Tuesday, February 27, 2024

The Place Where Ponies Go To Die | M.P. Pellicer

Laden with memories, it's not surprising that a place has sprung up around a universal toy beloved of so many children.


The place is called Ponyhenge, and the rocking horse graveyard is only a dozen years old.




Evidence of Crucifixions | M.P. Pellicer

In ancient Rome, crucifixion was a painful way to execute criminals and slaves, and to remind the populace the consequences of breaking Roman laws. Rare archaeological evidence has been found through skeletal remains that confirm this type of execution.

Crucifixion did not originate with the Romans. The Assyrians, Phoenicians and Persians practiced this form of execution 1,000 yeas before the birth of Christ. It was introduced into western cultures from the east. Some Greeks used it, mostly the ones who had contact with Phoenicians and Carthaginians. After Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., crucifixion was used by the Syrians and the Ptolemies who ruled Egypt.

Murrell's Protégée | M.P. Pellicer

The place was Sandtown Road, once known as the Sand Town Trail, near the West End in Atlanta where a man's skeleton was found. It was a swampy area, some distance from the road in a dense area of cane growth. Most noted that it was an "admirable spot for a murder."


Atlanta, April 12, 1897

The bones were found by a policeman's young son, and soon crowds flocked to the place. All believed the person was a victim of murder, with the body not fully decomposed. He appeared to have been a man of means. Near to the remains was a piece of a gold chain, a small silver ring and a dainty gold locket, which was in the man's pocket, and not discovered by his attacker, if theft was the motive.

Monday, February 26, 2024

Glory's Death | M.P. Pellicer

It was a spring day in 1903 when the body of Bertha "Glory" Whalen was found in a thicket. Her family had last seen her when she left for school.

Collingwood, Ontario, 1903


The Grand Trunk Railroad seemed destined to be the site of dark occurrences the year of 1903, starting in January.

Saturday, February 24, 2024

The Boats of the Glen Carrig | William Hope Hodgson | Nightshade Diary Podcast


This is a horror novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson published in 1907. It is presented as a true account, with the following opening passage: "Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. As told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his Son James Winterstraw, in the year 1757, and by him committed very properly and legibly to manuscript."

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Author - William Hope Hodgson (1877 – 1918) was an English author, who produced a large body of work, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson was killed by the direct impact of an artillery shell at the Fourth Battle of Ypres in April 1918. His widow, described how Hodgson led a group of NCOs to safety under heavy fire.

Friday, February 23, 2024

Blind Tigers Always Keep their Secrets | M.P. Pellicer

Bones were found on the bank of the Miami Canal on April 12, 1917. The police immediately compared the crime to the murder of Eddy Kinsey, whose body had been discovered in similar circumstances a few months before.


What was left of the man was only a skeleton, with evidence that he was the victim of foul play. The bones were taken to Undertaker W.H. Combs. From the general appearance, the remains had been left on this lonely spot for about six months. It had been scattered by buzzards, which had cleaned away the flesh and only traces of garments were left behind. There was also a pair of tan shoes hardly used, which later were proven to have been purchased at an Avenue D shop. A burned buckle showed that he wore a leather belt around his waist.

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

The Bones at Ponce Park | M.P. Pellicer

White cottages were found under the live oaks at Ponce Park, which was known for being the haven of women with children, and anglers who came to fish. This normally placid place was stirred up when seven skeletons were discovered by postmaster Frank Stone when he dug up his back lot.


PONCE PARK, DAYTONA, FEBRUARY 1, 1915

Stone had been "grubbing" some palmetto, live oak and bay bushes near the east line of his property, and along the road leading south to the Ponce de Leon Inlet lighthouse. He broke the skull with his hoe, and once he realized it was a cranium he began a careful excavation. The entire skeleton was unearthed, and he kept digging and finally exhumed seven skeletons.




Monday, February 19, 2024

The Missing Mr. Tod | M.P. Pellicer

A man was found nine years after he disappeared. It made the papers in Daytona, however the one question never asked is what happened to him.


James S. Tod was 23 years old when he was discharged from the Union army for a disability in 1863. He had served in the 1st Regiment, Ohio Infantry, Company E as a hospital steward.

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Stories from the Other Side of Midnight | Volume 6 | Supernatural StoryTime


True stories and urban myths of the weird, the paranormal, ghosts, cryptids and the things that make your weird little heart happy.

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Detecting the Paranormal | Interview with Joshua Chaires | Stories of the Supernatural


Joshua Chaires is a paranormal investigator, writer, researcher, musician, and publicist. Chaires has investigated the Sanderson Museum, Selma Mansion, Mill of Anselma, White Chimneys, The General Wayne Inn, Fort Mifflin, Pennhurst, Smyrna Museum in De, Paoli Battlefield, Gettysburg, Chadds Ford Historical Society, and many other locations. In 2021 his company purchased the rights to the late Art Bell's former affiliate directors news program Dark Matter News. 

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Saturday, February 17, 2024

Sea Curse and Another Story of Ill Fortune | Nightshade Diary Podcast


STORIES: Sea Curse by Robert E. Howard The Brute by Joseph Conrad

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The Strangest Stories | Volume 9 | Supernatural StoryTime E297


True stories and urban myths of the weird, the paranormal, ghosts, cryptids and the things that make your weird little heart happy.

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THE BLACK LADY OF TAMWORTH CASTLE | M.P. Pellicer

Tamworth has many ghosts that are said to be haunting it's ancient walls, but two of the most famous are the Black Lady and the White Lady.


Tamworth Castle is of Norman mote & bailey design with a shell keep. The present stone structure replaced the first timber tower surrounded by a palisade, which was built shortly after the Norman Conquest in 1066. The land of the former Saxon burgh was given to Robert de Despencer by William, and it subsequently passed through marriage into the Marmion family. Numerous additions and alterations were made to the castle by succeeding generations of owners, until the late 1890's, when Marquis Townshend decided to sell the Castle by auction.





The Skeleton at Constant Street | M.P. Pellicer

On Halloween, 1900, Sanitary Chief George Walker made a startling discovery while conducting a house to house inspection. He came upon the skeleton of a woman. It was in the rear of a vacant house at 817 Constant Street, Tampa. This neighborhood was known as the Scrub.


The bones were not white and polished such as the one ones used by physicians or medical students. They were dark and a little charred, as if the flesh had been recently burned from them. Wisps of wavy, fine reddish brown hair still clung to the skull.

Monday, February 12, 2024

The Dead Man at Devil's Elbow | M.P. Pellicer

What was left was just a skeleton found in a pine stand at a place called the Devil's Elbow.


October 30, 1886, Palatka, Florida

A boy hunting found him. His head lay to the roots of the pine tree, and his flesh had been completely stripped off by animals and buzzards. The condition of the clothes indicated he had been dead several months, and that he might have been the victim of the prior winter's freeze.





Sunday, February 11, 2024

The Mystery of the French Shipwreck

One of the greatest mysteries of the Great Lakes' region is the fate of the ghost ship Le Griffon, which disappeared in 1679, while on its maiden voyage.


The vessel was built by Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle (1643-1687), a French explorer who hoped to find a route through the Great Lakes in order to reach Asia. Built on the Niagara River, she was a ship of 60 tons burden, and fitted with two masts.

Murder at Matanzas Inlet | M.P. Pellicer

In 1875, Henry Keech came to St. Augustine, Florida and established a farm a few miles away at Matanzas Inlet, named for the massacre of French sailors decades before. Little did he imagine that death stalked him as well.


June 1875


Henry Keech came to St. Augustine from Wisconsin in 1873. He purchased a farm in St. John's county 14 miles from the old fort Matanzas Inlet. He was industrious and prospered. He came with a woman who all believed was his wife.

Dennis' Ghost | M.P. Pellicer

Abraham Lincoln is widely claimed to haunt the White House, but his cousin Dennis Friend Hanks (1799-1892), who lived with him in his childhood home in Indiana, was reputed to haunt the house he owned in Charleston, Illinois.


In 1965, Mr. and Mrs. Tycers moved into their newly-purchased, 14-room house largely to have a place for the antiques they had collected over the years.




Thursday, February 8, 2024

Haunted Past | Interview with Anita Jo Intenzo | Stories of the Supernatural



Anita Jo Intenzo is the author Estate of Horror and Dark Transference, which were the inspiration for the episode Portal of Doom, on A Haunting TV. Her true life encounter with a dark haunting started with honoring her friend's will that named her as an executrix. She had no suspicion what would come of it.

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The Roman Soldier's Grave | M.P. Pellicer

In June 1884, a fire hydrant was being laid before the library of the University of Vienna, and an unexpected discovery was made.

They found a Roman grave that had indications it had been opened before since the bricks on the top were broken.

It was walled up with large bricks bearing the inscription "Legio Decima Gemina" (The Twins' Tenth Legion). It was among the oldest units of the Imperial Roman Army, and one of four legions used by Julius Caesar in 58 BC when he invaded Gaul. There was reference to the legion in Vienna beginning in the 1st century A.D. It's symbol was a bull.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Haunted Waikumete Cemetery | M.P. Pellicer

Waikumete Cemetery is located in Auckland. It is the largest cemetery in New Zealand, and the second largest in the southern hemisphere. It covers almost 300 acres, and has over 70,000 burials. Is it little wonder that it has a fearsome reputation as being very haunted.

It was established in 1886, and the surrounding area grew around the hilly countryside it sits on. It replaced the Symonds Street Cemetery, which was the first official cemetery in Auckland in use from 1842.




Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Demon Busting in the 21st Century | M.P. Pellicer

Essential in exorcisms rites is backup, and the Vatican now uses all the modern tools at its disposal including a cellular phone to connect clergy to assistance and prayers.


Starting in 2018, a new tool was added to the arsenal of an exorcist's weapons—it's a cellular phone. Sprinkling holy water, chanting exorcism rituals in Latin are the cornerstone of the rites, but the Catholic Church must be inventive to meet the rising demands for exorcisms.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Could They Ever Be Let Out? | M.P. Pellicer

In March 2017, Franklin county officials found a grisly scene when they arrived at a house on U.S. Highway 64, Raleigh, North Carolina.


They were responding to a 911 call where a man called to say he had killed his own mother. What they found at the scene was all too horribly accurate. Eighteen-year-old, Oliver Mauricio Funes-Machado (Machada) had beheaded his own mother with a butcher knife. He was still holding her head when they arrived. He told the dispatcher that he had stabbed his mother "like eight times and left the knife in her mouth" and that he had committed the atrocity "because I felt like it". He had been released only a week before from a mental health facility, based on a court order.



Skull in the Sagebrush | M.P. Pellicer

A hunter in pursuit of an elk he'd just shot found the unexpected: a human skull in the middle of nowhere.


November 12, 2023, Wyoming

The sun-bleached bone stood out amongst the sagebrush in Wyoming's Red Desert that spans more than 9,000 square miles. On a map it's known as Area 118, and it literally is the middle of nowhere, just an expanse dotted with oil rigs and wells near Wamsutter, Wyoming. The lower jaw lay nearby, and nothing else—no more bones, no clothing.


Thursday, February 1, 2024

In Search of Little Miss X (Cold Case 1958) | M.P. Pellicer

It was Halloween, 1958, when off a dirt road on Skinner Ridge south of Grand Canyon National Park, the skeletal remains of a young girl were found. Her body was nude and it was estimated she had been there nine to fourteen months.


Like all cases investigated decades ago, sometimes files get lost. The coroner's inquest is one of them. The name on the girl's file was "Little Miss X".





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