Halloween Spooktacular! The World's Most Cursed Objects & Places

It's time for the 2024 edition of Strangeology's Halloween Spooktacular! For this one I dive into the stories behind some of the world's most cursed objects and places. These items have left a supernatural wake of death, tragedy and misfortune throughout history like the Myrtles Plantation Mirror or the Hope Diamond. Could there really be something sinister and paranormal with these cursed objects that allow malevolent forces to reach out from beyond the veil to ruin lives? Find out next! 

The Hope Diamond
The Dybbuk Box
Annabelle the Doll
Myrtles Plantation Mirror Ghost


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Episode Transcript

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You're listening to the Strangeology Podcast. I'm your host, Jeff Floren,
and this is your place to explore the weird, strange
and unexplained, from cryptids and creatures, the paranormal, aliens and UFOs,
forbidden knowledge, ancient mysteries, conspiracies and more. Hey, everyone, welcome

(01:00):
back to the show. Coming up on today's edition is
this year's Strangology Halloween Special for twenty twenty four. This
is going to be an epic one and I want
to get right into it, so I'll save any updates
and additional information for the end of the show. Imagine
holding something in your hands that carries a dark history,

(01:21):
something so deeply haunted by tragedy and misfortune that just
being near this object or place makes your skin crawl. Today,
I'm going to dive deep into some of the world's
most cursed objects in places, places tainted by grage, grief,
and potentially malevolent forces beyond our understanding. What if these

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curses on these objects aren't just the stuff of legend,
but are the real deal? And just a warning for
listeners ahead, these objects have been blamed for death, murder, madness,
and personal ruin throughout history. So we're going to be
covering a lot of these topics from your regular, everyday
person all the way to royalty. These curses no no bounds,

(02:06):
and just what gives these objects their power? Is it
superstition and belief or is it something else, something more sinister,
that's at play. Are you ready to find out? Let's
get into it. The first cursed object on the list
is the Hope Diamond. Now you've probably heard of this thing.

(02:30):
It's perhaps one of the most, if not the most
famous and coveted jewels in the world. But what if
I told you that it's left a trail of misery, death,
and ruin in its wake for literal centuries. The Hope
Diamond is a forty five and a half carrot diamond.
It's deep blue in color, and it may look innocuous,

(02:54):
but it is one of the most famously cursed objects
in all of history, and the stories I'm about to
go over that surround It might even make the most
skeptical among us take pause. Now, the Hope diamonds story
begins in early seventeenth century India. Legend has it that

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this gemstone was originally part of a temple shrine in India.
It likely originated in the Cooller mine in Golconda in
the early sixteen hundreds. In sixteen thirty, Jean Baptiste Tavernier,
a French merchant and traveler, began a series of six

(03:36):
voyages that he took between Paris, France, all the way
to Persia and India, trading gemstones and other high end wares.
Sometime between the years of sixteen forty and sixteen sixty seven,
Tavernier acquired this diamond, which was originally a one hundred
and fifteen carrot diamond, more than twice the size of

(03:57):
what it is today, and it was said to be
the size of an adult man's fist, one of the
biggest diamonds in the world. Now, normally Tavernier would document
from whom and where he acquired his items along his
trade route, but for some reason, he didn't list the
information about this diamond in his logs. Other than it

(04:20):
being called the Tavernier Blue. Now it's theorized that because
of this omission in his logbook, Tavernier may have actually
stolen this diamond from a Hindu temple off of the
statue of the goddess Sita, wife of Lord Rama, and
was one of two matching stones used as the eyes

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on this idol. Now it's said that the caretakers of
this idol believed that it held divine power, and that
to desecrate such an object was to invite divine wrath,
and as the story goes, this wrath would follow anyone
who dared to possess the gem from that moment on. Now,

(05:04):
Tavernier returned to Paris in sixteen sixty eight, selling a
bounty of large diamonds, including the Tavernier Blue, to King
Louis the fourteenth, and being in possession of this massive
diamond didn't seem to have any negative effect on him,
at least not for some time. In the following decades,
Tavernier received patents of nobility and purchased a large estate

(05:29):
in Geneva, where he spent several years chronicling his journeys
east and collecting treasures. The last couple of years of
his life aren't as well documented, but it is known
that he traveled to Russia in sixteen eighty seven and
died two years later at the age of eighty four.
Now it's believed by many that the diamond's curse finally

(05:50):
caught up to him, and on one fateful day, the
day that he died, Tavernier was attacked and torn apart
by a pack of wild dogs while in Moscow. Others
think that he simply died of old age, but we
don't know for sure. Circling back to King Louis the fourteenth, however,
is the next step in this story. As it turns out,

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Louis commissioned a court jeweler to turn the Taverner Blue
diamond into a piece to be remembered. This resulted in
the gemstone being cut in half and being turned into
a sixty nine carrot diamond, where it was renamed the
Blue Diamond of the Crown or the French Blue, and

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King Louis the fourteenth would wear it on a ribbon
around his neck. Following his possession of the diamond, All
but one of King Louis's legitimate children died in childhood.
In this era that wasn't necessarily unheard of, and perhaps
it's just coincidence, but some think that the diamond may
have been enacting its wrath on the French royal family.

(06:57):
King Louis the fourteenth didn't escape the wrath of this
diet as well, and suffered many ailments throughout his life,
such as gout, chronic dizziness, fainting spells, headaches, and he
even seemed to have symptoms of diabetes. And King Louis
wasn't the only one affected. There was another person who

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was allegedly impacted by this diamond. It was a man
who worked for the king named Nicholas Fouquet and was
tasked with guarding the French crown jewels and on one
special occasion he wore the French blue. Soon afterwards, he
lost favor with Louis the fourteenth and wound up getting

(07:41):
banished from France, but then his sentencing changed to life
in prison, where he spent fifteen years locked in the
fortress of Pieniural up in the Italian Alps, until he
died in sixteen eighty. Now, during King Louis the Fourteenth's reign,
someone else was said to be cursed by the diamond
as well his primary mistress, Madame de Montespan, who was

(08:05):
already married into French nobility. She attended the King's court
often and established herself as the quote reigning beauty of
the court, and soon won the favor of King Louis,
and soon enough their romance led to them having seven
illegitimate children together. However, their affair became very public, with
many referring to her as the true Queen of France.

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Madame de Montespan was also seen wearing the French blue
and would be heard frequently talking ill and disrespecting of
the actual Queen of France, Maria Theresa publicly. Eventually, this
landed her in trouble with the Catholic Church, where they
accused her of using witchcraft and performing black masses to

(08:51):
stay in favor of King Louis the fourteenth of his
other mistresses as well as the Queen. The pressure from
the Church then led to King Louis the fourteenth placing
her in a convent, where she eventually died in seventeen
oh seven and her children were forbade from ever mourning
her death, and then in seventeen fifteen, after ruling France

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for over seventy two years, and just days before his
seventy seventh birthday, King Louis the fourteenth died of gangrene,
and ultimately, along with the title of king and the
king's estate, the Diamond, a prized possession, wound up being
inherited by his great grandson, King Louis the fifteenth, when

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he assumed the throne that year at the age of five.
Although Philip the second, the Duke of Orleans, presided over
the Kingdom of France until Louis the fifteenth reached the
age of thirteen, this is all very game of thrones now.
Louis the fifteenth was initially liked by France and became

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known as Louis the well Beloved. However, he was a
poor decision maker and a stubborn king, which earned him
contempt by the French populace. These decisions lessened France's power
in the world, losing colonial possessions in North America and
India during the Seven Years War between seventeen fifty six

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and seventeen sixty three, which totally drained the French treasury.
Louis the fifteenth then died in seventeen seventy four, and
his actions ultimately led to the situation that started the
French Revolution in seventeen eighty nine, which is very interesting
that there is potentially a connection between this allegedly cursed

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object and a massive, major historical world event. And of
course Louis the sixteenth became the next king, where he
and Marie Antoinette inherited the French Blue as well, and
well we all know what happened to them when they
met the guillotine. Now, one of Mary Antoinette's friends, Marie

(11:04):
Therese Luise of Savoy, Princess of Lambal, was said to
have worn the diamond at one time as well and
met a similarly gruesome fate at the end of a
hammer and had her head wind up on a pike
by revolutionaries. So we're all of these fateful ends to
historical figures just coincidence or is this diamond truly cursed? Well,

(11:30):
we're just getting started with the trail of dead and
the hope Diamond's pattern of tragedy didn't just end with royalty.
According to the history, the diamond disappeared for some time
after the French Revolution and eventually wound up being stolen
and turned up in the hands of a Dutch diamond

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cutter named Wilhelm False, who apparently recut the jewel to
hide its true identity reduce it down to forty five carrots.
Wilhelm's son, Hendrick, stole the jewel, and it was said
that Wilhelm died from grief, believing that he was a
ruined man. He had this fortune and now it was gone,

(12:13):
although others believed that Hendrick actually killed his father, but
as far as I could find, that claim seems to
be unsubstantiated. Hendrick wound up giving this gemstone away and
later took his own life. In eighteen thirty, the man
that the stone was given to was named Francis Bolio.
Now Bolio traveled from Marseilles to London to sell the

(12:36):
diamond to a jewel dealer named Daniel Eliason. However, when
Eliason arrived at Bolio's lodging house, he found Bolio dead,
having succumbed to a fever, and then the Diamonds Whereabouts
was finally made public in eighteen twelve, again by a

(12:57):
John Francillian in London, who bounce that the stone was
in the possession of Eliason and that it was for
sale and wouldn't you have guessed it? Shortly after this,
Eliason was found dead, having taken his own life. Afterwards,
it's believed that the diamond wound up in the possession

(13:18):
of British Royalty, in the hands of King George the Fourth,
and was ultimately sold again in eighteen thirty after his
death due to George's massive debts that he left behind.
The next piece of history starts in eighteen thirty nine,
when the diamond appeared in the gem catalog of A

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Henry Philip Hope, which is where we get the current
name from the Hope Diamond. Now, this diamond was passed
down through the Hope family for generations, and Henry wound
up dying in eighteen thirty nine the same year that
it appeared in the gem catalog, and passed on to

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his nephew, Henry Thomas Hope, and then from there to
his grandson, Lord Francis Hope, who had massive financial problems
that nearly bankrupted him. He lived this life that was
well beyond his means, so he would take family jewelry,

(14:21):
sell it heirloom's art, he would borrow money, and he
was just plummeting further and further into debt. Meanwhile, during
a visit to America, his wife actually left him for
this United States Army officer, and this happened in the
year nineteen hundred at the turn of the twentieth century,

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and the following year, Lord Francis sold the Hope Diamond
to pay off his debts, formally divorced his ex wife,
remarried a few years later, but then ultimately died poor
and destitute in nineteen forty one. So it seems that
the continues to happen. Although it may not necessarily always

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lead to some kind of brutal and gruesome death, it
could also leave people poor, in destitute and having to
go through all of these really tough life challenges. Now,
Lord Francis's ex spouse, May Yohey, also wore the diamond

(15:27):
on a number of occasions while they were married, and
it turns out she fell on similar misfortunes, divorcing and
marrying several times throughout her life and also ultimately winding
up destitute, poor in dying of poverty in nineteen thirty eight.
And the story of the Hope Diamond just keeps going.

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Lord Francis, well, he sold it to a man named
Adolph Vail in London, and it changed hands again to
a diamond dealer in New York named Simon Frank. After that,
it changed hands a number of times between nineteen oh
one and nineteen oh eight, and it's thought that a
French banker named Jacques Colet bought the Hope Diamond from Frankel,

(16:12):
only to go mad and basically check out of this reality.
It was then sold to a Russian prince named Ivan Kanatowski,
and his lover was this actress named Laurence Ladieux, and
the first time that she wore it on stage during
a performance, a man in the audience shot her, and

(16:36):
just weeks later the prince was stabbed to death by
revolutionaries in Paris. Frankels then acquired the Hope Diamond again
and then, probably fearing for his life, quickly sold it
to a Greek jewel dealer named Simon Mayan Scharides in
nineteen oh eight, who, in turn, probably familiar with the story,

(16:59):
sold it to a Turkish dealer named habib Bee, and
on the night that the deal was made, Maren Sharid's
final destinationed it and drove his carriage over a cliff
which killed him as well as his wife and their child.
And you thought we were done, well, no, we're not
done yet. The body count keeps rising, you see, because

(17:22):
habib Bee sold the diamond to someone else named Solomon
Habib who was acting on behalf of the last Sultan
of the Ottoman Empire, Abdul Hamide the second, and just
a few months before this transaction, habib Bey drowned while
on a French steamship that sunk. You can't make this

(17:43):
up now. Sultan Abdul gave the stone to one of
his favorite concubines, who wound up getting stabbed by a
jewel thief, and there were a few other deaths involved
during this period, but ultimately this sultan wound up getting
overthrown during the Young Turk's rebellion in nineteen oh nine

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and was imprisoned in Istanbul until he died near the
end of the First World War in nineteen eighteen, where
the Ottoman Empire ultimately collapsed and dissolved. Afterwards, the Hope
Diamond found its way back to France and it changed
hands several more times and then wound up in the
hands of a woman named Evelyn Walsh MacLean who was

(18:27):
an American mining heiress and socialite, in nineteen eleven, and
despite warnings of the diamond's dark history, she initially dismissed
the curse as mere superstition. However, MacLean soon experienced a
string of devastating losses big surprise there. Shortly after acquiring
the stone, her mother in law died, and then in

(18:49):
nineteen nineteen, her nine year old son was killed in
a tragic accident after he ran out into the street
in front of an oncoming car. In nineteen twenty nine,
it turns out her her husband left her for another woman,
and then in nineteen forty six, her daughter, who was
twenty five at the time, died from a drug overdose.

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The following year, McLean herself died of pneumonia, and she
was in poverty due to living a lavish lifestyle and overspending,
having lost everything that she cherished in life, and the
cursed bluestone it sat as radiant as ever, seemingly indifferent

(19:31):
to the destruction that it had wrought. Although the jewel
was supposed to remain in the McLean family, permission was
gained to sell the stone to pay off her debts. Posthumously,
and ultimately it was donated to the Smithsonian in nineteen
fifty eight. But the diamond had to claim one last victim.

(19:53):
The postman who delivered the diamond to the Smithsonian crashed
his truck, resulting in a shattered leg, directly after dropping
it off, and he was then involved in another car
accident where he got a severe head injury. He also
lost his wife and dog to untimely deaths as well,

(20:13):
and to top it all off, a part of his
home caught on fire and burned down out of nowhere
after he had handled the Hope Diamond, and ever since,
sitting in the museum behind safety glass, its curse is
said to gone dormant, but for how long now. While
some might chalk up these events to mere bad luck,

(20:37):
the sheer number of deaths and misfortune and disasters linked
to the Hope Diamond is very much chilling and interesting.
And while the stories of its previous owner's tragedies make
for compelling tales, paranormal researchers often point to the diamond's

(20:58):
unsettling energy. Those who have handled it even briefly report
strange feelings of dread and unease, as though the stone
itself has some kind of aliveness to it, almost like
it's infused with some kind of malevolent energy beyond its glittering,

(21:22):
beautiful exterior. Some museum workers at the Smithsonian apparently have
reported odd occurrences near its display case, so maybe not
all are safe from its curse today. Some have reported
things like sudden drops and temperature, flickering lights, inexplicable heaviness

(21:42):
within the air, and some visitors too have described similar things,
feeling chills or strange senses of dread when they're near
the Hope Diamond. Now, who knows, if it ever gets
let loose, it could continue its wave of destruction on
human humanity. Now, the Hope Diamond has captivated the imaginations

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of people for over three hundred and fifty years. There's
been all these books, documentaries, movies all about it, and
it's also served as inspiration for stories of other cursed objects,
or how it could be a symbol of beauty and
wealth being intertwined with tragedy and that wealth could ultimately

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lead to people's downfall. Kind of that trope, that idea.
But in the end, the Hope Diamond is very much
a cautionary tale for sure about treasure, wealth, money riches
all of that, and who knows if it's actually real,
but it is very interesting that it has a trail

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of so much death and misfortune surrounding it that perhaps
there is something to this story. Now, the next cursed
object on this list. In a world full of haunted
and cursed objects, few have captured the imagination quite like

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the dbuk box. Now the word dbbuk, which you would
think it's daebuk, but I looked it up. People pronounce
it dabuk. This can be traced back to Jewish folklore,
and its meaning is said to describe a malicious spirit
that possesses the living. According to tradition, these entities are

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said to be restless souls, such as those who died
under tragic or unjust circumstances. These souls then become dbuk
and in turn can cling on to or attached to
people or objects, where they will in turn cause pain, suffering,
and misfortune. It's believed that these types of spirit possessions

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are are harder to happen for virtuous people, and are
much easier and will happen more often with someone who
is immoral, which makes them vulnerable to this type of possession.
And the only way to banish adbuk is by undergoing
an exorcism performed by a rabbi. Some interesting history there so.

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The dbuk box first made headlines back in two thousand
and three when this item was listed on eBay by
a writer and antique furniture dealer named Kevin Manis who
lived in Portland, Oregon at the time. Manus had claimed
that he initially acquired this box at a local yard sale,

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and the seller informed him that it came from her
Polish grandfather who was a survivor of the Holocaust and
was warned not to open the box due to having
some kind of evil energy attached to it, and this warning,
of course went unheeded. Now, when Manus opened the box,

(25:09):
he found that there were two locks of hair, a
small slab of granite stone, a dried rosebud, a goblet,
two wheat pennies, one candlestick, and apparently one debuk. Now afterwards,
Manus claimed that he began to experience strange and unsettling

(25:30):
phenomena that was unfolding in his life. After purchasing the box,
he brought it to his furniture store to refinish it
and gift it to his mother. He left it in
the shop portion of the store down in the basement,
and then went out to run errands, leaving his employee,
a young woman, in charge of the store for the

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rest of the day. Thirty minutes later, Manus receives a
call on his cell phone from this employee who is
panicked and hysterically screaming that someone was in the store
breaking glass, swearing and she couldn't see anyone there. Nobody
had come into the store, and whoever this intruder was

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apparently had locked the iron security gates to get out
of there, as well as the emergency exit, so his
employee was trapped in the store. Mannis then told her
to call the police, but as soon as he did,
his cell phone battery that was charged up suddenly went dead.
He then sped back to the store to help his

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employee and find out what was going on, and when
he got there, he said that he found that the
gate was actually locked. He had the keys, so he
managed to unlock it and finally got inside, where he
found his employee on the floor in the corner of
his office, just sobbing hysterically. So he went downstairs to

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the shop to investigate and found that there was this
overwhelming smell of cat urine even though he kept no
animals in the store. The lights in the shop didn't
work either, and he found out the explanation for the
sound of glass shattering. As it turns out, all of
the light bulbs in the basement shop, I believe there

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were eight of them, had all just exploded and there
was only one way in and out of there, and
there would have had been no way for anyone to
escape or hide without him noticing. So he went back
upstairs to ask his employee more questions about what had

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been going on, but she had already left and quit
immediately after that incident due to being so scared, one
would assume, and the high strangeness didn't end there. Mannus
claimed that after a while of being in possession of
of this box, he started to experience being haunted by

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the nightmare of a gruesome old hag in his dreams,
as well as being attacked by an unseen force at night.
He described it as he would just get the crap
beat out of him by whatever this entity was, and
objects around his house would move on their own, the
lights would flicker on and off, strange and unexplainable smells

(28:27):
would permeate his home. Sometimes it would be like a
combination of cat urine like at the shop, as well
as a mixture of jasmine flowers. Sounds terrible. Manus then
took note that anytime someone spent any time near the box,
they would become afflicted. Friends and family began to suffer

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from strange and inexplicable health issues. Manus said that his
mother suffered from a stroke just days after coming into
contact with this box that was supposed to be a
gift for her, and while she recovered, she apparently later
described seeing a strange shadow figure in her recovery room

(29:12):
at the hospital. And so at this point Manis decided
to get rid of this box. Now, his eBay listing
described the box as this antique wine cabinet. It was
made of wood, its dimensions were about a foot and
a half tall. It talked about it being from a
Polish Holocaust survivor, and that the description went on to

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allege that this cabinet was haunted. It was inhabited by
some demonic entity and was responsible for a series of
eerie misfortunes and nightmares in his life. Now, the box
wound up selling to a college student in Missouri for
one hundred and eighty bucks. His name was Joseph Nietzschke

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or just Joseph, and after acquiring the box, he allegedly
began to experience the same kind of strange and chilling phenomena.
Although Joseph mentioned he started experiencing unexplainable hair loss, he
would also get strange smells in his home. He started
to have unexplainable car troubles out of nowhere and would

(30:19):
have these recurrent nightmares. Joseph got fed up pretty quickly
and wound up selling the box to his roommate's boss,
a man named Jason Haxton, who was the director of
the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri, and like
Joseph and Manaces before him, Haxton apparently began to become

(30:42):
tormented by this box as well. He started coming down
with weird health issues, was getting mysterious bruising, and would
catch glimpses of shadow figures darting through his home out
of the corner of his eyes. And from there, Haxton
decided to create website about this debuck box, and he

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would list all the claims that this object was cursed
and responsible for paranormal happenings. And then in two thousand
and four, Axton sold the rights to this story to
a production company in Hollywood. Eventually Sam Raimi made a
film all about it. You know Sam Raimi, the Toby

(31:24):
McGuire Spider Man Trilogy, Evil Dead, you know all those movies.
And so he made a film back in twenty twelve
called The Possession, which was all about this debuck box.
And now this box resides in Zach Began's museum in
Las Vegas. Begins himself has stated that the box has

(31:47):
negatively affected him and other people involved with his show
Ghost Adventures, and interestingly, Post Malone was also once affected
by the Box two when he visited the museum to
the story. It's been said that shortly after he came
into contact with the box back in twenty eighteen, he

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started having this string of really bad luck out of nowhere. Like,
for example, he has a private jet and one time
after he came to contact with the box, this jet
needed to make an emergency landing so that it didn't crash.
So that's pretty interesting. Now, this all sounds kind of

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terrifying right well, as it turns out, in twenty twenty one,
just a few years ago, Kevin Mannis, the originator of
the eBay Post, the guy who started it all back
in twenty three, admitted to making the whole thing up.
It was a hoax. He was a writer, after all,
and his intention was to create this modern, interactive and

(32:55):
organic horror story that would take on a life of
its own, and it's certainly did now. When interviewed about it,
Jason Haxton revealed that there was a kind of a
rivalry between him and Manus, and he accused him at
the time of hoaxing the whole thing, although Manis hadn't
come forward yet. But Hackson also believed that there may

(33:16):
actually be something pure or normal happening with this wine box,
and that perhaps Manus cursed it himself using kabbala. Either way,
Haxon decided to capitalize on the story of the box,
and he was sure that Manus was annoyed by that
because he wasn't getting any kickback, and after an investigator

(33:40):
checked out the Depick Box at the museum in Las Vegas,
he concluded that it wasn't actually this pre World War
two antique from Poland, but instead this mini bar was
manufactured in New York back in the nineteen fifties. Now,
other skeptics and debunkers over the years before this also

(34:01):
had pointed out that while the idea of what Adbuk was,
the name wasn't actually used from the Talmood and there
was no historical basis for the existence of a thing
like a dipuk box, although there was a film from
nineteen thirty seven in Poland called the Dbuk, so the

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term goes back to at least one hundred years ago.
Although this particular case turned out to be a hoax,
there are many who experience similar types of possessions by
malevolent entities, So who's to say there isn't a real
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speaking of haunted objects, old dolls are frequently cited as
being haunted or possessed by evil spirits, and none is
more well known than annabel the Doll. You probably know
of this object from the Conjuring series and the sequel
series made all about it. But interestingly, Annabelle is a

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real thing. But it isn't this creepy, lifelike porcelain doll
that's portrayed in the movies. It's literally just a old,
raggedy ann doll from the nineteen seventies. And that actually
might make this story a little bit creepier, because if
you are a child of the seventies or the eighties,

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there's no way that you're unfamiliar with these dolls. Now,
this story has inspired a wave of fear and fascination
the world over. It's a very popular cursed object. The
seemingly innocent raggedy ann has this stitched on smile and

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a really simple appearance. But this particular one, Annabel, hides
a chilling legacy of terror, along with violent attacks and
strange experiences. It's, from what we can tell, no ordinary doll. Now.
According to the stories, she has been at the center

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of a number of disturbing events for a woman and
her roommate and some friends. And this doll left this
trail of supernatural chaos in its wake. But what is
it about Annabel that has terrified even the most skeptical

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among us? So? The story of Annabel begins in nineteen seventy,
when a nursing student named Donna received the doll as
a present from her mother for her twenty eighth birthday.
At the time, this doll appeared to be nothing more
than a large, raggedy ann something sweet and harmless. She

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was thrilled with the doll, and Donna, along with her
roommate Angie, initially found nothing strange about it. It sat
on a chair in their shared apartment as just a
simple decoration piece, but soon things took a turn for
the bizarre and terrifying. The doll seemed to inexplicably move

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by itself. At first, it did so subtly, shifting its
position from one room to another when nobody was around.
Sometimes Donna would come home from work to find that
Annabelle somehow made her way into her bedroom and the
door would be shut with no explanation as to how

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she got there, And what started out is curiosity soon
turned to dread. The roommates began finding these cryptic messages
scrawled in childlike handwriting on scraps of parchment paper, saying
things like help me and help Lou, despite neither Donna

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nor Angie keeping parchment paper in their home, and Lou
was Angie's boyfriend. So one day, Lou was in the
apartment while nobody was home, and he apparently heard this
rustling sound coming from Donna's bedroom. He thought that maybe

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somebody was trying to break in, so he went to
go check things out. He didn't find any sign of
forced entry in the window or the door, but instead
found that Annabelle the doll was laying face down on
the floor in Donna's room and out of nowhere, he

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suddenly felt this burning pain on his chest, and when
he looked down he could see these bloody claw marks
bleeding through his shirt. Obviously terrified, he to go clean
up and get out of there for the time being,
not knowing how that happened or what was going on.

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And stranger still, these marks seemed to inexplicably vanish completely
within two days, which is very quick if you have
a cut on you, normally that stuff's on you for
at least a week or more. But things didn't end there.
Annabel kept moving around, and as these disturbing events continued

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to escalate, Donna decided that it was time to seek
out help from a medium, hoping to uncover what was
happening now. When the medium came over, she held a seance,
and during this seance, the medium informed Donna and Angie
that the spirit of a seven year old girl named

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Annabel Higgins had attached itself to the doll. The girl's
spirit was said to have died tragically on the land
where their apartment now stood, and claimed that she felt
comforted by the presence of Donna and Angie. This medium
claimed that the spirit was benevolent and only wanted to
be loved and cared for. And believing that the spirit

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of Annabel to be innocent and feeling bad for it,
Donna and Angie made the grave mistake of giving it
permission to stay inside of the doll, and subsequently also
permission to stay inside of their apartment. And we all
know that's bad news. And although this spirit claimed to

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be an innocent little girl, it wasn't long before more
malevolence started to happen from this entity within the Annabel doll.
Lou continually became a target of the doll's malicious behavior.
He had already been attacked once with claw marks on
his chest, but soon after he began experiencing terrifying nightmares

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involving Annabel. In one dream, she crawled up his chest,
pinning him down as he struggled to breathe under her weight.
Realizing that they had made a grave error, Donna and
Angie decided to reach out to an episcopal priest named
Father Hagen, who contacted his superior father Cook, who then

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reached out to Ed and Lorraine Warren, who were famous
demonologists and paranormal investigators at the time. Now the Warrens
quickly identified the spirit with an Annabel as not a
little girl. According to them, the spirit had manipulated the
women into thinking that it was innocent, all while gaining

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strength and seeking to possess a human host. The Warrens
explained that the doll itself wasn't possessed, but rather it
acted as a conduit for this demonic entity. The scratches
on Lou on his chest were a warning, an indication
of what could happen if this entity was left unchecked.

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The Warrens were quoted on this case saying spirits do
not possess inanimate objects like houses or toys. They possess people.
An inhuman spirit can attach itself to a place or object,
and this is what occurred in the Anibl case. This
spirit manipulated the doll and created the illusion of it
being alive in order to get recognition. Truly, the spirit

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was not looking to stay attached to the doll. It
was looking to possess a human host. And the signs
they cited to back up their claim of the entity
being demonic teleportation, for example, the doll appearing in one
room and then the other, seeming to move on its
own as well as materializations such as the parchment paper

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notes that seemed to just kind of appear out of
thin air, and also the the mark of the beast,
for example, the claw marks on Lou's chest. The Warrens
then ordered an exorcism of the apartment to be performed
by Father Cook, and after the investigation, they took Annabelle
to their occult museum in Monroe, Connecticut, where she has

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remained ever since. The doll now sits in this specially
made class case, locked away to prevent further harm, and
there's this big sign on the bottom of the case
that reads warning positively do not open. The case is
also blessed regularly to ensure that the entity remains confined

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to the doll and cannot cause harm to anyone else
who visits the museum. At least that's the idea. But
despite being locked up, Annabel's legacy continues to haunt those
who have come into close contact with her, the first
one happening within minutes of removing her from Donna and

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Angie's apartment. Warrens buckled up the doll in the back
seat of their car, but decided to take the back
roads instead of the Highway should Annabel have any kind
of potential power to cause a car crash. However, taking
the back roads back home to Connecticut proved to be
no less potentially treacherous. Evidently, during their ride back, the

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brakes on the car stalled or outright failed on them
several times during the drive, almost causing potentially fatal car crashes.
Ed got the idea to pull out his holy water
and splashed it all over the Annabel doll, which apparently
resolved the problems with the brakes for the rest of

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the ride back, and as Annabel took up a spot
in the Warrens museum, they themselves reported ongoing strange incidents
whenever they moved the doll. Lorraine claimed that she saw
Annabel levitate and move on its own multiple times, and
despite locking her in their outer office building, they would

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come home later to find that Annabel had made her
way back into their main house, and Warren also recounted
that the doll had a strange effect on visitors to
their museum as well. One particularly an infamous story involved
a young man who was mocking the Annabel doll during
a tour of the museum, and according to the warrants,

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the man banged on Annabel's case, laughing at the warnings
surrounding it, and on the way home, this man lost
control over his motorcycle and crashed into a tree, and
he died instantly. His girlfriend, who survived the crash, claimed
that they had been laughing about Annabel just before the incident,

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and whether or not the crash was the result of
the doll's curse, the warrants believed that mocking Annabel came
with deadly consequences. Now today, Annabel remains one of the
most well known haunted objects in the world, with her
legacy growing stronger with each retelling of the story. With
all of the media surrounding it, the movie series, and

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whether it's viewed as a genuine paranormal threat or a
manifestation of our human fear and fear of the unknown,
Annabel continues to captivate and terrify us and say what
she will about the Warrens. There's a whole episode worth
of investigating into them. Some think that they were fraudsters.

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That's a story that I'll need to look into for
another time. But to this day, Annabel remains locked in
her class case. She waits in the Occult Museum and
reminds us that sometimes the most innocent looking objects could
actually have a darkness to them. And the question remains,

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is Annabelle simply a doll or is there really something
far more sinister lurking within this object? And of course
skeptics brush off the story as superstition. There's a hoax,
nothing actually happened. Those who have encountered Annabelle would say otherwise.
And now I've got one more cursed object slash location

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for you all before we close out today's episode. And
this one takes place in the heart of Louisiana's by
You Country, the Myrtle's Plantation, which has long been considered
one of the most haunted places in America, if not
the world. This place was built in seventeen ninety six,

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and it's this historic Antebellum mansion in the town of
Saint Francisville. And this place is steeped in mystery, murder,
and ghostly tales as well as cursed objects. Now, this
mansion is a relic from an earlier, more brutal age,
scarred by the horrors of slavery, which obviously gives the

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imagery of human tragedy and suffering. It was a dark
time in our history. But among all of the legends
surrounding this plantation, one artifact is said to stand out
here for its chilling reputation. A mirror that's said to
be haunted by the spirits of those who met tragic

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and untimely ends within its grounds. This is known as
the Myrtle's Plantation mirror, and this mirror is believed to
house the souls of murdered family members who once inhabited
the plantation, and it's believed that they're trapped for eternity
within its reflective surface. But how did this ordinary mirror

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become the vessel for such profound sorrow and paranormal activity. Well,
we have to start off with the history of how
this property came to be and the tragic tales of
the families that inhabited it over the centuries. So the
story of the Myrtle's Plantation and its mirror, and all

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sorts of other paranormal activity around this place begins when
the land that it resides on was purchased by a
man named David Bradford, who was a general in the
American Revolution in seventeen ninety six. According to the rumor,
the home was built on the site of a Native
American burial ground from the Tunica tribe, so already it

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could be a place of high strangeness and curses, and
when the house was finished, Bradford named it originally Laurel Grove. Interestingly,
Bradford was involved in the Whiskey Rebellion of seventeen ninety
one through seventeen ninety four, which is why he fled
to Louisiana in the first place, which at the time

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was not part of the United States. Bradford was eventually
pardoned by President John Adams in seventeen ninety nine, and
afterwards Louisiana became part of the United States after the
Louisiana Purchase in eighteen oh three. Anyway, now, David Bradford
lived out the rest of his days at Laurel Grove

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until eighteen oh eight. Bradford's widow, Elizabeth, then ran the
property until eighteen seventeen and then passed it down to
her son in law, Clark Woodriff, who was a local
judge who had married Elizabeth and David's daughter Sarah, and
they had three children together, Cornelia Gale, James and Mary

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Octavia now the Woodriffe family is one of the most
infamous legends attached to the house, which involves a number
of their alleged murder According to local lore, the Woodruff
family lived a life of relative comfort, and Clark was
said to be mostly a good man, but also not

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really because Clark was apparently an adulterer and wound up
having an affair with one of the slaves that the
Woodroffs owned, a woman by the name of Chloe. This
affair was said to have gone on for several years,
but as time went on, Chloe feared that Clark's wife

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Sarah would find out, so she began eavesdropping on conversations
around the plantation house that she was not supposed to
be privy to. Eventually, Chloe was caught, and Clark Woodruff
ordered that as punishment, her ear was to be caught
off for spying on the family's business and conversations. Afterwards,

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Chloe would wear this green turban to conceal her disfigurement,
all while seething with rage and plotting her revenge on
the Woodrufs. As the legend goes, somewhere between eighteen twenty
three and eighteen twenty four, Clark was away on business
and that evening Chloe supposedly baked this cake and it

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was supposed to be for Sarah and the children, and
it was said that she laced it with poison extracted
from boiled and reduced oleander leaves, which are extremely toxic
to humans if ingested. Pretty Much every part of the
oleander flower is poisonous, the stem, the flower, the nectar,

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the leaves. It's pretty much bad news all around. So
Chloe apparently hoped to make the children sick and then
planned to miraculously nurse them back to health to regain
favor with Clark. However, the plan went terribly wrong, and
the poison actually wound up killing Sarah and her two

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daughters before Chloe could do anything to help. And after
the deaths of Sarah and the two daughters, the legend
states that Chloe was hanged by her fellow slaves and
her body thrown into the Mississippi River, fearing retribution for
her actions, and to this day, witnesses have claimed to

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see the spirit of a woman wearing a green turban
wandering around the plantation grounds, leading many to believe, although unconfirmed,
that this is the ghost of Chloe. Others still hear
the disembodied sounds of giggling children around the house and
property at night, and it's thought that those are the

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spirits of Cornelia and Mary, the Woodruff daughters. But what
about the Myrtle's plantation mirror. Well, According to age old superstition,
mirrors have long had this reputation for connecting the living
and the dead. In some traditions, it is customary to

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place a sheet over mirrors when a family member dies
because there's this belief that mirrors can trap the souls
of the dead. Well, with all of the alleged death
in the home, it seems that this practice was not
followed to the tee and this one mirror in particular,
an ornate parlor mirror, wasn't covered following the death of

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Sarah and her daughters, and it's believed that their souls
became trapped within it and potentially other spirits as well.
Other versions say that Chloe used voodoo to trap their
souls before she was hanged, but that's all just rumor now.
Despite this story about Chloe poisoning Sarah and her daughters

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with this oleander poison laced cake, the official story when
looking at the records, is that there was never actually
a slave by the name of Chloe that was owned
by the Woodruff family. In addition, it was also recorded
that Sarah and her two daughters actually got yellow fever

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and succumbed to the illness as there wasn't really much
they could do about it at the time. So the
story there seems to have evolved into this idea that
there was foul play at hand, when historically, from what
we know, that may not have been the case. However,

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that doesn't mean that the mirror still couldn't harbor the
souls of Sarah and her daughters, who died a tragic
death either way, and over the years, visitors and staff
alike have reported unsettling phenomena whenever they approach or stand
before the mirror. Handprints, small and child's eyes frequently appear

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on the glass, as well as these mysterious drip marks,
and even after the mirror has been meticulously cleaned, they
still show up. These marks seem to materialize out of nowhere,
as if the spirits of the children and Mary are
still reaching out from beyond the grave. Several proprietors of

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the plantation have even replaced the glass of the mirror,
and even that hasn't stopped this phenomena from occurring. Apparently,
But it's not just the handprints that disturb those who
encounter this object. There have been countless settings of ghostly
figures within its reflection. Many claim to have seen the
apparitions of a woman and children in period clothing from

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the early to mid eighteen hundreds, which is believed, of course,
to be Sarah Woodruff and her daughters, standing mournfully beside
them while they look into to the glass. Others have
witnessed shadowy figures darting across the room, only to vanish
when they turn around, and if you do a quick
Google search, there are some interesting images. Of course, things

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can be photoshopped, but I'll link a few in the
show notes. Many have also said that the mirror itself
generates an eerie, oppressive atmosphere, in that it sometimes gives
off cold drafts of air when there's otherwise no draft
going on through the house. People who gaze in for

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it for too long also have reported feeling a sense
of dread, as though something unseen is watching them from
the other side, and these stories certainly support the superstition
that mirrors can hold more than just reflections, that they
can potentially act as portals between the world of the
living and the dead, trapping these spirits of those who

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died tragically within its boundaries. And we can't talk about
just the Myrtles Plantation mirror without talking about the whole
property and its haunted history as well. So little bonus
session for you all. Now, the Woodruffs weren't the only
family afflicted by the plantation and the cursed objects within.

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In eighteen thirty four, Clark Woodruff actually sold the property
to a man named Ruffin Gray Sterling and his wife,
Mary Catherine Cobb. They were this wealthy family who already
owned a number of plantations along the Mississippi River, and
they purchased Laurel Grove as their primary residence. And it

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was at this point that it was renamed to the
Myrtles after the myrtle trees that dotted the landscape of
the property. And it's thought that the Sterlings may have
actually had a sense that something weird and paranormal may
have been happening there. For example, during the building of

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the day to the primary home, which increased the number
of the rooms in the house to twenty two, they
basically doubled the size of it. They wound up putting
locks on all of the doors that were intentionally installed
upside down, and there's this idea that this was done
as a way to confuse any wayward spirits trying to

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gain entry into rooms. The front door was also decorated
with this intricate stained glass window featuring a French cross
to ward off evil. Now, like the Woodruffs before them,
tragedy would also strike the Sterlings as well. In eighteen
fifty four, rough and Sterling contracted tuberculosis and ultimately succumbed

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to the disease and left the property to Mary Cobb. Eventually,
she passed the reins of running the property to her
son in law, William Winter, who had married Ruffin and
Mary's daughter Sarah. And strange enough, history seemed to repeat itself,
and the Winter's three year old daughter contracted yellow fever,

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just as the Woodruffed children did decades prior. Now, out
of desperation, William and Sarah Winter decided to summon this
voodoo priestess named Cleo to help save their daughter, Kate.
Cleo spent days in Kate's bedroom performing voodoo rituals, but
in the end she was unsuccessful and the Winter's three

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year old daughter succumbed to the illness in January of
eighteen sixty one, and ever since, visitors to her room
at the Myrtle's Plantation claim that the apparition of Kate
will appear there where she's seen trying to perform rituals
on visitors while they sleep on the same exact bed
that she died in over one hundred and sixty years ago.

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Other accounts have claimed that the bed itself will levitate
off the floor and shake violently, and there are even
gouge marks on the wooden floor in the bedroom, suggesting
that there could actually be some truth to these claims. Now,
after Cleo was unsuccessful in curing their daughter Kate, William
was heartbroken, furious, and blamed his daughter's death on Cleo

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and wound up having her hung as a result. Many
theorized that the apparition that people think is Chloe, back
from the Woodruff era, is actually this voodoo priestess named Cleo.
Now at this point in the history, we're up pretty
close to the Civil War era. Now, this part of

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the story adds even more alleged death to the plantation.
Just before Kate died, the state of Louisiana declared its
secession from the Union just at the start of the
American Civil War, and over the course of the war,
the Myrtle's plantation barely survived. At one point, soldiers came

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in and ransacked the house, and the Winter's family fortune
was lost. It was taken away apparently according to the legends. However,
three of the Union's soldiers were shot and killed within
the house during a gun battle, and from time to
time people who visit the plantation claim to sometimes see

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these slain soldiers that are wandering around the grounds of
the property. And there's also said to be this human
sized bloodstain looking mark in a doorway, and that's thought
to be from the gun battle and shooting of these
soldiers where they died. And apparently this mark could never

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get clean no matter what anyone did to try to
get rid of it. And interestingly, other caretakers have reported
that in that area of the home when they're taking
a broom or a mop in or around that space
to clean, they can't physically push it into like the

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doorway or the corner area where it is like there's
some kind of invisible force in the way preventing them
from from cleaning. That's which is interesting, Although the validity
of those claims, I'm not sure if that's just you know,
stories or not, but it is that'd be super creepy.

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If there's some kind of invisible force or wall preventing
you from like pushing something into a space, could be
who knows. There's a lot of weird stuff at this property. Now,
the Myrtle's Plantation ultimately did survive the war, but in
eighteen seventy one we finally have the first documented, in

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verified murder that actually took place there. Any other deaths
were attributed to succumbing to different sicknesses and diseases like
toulosis and yellow fever. There were alleged murders, of course,
but none of those were actually recorded or documented beyond hearsay. Now,

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one night in eighteen seventy one, this unknown visitor apparently
showed up at the Myrtle's Plantation while William Winter was
outside on the porch. This visitor then pulled a pistol
out and shot him and then disappeared into the night
and It's said that William crawled up the stairs calling

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out to Sarah, and he wound up making it to
the seventeenth step as Sarah came out, and then William
just collapsed and died in her arms from his wound.
There wasn't really anything they could do at that point,
he just bled out, And to this day, the murder
of William Winter has never been solved. Nobody knows who

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this mystery assailant was or what his motives were. It
is possible that William had some enemies, for sure, and
maybe that's what it was, but no one ever solved
the case. From what I could find, and with all
of the paranormal occurrences at the Myrtles, of course, the
ghost of William has been periodically spotted. Those who have

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witnessed his spirits say that they can hear his footsteps
at night around the house, and that his apparition can
be seen staggering and crawling up the flight of stairs
in the home, always stopping on step number seventeen looking
for his wife Sarah. Pretty creepy. Now. After William died,

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Mary Cobb, the matriarch of the Sterling family, who was
still alive, his wife Sarah's mother wound up running the
plantation again for another ten years until she passed away
and the estate was left in tons of debt, and
ultimately any of the remaining heirs of the family, like Sarah,

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were ultimately forced to sell the home to pay off
the family's debts. And in the years since, the property
has been divvoated up for development for new housing, and
in nineteen seventy the original house and land plot was
purchased by James and Francis Myers, who restored the home
and wound up turning it into a bed and breakfast.

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And so that's why people can go and stay there
now and have their paranormal haunting experiences maybe if it
happens or not. And it didn't take them long apparently
for James and Francis and their guests to realize that
there truly could be something eerie and strange happening at
this historical property. And over the years of all of

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these paranormal encounters that have been recorded, the Myrtle's Plantation
is claimed to be one of America's most haunted houses.
Now with all of the strange activity that's happened there,
the Myrtle's Plantation. Mirror remains on display at the plantation,
where it continues to draw visitors eager to experience its

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supernatural presence. Other people want to stay in Kate's room
or just see what they can see. And the mirror
itself occupies this prominent place in the house, and it's
this kind of silent but ever watchful reminder of all
of this tragedy that befell the Woodruff family and the

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Sterling family anyone else who had all this bad stuff
happened to them. And despite the passage of time, the
mirror's paranormal activity doesn't really seem to be showing any
signs of going away again. There's these small childlike handprints
that will appear on the glass, strange drips, there's ghostly

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figures that are seen in the reflection, and this ominous
heavy presence that visitors can feel, as well as this
cold wind that seems to emanate from the mirror itself.
And the mirror has also become one of the most
famous curse punted objects in America, and of course it's

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been featured on shows like Ghost Hunters, Unsolved Mysteries, etc.
And in our age of digital photography and all our
modern tech, the strange phenomena that surrounds us that continues
to baffle experts, and the stories of this thing are
going to continue to happen, and I'm sure that as

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time marches forward, more people will continue to experience high
strangeness and haunting, chilling paranormal activity from this mirror and
the Myrtle's Plantation property itself. All right, thank you again

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for hanging out with me today and listening to the show.
I really hope you enjoyed this episode for this year's
Halloween spectacular. The world is a truly mysterious place, and
I think I'll be trying to avoid any and all
cursed objects for the foreseeable future. And there's even more

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I'm going to be diving into more cursed stories. This
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of Strangeology Beyond your exclusive portion of the show. Happy
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