Sunday, November 18, 2018

Friday, November 16, 2018

The Former Passengers | Haunted Ship | Podcast

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A cargo ship named the "Wandering Star" plies her trade on the seven seas, refusing all passengers, perhaps because the last ones that sailed with her are still there. | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer


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The Vampires' Club | M.P. Pellicer

After the end of the Civil War in America, society did what it usually does after war and bloodshed, which is to revel in activities that are whimsical if somewhat morbid. Such was the creation of the Vampires' Club.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

The Butcher of Paris | French Serial Killer | Podcast

Marcel Petiot was a French doctor and serial killer, who preyed on refugees fleeing from the Nazis. After the liberation of France by the Americans, Petiot was arrested, and nearly 30 corpses were discovered in his home. Dubbed “Doctor Satan” by the French media, Petiot claimed that the victims were killed by the French Resistance. At his trial he admitted to more than 60 killings, and he was guillotined in 1946. | Host - Marlene Pardo Pellicer

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Monday, November 12, 2018

The Oven Tragedy | M.P. Pellicer

More than 120 years ago, London was not done with horrible murders. It had been barely ten years since Jack the Ripper had terrorized Whitechapel.


November 12, 1898
This story became known as The Oven Tragedy as reported by the newspapers of the time.​

A shocking murder was committed at 82 William Street, Hampstead. It was alleged that two men quarreled and that one of the men after killing the other, cut the head off and threw both body and head into a baker's oven.

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Friday, November 9, 2018

Monday, November 5, 2018

New England Entities | Interview with Jack Kenna | Podcast

Interview with Jack Kenna, paranormal investigator and author who appears regularly on the television series "Paranormal Survivor" and "Haunted Case Files". | Host - Marlene Pardo Pellicer

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Saturday, November 3, 2018

Midnight At The Crossroads and Other Creepy Stories | Nightshade Diary

Midnight at the Crossroads, is the witching hour when deals are struck with that tall, dark man standing at the fork in the road. Find out what he wants, and listen to a few other utterly haunting tales, that will make your skin crawl, and your hair stand on end.

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E.T. Enigma | Interview with Mack Maloney | Podcast

Mack Maloney is the best selling author of numerous fiction series, including Wingman, ChopperOps, Starhawk, and Pirate Hunters. In this interview he discusses his books having to do with the truth of UFOs & ETs. | Host – Marlene Pardo Pellicer

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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

THE TRAGIC TALE OF THE GIRL IN BLUE | M.P. Pellicer

For more than 70 years, a solitary grave under a lonely mulberry tree in Willoughby Cemetery simply read: "Girl in Blue. Killed By Train. December 24, 1933. Unknown, But Not Forgotten." The ground around the grave is littered with dimes and pennies in remembrance of this unknown victim of tragedy.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Skulduggery at the Vatican | M.P. Pellicer

People disappear all the time. Sometimes it's voluntary, other times it's a question of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. But how could the wrong place be the Vatican, one of the world's holiest cities? Precisely because of its pious reputation, a series of unexplained disappearances that have occurred throughout the years, leads one to believe that dark deeds have indeed taken place.


The disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi on June 22, 1983 has produced various conspiracy theories of what happened to the 15-year old since the fateful day she left for music lessons.

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Leakin Park: Baltimore's Open Air Cemetery | M.P. Pellicer

Leakin Park in Baltimore is where missing people or those suspected to be victims of violence are looked for. Why? Because since the 1940s, sixty-eight bodies of murdered men, women and children, many times mutilated have been dumped in the woods or along the roads running through the park.

Leakin Park adjoins Gwynns Falls Park which covers 1216 acres. Without knowing of its sinister reputation it appears to be a lush woodland, where families once visited so their children could ride ponies and enjoy the outdoors.

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The Price of Disobedience at the Church of Sacrifice | M.P. Pellicer

In January 1911, 605 Western Avenue in West Crowley, Louisiana was the scene of a horrific murder of an entire family. 

Officer Ballew, the first to arrive found a Walter Byers, his wife and small son all lying in bed with their skulls split wide open. The sheets underneath them were drenched in blood. The front door was locked which indicated the murderer had entered through an open window. There was no need to search for the murder weapon since in a corner of the room next to the head of the bed, was a bucket full of blood and a bloodied ax propped next to it.

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The Haunted University Media Room | M.P. Pellicer

What could be more unspooky than a radio station early in the morning, right? However, it's sometimes this setting that catches the unsuspecting in a moment worthy of a Twilight Zone episode.


It was an early summer morning when college senior, Victoria Bailey sat by herself in the studio of KXCV radio station on the Northwest Missouri State University campus. She was engrossed in her task when she caught something out of the corner of her eye that made her believe she was not alone. Like what happens to many of us, when she turned, nothing was there. The movement she had spied made her think it was a person and she walked into the hallway, and again found nothing. It was a Sunday, when not even the janitor made an appearance.

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The Scottish Witch | M.P. Pellicer

Lilias Adie lived in the Scottish village of Torryburn in 1704. She was accused of witchcraft, and after enduring torture as part of her interrogation, she admitted she was.


The hunt for a witch was spurred by the accusation of Jean Nelson (also referred to as Jean Bizet) who'd become ill. Lilias Adie (Lilly Addie, Eadie) came under scrutiny when Jean accused the old woman, stating, "beware lest Lilias Adie come upon you and your child."

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The Chinese Ghost of Stewart's Folly | M.P. Pellicer

In 1901, Stewart's Castle or Stewart's Folly as it was also known was demolished.It had been built for Nevada Senator William Morris Stewart after the end of the Civil War. Contrary to popular expectations as to who would be the phantom to haunt this place, it was not Senator Stewart, but the origins stem from the time this building served as the Chinese Legation from 1886 to 1893.

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The Ghost of the Eerie Spaniard | M.P. Pellicer

In 1883 a local historian of San Luis Obispo wrote of place that many considered was haunted by a proud Spaniard who had made a dying request that his body should be interred at lonely, seaside home he had built called "El Morro".

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The Forgotten Dead of Mississippi's First Insane Asylum | M.P. Pellicer

For years, as students walked about the campus of the University of Mississippi's Medical Centre they were unaware that they were only a few feet from the remains of as many as 7,000 patients who died while institutionalized at Mississippi's first insane asylum.

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The Necrophiliac Hitwoman | M.P. Pellicer

A Mexican hitwoman whose made-up name is Juana but known as "La Peque Sicaria" due to her short stature worked for one of Mexico’s most dangerous cartels, the Zetas. Now incarcerated in Baja, California, she admitted to becoming sexually aroused by blood, murder and gore.

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The Owners of the Willard Suitcases | M.P. Pellicer

The stately Victorian buildings may be derelict, but the contents inside them betray lives that were at times happy, but mostly tragic. The buildings were part of the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane where the discovery of suitcases in the attic of the building provided a cache of information as to the lives of the patients that came here, and sometimes spent their remaining days there.

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The Martyrs' Bones in America | M.P. Pellicer

St. Martin of Tours in Louisville, Kentucky was built in 1854. Few people known that the skeletal remain of Saints Bonosa and Magnus have been on display here since 1902.

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Cannibal From Down Under | M.P. Pellicer

In 1824 Alexander Pearce was executed for the crimes of theft, murder and cannibalism. When asked if he had any last words, he unapologetically said, "Man's flesh is delicious. It tastes far better than fish or pork". Can you imagine how the conversation went between Mr. Pearce and the guard who asked him what he would like for his last meal?

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My Boyfriend the Killer | M.P. Pellicer

There are women who run with killers who are classified as compliant accomplices, in other words they were aware and at times participated in their crimes either in fear of their lives or that the relationship would end. There are other women who claim they were in total ignorance that the person they were involved with was killing other human beings.

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Red Jack, Saucy Jack, A Jack by Any Other Name | M.P. Pellicer

Well over 100 years since the gory murders committed in the White Chapel district of London, the identity of Jack the Ripper is still in question, and just how many others were masters in their own right of similar, bloody handiwork.

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