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When the "Master of Mystery" himself, Edgar Allan Poe, showed up lying alone in a gutter outside of a bar in Baltimore on October 3, 1849, he was delirious, in a state of semi-consciousness, and could not relay how he had gotten there.

After spending four grueling days in the hospital with moments of mania and constantly floating in and out of consciousness, the famous poet was dead. His final words were: "Lord, help my poor soul."

How did he end up there? And what did he die of? It's a mystery more wild than anything Poe could've ever written in the pages of his chilling short stories.

After a 7&1/2 month pregnant Laci Peterson went missing on Christmas Eve of 2002, all eyes were on her husband Scott who claimed he was out fishing while she disappeared.

Once the public learned of Scott's infidelity and many lies, there was only one suspect: Scott Peterson himself.

Laci's and her unborn son Conner's bodies washed up months later along the San Francisco Bay shoreline less than 3 miles away from where Scott had been fishing on Christmas Eve morning. Scott was found guilty and sentenced to death by lethal injection despite any physical evidence.

Which begs the question: can you RIGHTFULLY convict someone of first-degree murder based solely on circumstantial evidence?



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When Maurizio Gucci, an heir to the massive Gucci family fortune, met Patrizia Reggiani, his entire world changed. Though his father warned him that Patrizia was only after their money, Maurizio married Patrizia anyways on October 28, 1972.

In this story of betrayal, jealousy, greed and power, Maurizio would end up losing everything: his family members, his wife and their two daughters, the company that had brought them riches, and then, his life. Maurizio Gucci was murdered while walking to work on March 27, 1995 but a hitman, and later it was revealed that his ex-wife Patrizia had orchestrated his assassination.

But WHY did she do it? What did she have to gain? And who helped her do it?  




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Early in the morning on January 15, 1947, a woman came across a perfect posed, lifeless body of a young woman who had been cut in half at the torso, had pieces of her flesh removed, and had a deep cut across her mouth that stretched out towards her ears.

It was determined quickly by the FBI to be the body of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, but giving her a name was only the beginning of the lifelong mystery that was about to unfold in what is now considered to be L.A.'s most infamous unsolved murder.

Was the motive for this brutal crime Love, Art, or Revenge?




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This is the story of two real-life stories of two individuals from the last two decades who were murdered in botched exorcisms. Terrance Cottrell, Jr. & Kennedy Ife lost their lives on the same night, thirteen years apart.

The saddest part of all is that their family members stood by them. But were they doing the right thing in turning to exorcists to help their sons who were seemingly possessed by some evil force? And was justice served?



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Most of the 750 million people worldwide who tuned in to witness the royal wedding between Prince Charles and his bright-eyed, young beauty Princess Diana, believed in the fairytale and magic that this newlywed couple were creating together.

Although, within a few years, the fairytale would crumble before the public's eye and soon the marriage would end due to the Princes' infidelity and the establishment's disregard for Diana's struggles with bulimia and depression. 

Despite the divorce, the world remained on Diana's side and she became "the people's princess;" so when she suddenly and tragically died in a car accident on August 31, 1997- the questions and theories surrounding the many inconsistencies in the official story had only begun.

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When Jasmine Padilla is finally introduced to her six-year-old daughter Hannah's imaginary friend Missy, she couldn't be more excited for her! Jasmine finds clever ways to incorporate Missy into their lives, even using her to inspire Hannah to do some household chores.

But the more she learns about Missy, the more Jasmine's concerns grow, as she realizes that her daughter might not have this grand imagination, and may have instead accidentally befriended the ghost of someone completely unexpected. 

When 21-year-old Elisa Lam checked into LA’s haunted Cecil Hotel in LA in January 2013, she couldn't have possibly known that she would never check out.

Twenty days after she was reported missing, Elisa's lifeless body was found drowned inside one of the hotel's rooftop water tanks. But the LAPD's investigation into her death took a wild turn as surveillance footage taken from inside her last elevator ride made its rounds on the internet- leading many to theorize that something strange and otherworldly had happened to her.

Let's examine their theories.


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It is undeniable that the man, the actor William Shakespeare existed- he was born in Stratford upon Avon and died in Stratford upon Avon- the few records that exist at least tell us this much;  so then WHY do so many believe to this day that he isn’t the true author of all of the plays that have been attributed to him, and that someone else (another playwright and possibly a woman) was hiding behind his name?

Let's examine the evidence.


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