We all like a good story about otherworldly mysteries, but we’re also too lazy to travel very far to find them. That must be why practically every town everywhere has at least one strange tale. It’s no different here in America. No matter which town you go to in any state, there will be a …
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When you have a headache, you’ll probably reach for some ibuprofen or aspirin. But in the days long gone, we didn’t know how to make industrial medicines. So, sometimes people turned to imaginative cures for basic illnesses. Like ground-up Egyptian mummies. No, we’re not kidding. The embalmed corpses of Ancient Egyptians were all the rage …
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The word “the” is the single most common word in the English sentence. In every body of text written in English, roughly 5% of the words will be “the.” So, it’s safe to say it’s a very common word. And now it’s a trademark of Ohio State University (OSU). Although the university doesn’t exactly own …
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Did you know that for the past nearly 50 years, there’s been an intercontinental war going on in the Arctic? Not only that, it’s been raging between Denmark and Canada — probably two of the most peaceful nations in the world. This war hasn’t been waged with firearms or weapons of mass destruction, though. True …
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For the first part of this story, see Girl Killed by Family Performing San Jose Exorcism Together: Part One. And Girl Killed by Family Performing San Jose Exorcism Together: Part Two. “(He) stated that the night of Sept. 23, 2021, he believed the victim was possessed, as she would cry and scream, and he believed …
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Go here for the first part of this story, continued Girl Killed by Family Performing San Jose Exorcism Together: Part One. All three family members face child abuse charges, including assault on a child with force likely to cause great bodily injury resulting in death. The victim’s 59-year-old grandfather was a self-proclaimed pastor. When interviewed …
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Three family members were accused of performing a church exorcism on the girl, and prosecutors want to put all three on trial together. Court documents filed Monday June 13th by Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen asked a judge to merge the three cases into one. Each defendant played a role in torturing the …
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Don’t you sometimes wish that cities would add more crosswalks in places where they’re clearly needed? A group of citizen activists from Los Angeles sure did. That’s why they decided to paint their own. A group called Crosswalk Collective LA (CCLA) grabbed cans of paint and made their own crosswalks. In late March, the CCLA …
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1968 was one heck of a year. It saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Soviet Union crushing the Prague Spring protest, and increasing resistance worldwide against the Vietnam War. But that’s not all. It was also the year that submarines from the navies of four different countries simply disappeared. …
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When people go missing, it may seem that Earth has just opened up and swallowed them without a trace. But the truth is that even disappeared folks are always somewhere. Sometimes, they may never have even left home. Construction workers in New York City recently found that out in a horrific way. On April 26, …
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