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A newspaper in 1910 wrote about Dorothy:
"She disappeared from one of the busiest streets on earth, at the sunniest hours of a brilliant afternoon, with thousands within sight and reach, men and women who knew her on every side, and officers of the law thickly strewn in her path."
Such a young woman simply does not just disappear. And yet she did. Because no matter how perfect Dorothy seemed, not everything was as it appeared.
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In 1874, just nine years after President Lincoln was slain, the nation was again shocked by a terrible event. It was not the death of a great leader but the disappearance of a previously unknown four-year-old name Charles Brewster Ross. “Little Charlie Ross” – as Americans would soon know him – was stolen away in what became the first kidnapping for ransom in the history of the United States.
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The Mary Celeste had set sail for Genoa about 10 days before Dei Gratia had left port. What was she doing out here, off course and drifting? And where was the crew? These are just some of the many questions we tackle regarding the most infamous ghost ship in history.
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It was at the Sandman where the man in the green pajamas was staying when he came to Jacksonville. Of course, that wasn’t his name. It was Bruce Campbell, and he was a stockbroker from Massachusetts. He came here to visit his son, who was then a professor at MacMurray College in town. Bruce’s first grandchild had just been born and it was meant to be a happy visit for the family.
But it turned out to be a tragic one.
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Season 3 of American Haunting Podcast will follow a trail of murder, brutality, horror, and ghosts that plagued the America Prairie during the early 1900's- all leading up to the unsolved Villisca axe murders. Based on Troy's book Murdered In Their Beds, Season 3 will launch on February 26th, 2019.
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In the modern days of the 1920s, a pair of homicides that came to be known as the "Hex Murders" – and the subsequent hex scare that followed – marked a substantial turning point in American history, especially in the way that the public perceived the practice of folk magic – or what locals called "pow-wowing" – in the region.
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In 1900, Booger Hole (named for a kind of supernatural being) in West Virginia was the scene of the horrendous murder of a witch named Annie Boggs, dealings with the devil, lynch mobs, unsolved killings, and more.
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Live from the Dead Of Winter Festival in Alton, Illinois. We answer your ghost questions and read our most upsetting reviews.