. Mostly because she was the victim of "morbid love" and that her name was Freda.
In the winter of 1892, a gruesome murder was committed in public by a young woman, a graduate of the Higbee School for Young Ladies, where butchery was not on their curriculum.
January 1892, Memphis, Tennessee
The city of Memphis was rocked by a scandalous murder that took place in daytime, in full view of various witnesses. There was no mystery as to who committed the crime, but the reason for the killing, caused tongues to wag for years.
In 1876, an arched, stone tunnel was built under the Grand Trunk railroad tracks in Niagara Falls. So how did something built as a drainage passage become known as the "Screaming Tunnel" or the "Blue Ghost Tunnel"?
The Merritton Tunnel was completed in 1876, and opened in 1881. Using limestone, about 1,000 Irish immigrants worked on the project that spanned over 700 feet. Allowing traffic to cross the Welland Canal in St. Catherines, Ontario was the original purpose of the tunnel. The canal acted as a highway for boats travelling between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
When we think of aliens, we picture something strange with large black eyes. Something that doesn't look human. But in some cases these beings have learned very well how to mimic us.
Is it mimicry, camouflage or are they partly like us, at least how they look on the outside?
How do they betray themselves? Perhaps with an evil grin, at the most inappropriate time. Think of The Joker in the Batman comics, or a clown that despite the face paint they can't quite hide that it's all a lie.
The Baron Dee Doss, is a cryptid field investigator, show host, and BDRP founder. He is passionate about uncovering the hidden truths of the paranormal world. He has a wide knowledge about cryptids, paranormal phenomena, and supernatural events from around the world, including the history and origins of these entities, exploring their impact on society and culture.
Boleskine House sits on the southeast side of Loch Ness and has a history of death dating back to the 10th century, when according to legend it was built atop the ruins of a Scottish kirk that burnt to the ground with its congregants trapped inside. And this was only the beginning.
The building was constructed in the 1760s by Colonel Archibald Fraser of Lovat (1736-1815) as a hunting lodge at Inverfarigaig, Scotland.
Mark Kilroy was murdered 34 years ago this month, and for those living along the border of Mexico and the U.S.A. the crime has not been forgotten.
The reason for the attraction of Matamoros are three international bridges linking Brownsville, Texas to the notorious city where the good times are cheap.
It was 1879 when Frances Hranuelli fell in love with a sea captain named Herbert Schrady, but love doesn't always bring happiness in its wake.
She came from a Yugoslavian family living in San Francisco. Her relatives did not approve of the relationship, so they were probably glad when he sailed to Europe in charge of a merchant sailing vessel. It was reported to have gone down in the Straits of Gibraltar, and word reached Frances that her lover died, but she refused to believe it. There was a violent argument among them, and she took a vow that she would never open her lips in speech. She believed her family intercepted his letters to her, and tried to keep them apart.
It was April 1943, and World War II raged throughout Europe when four English teenagers were hunting for birds' nests in a private estate near Birmingham named Hagley Wood.
Bob Farmer climbed up an old Wych-elm tree, looked down the stunted top and made a gruesome discovery inside the hollowed out bole that has mystified police ever since. It was not a bird that stared back at him, but a human skull.
As a child he lived in a haunted 200-year-old farmhouse in Bavaria, German and that helped fuel his interest in the paranormal. This interest continued as he lived in a haunted house in New Mexico and having strange experiences as a logger working in the mountains of the southwest. He worked for many years in law enforcement eventually becoming the Chief of Police for Moriarty, New Mexico. During his time, he has witnessed many unusual events.
Niagara Falls has been a favorite destination for honeymooners for decades. Like a magnet, it also draws daredevils and those wishing to release themselves from this mortal coil.
Niagara Falls is made up of three waterfalls that are 18,000 years old. Two in the United States and one in Canada. Horseshoe Falls spans the border of both countries, and empties into the Niagara River; it's the largest of the three. The falls have a vertical drop of more than 165 feet.
Modern-day Sasquatch lore paints this cryptid as being very wary of man, and watching him only from afar, however Native American tribes for centuries have painted a different picture of Bigfoot. They describe how given the chance they would snatch up women or children and take them away never to be seen again.
Some tribes believed Bigfoot would take humans to feed on them, others believed they used them for sexual purposes.
Some tribes believed Bigfoot would take humans to feed on them, others believed they used them for sexual purposes.
So how did Sasquatch's nature become so different in modern times?
It was a roomy, but old fashioned house. A low, two-story structure built in the shape of a T; it had a cluster of tall chimneys in the middle and three gables hidden in ivy. When built it had been quite out of town, but soon cottages and villas surrounded the high wall enclosing the grounds. The lawn was shaded with old trees and the garden had thickets of lilac and snowball.
Mrs. Gage lived there for 40 years; the last 20 she had lived only on the ground floor. She was an invalid and lived a secluded life. She had made little effort to keep the property up, and it decayed as she did herself. She died and it was placed for sale.
In 1959, a group of hikers were found horribly mutilated and killed in a part of Russia's Ural Mountains. Until this day who murdered them remains a mystery, and since then other persons have died or disappeared there.
Dyatlov Pass is one of the most impassable regions of the Urals. Even the name of the region is shrouded in mystery and death. After the disappearance in 1959 of Igor Dyatlov and the hiking group he led, it has been known by this name.
Tartary is the historical name for Siberia and Central Asia. There has always been a persistent rumor of a hidden past.
The Tartarian Empire was thought to be a lost civilization that enjoyed advanced technology and culture to go with it. This covered the area of Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and the Russian Far East (Chinese Tartary).
What are the intentions of beings from another part of the universe? We know about ET calling home, so what should earthlings do when extraterrestrials call us? According to scientists we shouldn't hang up, we should just not answer at all.
Advances in technology have allowed astronomers to scour the far reaches of space for any signs of alien life. However despite sightings of UFOs and stories of close encounters, we have yet to produce definite evidence of extraterrestrial life, either intelligent or microbial.
Dale Kaczmarek is President of the Ghost Research Society and director of Excursions into the Unknown, Inc., the only year-round ghost tour of haunted Chicagoland locations. He's investigated ghosts, hauntings and poltergeist phenomena since 1975. He's appeared on numerous TV shows and is the author of 6 books.
Pachamama Raymi is celebrated on August 1, every year. This festival dates to pre-Hispanic times like the Mayan new year. She is an ancient female deity worshiped by the Mesoamericans and their descendants, even though originally the sun was the main god of the Incas.
Pachamama is made from the Quechua word "pacha" which means space, and mama for mother.
For the Aymara and the Quechua who have lived in northwestern Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru for hundreds of years the date signifies the beginning of the month when the Earth rests. This is the coldest season of the year in the southern hemisphere. This is when the earth is the hungriest.
Since time immemorial there have been stories of the spirits of murder victims coming back to point a finger at their killer and seek justice for themselves.
Such is the sad story of Zona Heaster Shue who lived in rural West Virginia at the turn of the 20th century.
ZONA AND THE STRANGER
Born Elva Zona Heaster in 1873, in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Zona’s life is something of a mystery before she met her eventual husband Erasmus Stribbling “Trout” Shue in 1896. Shockingly only a year prior to their meeting, the records of Greenbrier County indicate that when she was twenty-two years old on November 29, 1895, she bore an illegitimate male child, who’s supposed father was an unskilled laborer named George Woldridge.
50 Berkeley Square is a 4-story, brick townhouse in Mayfair. In the late 19th century it became known as one of the most haunted houses in London.
A murderous unnamed thing was said to be responsible for several deaths in the home, but there were other suspects mentioned throughout the years.
There are stories of a ghost that haunts the 4th floor attic (others say the 2nd) of 50 Berkeley Square. The structure has been referred to as "the most haunted house in London". Others argue it is not a ghost at all but an amphibious, predatory cryptid, reminiscent of Lovecraft's Cthulu's pantheon.
