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Signs from Deceased Loved Ones

1. They Love to Play with Electricity Playing with electricity seems to be one of the most common “signs of spirit.” It is an easy way to grab our attention. Spirits like to flicker lights, turn the television or radio on and off, or make appliances beep for no apparent reason. Our loved ones have the ability to interfere with light and electricity because they’re now pure energy. They can manipulate appliances, TV, microwaves, etc. Most of the time they just want to make us aware that they’re with us.

If your television turns off or on for no apparent reason, start investigating the reason behind it:

What show or channel is on? Is it a favorite show of your loved one? Is the radio playing their favorite song?

When the lights flickered, what were you thinking about? Were you thinking about your loved one? Sometimes that thought can be an acknowledgment or even confirmation that your loved one is near.

2. They Give Off Fragrances We can often tell our deceased loved ones are around us when we smell their scent: perfume, flowers, cigar or cigarette smoke, or any other smell associated with them. There may be no logical explanation of why the smell is there. This “sign” can sometimes seem confusing. As humans, we remember how our loved ones smell. We remember a distinctive cologne or perfume they enjoyed, or even the scent of an activity they performed. If your loved one used to work with cars and, out of the blue, you smell motor oil, try not to be scared. Instead, say “Hi!”

3. They Visit Through the Energy of an Animal Our loved one is able to use their energy to go inside an insect or animal—such as a butterfly, ladybug, bird, or dragonfly—for a brief period of time. The animal will do something it usually wouldn’t do, such as land on us, peck at our window, look at us, or scream at us. Unfortunately, this is a sign some people ignore. Our loved ones may try to communicate with us in every unimaginable manner. By using these symbols, they’re sending us a message without trying to scare us. They’re letting us know, “I’m with you. You’re not alone!”

4. They Place an Object in Our Path Our loved ones like to place objects in our path that are significant to just them—perhaps over and over again. Coins, feathers, keys, and rocks are a few of the most common objects they might leave for us. How can we find the meaning in these small gifts?

If you find a coin in your path, look at its year and see if that year is important between you and your deceased loved one.

If you find a rock lying in the middle of your bed, or you find your loved one’s shirt in an odd place (that’s not where you placed it before), this could be a sign from the other side.

Try not to be scared and instead, say “Hi!”

5. They Show Us Numbers Our loved ones might show us numbers that are relevant to them or to you. It could be a birthday, an anniversary, the date of their passing, the time of their passing, or even repeating numbers such as 111, 222, 333, etc. These numbers may appear on clocks, billboards, or any other familiar place. They can also come from family, friends, or even strangers.\

When driving, pay attention to license plates in front of you and billboards you pass by. Some of the best signs of numbers can come from bumper stickers sitting right in front of you. If you detect a pattern and believe your loved one is communicating with you, take comfort in knowing that they are with you.

6. They Visit in Dreams One of the easiest ways for our loved ones to communicate with us is through our dreams. A dream that is a true visitation will be very vivid, peaceful, and detailed. We will remember this type of dream many years later. There are a few characteristics you can analyze after having a spiritual visitation dream. It will be very vivid.

It will be in color. Sometimes it can be in black and white with color being in the form of your loved one’s clothing or something they are holding for you to see. It will be logical and have some sort of message, either in the form of words, physical objects, or even telepathy.

You may feel confused upon waking up. You will feel happy, peaceful, or even fearful about what you experienced. (Fearful maybe from never experiencing such a dream before.)

All we need to do is to ask our love ones to come, and they will. We can also ask them to wake us after they visit and to help us remember the dream.

7. They Place Thoughts in Our Minds Our loved ones don’t have an audible voice because they are in spirit form. Therefore, they give us messages telepathically. Pay attention to thoughts that just “pop” into your head. If something your loved one would say just comes to you for no apparent reason, it’s probably him or her speaking directly to you. This form of communication is a true blessing! Sometimes it doesn’t have to be a particular thought, it can come when the lyric to a song “pops” into your thoughts. Songs and music, like dreams, are universal methods of communication. Listen for the thoughts or songs. You’ll know when they’re not yours.

8. They Watch Over Us Many of us have felt this one! It is possible to pick up on spiritual energy, especially when we’re relaxed. When we’re in the beginning stages of grief, we have a keener ability to “feel” our loved one around us. There’s good reason for this. It simply isn’t true that death is final. We may continue to feel our loved one’s presence after their passing because they are still very much around us. In the deepest grief, they will try to find a way to let us know they’re with us. When we feel like we’re being watched, we’re being protected and watched over. Above all else, we’re still being loved. We’re never alone!

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Shaye Groves: True crime fan murdered lover as he slept

Shaye Groves, 27, left a ‘massive gash’ in Frankie Fitzgerald’s throat during a frenzied attack that also saw him stabbed repeatedly in the chest after the mum flew into a rage when finding messages from the victim to another female.

Groves, of Botley Drive, Leigh Park, is on trial for Frankie’s murder after his body was found in the early hours of July 17 2022 at her address in a killing that shocked a community. She denies the murder. Frankie, 25, was found inside the Botley Drive property just after 8am by officers.

Groves, who previously went by the name Shaye Corrigan, was ‘obsessed’ with Frankie because of his ‘performance in the bedroom’. The couple were into ‘rough’ sex including bondage, domination, submission and masochism (BDSM).

Prosecutor Steve Perian KC said: ‘The prosecution’s case is that the defendant is a manipulative, possessive and jealous woman. And in the early hours of Sunday of July 17 she stabbed Frankie Fitzgerald multiple times with a knife in her bedroom and left him to die without seeking any medical assistance to save his life. When she stabbed him she either intended to kill or at very least cause him grievous bodily harm. The killing is very likely to be a crime of passion driven by her jealousy.’

Frankie, who had alcohol and cocaine in his system, woke up after being stabbed and tried to ‘fight back’ before collapsing at the bottom of the bed in a pool of blood. ‘Splatters’ of blood were left on a bookcase with the defendant putting the dagger in her bathroom sink as she cleaned up the room, the court heard.

After the killing Groves, who lived at the address with friend Lauren White, was told by her pal: ‘I’m going to crack.’ But Groves told her: ‘You can’t crack, you’re an accomplice.’ The defendant later told police at the address Ms White was not involved. White was also cleared from the murder investigation.

Mr Perian said a couple of hours after the attack Groves admitted the murder to her friend Vicki Baitup during a video call at 7.45am in which she was ‘laughing’. She showed her the body covered in a duvet and ‘deep cut to his neck area’. During the conversation the prosecutor said Groves confessed to the killing and said: ‘I just lost it. I picked up my dagger and stabbed him in his neck.’ Groves also sent Ms Baitup messages after the killing to act as an alibi for the killing after claiming Frankie had ‘walked out on me’. Ms Baitup contacted police before officers arrived at the address, when Groves told them, ‘I took a man’s life’. She told officers Frankie had tried to attack her then gave no comment answers to police when at the station.

Groves denies murder.

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The Ghost of Teresita Basa

When dealing with mysteries that involve murder, the questions are usually who did it or how, but not in the case of Teresita Basa. Ms. Basa’s murderer is known and the method used to kill her was hardly a mystery from the moment her body was discovered. Interestingly, the mystery is how the case was solved or, more specifically, was the case really solved in the manner the media and those involved suggest?

Teresita Basa was a respiratory therapist who worked at a hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She came to the United States from the Philippines, where she was born in 1929. She did not seem to have any enemies. Basa lived an average life in an apartment by herself. Her body was found in this apartment in February of 1979. Someone had called in a fire at the residence and the fire department found more than just a fire.

Teresita Basa was stabbed in the chest, where emergency workers found the butcher’s knife used to kill her still embedded in her flesh. She was then left naked and covered with a mattress. Her killer set the mattress on fire and left. What was not immediately obvious was that he had robbed her of some jewelry. Later, it would be learned that the man who killed Basa was a repeat rapist and the state of her body suggests that she may have been sexually assaulted, but none of the available sources confirm or deny it.

There was initially no one to blame for the heinous crime. Police did not know to trace any jewelry. They were unable to link any of the suspects they collected to the crime. It just seemed like a dead end, but not for Remy Chua. Chua worked with Basa at the hospital and recalled one day mentioning that she would be okay with Basa’s spirit visiting her to tell her what had happened. Later that day, a series of frightening visions and nightmares reportedly began.

Remy Chua says that her experiences with Basa after Basa’s death began in the locker room at work, according to Colin Wilson, author of “Poltergeist, A Classic Study in Destructive Hauntings.” Chua began seeing a man’s face in her dreams behind that of Basa. She even began channeling Basa’s spirit when talking to her husband, who was a doctor. Through Remy, Teresita told Dr. Chua the whole story.

An orderly at the hospital by the name of Alan Showery had gone to Basa’s apartment in February to help her fix a television set. At some point, he assaulted her, killed her, stole some of her jewelry and set the mattress on fire. Chua was even able to describe what happened to the jewelry, which Showery had given to his common law wife. This is the information Dr. Chua convinced his wife to give to the police.

The police were obviously not too sure of Chua’s report when they began following up with her information, but they caught a break when they spoke to Showery. Not only did they see jewelry that belonged to Basa on his wife, but they were able to confirm it with Teresita’s cousin, just as her ghost had supposedly said they could. Of course, this was not enough to convict the man, but his confession when faced with the evidence was enough to get him 14 years in jail for murder.

It is hard to say exactly what happened in the case of Teresita Basa and the reported one-time medium Remy Chua. Chua may have known that Alan was going to Basa’s apartment and simply did not have the nerve to come forward until later, at which time she made up a story to excuse her hesitance. Some of the story as provided by the media could easily have been sensationalized. Chua could have overheard Showery talking about the murder or even have acted on a hunch. There are other alternatives to the supernatural. However, it is impossible to rule out the supernatural and this sure is an interesting case with no definite answers.

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Leonarda Cianciulli – The Soap Maker

On October 15, 1970 convicted serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli died from a brain hemorrhage in a women’s asylum for the criminally insane. She had spent the previous two decades incarcerated for the murder of two women, murders she did not regret, murders even she felt were necessary, for the survival of her children.

Leonarda Cianciulli believed there was a curse on her family, and the sacrifice of three women were needed to lift it.

Cianciulli was born in the small town of Montella in 1894. She was an unhappy child, who attempted suicide on more than one occasion. Her marriage was to be arranged, and she did not like the prospect of marrying someone she was certain not to be in love with.

In 1917, she went against her parents’ wishes and married Raffaele Pansardi, a registry Clerk. The couple moved to Pansardi’s hometown in 1921, and it was at this time Cianciulli believed that her mother cursed her.

She was very worried about this curse, and being quite a spiritual person, Cianciulli sought out the advice and readings of a fortune teller and a palm reader.

The Fortune Teller told her that her children would all suffer from many troubles, and although she would have many, all would perish early.

The Palm Reader told her she saw both a prison and an asylum, somewhere in her future.

Both of these readings turned out to be quite accurate.

While in her husband’s hometown of Lauria, Cianciulli did some short time in prison for fraud. With the shame of the time looming over her head, she and her husband moved to another town, only to have their new home destroyed in an earthquake. After this piece of bad luck they moved once more, and finally settled in Correggio, another small town.

Here Cianciulli set up a small shop, and at times would read other peoples fortunes. It was a happy life until tragedy struck her and her family again and again, as the first of her ‘misfortunes’ came true.

Out of seventeen pregnancies Cianciulli was only able to raise four children out of infancy. Ten of her children died in their young years, and another three were miscarried. She became very protective of her remaining children, and when word came that her favorite son had joined the Italian army to fight in World War Two, she knew she had to do something, lest he be lost to her as well.

Cianciulli figured that the only way to lift the curse her mother had placed on to her was to perform human sacrifice. Three murders were planned and were carried out as follows.

Faustina Setti had been seeking Cianciulli’s fortune telling, as a means of helping to find herself a husband. On her final sitting, Faustina was told that her husband was waiting in another town, and that she must travel or she would be fated to never meet him. She was told not to tell anyone where she was going, and to write postcards for her family and friends to tell them where she had gone when she got there.

Setti made her plans, and on the day of departure went to visit Cianciulli one last time. She had with her postcards written to her family as directed by Cianciulli, to help her with her future.

With everything in place and ready for departure, Setti was offered a parting drink of wine. However, when she drank the wine Setti fell unconscious, and Cianciulli took to her with an axe, killing her. Cianculli then set to dismembering the corpse over a basin in a closet. In her words:

“I threw the pieces into a pot, added seven kilos of caustic soda, which I had bought to make soap, and stirred the whole mixture until the pieces dissolved in a thick, dark mush that I poured into several buckets and emptied in a nearby septic tank.

As for the blood in the basin, I waited until it had coagulated, dried it in the oven, ground it and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk and eggs, as well as a bit of margarine, kneading all the ingredients together. I made lots of crunchy tea cakes and served them to the ladies who came to visit, though Giuseppe and I also ate them.” (-stated by Cianciulli at her trial)

The second victim was Francesca Soavi, who was looking for work. Cianciulli ‘saw’ that a suitable job awaited her in the town of Piacenza. Once again postcards to friends and family were written in advance, and the murder, soap making and biscuit baking with the body took place.

Four weeks later a third woman, Virginia Cacioppo fell victim. She too had work found for her in another town, and once again the murder took place exactly as the first two had.

This time Cianciulli added that Cacioppo made for a really creamy soap, and that the biscuits cooked from her remains were especially sweet and that everyone thoroughly enjoyed them!

Cianciulli’s plot was finally undone several years later, when Cacioppo’s sister reported her missing and police arrived at Cianciulli’s house, as it was the last place Cacioppo had been seen. Cianciulli did not even attempt to hide what she had done and admitted everything to police.

During the subsequent trial, Cianciulli spoke quite frankly about everything she had done, and even corrected the prosecutors on details of her crime, going so far as to tell where some of the evidence had gone:

“I gave the copper ladle, which I used to skim the fat off the kettles, to my country, which was so badly in need of metal during the last days of the war…. ”

For the three murders Cianciulli was sentenced to thirty years prison, and three years in an asylum for the criminally insane.

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Anti-German sentiment was rampant in the United States following World War One. Numerous German language newspapers were shuttered and the names of so-called “disloyal” German-Americans were published in newspapers. It wasn’t uncommon for German immigrants to be attacked.

On the 18th of August, 1918, men in Luverne, Minnesota, forced their way into the home of John Meints, a local German-American farmer. They dragged him from his hone and drove him to the South Dakota border where he was beaten, whipped and threatened. Afterwards, the men tarred and feathered him and told him to cross the border into South Dakota, threatening to kill him if he returned to Minnesota.

Meints sued all 32 men involved in the attack, however the judge ruled in their favour and they were set free without charge.

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A note sent to an elementary school by Luka Magnotta after he filmed himself killing, dismembering, partially cannibalising, and masturbating with the amputated arm of Lin Jun, in a video known as “1 Lunatic 1 Icepick”.

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Mailing Kids Cross-Country was popular in 1913 in the U.S. Instead of worrying about how they would transport their children to their grandparents or other relatives, people could just mail their babies and it was a legal option. In order to save time, parents would send their child with the Post Office and it was considered a cheaper and easier way of travelling. This weird shortcut was available when the U.S. Postal Service developed a parcel post service, where everyone could send packages that weighed up to five kilograms (11 pounds).

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Who was the Babushka Lady?

The Babushka Lady is an unknown woman present during the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy who might have photographed the events that occurred in Dallas’s Dealey Plaza at the time President John F. Kennedy was shot. Her nickname arose from the headscarf she wore, which was similar to scarves worn by elderly Russian women (бабушка – babushka – literally means “grandmother” or “old woman” in Russian).

The Babushka Lady was seen to be holding a camera by eyewitnesses and was also seen in film accounts of the assassination. She was observed standing on the grass between Elm and Main streets and is visible in the Zapruder film as well as in the films of Orville Nix, Marie Muchmore, and Mark Bell (44 minutes and 47 seconds into the Bell film: even though the shooting had already taken place and most of her surrounding witnesses took cover, she can be seen still standing with the camera at her face). After the shooting, she crossed Elm Street and joined the crowd that went up the grassy knoll. She is last seen in photographs walking east on Elm Street. Neither she, nor the film she may have taken, have ever been positively identified.

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The ‘Zombie’ Woman

On October 24, 1936, an old naked woman with no eyelashes and a ragged cloth around her face wandered into the village of Ennery, Haiti. Panic spread through the village, and the news spread as well; and soon the Mentor family who lived just outside the village heard and investigated. It was said the strange woman was lame in her left leg… and she bore a resemblance to Felicia Felix-Mentor, who was also lame due to a fracture in her left leg. Felicia, however, had died and been buried in 1907, twenty-nine years earlier.

The woman was taken to a government hospital facility, and it was generally believed by the villagers of Ennery and the Mentor family that she was indeed the returned Felicia Felix-Mentor, having been turned to a zombie by a ‘bokor’ – a Haitian magician – then later abandoned. Famous author Zora Neale Hurston wrote of this returned Felix-Mentor as proof of the existence of zombies in Haiti, and even said that in a straightforward conversation with one of the doctors involved in the Felix-Mentor case that it had been stated there was a belief among the physicians that zombies were not the results of magic, but the results of some unknown drug that suppressed speech and free will in those exposed to it.

Her identity remains unknown. Any information about her identity, where she had been previously, or even about how she had gotten to the hospital was unknown as stated by a doctor who saw her said: “All her answers were unintelligible and irrelevant. Her occasional outbursts of laughter were devoid of emotion, and very frequently she spoke of herself in either the first or the third person without any sense of discrimination. She had lost all sense of time and was quite indifferent to the world of things around her." 

This description was attributed by the doctor to schizophrenia; but it may also have been caused by a chemical alteration of normal brain activity. With no positive proof to show the woman had been mistaken for dead at an earlier point, there was no motivation on the part of doctors to dig deeper than necessary to explain her behavior and condition.

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Disappearance of Frederick Valentich

Frederick Valentich (9 June 1958 - c. 21 October 1978) had about 150 total hours’ flying time and held a class-four instrument rating, which authorised him to fly at night, but only “in visual meteorological conditions.” He had twice applied to enlist in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) but was rejected because of inadequate educational qualifications. He was a member of the RAAF Air Training Corps, determined to have a career in aviation. Valentich was studying part-time to become a commercial pilot but had a poor achievement record, having twice failed all five commercial licence examination subjects, and as recently as the month before his disappearance had failed three more commercial licence subjects. He had been involved in flying incidents, for example, straying into a controlled zone in Sydney, for which he received a warning, and twice deliberately flying into a cloud, for which prosecution was being considered. According to his father, Guido, Valentich was an ardent believer in UFOs and had been worried about being attacked by them. The destination of Valentich’s final flight was King Island, but his motivation for the flight is unknown. He told flight officials that he was going to King Island to pick up some friends, while he told others that he was going to pick up crayfish. Later investigations found both stated reasons to be untrue. Valentich had also failed to inform King Island Airport of his intention to land there, going against “standard procedure”.

 A Cessna 182 similar to the aircraft involved Valentich radioed Melbourne air traffic control at 7:06 pm to report that an unidentified aircraft was following him at 4,500 feet (1,400 m). He was told there was no known traffic at that level. Valentich said he could see a large unknown aircraft which appeared to be illuminated by four bright landing lights. He was unable to confirm its type, but said it had passed about 1,000 feet (300 m) overhead and was moving at high speed. Valentich then reported that the aircraft was approaching him from the east and said the other pilot might be purposely toying with him. Valentich said the aircraft was “orbiting” above him and that it had a shiny metal surface and a green light on it. Valentich further reported that he was experiencing engine problems. Asked to identify the aircraft, Valentich radioed, “It’s not an aircraft.” His transmission was then interrupted by unidentified noise described as being “metallic, scraping sounds” before all contact was lost.

A sea and air search was undertaken that included oceangoing ship traffic, an RAAF Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft, plus eight civilian aircraft. The search encompassed over 1,000 square miles. Search efforts ceased on 25 October 1978 without result.

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Superstitions About Death, Burial and Cemeteries

A corpse should leave any home or building feet-first, or else the corpse would be looking back at the building and calling for someone within to follow him in death.

Touching the corpse will ensure that the ghost of the dead will not haunt you. A variation says that touching the corpse on the forehead assures you will not dream of the dead.

Taking a corpse to the cemetery in your own vehicle is extremely bad luck.

The corpse should not pass over any part of the same road twice.

If the funeral procession stops on its way to the cemetery, another death will soon follow.

Counting the cars in a funeral procession is ill advised, as it is said you are simply counting the days until your own death.

Take care that you do not see your reflection in a hearse, or you will be the next to be carried in it.

Going ahead of the funeral procession or passing a funeral procession is very bad luck, and death will soon follow if you do. It used to be believed that carrying a baby in a funeral procession would ensure that it would die before its first birthday.

If a black cat crosses in front of a funeral procession, there will be a death in the family of the deceased within three days.

Some fascinating American superstitions involve the burial of people who have been murdered. Some believed that burying the victim face-down would prevent the murderer from leaving the area in which the victim was buried. Others believed that burying the liver separately from the body would ensure that the murderer would be caught near the place the liver was buried!

Graves should be dug east to west. Superstition over time has varied on which direction the head should be laid. Many say the head of the deceased should be laid towards the west. In general, it is so the soul will not be lost at the Resurrection. One reason given for this is so the dead won’t have to turn around when Gabriel blows the trumpet during revelation. Still others believe the head should face the east, as that is the direction of the star that shone at the birth of Jesus.

Graves should never be left open overnight. It will lead to another death. It is ideal to dig and close a grave all on the day of the burial.

If a grave is left open over Sunday, another death will occur before the next Sunday.

The shovels and other tools used to dig a grave used to be left at the grave site for a day or more after the burial, as moving them too soon would bring bad luck (AA).

If the casket slips while it is being lowered into the grave, another death will soon follow.

Leaving the grave before it is filled will welcome another death to follow.

If it rains into the open grave, bad luck will come to a member of the deceased’s family.

Likewise, being the first to leave the cemetery is bad luck and could bring you death. Another similar superstition stated that the sex of the first person to leave the cemetery would be the sex of the next person to die.

Another member of the family will soon die if the earth covering a grave sinks in.

It is bad luck to step over a grave, and bad luck to point at a grave.

Visiting a cemetery after dark will bring you bad luck.

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Does The Thélema Abbey Still Hold Aleister Crowley’s Haunted Dark Power And Real Demonic Secrets?

The well known haunted lost villa known to many as the Abbey of Thelema was once the notorious home of” Aliester Crowley”, And yes, it still stands today. It’s once solid structure now crumbles and falls into a condition of disrepair, and many still believe it is the most wretched of haunted places where real demons and ghost still haunt.

Many locals will tell you to stay clear that real gate to hell. More so they state the place is haunted by ghosts, devil’s and demons. And one should avoid speaking of the hidden villa or dare to venture near it in fear of the evil curse that will befall you. Tales of tourist going there and not returning the same or often sited. Stories of midnight orgy’s and today’s real devil worshipers holding abdominal dark sabbath rituals there or often spoken of in hushed tones.

To this date no one has at this point come forward with information on an actual paranormal investigation where a team has gone in or investigated the location properly.

Aleister Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other fields, including mountaineering, chess and poetry, and it has also been alleged that he was a spy for the British government. In his role as the founder of the Thelemite faith, he came to see himself as the prophet who was entrusted with informing humanity that it was entering the new Aeon of Horus in the early twentieth century.

Crowley had planned to transform the unimpressive small house into a international global center of magical devotion and perhaps to gain tuition fees paid by acolytes seeking training in the Magical Arts; these fees would further assist him in his efforts to promulgate Thelema and publish his precious manuscripts.

After Crowley’s departure, the Abbey of Thelema was eventually abandoned and local residents whitewashed over Crowley’s murals.

Aleister Crowley had no formal public Burial. As far as information’s states he was Cremated, and the possession of ashes is unknown. Though many rumors have persisted over the years that they have passed hands many times.

No one has actually published information or documentation on an actual paranormal investigation of Thelema Abbey. Though some recent fantastic tales of actual Seances being held there have surfaced over the years where actual contact with Raoul Loveday (or Frederick Charles Loveday) who died at the Abbey interacted with the participants.

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A Story of Betrayal, Death and a Haunting

The University of Toronto plays host to quite an interesting tale concerning one of the resident spirits. It is a tale of love, deceit, betrayal, murder and mystery.

A drunken chat with a mysterious stranger telling a fanciful story, one that proved possible, after the university was gutted by fire and flame.

Many people believe that some spirits haunt a location till their stories can be told. Many of these spirits also haunt locations where their bodies lay undiscovered, murdered and hidden.

This is the case with the following tale, set at the University of Toronto, Canada.

In the 1870’s, a student of the university named Allen Aylesworth was crossing the University Colleges campus one night, when he happened upon a thick set man, bearded, wearing a tall hat. Aylesworth greeted the man, commenting on the suddenly chilly weather, to which the other man explained that it was always cold around him.

The two fell into conversation and soon the other man introduced himself as Ivan Reznikoff. Being as it was quite cold, Aylesworth invited Reznikoff back to his rooms for some wine.

It was during this session that Aylesworth learnt the identity of the ghost that had been seen about the schools grounds and in particular, the dark figure often seen near one of its stairways.

Reznikoff, a Russian told how he was a stonemason hired to help in the construction of the building. While he was working, carving and fitting stone, he fell in love with a local girl named Susie. Reznikoff and Susie started to see one another and eventually Reznikoff proposed to her and soon the pair were due to be married.

Unfortunately another stone mason, a Greek man by the name of Paul Diabolos was also in love with Susie, and soon trouble broke out between he and Reznikoff.

Arguments and small pranks played out between the two but ultimately culminated in Diabolos carving a likeness of Reznikoff as one of the leering gargoyles that decorate the corner of the building. Diabolos always said that Reznikoff’s face was like that of a baboon and as such the gargoyle held some of these features.

Reznikoff was understandably upset. Not only was this an offensive depiction of him but a taunt at his work. Diabolos was the more talented of the two masons and generally referred to Reznikoffs work as a drunkard with a chisel.

Soon, the full nature of the gargoyle and its offence came to the fore when Diabolos stated to other workers that the other gargoyle was in Diabolos image, laughing behind Reznikoff’s back. He had finally won over Susie and was sleeping with her without Reznikoff knowing!

Reznikoff’s friends told him that he had better see to Susie. They would not tell him outright about her infidelity but Reznikoff was to find out for himself before too long.

Just before the planned wedding Susie called it off, so she could become engaged to Diabolos. Furious, Reznikoff planned to do away with Diabolos and soon the final fateful confrontation took place.

Reznikoff took to Diabolos with a three pronged masons axe. He caught up with his foe at the front of the building, took a swing but missed as Diabolos pulled a door latch and fell inside. The prongs of the axe chipped a glancing hit in the heavy oak wooden doors.

Diabolos picked himself up and ran up the east wing stairs into the still unfinished building. Reznikoff took up the chase. The two ran up several flights of temporarily constructed wooden stairs into the tower where at the top Reznikoff felt the sharp bite of a blade and all went black.

Reznikoff finished his story saying that Diabolos had buried him under the stairs where his undiscovered body still lay. The other workmen assumed Reznikoff had fled after being disgraced and was hiding in shame. Ever since he had been standing near the place where his body was hidden in the hopes someone may discover it and he could then be at rest.

The following morning Aylesworth woke up and the mysterious stranger was gone. Surely he could not have spent the evening talking to a murdered mans ghost?

He chalked it all up to a rum fueled dream and thought nothing more of it.

And that would have been that, except in 1890 a devastating fire burnt out much of the building causing the majority to fall into ruin. The fire started when two staff members were distributing lit lamps around the building in expectation of three thousand guests for a gala/party.

One of the staff tripped on one of the east wing stairs dropping the lamp and splashing flaming oil everywhere. Soon the nearby tapestries caught alight and the blaze was started.

Most of the east wing was gutted by the fire and restoration efforts were begun to rebuild the iconic building. It was during this reconstruction that a cavity was found beneath the stairwell and the human remains were discovered.

When news of this discovery spread, Allen Bristol Aylesworth, the student who met the mysterious stranger and now a prominent lawyer, retold his story from that night so many years ago.

The remains are said to have been interred under an old maple tree in the University Colleges quadrangle. Allen Bristol Aylesworth went on to become a prominent Canadian Parliamentarian.

No one knows what happened to Diabolos and Susie but chances are they were married and lived out a happy life, as is the way much too often for criminals whose deeds go undiscovered.

The marks from the masons axe still remain in the oak door, as do the two Gargoyles.