Margaret Clement and her sister Jeannie were dubbed “The Old Ladies of the Swamp” by the popular press in the 1950’s. Their 14 room mansion in Tarwin Lower was falling down and the swamp had reclaimed the 2000 acres of prime farmland around the house. The women lived without running water, electricity or sewage. 

With no wood to light a fire, the sisters were living on cold tinned baked beans and bread. When Jeannie died in 1950 it became a massive job just to bring her body out for burial. Two years later, Margaret simply disappeared. It became a real life whodunnit that captured the attention of the world. Someone murdered Margaret but the question is who, and where is her body?

Margaret and Jeannie were the middle children of a father who went from bullock driver to one of the wealthiest men in Australia. Peter Scott Clement Snr. emigrated from Scotland with his siblings during the gold rush of the 1850’s. He worked as a bullock driver in and around Walhalla when, in payment for debts, he accepted shares in the Long Tunnel Gold Mine. Peter continued to purchase shares and reaped the benefits when the mine became one of the richest in Australia.

It was the 25th of January 2005. A Tuesday. Katie was finished school for the day and was back home in Crothersville, Indiana, United States. The ten year old lived with her mother Angela, father John Neace and her older sister.

When Katie got home that day, Angela was in the kitchen making dinner for that evening and John was still at work. He worked in a local factory. At 3pm, Angela asked Katie if she would go to the Dollar Store to pick up some toilet paper. 

It was a trip Katie was used to making. She had been there numerous times and it was just a few blocks away from her home. Katie wrapped up warm. It was a particularly cold day and she made her way down the street to the Dollar Store. 

When Katie got to the Dollar Store, she bought the toilet paper. The clerk helped her count out the correct amount of money. Katie stopped off at the Bank next door to get a lollipop from their counter and made her way home. 

It's a well-known fact that gravestones do move in graveyards – if you look at a burial ground full of memorials, especially older ones, many headstones may lean to one side or appear lower than others around them.

Sometimes this is due to poor grave-digging, which creates unstable ground, sometimes it happens when a coffin collapses due to age and the ground around it sinks: if a grave leans forwards, towards the grave, it is usually due to a coffin collapse.

Graveyards on hillsides may fall victim to migrating gravestones due to rain and erosion, tree roots can move memorials as they spread and underground water can cause memorials to lean.

But for a gravestone to turn a full 90 degrees? No amount of rain, roots, collapse or underground water can account for such a radical shift.

The highland mountain ranges in Scotland are wild and magnificent places that attract many international visitors, but their slopes have a darker side that has terrified many people throughout the years. It is claimed that the mountains are haunted.

With a height of 1309 metres (4296 feet), ben macdhui is the highest peak in the Cairngorms and the second highest peak in Scotland. 

Many mountaineers are certain that this region of the Cairngorms harbour a malign humanoid entity known locally as ‘Fear Liath Mor’ (meaning big grey man) that is grey in colour, big, and fearsome in appearance. The legends tell of these beings stalking anyone who trespassed into their territory.

Actual sightings of the Big Grey Man have been rare, but “eye-witness” descriptions of his appearance describe him as being around ten feet tall, covered in hair, with very long arms and legs.

In the summer of 1991, a housekeeper at the Martinsburg, West Virginia, Sheraton hotel opened Room 517 to clean it. Nothing prepared her for what she found inside. Hotel guest Danny Casolaro was lying dead in a tub of bloody water.  Danny was an investigative journalist from Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington D.C.

Martinsburg police arrived on the scene. In the room they found a suicide note and a single razor blade in the bathtub. Danny’s wrists had been slashed twelve times. Eight cuts on his left wrist and four on his right. One cut was so deep it severed a tendon.

Danny’s body was taken to a local funeral home later that afternoon. But strangely, according to journalist Jack Anderson, Danny’s family and friends weren’t told about his death until two days later:

“From the moment we heard about his reported suicide, we doubted it, questioned it, wondered about it. It was not his nature to kill himself. So we were suspicious from the first, and the deeper we dug into it, the more suspicious we became.”

Mention the New South Wales Southern Highlands and most people think of rolling hills, Devonshire teas and stores peddling antiques. 

But a large number of historical reports suggest that the quaint highlands’ village of Burrawang, 140km south-west of Sydney, should also conjure thoughts of bunyips.

In the valley below is a large swamp that’s home to many unusual life forms including the rare giant dragonfly, part of an ancient group of insect fliers common during the age of the dinosaurs.

Also supposedly lurking in the swamp’s murky depths is the Burrawang Bunyip, a mythical creature whose roar, according to multiple anecdotes, has sent shivers up many local spines. 

Borley Rectory was reputed to be the most haunted house in the UK. The rectory was built by the Reverend Henry D. E. Bull in 1863 near the river Stour, Essex. However the rectory burnt down in a fire started in mysterious circumstances in 1939.

It's thought that the rectory was destined to be a haunted house from the start due to the events that had occurred on the site many centuries before.The foundation was an age old Priory on land that contained a 12th century Church, Caretaker's House and other buildings. 

A.C. Henning, the rector in 1936, discovered that the Doomsday Book told of a Borley Manor prior to 1066, so he concluded a wooden church was probably also built around that time. The foundations contained underground tunnels and a complex of vault rooms. The Rectory had 20 rooms and was 3 stories high.

Often mistaken to be black in color, the hypnotic deep "gun-metal" tones of this legendary black diamond struggle to hide the reflections of a very dark past, beginning with a theft from a Hindu idol and resulting in no less than three mysterious suicides.

The Black Orlov Diamond, also known as the Eye of Brahma Diamond, weights 67.50 carats and was once part of a much larger uncut 195 carat diamond, which can be traced back to 19th century India. 

Legend has it that the uncut stone originally featured as one of the eyes in a statue of Brahma, the Hindu God of creation, which stood in a shrine in the southern Indian city of Pondicherry. 

It is believed that the diamond was stolen from the statue by a travelling monk, after which it became cursed.

You won’t find Wineville, California anywhere on a map. The southern California town certainly existed, although it abruptly “vanished” in 1930, replaced suddenly by Mira Loma. 

What had happened was the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders – crimes so heinous that the townspeople couldn’t bear to be associated with “Wineville” any longer.

The case of the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders is filled with so many bizarre twists, turns, and testimonies that even J. Michael Straczynski, screenwriter for Changeling (which was loosely based around the events of the murder), could hardly believe it was true. 

After reading the story in the Los Angeles city archives, he figured, “This can’t be real. This has to be a mistake.”

The murders of several young boys (the true number of victims is still unknown) in southern California from 1926 to 1928 captivated and disgusted the nation, generating such an extreme amount of negative publicity that the town where they had occurred took the drastic step of changing its name afterwards.