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On South Winchester Boulevard in San Jose, California a mansion stands as the memory of it's eccentric owner, Sarah Winchester. Having inherited her millions from tragedies, Sarah began building the home in 1886... and never stopped.
Soon myths and ghost stories began to spread. Was she running from ghosts? Had she been driven insane from her past?

We'll take a look at her history and the history of the mansion that today is known as, The Winchester Mystery House.

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Sources

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/527411/14-haunting-facts-about-winchester-mystery-house

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Winchester

https://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/sarahs-story/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/winchester-mystery-house

https://www.insider.com/tour-photos-winchester-mansion-2019-8

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/heiress-gun-empire-built-mansion-forever-haunted-blood-money-built-it-180959712/#YbkMoKKUKxQszBVm.99

https://www.norwichbulletin.com/blogs/20191117/sarah-winchester--once-considered-worlds-wealthiest-woman

https://www.biography.com/personality/sarah-winchester

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Before it's construction began in 1851, The Hoosac Tunnel was nicknamed "The Great Bore" by it's critics but by the time construction had completed in 1873, the workers and locals had a different nickname for it; "The Bloody Pit."

On today's episode we explore the stories of death and the ghosts that supposedly haunt the  Hoosac Tunnel.

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Sources

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/hoosac-tunnel-disaster-1867/

https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/hoosac

http://storyland.coplacdigital.org/mcla/death/deaths-in-the-hoosac-tunnel/

https://hoosactunnel.net/hauntings/

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In  1895, 26 year old Bridget Cleary was accused of being a monster by her own husband.  Days later, she was missing.

Find out what events transpired, why her own family refused to help her, and learn about the monster she was accused of being on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters.

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Sources

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/capgras-delusion

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF03169179

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/539793/bizarre-death-bridget-cleary-irish-fairy-wife#:~:text=Dunne%20served%20a%20three%2Dyear,my%20wife%20was%20a%20fairy.%22

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n01/declan-kiberd/astride-a-white-horse

https://exemplore.com/legends/Bridget-Cleary-Irelands-Last-Witch

https://lithub.com/how-much-actual-history-do-you-need-for-a-historical-novel/

https://www.theirishplace.com/heritage/irish-myths-and-legends/the-curse-of-the-changeling/

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/books/the-fairy-defense.html

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/bridget-cleary-last-witch-burned-in-ireland

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The statue of the woman in grief was said to come alive at night at Druid Ridge Cemetery looking for victims that lost their way. Learn her story and where she rests now on today's episode of Myths, Mysteries, and Monsters.

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Sources
 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/black-agnes/

https://www.dyingtotelltheirstories.com/home/2017/11/9/black-aggie-the-urban-legend-of-druid-ridge-cemetery

http://www.masshist.org/features/clover-adams/selected-letters

https://www.dyingtotelltheirstories.com/home/2019/12/4/felix-agnus-is-buried-in-the-shadow-of-black-aggies-memory-in-druid-ridge-cemetery

https://web.archive.org/web/20140529084900/http://www.cosmosclub.org/web/journals/1998/krinsley.html

https://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/black_aggie.html

https://cemeterytravel.com/2016/05/20/the-legend-of-black-aggie/

http://easternentities.com/blog/black-aggie/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62461697/annie-elizabeth-agnus

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In 1856 a mansion was constructed later becoming the famous Hull House settlement home. But just a few years after it's construction tragedy would strike the home.
Many deaths and rumors of ghosts plagued it's history until becoming a settlement home and since then the stories have only grown.
At one point even an article of a demon child living in the attic was spread around.

Is there any historical fact to these stories?

Find out on today's short episode of Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters!

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Sources:
https://windycityghosts.com/hull-house/

https://janeaddams.ramapo.edu/2015/10/hull-house-haunting/

http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-quirk/2011/10/the-devil-baby-of-hull-house/

http://mysteriouschicago.com/some-hull-house-ghost-myths-and-realities/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_House#Theater

https://www.rent.com/blog/chicagos-most-haunted-countdown-3-jane-addams-hull-house/

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In 1849 famous author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe was found disheveled and barely conscious in a street in Baltimore.
Why was he here and what happened in the day's prior to land him in this predicament?
After a life marred with tragedy, was his death predetermined or was it a random encounter?

Today on Myths, Mysteries, & Monsters we'll look at the life and mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe.

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Sources
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe-180952936/

https://www.history.com/news/how-did-edgar-allan-poe-die

https://www.biography.com/news/edgar-allan-poe-death-facts?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history

https://www.biography.com/writer/edgar-allan-poe?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-04-28-1993118157-story.html#:~:text=He%20was%20often%20manic%20in,depressives%20abuse%20alcohol%20or%20drugs.

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On the morning of February 9th,1855 residents of Devon, England awoke to find cloven footprints burned into the snow in a straight line.

Reaching almost a hundred miles in a straight line there has yet to be any concrete explanation for the tracks unless you believe it was the Devil himself.

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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Footprints

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/discovering/legends/devil_footprints.shtml

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75045/ongoing-mystery-devils-footprints

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/12/the-1855-devils-footprints-mystery-in-devon-england/

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In the early 1800's the Bell family was terrorized by a spirit for years, as the story spread the spirit became known as The Bell Witch.

Why did the witch choose this family? What was it after?
And, did it get what it wanted?

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Sources

http://www.mtnlaurel.com/ghost-stories/1166-the-strange-true-story-of-the-bell-witch-of-tennessee-part-1.html

http://www.bellwitch.org/story.htm

https://boredomtherapy.com/bell-witch-haunting/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Witch

https://occult-world.com/bell-witch/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Witch_Cave

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12828/bell-witch-tennessee

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There is a place south of Mexico City, Mexico, an abandoned island where hundreds of dolls hang from trees.


Who put them there and why? Are they stories of the island being haunted true?


Find out the story of the Island of the Dolls and then you decide if you want to take a trip to spend the night.


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Sources


https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/la-isla-de-las-munecas

https://www.news.com.au/travel/destinations/central-america/the-sad-legend-behind-mexicos-creepy-island-of-the-dolls/news-story/198e6d0376ffc02525ebda401eb7428a

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/04/island-of-dolls-mexicos-creepiest.html

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What is the terrifying beast that may have influenced the Cthulhu of H.P Lovecraft mythos?
Is it possible this is a monster of legend that may actually exist? Or have all these sailors and fishermen been fooled for hundreds of years?

Today we look at the Kraken! 

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Sources

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hydra-Greek-mythology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla#:~:text=In%20Greek%20mythology%2C%20Scylla%20(%2F,water%2C%20opposite%20her%20counterpart%20Charybdis.

https://www.scielo.br/pdf/hcsm/v21n3/0104-5970-hcsm-21-3-0971.pdf

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60177#page/392/mode/1up

https://www.tor.com/2012/08/13/sea-monsters-a-z/

http://anomalyinfo.com/Topics/kraken-myths-legends-and-history

https://archive.org/stream/naturalhistoryNc2Pont#page/214/mode/2up

https://www.vanaqua.org/education/aquafacts/octopuses-and-squids#:~:text=Octopuses%20live%20in%20dens%20on,reach%20out%20and%20capture%20prey.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/g/giant-pacific-octopus/

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