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32 Trivia Tidbits About the Paranormal, the Supernatural and the Unexplained

April 18, 2024

We don’t know why, but sometimes unexplained events are even more unnerving than otherworldly events with concrete evidence. And we fully understand that in this realm, the word “evidence” is subjective. Because, sure, a picture or video of what clearly looks like a ghost can be submitted as evidence, but it’s up to us to accept it as real or fake. Either way, it was probably something horrifying!

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CRACKED GUILLERMO DEL TORO Guillermo del Toro said he had an encounter with a UFO while he was hanging out with a friend in Mexico. It was a flying saucer, so clichéd, with lights . It's so sad: I wish - - could reveal they're not what you think they are, he said. OS Instructional Andress 20 INGMAR BES TURKISH DELIGHT HOUR TO Going Places 'the possible 21 The Seren WE adidas DAY . SAMUR DAY FOR NIGHT — Source

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CRACKED GEORGE V Prince George V, then serving as a midshipman on the H.M.S. Bacchante, saw the legendary ghost ship the Flying Dutchman in Australian waters back in 1881. The Dutchman is a harbinger of doom but, as it happens, the prince survived. — Source

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CRACKED KURT RUSSELL Kurt Russell was the first person to tell the world about the Phoenix Lights UFO sighting in 1997 - - he saw the lights while he was flying his plane, and reported the sighting. It's now one of the most famous UFO stories ever. — Source

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CRACKED CARLOS SANTANA Santana has said he's been talking to an angel called Metatron since 1994 and has gotten spiritual messages from him. Не believes these messages have helped him make changes in his life that have led to his success. — Source

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CRACKED ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, said she could sense Abraham Lincoln's spirit when she stayed up late working in his bedroom, which she had turned into her office. — Source

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CRACKED JIMMY CARTER In 1976, Jimmy Carter, who would soon become President, said he saw a UFO in Leary, Georgia. Не called it the darndest thing I've ever seen and said it was very bright changing colors and about the size of the moon. — Source

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The Sodder children just evapora ted. Four of George and Jennie Sodder's nine children managed to get out when their house burned down in 1945. The other five were never found, either alive or dead. In 1967, the Sodders got a photo in the mail, supposedly of their now-adult son Louis-but the detective they hired to look into it disappeared himself. SOI END CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Amy Lynn Bradley has been sighted several times. Bradley disappeared in 1998 during a Caribbean cruise. Since then, several sightings suggest she was forced into the sex trade. An American sailor claims she asked for his help in a Barbados brothel, and photos of a woman looking a lot like Bradley have appeared on an adult website. UNSOLV — Source

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Strange events preceded the Hinterkaifeck murders. In 1922, the weirdness started piling up at the Hinterkaifeck farm in Germany: footprints in the snow leading into the house, the sound of footsteps in the attic, a newspaper that no one had bought. On March 31, all six occupants were brutally murdered with a mattock. The killer was never found. NS CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRAGKED.COM A defector was killed with a James Bond- style contraption. Writer and journalist Georgi Markov defected from Bulgaria in 1968, and became a vicious critic of his former country's government. In 1978, a pellet containing a fatal dose of ricin was shot into his leg using a high-tech umbrella. Не died days later. IUS — Source

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GRACKED.COM A homeless man's head was (maybe) used for magic. The headless body of Leroy Carter Jr. was found in San Francisco in 1981, with parts of a chicken stuffed into it. A police expert on occultism said that his head would be used for ritual purposes and returned 42 days later. No one took this seriously-so no officer was there when the head was returned on the 42nd day. UNS — Source

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The Atlas Vampire just up and vanished. In 1932, Lilly Lindeström was found murdered in her apartment in the Atlas neighborhood of Stockholm, Sweden. A gravy ladle was found at the crime scene, which had apparently been used to drink her blood. Despite their efforts, police couldn't find any leads to the vampire. LV CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2005 THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE During filming, the radios of actresses Jennifer Carpenter and Laura Linney would turn on by themselves, right in the middle of Pearl Jam's Alive. Cool song, but also, they would start shouting right where the lyrics scream I'm still alive. Eventually, all the radios were unplugged to avoid, erm, messages. CRACKED.COM — Source

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BTS STORIES FROM HORROR MOVIES 2013 THE CONJURING Things mysteriously changed places in the Warrens' store room. Actress Joey King became covered with bruises, while Vera Farmiga woke up with three scratch marks on her thigh, and the same marks would also appear on her laptop and cellphone. Also, Farmiga would wake up between 3 and 4 a.m., the same time at which the witch dies in the film. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE TWO DUTCH FRIENDS WHO WENT MISSING ON A HIKE IN PANAMA, AND THE CREEPY PICTURES ON THEIR PHONE. Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon went hiking in 2014 and disappeared. Photos of their hike suggest that they may have trailed off the path and deep into the forest. Soon they were making phone calls to the Dutch emergency line, but couldn't get through. Nine weeks later, the girls' backpack was discovered, and bone fragments were found near a river as well as a boot with a foot inside. The photos authorities recovered from the phone were super eerie, with most — Source

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APPARENTLY THERE'S A HAUNTED FROZEN ELSA DOLL. A family in Houston who purchased a singing Elsa doll claims the thing to be haunted. It speaks on its own without being switched on, and it has never needed new batteries in the six years they've had it. They've thrown the doll out twice, but it kept ending up back at their house. The whole thing sounds like a prank, but the idea is still pretty creepy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE TWINS WHO WERE ALWAYS TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER. Also called the Silent Twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons never spoke actual words to anyone except each other. They would have little rituals like deciding who gets to wake up first, who gets to breathe first, and who can't breathe before the other one breathed first. They went on a five-week crime spree when they turned 18, and were sent to a criminal hospital. When Jennifer died suddenly in 1993, June revealed that they had a death pact, agreeing that one of them needed to die SO the other could — Source

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Villisca Axe Murder

A GHOST HUNTER STABBED HIMSELF IN THE AXE MURDER HOUSE. THE Villysca Ax Murder House JUNE 10 1912 The famous Villisca Axe Murder house in lowa is thought to be haunted by the family murdered there in 1912. In 2014, a group of paranormal investigators stayed at the house overnight. One of them, Robert Steven Laursen Jr., was alone in his bedroom when he started calling for help on a two-way radio. The group found him stabbed in the chest, and he was rushed to the hospital. The incident happened around 12:45 AM, the same time as the 1912 murders. — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE WHITE LADY OF WORSTEAD CHURCH In 1975, Diane Berthelot's husband took a photo of her sitting in a pew at St. Mary's Church in Worstead, UK. When they developed the picture, they noticed a mysterious ghostly figure. Diane, now in her 80's, claims the White Lady healed her and has kept her healthy through the years. — Source

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CRACKED.COM This photo, taken in 1919, shows an extra ghostly face behind one of the airmen. The members of this squadron recognized him as Freddy Jackson, an air mechanic who had been killed a few days earlier and whose funeral took place on the day the photograph was shot. — Source

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Grieving mum Jennifer Hodge, who lost her son in 2016, received a notification on her phone alerting her of an intruder as she was watching TV. Her security camera captured an image of the 'intruder', which she claimed to look a lot like her deceased son. Addio AR ICE CRACKED.COM Save — Source

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A picture taken by Sharon Boo, a firefighter in New York, shows what she claims to be a guardian angel at the scene of a car wreck. The driver, Rose Benvenuto, didn't suffer any major injuries despite the damage to her car. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM THE BROWN LADY OF RAYNHAM HALL In 1936 while taking photos of Raynham Hall for Country Life Magazine, Captain Hubart C. Provand and his assistant noticed a vapoury form gradually assuming the appearance of a woman coming down the stairs towards them and snapped what's widely regarded today as one of the most famous ghost pictures ever taken. — Source

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GRACKED.COM Seven random people were killed with painkillers. Seven Chicago residents, including a 12-year-old girl, died in 1982 after taking Tylenol laced with cyanide. A nationwide panic ensued, and Tylenol products were pulled off the shelves. Tamper- proof seals became the industry standard after this. OL NO — Source

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Little Lord Fauntleroy was never identified. A boy about six years old, killed by a blow to the head, was fished from a pond in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 1921. Because of his expensive clothes, he was dubbed Little Lord Fauntleroy. Almost 100 years later, we still have no idea who he was or how he got there. UNSO CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Axeman of New Orleans claimed to be a jazz-loving demon from Hell Between 1918 and 1919, someone axed several people to death in New Orleans. In a letter to the police, the murderer claimed to be a spirit and a demon from the hottest hell. The same letter threatened to kill anyone who wasn't listening to jazz at a specific time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Woman Buried Inside a Tree

GRACKED.COM A dead woman was found inside a hollow tree. In 1943, four children were poaching in the woods in Worcestershire, England when they chanced upon a human skeleton inside an elm tree. The woman, nicknamed Bella, had been apparently suffocated with a piece of taffeta found in her mouth. No arrests were ever made. — Source

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No one can read Ricky McCormick's S encrypted notes. In 1999, McCormick was found murdered and badly decomposed in a Missouri cornfield, 15 miles from where he lived. 12 years later, two coded messages found in his pockets were made public. Despite the efforts of the FBI's top cryptanalysts, no one has been able to decipher them. (MND NE TERNENPINSENPSSERCERNSE NORSE PRSE TC AC-PROPSIT CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Highway of Tears has claimed many victims. Since 1969, at least 18 young girls and women have been killed or gone missing on Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada. Most of the cases remain unsolved. CAUTION GIRLS DON'T HITCHHIKE Highway 16 of Tears on the Delphone Jaman Killer on the Loose! Victims KEEP CRACKED.COM — Source

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Someone was chasing Elisa Lam when she went missing. Lam, a Canadian student, disappeared from a Los Angeles hotel in 2013, and was found dead in the hotel's rooftop water tank weeks later. Security footage shows her hiding in an elevator and peering out, like someone was following her. The chaser remains unknown. NSOL GRACKED.COM — Source

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Keddie Resort is a real-life Camp Crystal Lake. Keddie Resort was a popular tourist destination in California -until four people were violently murdered there. Yet despite the brutal crime scene, no one heard anything. Not even the children sleeping in another room. KEDDIE RESORT UNSOL VE CRACKED.COM — Source

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