Stranger Than Fiction Stories
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Delve into the darkest corners of the human psyche, where shadows writhe and nightmares take form. Stranger Than Fiction Stories is a horror story blog by Author M. P. Pellicer. Read stories of the Supernatural, interviews of authors, experts, and those who have witnessed the unexplained. Ghosts, cryptids, UFOs, conspiracies and more.
Stranger Than Fiction Stories
1w ago
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A young legend tripper and ghost hunter was found dead in an abandoned church in Italy's Asota Valley. The condition of her body points to a sinister motive for her untimely death.
The church of St. Barbara in Equilivaz, Italy is the scene of a recent and disturbing murder
On April 5, 2024, the 22-year-old told her family she was going ghost hunting when she left her village near Lyon. Police believe it might be connected to a TikTok stunt involving urbex of haunted locations.
A local resident came across the decomposing body, which was later ..read more
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1w ago
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On December 3, 1994, a troubled 26-year-old hired a pilot to take her out in a small Cessna for what she claimed was a trip to take aerial photographs. It turned out to be a trip into oblivion.
Nature Preserve in Cutler Bay where Christine Pascale's body was found in 2017
The plane left Opa-Locka airport, and Christine Pascale had indicated an area close to her parent's home in SW Miami where she said she wanted to take the photographs. It was only when the pilot felt a gust of wind, and turned around that he saw her seconds before she leap ..read more
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1w ago
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Amelia Earhart disappeared July 2, 1937, on the last leg of a trans-world flight. Two years after their disappearance, Earhart and her navigator were declared dead. For all this time her fate has remained a mystery. Every few years someone claims to have found Amelia or her plane, but definitive proof has never been provided.
The lighthouse on Howland Island was renamed and dedicated to Amelia Earhart in 1938
In 1938, a lighthouse on Howland Island was named for the aviatrix. This was the place where she was supposed to refuel before ending he ..read more
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1w ago
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De Mello house sits abandoned somewhere on Goa, approximately 180 miles south of Bombay. The dark folklore surrounding the house stems from a dispute that supposedly led to murder between family members.
Mention of Dom George A. de Mello c.1864 (Source - The Morning Post)
At the end of the 15th century Vasco Da Gama discovered the maritime route to Asia via the Cape of Good Hope. In a dozen years Portugal possessed Mangalore, Cochin, Ceylon, Ormuz, Diu, Goa and Negapatam.
Europeans were spurred to find a route to the Orien ..read more
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1w ago
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Perhaps older, but just as lethal, an 83-year-old convicted serial killer was indicted in 2022, for the murder of a woman whose dismembered body was found in a shopping cart at a Brooklyn street corner.
Harvey Marcelin has been arrested in the murder of a woman. The victim's head was found in Marcelin's apartment
On March 7, 2022 at Jamaica Avenue near Vermont Street, a passerby saw a very unusual thing inside a discarded tire; it was a severed human leg.
A few days before another gruesome discovery was made by another unfortunate ..read more
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2w ago
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Bohnice is a district in northern Prague. It is home to a psychiatric hospital built at the beginning of the 20th century. The asylum was one of the largest in Europe. Small houses surround a large park with an Art Noveau church. However what attracts tourists and legend trippers is the cemetery that received the dead for fifty years.
Cemetery of Fools in Bohnice, Prague c.2019
Warning: graphic crime photos below
The six acre parcel of land is known as the Cemetery of Fools. Like many asylums built during these years, it had its own grav ..read more
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2w ago
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Three boys were playing near an old mill pond on the outskirts of Crisfield, Maryland. An old man arrived carrying two bundles. He told the boys the sacks contained either puppies or kittens, which he meant to drown. After the man threw the sacks into the water and left, they retrieved one of the bags intent on saving the animals only to make a gruesome discovery.
Residents of W.T. Handy's packinghouse, Crisfield, MD c.1940
April 20, 1923
Crisfield, Maryland
Inside the bag was the headless bodies of two children, and just the head of an old ..read more
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2w ago
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A few days before Christmas 1900, a twelve-year-old girl named Inez came home from school on Friday afternoon. She told her younger brother she was going inside for a moment, and when she failed to return he went to search for her; he saw something reflected in the mirror that faced the open closet that sent him screaming from the room.
Inez Gibson with her two brothers, Hugo and Otto
What Otto Gibson saw reflected in the mirror of his sister's bedroom was her body hanging inside the closet. Her jump rope was tied around her neck. A serva ..read more
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2w ago
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On September 19, 1911 Lady Frances M. Garnett-Orme was found dead in her room at the Savoy Hotel in the hill station of Mussoorie in northern India. The body was carefully laid out, as if posed after she died, and the doors were locked from the inside.
English lady in sedan chair c.1895
A post mortem examination found the presence of prussic acid. Two months later her companion Eva Mountstevens was arrested at Jhansi, after she left Lucknow.
The women had been staying at the Savoy Hotel, which was a favorite of the wealthier British Raj ..read more
Stranger Than Fiction Stories
3w ago
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The Endurance was found four miles from where her captain, Frank Worsely reported her going down in 1915. It wasn't only the loss of the ship, which made this endeavor so famous, but the tribulations the crew had to endure in order to reach safety.
Sir Ernest Shackleton at Ocean Camp, Weddell Sea, 1915
Cross Antarctica from the Weddel Sea via the South Pole to the Ross Seal; this was Sir Ernest Shackleton's dream.
He sailed in 1912, from Norway with a crew of 27 men. The year before Roald Amundsen's expedition was the first to s ..read more