Certainly Strange

There sat a house upon the hill – in its days of splendour it was a mansion where great balls where held and where the local gentry spent their days playing tennis and golf. For all those who looked upon it, it inspired dreams of the better life. But that was a long time ago. Now, the house that sat upon that hill could only inspire nightmares...

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Thousands of people go missing in the wilderness in the United States, some to be never found again – and others to be found, dead or alive, in a state that offers more questions than answers...

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A knock came at the door. Amadeus Mozart received an anonymous request for a requiem (a death mass). Not long after - he was dead. This has made people speculate, was the requiem requested by his killer? After all, hadn't Mozart said he thought he was being poisoned? But if that is true... who killed Mozart?

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“So, my apartment is currently being haunted by the ghost of a dead child and he’s trying to kill me.”

This was tweeted on Augustus 7th, 2017, by animator Adam Ellis. His comics are often light-hearted, but this was something completely different. For months, Adam would record his experiences being haunted on Twitter, becoming the very first Twitter horror story.

Joseph Schons was having the worst day of his life. He was sitting in the snow with his Volkswagen Beetle, in the middle of nowhere, and he was stuck. And worse – he suddenly started feeling a tightness in his chest that could only mean one thing; he was having a heart attack. Schons decided to hike the 8 miles back to the bar where he had first came from. On his way, Schons passed a blue 1969 Mercury Montego left abandoned in the snow, not knowing that he had just passed the car that would become a centre piece in a puzzle that is still one of the biggest mysteries in history.

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Ed and Lorraine Warren. Anyone who loves to dive into stories of haunted houses and demonic possessions knows these two names. Of their many cases, they often brought home items that were said to be haunted or possessed and they put them in a room in their house, their own special way of guarding the rest of the world

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Considering the history of the Chateau de Versailles, it is no wonder that there rumours that the chateau and its gardens are haunted. And according to two women, they have seen the ghost of Marie Antoinette. Or perhaps it was not a ghost at all...

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The last days of the Romanovs, of the Tsardom of Russia, are stained with blood and mystery – yet all of it seems to be overshadowed by a figure of true strangeness, whose sudden appearance on the world stage can only be deemed as completely absurd. Yet, his rise to power seems to pale in comparison to his death – or rather, his utter refusal to die.

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It had been seven years – seven long, depressing, cursed years. Literally, cursed. It had been eight years since Susan Mummey, “the witch of Ringtown Valley,” had cursed Albert Shinsky. It drove him mad. No, it drove him more than mad: it drove him to murder.

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He is… thin?! That’s what everyone immediately thought when they met the strange man that they had heard so much about. Despite the fact that he could eat and eat and eat, anything and everything, Tarrare was severely underweight. And what he ate – would turn your stomach.

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