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In August of 1998, Natasha Ryan disappeared after her mother dropped her off at school. Hopes to find her were dashed after police came to the conclusion that she was murdered by a serial killer named Leonard Frazer. Then almost five years later - the truth came out…and the truth is definitely stranger than fiction.

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Throughout human evolution, anything forbidden has always been very attractive. As children, we are driven by curiosity which allows us to discover the world, and become interested in new things. As adults, we are attracted to what is off limits out of a desire to show the world that we control our own fates.

But have you noticed that the more you try to ignore something - you can’t? I have been thinking about vacation a lot recently, and there are certain places that are said to be forbidden to visit. Perhaps this is why these locations are some of the top places I want to see.

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In a Monty Python skit, they mocked the idea of Trial by Ordeal. In this skit, a mob of medieval peasants bring an irritated looking woman who was wearing a false nose to a leader of a town. The townspeople ask the leader if they can burn her as a witch. The leader asks how do they know the woman is a witch, and the townsfolk look confused. They start offering reasons like she looks like she is a witch, and that she turned one of them (who looks like a person by the way) into a newt. After talking for a few minutes, they decide the best way to test if she is a witch is see if she weighs the same as a duck. If she does she is clearly a witch.

This type of bizarre reasoning is actually what the ideology of Trial by Ordeal is about. People had to go through some sort of ordeal to prove they were not what they were accused of being or doing. Most often, the test that the individual had to go through were arbitrary and torturous.

Just a heads up my spooky friends…today we will be talking about torture. Listener discretion is advised.

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Lately I have been thinking about all the places that I want to travel to. Everyone one has their own travel bucket list, but my travel list is not like everyone else’s. My list is full of spooky and creepy places that many would choose not to go to. But since you all are like me, I think that some of the spots that I will tell you about today may just end up on your list too.

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People love to gossip, but gossip differs from normal human tendency to talk about each other. Gossip tends to focus on negative information, and often is used to demean their subject. It typically centres on the negative aspects of a person, and often is used for revenge. People often like to gossip since they feel it gives them a sense of power, and they share gossip as a way to display their power.

With the invention of the internet; gossip now has a platform where it can cause even more harm than in the past, since it can reach millions in minutes. But some gossip historically went beyond hurtful behaviour, and it actually altered history.

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Do you know what I missed during COVID lockdowns? I missed going out to a restaurant, or having drinks with my friends in a bar. There is nothing quite like partaking in an alcoholic beverage while catching up with friends. Many people use these spots as meeting places, but sometimes the regulars never actually leave.

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For nearly 40 years, people would see a billboard on Route 16 near Fayetteville, West Virginia with grainy pictures of five children. Their eyes looked off this billboard, and into a person’s soul. Their story started on Christmas in 1945 when the family went to bed, and woke up in fiery blaze. The official story is that these children died in the blaze that day…but did they?

Just a heads up here my dear listeners…today will will be talking about death by fire…listener discretion is advised.

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When I was 16 I met one of my sister’s male friends. We got along great, and I really looked forward to seeing him again. But when I did - his reaction was not what I expected. He was angry at me. He said that he saw me the week previous while I was working at a local coffee shop, but when he said hello I looked at him like he had three heads. He started to talk to me, but I ignored him completely. I was extremely rude…but the thing was…I wasn’t. I didn’t work at a coffee shop, and I didn’t even go to that area since the last time we met. I never ran into him at all. He didn’t believe me until my sister confirmed what I said. He was shocked. He apologized, and said the only explanation was that I had a doppelgänger. I laughed it off, but during the next few months more and more people approached me upset that I would not talk to them when they approached me. Each time they told me the situation, I had an alibi for the day that they supposedly ran into me. Then just as quickly as this started - it stopped. No more weird confrontations…my doppelgänger disappeared. You may think that this is unusual, but it actually is a lot more common that you think.

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Identical twins share a bond like no other. They are the result of one fertilized egg that split in two which results in them having identical DNA. They have the same physical features, and often live through the same childhood experiences. But this doesn’t mean they are the same person.

Many twins grow to have different likes and dislikes, and live completely different lives than their sibling. But in the case of June and Jennifer Gibbons, they were not like other twins. In fact, it wasn’t until one twin met her untimely death that the other started to reclaim a sense of normalcy in her life.

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