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A police officer distracting a little girl who just survived the fatal car accident which killed her father.

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See, my dad taught me tonight is about respecting the dead, because this is the one night that the dead and all sorts of other things roam free and pay us a visit. Trick ‘R Treat (2007) | dir. Michael Dougherty

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The Ruins (2008) Directed by Carter Smith

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Inside the Bridgewater Triangle

For years, ghost hunters and paranormal experts alike have flocked to the Bridgewater Triangle, a 200 square-mile area in Eastern Massachusetts that many believe to be the breeding ground for the unexplainable. From Bigfoot and UFO sightings to ghosts and strange voices, the area from Abington south to Freetown, west to Seekonk, and north back to Abington, features a number of sites said to possess an energy unlike any other area in the state. Here are a few of them.

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things I have seen adult, professional archaeologists do, on the clock

Eat a worm.

Chant “EAT IT! EAT IT! EAT IT!”

Launch water balloons across the site at the portable toilet when someone was using it.

Back the work vehicle up against the door of the portable toilet to trap someone inside.

“Gently” tap the crew vehicle in front of them with the bumper of their vehicle.

Discreetly vomit in the bushes due to hangover.

Intentionally run over roadkill while laughing maniacally.

“Moon” the work camera.

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Throw a co-worker into the bog of water-screening run-off sludge.

Flint-knap right next to a test unit.

Chase one another around with a dildo they found (and then bag it as an “artifact” and send it back to the lab).

Draw a smiley face on their hardhat in their own blood.

Write off a shovel probe because there was a horse standing on the spot that wouldn’t move.

Yell out, “I peed on a snake! :D”

Have a shovel fight.

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found in an FBI report/transcript of an on-board recording of the s.s. el faro 

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For context: the s.s. el faro sunk in a tropical storm and that was the last thing that the ship recorded.

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It was around 6:45PM on the 31st of March, 1970, when 11-year-old Phillip Green left his home in Alberton Road, Seamills, in search of lost golf balls, but never returned. His mother, Gladys, had been out at bingo when his father, Ivor, came home from work and assumed that Phillip and Barbara were out together. As evening drawn to a close and Phillip still hadn’t returned, Ivor reported him missing.

A search party was assembled. They had hoped that it was just a schoolboy prank but by the following morning, it became clear that Phillip had fell victim to a sadistic killer. At the bottom of a ditch on Shirehampton golf course was the body of Phillip. He was spread out on a bed of beech leaves. Alongside his body was a blood-stained oak branch broken in two; Phillip had been beaten to death. The gruesome murder sent shock waves throughout the country and sparked one of the largest murder enquiries ever seen in the country. By the end of the year, over 14,000 statements had been taken from around 12,000 people.

The investigation revealed that a scruffy looking man was spotted climbing over the wall between Shirehampton Road and the golf course at around 8:15PM. Unfortunately, however, the man was never identified. There was no sexual assault, no theft and no evidence of a fight or argument. Murders without witnesses or motivation are notorious hard to solve and an examination of Phillip’s body along with the blood-stained branch was examined for DNA but was unfruitful. In 2010, however, fibres from his clothing was examined in an attempt to retrieve a DNA profile but so far, have been unsuccessful.

The case of Phillip Green still remains open.

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Leslie Van Houten, former member of the Manson Family, in an interview with Diane Sawyer (1999)

The Manson Family, a cult led by Charles Manson, carried out the Tate-Labianca murders in August of 1969 which led to the death of eight people - including one unborn child. Manson and his followers were arrested later that year and went to trial in 1970. Leslie Van Houten was one of the five who got sentenced to death. However, all of the death sentences were automatically reduced to life in prison in 1972 after the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty in that state.

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Highgate Cemetery, London, 2017.  © Moon and Serpent

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High school sweethearts, Nicholas Kunselman and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell, were students at Columbine High School on the 20th April, 1999, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold perpetrated the Columbine Massacre. While the duo survived the school shooting, they would be murdered less than a year later.

It was approximately 10PM on the 13th of February, 2000, when Stephanie left her home for the Subway shop just a mile away from Columbine High School. Nicholas was closing up the shop that night and Stephanie went to meet him. Nearly three hours later, an off-duty employee driving past the shop noticed that the lights were still on and went in to investigate. As she approached the shop, a young man walked out that she didn’t recognise. She found 16-year-old Stephanie and 15-year-old Nicholas shot to death.

An investigation uncovered that no money was missing from the till meaning it wasn’t a robbery gone wrong. The girl who discovered the bodies described the man she saw to a composite sketch artist. She described him as being white and around 16 to 20-years-old. She said he was 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 8 inches and weighed somewhere between 150 and 170 pounds. He was clean shaven with blondish hair and was wearing blue jeans, tennis shoes, a black baseball cap and a black coat with a red shirt.

The investigation also uncovered that a drug ring was operating from the shop and led to a number of arrests. There was no evidence, however, that either teenager took drugs. There were numerous tips over the forthcoming years and each was scrupulously investigated. Nevertheless, their murders remain unsolved.

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Ted Bundy talks with members of his defense team while waiting for jury’s decision on sentence. - July 30, 1979

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

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On the 6th of September, 2018, 10-year-old Ashley Johnson-Barr went missing from her home in Kotzebue, Alaska. She was last seen playing in her local park, but she soon disappeared. After searching for over a week, a tragic discovery was made: the “happy” and “smiley” young girl’s lifeless body. Ashley was found some distance away from where she went missing, so detectives immediately suspected foul play.

As of today (15/08/18), a 41-year-old male has been arrested on suspicion of the young girl’s murder. The man in question, a local man named Peter Wilson, was also charged with making false statements to an FBI agent. Residents of the small Alaskan city have been wearing the colour purple, Ashley’s favourite, and holding prayer walks to honour the little girl.

This is a developing case.

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Click here to support Help Find Ashley Johnson-Barr organized by Scotty Barr

Ashley Johnson-Barr was last seen at the Rainbow Park playground at about 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. Her family reported her missing when she di

The funds are going toward a purple casket and other funeral expenses, the $600 dollars it takes to fly each family member to Kotzebue, to transport her body back home from Anchorage, and to help the family during this time of need.

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Could all my amazing followers please support this cause. Help Ashley get the send-off she truly deserves. 💜

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The Story of the First Concentration Camp to Be Liberated

The first concentration camp to be liberated was Ohrdruf, in April of 1945. It was a “work camp.” Or so the locals in the town of Ohrdruf told themselves. An American company discovered the horrifying reality.

The first thing the company saw inside the camp’s gates were thirty bodies, still wet: prisoners that the German soldiers had shot before driving off in trucks. As the GIs crept forward, the surviving prisoners who could still walk (about half of the 500 who were there) “cautiously” came out of the barracks. They told how the German soldiers had made a hasty attempt to cover up the almost 2000 slave laborers that Ohrdruf had killed. Half had been exhumed from a mass grave, and half had been stacked in several buildings awaiting incineration.

No one had seen anything like this before. While spies and even escapees had been telling of the concentration camps, their reports were not widely known or believed. The American GIs left all the bodies where they were, and notified the division commanders. They shared their rations with the survivors and waited. At noon the division commanders arrived, and Patton himself came at 3:30 pm. General Eisenhower flew in from Belgium early the next morning. The highest commander of the Allied forces had to see this, and decide what was to be done.

When Eisenhower left, Patton brought the mayor of Ohrdruf and his wife to the camp to see for themselves what they had been telling themselves they did not know. German guards came to Ohrdruf off-duty, spending their pay on drinks and women, and undoubtedly telling stories of what the place they worked. Then Patton ordered the mayor, his wife and all the other able-bodied townsfolk to come back the next day and dig individual graves for the dead prisoners. They completed 80% of the graves, and promised to come back the next day and finish the burials.

The mayor and his wife were found dead of suicide the next morning. Their suicide note said simply, “We didn’t know! – but we knew.”