Over forty years ago a small town in northeast Kansas got the unwanted attention of occultists and vandals, when stories started to surface that one of its cemeteries was a hotbed of dark paranormal events.
The town of Stull is separated from the church and cemetery by a highway. The headstones are etched with German surnames such as Stull, Hildenbrand, Bittinger, Wulfkuhle among others. There is one place on the grounds that is supposed to be the portal to hell, and ironically it's the burned-out ruins of an Evangelical prairie church, which in truth did not burn down.
Disbelief and ridicule, this is the fear promoted by the devil according to Father Gary Thomas as it relates to sexual abuse victims, but it seems that secrecy is the devil's best ally.
Father Gary Thomas has for many years been the exorcist for the Diocese of San Jose, California. He was mentored in Rome by Father Carmine De Filippis. The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist (2009), and the film The Rite based on the book included Father Thomas and his training in Rome
In January, 2017 a discovery was made in Northamptonshire from the Romano-Britain period. The corpse was buried face down and his tongue had been cut out and replaced with a flat stone. These are all indicators that this individuals was considered odd or a threat to the community.
It is speculated that the man’s tongue was cut out as a punishment for spreading malicious accusations. Or perhaps he was scapegoated for bad weather, as the area where he was buried became a cemetery only when it became too flooded for habitation.
An archaeological dig at Huanchaquito-Las Llamas in Peru was found to contain the mummified remains of 140 children that were part of a mass sacrifice some time during the 15th century. The victims were both boys and girls between the ages of five and fourteen.
Examination of the remains found the children's hearts were ripped from their bodies. A study of the cranial modification and stable isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen, indicates the children of both sexes were taken from different regions and groups throughout the Chimu empire.
It was some time after 7 PM on October 11, 1973, when two men were fishing on a pier on the Pascagoula River at an abandoned shipyard. One was Charles Hickson, 42, and the other was his co-worker Calvin Parker, 19. They heard something that sounded like a whizzing noise, and then they were engulfed in a blue, blinding light. What followed next was a classic, extraterrestrial abduction experience.
Hickson died in 2011, and Parker in 2023, however he did write a book about his experiences in 2018. Hickson went on to appear on talk shows, and self-published a book in 1983 titled UFO Contact at Pascagoula.
Belief in this deity started among the Meso-Americans of Guatemala which was described as a dangerous cave-dwelling bat creature known as Camazotz. In the Maya culture it is linked to death. and inhabits a cave called the "house of bats" in the Popol Vuh.
This monster bat would attack victims and decapitate them. Camazotz is identified as one of the four animal demons whose aim is destruction. His purpose along with the other gods was to clear the slate to create the perfect slaves on earth. Camazotz is the fourth of the Nine Lords of the Night featured on the Mayan Haab' calendar.
Historically whenever gold is discovered, it's rapidly followed by a swell of strangers all vying to strike it rich. With it comes opportunity, but also trouble, and even murder.
Cariboo, British Columbia
In 1862, Nehemia T. Smith, better known as Blackjack was involved in the discovery of gold in the Cariboo mines, and the famous strike on William Creek. He had been part of the Fraser River Gold Rush in 1858.
The tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas dates back to oral storytelling practices, where tales of the supernatural were shared around the fire or in hushed whispers. During the Victorian era (1837-1901), Christmas was a time for family gatherings around the hearth, where storytelling was a common pastime. Ghost stories, with their elements of danger and the supernatural, were a natural fit for these gatherings, offering a thrilling contrast to the warmth and safety of the home.
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How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery by E.F. Benson
In the 1930s, Oswald "Ozzie" Nelson and Harriet Nelson became famous on the radio show, The Baker's Broadcast. In 1944, they launched their own radio show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet which later became a well-known sitcom by the same name that ran on television from 1952 to 1966. The house on the set was modeled after their real home, which would eventually develop a reputation for being haunted.
The Nelson house is located on 1822 Camino Palmero Street in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills. It was built in 1916, for a prominent Los Angeles businessman Harold G. Feraud, on a sloping half-acre parcel in the exclusive Las Colinas Heights subdivision. Architects Frank Kegley and H. Scott Gerity designed it in a colonial revival style.
When do disturbing coincidences fail to explain a pattern that bring only one word to mind: a curse? What if you're working on the set of what turns out to be one of the most chilling movies produced, which had the devil as the main villain? These are just some of the so called "accidents" that almost 50 years in retrospect, plagued the set of the film The Exorcist.
In 1973, The Exorcist was released. Linda Blair was cast as 12-year-old Regan, and she recalls a series of unsettling incidents that occurred on the set to actors, or behind-the-scene personnel.
Engineers with Thames Water, a U.K. utility company were laying down pipes in Oxfordshire, 50 miles outside of London, when they unearthed various skeletons.
Cotswold Archaeology excavated the site and examined the 26 skeletons found. They dated back almost 3,000 years to the Iron Age and Roman period. Most disturbing were indications some of them were victims of human sacrifice.
In July of 2018, Brad Jackson, 65, was found brutally murdered inside the business he managed. Pankaj Bhasin, 34, was accused of killing Jackson. He claimed that he had stabbed the man because he thought that Jackson was a werewolf.
On July 13, 2018 a woman driving her Mercedes Benz in Old Alexandria, Virginia was shocked when a bloody, naked man opened the back passenger-side door, and jumped into the backseat. She yelled at him to get out of the car and then she did the smart thing, which was to get her daughter and herself out of the vehicle they kept locked until police arrived.
You hear a moan, and realize that it's not the wind or your imagination. So who or what was it? Throughout the years, ghost stories have persisted on U.S. military bases in the Pacific.
Yongsan Garrison (Dragon Hill Garrison), South Korea
The garrison served as headquarters for the Imperial Japanese Army in Korea from 1910 to 1945. U.S. military forces were stationed there until 2018.
Dan Harary is best known for his 40-plus years of work in Hollywood as an entertainment industry publicist, and as the owner of the Asbury PR Agency in Beverly Hills. Dan has worked with hundreds of famous celebrities from movies, TV, music, and pop culture including a pre-fame Bruce Springsteen, KISS, and Fleetwood Mac. A longtime UFO researcher, Dan has been a member of the Southern California Chapter of MUFON since 2007. He is also the creator and host of the podcast: Live From Hollywood…It’s Paranormal Tonight!
The story was published in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, January 1933. The narrative follows Canevin and Lord Carruth as they take an unusual short hop in the title vehicle, the Napier Limousine, to help avert a tragedy.
What better than the O.G. of stories? The original ghost stories that is, which takes place in haunted mansions and hotels, with creaking doors and spirits who love to pay a visit at the midnight hour.
In the early 1900s, shrunken heads known as tsantas 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.
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When passion and an unquestionable thirst for perfection and fame collide, it's always the innocent who pay the price. | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer
The ghost of a murder victim refuses to rest until all those that were responsible for her death pay a terrible price. | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer
