Charles Dickens wasn’t the only one who wrote Christmas ghost stories. Where did they come from? Why Christmas ghost stories and not Halloween?
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Lizzie Borden Part Two: The Trial & Hauntings
How would you feel if your parents’ skulls were presented to you in a court room as you were tried for their murders? Not exactly the definition of a pleasant afternoon.
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Eat Your Heart Out, Mercy Brown: America’s First Vampire
Before there was Dracula, there was the real life, well documented vampire of New England, Mercy Brown. Or at least that’s what some liked to call her.
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Fox Hollow Farm Part 2: The Hauntings
With the dark past of murders, a home like Fox Hollow Farm is bound to have a certain energy left behind.
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Fox Hollow Farm Part 1: The Murders
When authorities found thousands of human bones scattered in the woods of Fox Hollow Farm in the 90s, all arrows started to point at one potential culprit of the plethora of missing and murdered gay men in the Indianapolis area.
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The Shadows Of Falcon Lair
Within its walls, Falcon Lair housed Hollywood sex symbols, socialites and heiresses haunted by self destruction and ghosts of the past.
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The Lady Of The Lake
They say that Lake Crescent never gives up its dead, but one day in 1940, the body of a woman was found floating, murdered. Even more alarming? Her body had turned to soap.
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The Enfield Poltergeist
Strange happenings at 284 Green Street on a summer day in 1977 kicked off either the most recorded haunting ever captured or (another) elaborate hoax perpetuated by two teen girls.
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The Dark Tales of the Cecil Hotel
With initial intentions of Hollywood glamour and opulence, the Cecil Hotel quickly declined into a dark home of transients, crime and mystery.
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Amityville Part 2: The Hauntings
The Amityville Horror is probably one of the most infamous ghost stories to come out of modern America. But what really happened? Was the Lutz family haunted, or was there something else happening at 112 Ocean Ave?
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