On July 24th of 1974, a young girl walking on the beach in Provincetown stumbled across a horrifying sight: the decomposing body of a woman.
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The Tragedies at Point Defiance Park
Point Defiance Park in Tacoma Washington has been sight to more than one tragedy, including the murder of Jennifer Bastian.
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Cursed Movies: Poltergeist
Poltergeist is regarded by many as one of the greatest haunted house movies made, but after a slew of actors involved in the film died, it also became known as cursed.
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Peoples Temple Part Two: Jonestown
Jonestown was the ultimate location for isolation and control, and when things went south, Jim Jones’ deathgrip on his Temple members took a darker turn, killing all 918 people at Jonestown in an act of “revolutionary suicide”.
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Peoples Temple Part One: Jim Jones
On November 18th, 1978, Jim Jones conducted a mass suicide ritual for his Peoples Temple cult in Jonestown, Guyana, killing over 900 people. Shortly before that, his members massacred a congressman and TV crew trying to leave.
But how did a supposedly well-intentioned individual utilize the backbone of religion and socialism to result in such a tragedy?
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Pedro Alonso Lopez: The Monster of the Andes
Pedro Alonso Lopez is a monster to the highest degree: a serial killer operating almost unnoticed for years in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Who was he? And how did he go undetected for so long?
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The Circleville Letters
Circleville, Ohio. 1976. It started with strange gossip letters, targeting Mary Gillespie, accusing her of an affair. The letters continued, targeting others in this small, rural town, threatening lives and reputations. But when someone ended up dead, who was to blame?
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Elizabeth Short: The Black Dahlia Murder Part Two
In part one we look at the murder, but what about the suspects? And is Elizabeth Short still around?
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Elizabeth Short: The Black Dahlia Murder Part One
It’s one of the most notorious unsolved murders in United States History: the brutal killing of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, whose body was dumped in a lot, dismembered into two pieces.
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Cursed Movies: The Exorcist
Unexplained deaths, mysterious fires and on set injuries during the filming of The Exorcist lead many to think that the film was cursed…but what is fact and what is fiction?
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