Stranger Than Fiction Stories

Monday, April 15, 2024

The Ghosts of an Ancient City | M.P. Pellicer

De Mello house sits abandoned somewhere on Goa, approximately 180 miles south of Bombay. The dark folklore surrounding the house stems from a dispute that supposedly led to murder between family members.

At the end of the 15th century Vasco Da Gama discovered the maritime route to Asia via the Cape of Good Hope. In a dozen years Portugal possessed Mangalore, Cochin, Ceylon, Ormuz, Diu, Goa and Negapatam.

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Harvey the Serial Killer | M.P. Pellicer

Perhaps older, but just as lethal, an 83-year-old convicted serial killer was indicted in 2022, for the murder of a woman whose dismembered body was found in a shopping cart at a Brooklyn street corner.

On March 7, 2022 at Jamaica Avenue near Vermont Street, a passerby saw a very unusual thing inside a discarded tire; it was a severed human leg.

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The Cemetery of Fools | M.P. Pellicer

Bohnice is a district in northern Prague. It is home to a psychiatric hospital built at the beginning of the 20th century. The asylum was one of the largest in Europe. Small houses surround a large park with an Art Noveau church. However what attracts tourists and legend trippers is the cemetery that received the dead for fifty years.

The six acre parcel of land is known as the Cemetery of Fools. Like many asylums built during these years, it had its own graveyard. Patients from the hospital were buried there from 1909 to 1951. Originally it was used for the patients' children, but eventually the inmates were buried there as well.

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The Secret of Crisfield Pond | M.P. Pellicer

Three boys were playing near an old mill pond on the outskirts of Crisfield, Maryland. An old man arrived carrying two bundles. He told the boys the sacks contained either puppies or kittens, which he meant to drown. After the man threw the sacks into the water and left, they retrieved one of the bags intent on saving the animals only to make a gruesome discovery.

Inside the bag was the headless bodies of two children, and just the head of an older child. One of the victims was perhaps 6 to 7 years of age, while the others were from a week to 6 months old.

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