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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody, This is Marlene with eerie news. Lots of
irey news to get too, So let's go there now.
Our first story is from my Substack newsletter. All right,
let's dip in there as far as interesting stories, shall we. Anyway,

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this is titled in the Unlikeliest Place. On December thirty first,
nineteen ninety two, a septic tank company rolled into the
property of a home that's set vacant for two years.
Rinaldo ramon Pie, who owned it for decades, died in
nineteen ninety and his daughter was selling it. The real
estate agent adviser to pump the tank in order to

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make it more attractive to potential buyers, since it had
not been serviced in at least twenty years. Around nineteen
seventy two, or at least that's what they thought. Timothy
Scanlon nineteen with Ted's Tanks, found the septic tank lid
had one it's been broken through and then covered with
dirt and a piece of glass. This puzzled him as

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it appeared the tank had not been pumped before. He
continued with his work, possibly thinking of plans for year's Eve.
Then his eyes were drawn to a round object stuck
in the waste of two decades. It looked like a coconut,
and perhaps he never wondered how something of that size
ended up there. He adjusted the hose that extended to
the truck and started to pump. Then the process hiccuped,

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and he knew there was a clog. He unscrewed the
hose from the septic tank opening and saw the obstruction
was human bones. But even with unpracticed eyes he could
see they belonged to a child. There were legbones, pelvic ribs, jawbone,
and a deceptive looking small brown skull. Timothy immediately called

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his father, the owner of the company, who sped over
to look at what his son had found. Among the
remains was a child's cowboy hat. I'm sorry, child's cowboy boot.
The next call was to the police. The remaining contents
of the septic tank were painstakingly screened by the police
and more bones, another boot, a flashlight, and clothing tags

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were recovered. There was no doubt the child's remains were
hidden here, as it was impossible for him to have
fallen in. There were some of the police force who
were familiar with an address across the street, and a
case had gone cold almost twenty years before. It was
a disappearance of three year old Matthew Alright on January thirteenth,

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nineteen ninety three. The death of the boy was ruled
a homicide by undetermined means. There was no indication of
injuries that could be found on the bones, but the
fact the body was hidden so effectively pointed to a murder.
DNA test cannot be completed, However, the size of the
bones and the little brown boots were testament that this
indeed is were Matthew Allread rested for so many years.

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The boots were something he was known to wear from
morning to night. Matthew disappeared a little after five pm
on Sunday, January twenty seventh, nineteen seventy four. By then
the sun was setting. His parents thought he was playing
in the yard with his older siblings, ages twelve, seven,
and five, and it turned out they were mistaken. Somewhere

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in the gloom of twilight, Matthew walked out of his
yard and into oblivion. Scores of volunteers and police searched
for him that night and the days to come. They
arranged around the scrubs and palmettos, checking ponds and anywhere
small child could have fallen into. Two days after Matthew's disappearance,
there were hints of late information in the local newspapers

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that led the police department to believe there are some
indications of foul play. The FBI joined the search on
the chance the child had been abducted. According to the
Tampa Times, Sheriff's Lieutenant Arnie Meyer said today, which was
January twenty ninth, information from area residents and other clues
indicated some other than the child just wandering away. This

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does not mean we believe the child is dead, and
in fact the opposite. We just believe foul play is indicated.
He didn't clarify what he meant by foul play. On Wednesday,
January thirtieth, the FBI suspended the search into the child's disappearance.
Many thought that Matthew had been abducted, especially after a
spokesman denied reports that the Hillsborough Sheriff's apartment had information

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the child had been killed. In February nineteen seventy four,
the search was officially over, but police still followed up
leeds coming in from the southeastern United States. Matthew's parents
believed he had been abducted. Virginia Alred said, I believe
he's been abducted by somebody that wanted a child to love.
Vernon Alred told reporters he doubt his son's abduction was

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a spur of the moment incident, and that whoever took
matt might possibly be living in the Claire Mel area.
His wife agreed and added, perhaps it is a mother's intuition,
but I thought it might be somebody that lives around here.
I wish I had the authority to make a house
to house search. You wonder what people got in the
next room. By June nineteen seventy four, the story had

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faded from the newspapers. Across the street from the Alreds
lived Rainaldo Pyes, aged fifty seven, who worked as a
waiter and lived in the house with his wife Mary.
His children were grown and married. Only four months before
one of his sons had wed, and sadly, in nineteen
seventy one, another thirty year old son died in a
car accident. The Pies were known as nice neighbors who

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let the kids on the block play on their property
and even allowed little Matthew to ride their pony Matthew's father, Vernon,
spoke well of them when interviewed by a local newspaper
four days after his son went missing. Months and year
sped by, and the Alreds held out the hope that
one day their son would return searching for his real family,
But time also erased those that could provide answers if

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alive in question, would Rinaldo Pyes tell the story? What
happened to matt alred On that winter night? Was there
an accident or more unforgivable, was in an act of
cold blood and murder? His wife, Mary died in nineteen
eighty three. Did she have any inkling that a child's
body was secreted in a septic tank of her home?
While she comforted his mother? Unknown to missus Alred, she

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was pregnant with a son. She gave birth in October
nineteen seventy four. The family moved to Connecticut to escape
the horror of those days. However, the pair eventually divorced,
Vernon Alred moved back to the area. The home they
lived in during those years was raised, and another structure
was built there in two thousand and one. On January sixth,
nineteen ninety three, Matthew's memorial service was held. Despite answering

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the most pressing question, which was what happened to matt Alred,
there were others just as important that most likely will
remain unresolved. They are why and who Vernon Alred passed
away in two thousand and three. So there you go.
Let me tell you see, and that sometimes unfortunately, come on,

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that's an unusual place for a kid to end up in,
so and anybody that could have been asked, or dad,
the guy that was living there, Ronaldo, his wife, you know,
because let me tell you, and a little kid that
comes into your yard, I don't know, makes you want
to be able to resistitate this guy from the dad

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and ask him, did you do something to this kid?
Which is what it looks like is let me tell
you it's not that he was because he could have
been killed by anybody, but the fact that they put
him inside a septic tank. Yep. So anyway, let's get
on to the next story, which is out of Strangers

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in fiction stories and it is titled the Cult of
the Leopardman. The cult of Abakwa originated as early as
the seventeen hundreds in West Africa, particularly in the Iric Coast, Gabon,
Liberia and Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. It came to the Caribbean,
South America and Cube with slaves in the early nineteenth century.

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Its all male members are known as Yanyos, and it's
believed they could transform into leopards through the use of
witchcraft to kill their enemies. Certain secret societies spread across
the people living in the region, from southwestern from I'm sorry,
from the southeastern coastal area of Nigeria to northwestern Cameroon,

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mostly among the Efiks. At first glance, they functioned as
a social club. However, they developed a much more sinister reputation.
They were known by different names. One of these was
the Ekbe Society. Ekbe, according to tradition, is a being
from untamed nature that threatens humans and was very much feared.

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The term ekbe also means leopard. This belief influenced the
checkered pattern of other costumes that mimic leopard spots. Hold
on all right, let me see it's paused as for
a bid, here we go. The cult members also killed

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in imitation of a leopard by slashing, gashing, and mauling
their human prey with steel claws and knives. Part of
their ceremonies were drinking the blood and eating the flesh
of their human victims. They were known as Anoto Aniota
and they operated mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Coltivois.
It was very easy to provoke an attack. A random

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illness or failure of crops would demand a human sacrifice.
In Old Calibar, they were known as Merphoro kepe Ekpe
and they were dreaded. An initiate had to drink a
bottle of their victim's blood before the assembled members. An
elixir made from their persons intestines was believed to give
them superhuman powers and the ability to change into leopards.

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This drink is called borphema. The executioner known as Batillelli,
but wear a ritual leopard mask and a leopard skin robe.
He would stock a victim that had already been chosen.
The sacrifices usually made at their jungle shrine, but it
could be done anywhere using a two prong steel claw
that was part of the executioner's costume. Ecbe was introduced

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by slaves from the Cross region bm Sorry from the
Cross River region in Africa and emerged as the Abaqua.
In Cuba. Induction involves secret ritual ceremonies, and the costumers
called ireme. Purposefully, the costume has amouns to give the
wearer anonymity. George Bamberry's book Sierra Leone or The White

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Man's Grave described the following quote. Beyond jurisdiction, sacrifices and
slaughter are still carried on. Trials by ordeal of both
fire and poison are frequent. Unfaithfulness of wives are concubines
affords opportunity for a special medicine man detector, and he
will be feasted with plenty today and dash out the
wretched woman's brains on the morrow under the pretenseive discovery

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of marital sin. Secret cannibalism is also prevailent, though the
Native punishment for this customer's death and the Mendy Mission,
which was an American society, they possessed the skin of
a large leopard with iron claws, which had once been
the property of a man who, under his guy satisfied
his horrible craving. The medicine man themselves are frequently guilty

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of mysterious crimes, which they afterward charge against innocent victims
so as to retain or increase their reputation as seers.
To be a witch, one must have taken human life
or be credited with some supernatural power over the unknown
and mysterious. To be a successful medicine man, one must
possess quick powers of penetration, decision, and a knowledge of

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subtle vegetable poisons and their specifics, which enables him to
kill one and cure another while to onlookers both have
taken the same poison. The belief of both educated and
ignorant and the ability of these medicine folks is unshaken.
They are consulted for everything and by everybody. Certain parts
of the body of a stillborn child are much sought

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after from medicines, and greegrey graves are desecrated for the
purpose of obtaining the bodies of girls of tender age
who die under peculiar conditions. Then there is the weird
and mystic Poorah, a sort of barbarous freemasonry existing among
the pagan tribes. The meetings are held at night time
in the bush, the leaves of which are plaited in

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some mystic way which is detective by the natives who
will never enter inside the mystic ring of bush so guarded.
No man will pass within some distance of this even
in the daytime, whether whistling or making a noise to
notify that he is in the neighborhood. While the poorer
boys are out at night hold their meetings, which are
generally on moonlight. Moonlight nights, women will not leave their

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houses at all. The poorer sentries encircling the deep shadowed
grove will keep up a weird chanting shout to warn
all people away. None could pass through these stylers of
the society without the sign. To attempt such a thing
would be instant death, nor would the murder ever be traced.
Any person passing by, even at a distance, must give

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warning of his approach and obey the unknown voice commanding
him to stop or return. Otherwise, from some low bush
a form of suddenly rise, there would be a dull
shadow across the dark ground, and a headless corpse would
be secretly buried unknown to the outer world. The origin
and design of the Secret Society has never been traced.

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It is evidently of great antiquity and bears a strange
resemblance to the weird meetings of the druids of early
British history, whose worship was also carried on among the
deep plays of the forest, and also consisted of sacrifices
both human and of other animals and birds on state
occasions to poorer agency. The frequent disappearance of innocent girls

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must be ascribed. Their bodies are sometimes found afterward with
certain parts removed. But the history of these sacrifices can
only be a man for as a society among a
pagan and superstitious people, its laws and customs are in
violate and untraceable. There are different grades of initiation, and
those not admitted into the inner ring know nothing of

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the incantations they're carried on. For houses, no voices will
be heard, and the rights are then conducted by mysterious signs.
Under the worship of the poorer devil becomes a hideous
revelry on which the somber light of the moon casts
its fitsful shadows. End quote. So in other words, even

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with an Africa and society the regular people like, It's like,
don't go out tonight, so let's continue. In eighteen ninety one,
a story came from Sierra Leone, West Africa. The Leopard
Men left the mutilated body of a man on the roadside.
The head had been opened and the brains taken out.
The right hand and the left foot was cut off
and the heart also taken away. According to the right

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this was the third instance of a murder in the area.
Shortly after World War One, there was an outbreak of
Leopard cult murders in Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Many of
the members were captured and executed, forcing the cult goal underground.
They continued to perform their ritual murders every year for
the next twenty years. In nineteen twenty three, reports of

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the Leopard Society in Sierra Leone described where members were
armed with a set of iron instrument fastened inside both hands.
And nineteen thirty four, doctor Werner Jones worked in Saint
Timothy's Hospital at Cape Mount Liberia. He was a German
surgeon and physician who worked as an Episcopalian missionary from

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nineteen thirty to nineteen forty in the area of Sierra Leone.
Doctor June was confronted many times with activities of both
the Crocodile Society and the Leopard Society. Doctor June wrote
a book, African Jungle doctor. He described how he was
asked by the chief of Toso to give an opinion
about the cause of a girl's death. The question was

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whether she had been mauled by a leopard. Doctor June
thought it was rather odd when the chief told him
that a man may have committed the murder, even though
it was reported she had been savaged by an animal.
This is a quote from the book There in a
Man in the House. I found the horribly mutilated body
of a fifteen year old girl. The neck was torn

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to ribbons by the teeth and claws of the animal.
The intestines were torn out, the pelvis shattered, and one
thigh was missing. A part of the thigh nod to
the bone, and a piece of the shim bone lay
near the body. It seemed at first glance that only
a beast of prey could have treated the girl's body
in this way, but closer investigation brought certain particularities to

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light which did not fit in with the picture. I observed,
for example, that the skin at the edge of the
undamaged part of the chest was torn by strangely regular
gashes about an inch long. Also, the liver had been
removed from the body with a clean cut no beast
could make. I was struck to by a piece of intestine,
the hands of which appeared to have been smoothly cut off.

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And lastly there was a fracture of a thigh, a
classic example of fracture by bending. Doctor June observed when
two leopards were given a dead monkey to eat. He
noticed they did not tear their prey at all, like
the corpse had been mutilated. This convinced him the girl
was murdered by a man and not an animal. He

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wrote up a report and brought it in person to
the mayor, which ended up in the hands of the
head of police. The official told him he knew all
about that kind of murder, it was the work of
a secret society, the so called leopard society, and that
there was no protection against discourage. None of the natives
would step outside after dark. And when there was another
leopard murder in a distant village, they all breathed again.

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For now, so they said there would not be another
for a month. Soon the chief from Tassel called for
another postmarnem. This time it was an eight year old
boy who was mutilated the same way. The fifteen year
old girl had been doctor. June then sent both reports
to the Minister of the Interior, Monrovia. The reply received
was polite but left no doubt that further reports or

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any interference on my part were not desired, and the
interest of my personal safety was advised to keep right
out of the matter in question. The next victim was
an old woman. It was the fifth murder of an
eighteen year old married woman, which brought the chiefs of
Tasso and Joni to approach the mayor and demand that
something be done. The local government dragged its feet. The

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fact that villagers were fleeing, and then another murder of
a retarded man who had slept outside in the hammock
forced the hand of the authorities. Eventually there were confessions
and about thirty members of the Leopard Society were arrested. However,
the chief of the band remained unknown. The identity of
the ringleader was discovered purely by coincidence. A young man
who had been trapping in a force near Jooni took

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shelter in a small shed to escape a thunderstorm. It
was full of clutter and rubbish, and he bedded on
some boards and mat laid across the beams which supported
the sloping roof. He awoke when the door opened and
a man came in with an oil lamp. By the
dim light, it was evident he was familiar with the place.
The boy saw him open a large chest, take something out,

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and shut it. Inside the chest, he saw caps of
leopard skin, claws from iron sheathed in leopard skin, spears,
oddly shaped knives, and large pincers. The boy did not
stir until the man left. The Next morning, he ran
fifteen miles from Jonie to Cape Mount and told his
story to the mayor. Soldiers returned with the boy to

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the hut and found the owner, which the old man.
Which was the old man with the lamp. He was
the head of the Leopards. Also rested was Caine, a
Black missionary. It was he who had brought this ancient
and bloodthirsty religious order of the Leopards from his native
basaland south of Monrovia and revived it in Cape Mount.
The master of the Leopards, Zzeske, a fetish with a

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medicine that transformed its followers into leopards and exacted blood sacrifice.
The fetish was a lump of black wax about the
size of a child's head, wrapped in cloths and bits
of leopard skin. During the dry season, the protecting wax
would dry up and cracks would appear on its surface.
This was the medicine call for a sacrificial victim. Blood

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would be poured on it to give it moisture, especially
that taken from the victim's organs. Also, fat taken from
the bodies was used to moisturize it. It demanded not
merely human blood, but the blood of one of the
members of the society on whom the choice of the
talisman fell. This member would offer their body by claiming
a victim from their own family, even two generations descended

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from them could be substituted. The reasoning was, if I
offered the blood of one of one of my blood relations,
I offer my own as a requirement of the Goddess
met This use explained what the villagers had told doctor
Jung the murders would only occur during the dry season.
It turned out the head of the Leopard cult was

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offended by his son, who lived in Cape Mount. His
offense was based on the fact that his father was
received as a youth into the Society of the Leopards,
and by offering his own blood, had been joined to
the Leopard magic and could never be separated from it,
not even when he became a Christian. He was innocent
of the murders, since they were committed by the other members,
who by then had already been executed. The murders were

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deemed the act of the leopards, since as men they
had lost their own will. As men, they were innocent,
and their guilt as leopards could not be assessed by
a human court. The authorities ordered mister Kane to leave
the district. He retired to his native Basilon, where he
died two years later. Abe Gunter was a missionary who
spent thirty five years in Liberia. He was a pilot

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with a plain, which took him to many places in Africa.
By the time he left in nineteen eighty, he came
across the Devil Society, the Alligator Society, and others. He
wrote a book, Jungle Pilot. In Liberia in nineteen forty seven,
he was visiting a church near the coast. One day
he noticed a brass ring buried in the mud. It
weighed ten pounds measured seven inches across and one and

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a half inches thick with four knobs. He cleaned it
off and took a to a man named Deacon Carr.
He asked what the item was. The response was, oh, yes,
I will tell you. My grandfather was the big chief
in this village. He was so afraid of spirit sicknesses, war,
and other people's witchcraft that he went to the big
big witch doctor. With the help of the blacksmith, they

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poured his beautiful marked brass ring. The witch doctor laid
the ring down in the middle of the village. By
then the sun was going down, and the witch doctor
had a meeting with just the elders of the village
and my grandfather. He told them, you asked for the
most powerful witchcraft, and that always needs a human sacrifice.
I want you to bring a young boy at midnight
to the new God so that we can make this sacrifice.

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An eight year old boy with his mouth gag was
brought that night. They cut his throat and spilled all
his blood on the brass ring, and from that time
on all the activities of the village revolved around the
brass gods, sacrifices, worship, and awe end quote in nineteen
forty eight, police finished a three year investigation into the
butchering of so many people. They calculated that one hundred

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and ninety six men, women and children had been victims
of the Man leopard murders, and these were the ones
that had been discovered. It was suspected there were many
more that never came to light and the moo We
Black Panther From twenty eighteen there is a reference to
the Leopard Men, which shows African men wearing leopard costumes
to defend the interests of their society, which is quite

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misleading since historically many of the victims were innocent Africans
who were used for sacrificial purposes and handles as expendable
beings with no thought for their suffering. It is from
these origins that the Abaqua cult flourished in the New World,
especially the island of Cuba. They carried on the same
traditions from their homeland of Africa. The Abaqua are known

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for swearing their members to lifelong secrecy, and if they
ever betrayed what they knew, they would be murdered. They
are known to steal and sacrifice children as part of
their rituals. Animals are also regularly sacrificed Notorious and Africa
for making regular deals with slavers, they would turn over
their victims for profit At the coastal city of Calibar,

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made up mostly of merchants, the population was divided into
freemen and slaves, which made up the majority of inhabited
that the inhabitants of Old Calibar. This area was active
for the slave trade from the sixteen forties until the
eighteen forties. Slaves from this area became known as Karawali,
a corruption of the city's name, which was known as
Old Calibar. It was situated in the Bite of Biafra,

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which included a loose confederation of nearby settlements united under
the Ecbus Secret Society. The region was originally named by
fifteenth century Portuguese navigators, who referred to the innocence of
the Gulf of Guinea coast as Calibar, due to the
area being a primary source of the poisonous Calibar being.
The British abolished slavery in the British territories in eighteen

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o eight. The arrival of British missionaries in eighteen forty six,
particularly from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland marked a
significant turning point in the region's history. These African based
cults syncretized with the Catholic religion, which prevailed in much
of the New World. Abaca was a variant of the
Santaidier religion and worshiped many of the same deities or ursias.

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Its main ceremonies, known as Las Matanzas, translates from Spanish
as the massacre. This is also the name of a
Cuban province where became deeply rooted. Besides allowing only men
in its ranks, they reject any black colored object, including
sacrificial animals. Most of the members are initiated as children.

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Despite being described as a fraternal order of religion or
even a secrets set, Abaqua has a reputation for being
dark and evil. Jim Shoots, Texas journalists and author of
Cauldron of Blood d Matamoto's Cult Killings described it as
quote the darkest of all Afro Caribbean sects end quote.
They have been accused by some tettos of torture, human sacrifice,

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and ritual cannibalism. According to Michael Newton in his book
Raising Hell and Encyclopedia of Double Worship, and satanic crime.
Detective Jim Bradley with Washington deceased Metropolitan Police Department said
that Abaqua is the most dangerous of Santidia's fringe groups,
surpassing even Batomyomi in its malignancy. In nineteen seventy eight,

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a playtitled Abaqua was presented in Havana, Cuba, which depicted
the cobt rituals known only by the members. Fourteen days later,
the cast of twenty actors have been murdered by persons unknown.
Most secret societies demand secrecy from their members, but the
Abaqua are known to punish disclosure with death. This has
made the exact number of memory difficult to ascertain. Many

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followers came to Miami during the nineteen eighty Mariel boat lift.
Cuba's penal code explicitly criminalized Abacua or Nanigos since eighteen
seventy six. The cult is not adverse to identifying as Santereo's,
which are more integrated with Catholicism, or to Ballero's adherents
of Monte Mayombe, who are described as a darker side

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of Santidia, to further off Uscape, who are the members
both Santeria and Balomyombi camouflage their pantheon with Catholic saints.
Santidia followers are thought to practice gray magic. Bottomyombe is
mostly black magic, intent on binding the souls of the dead.
To differentiate themselves from any Christian identity, they call themselves

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as Balleros Julios, which translates to Jewish palleros, equating the
comparison to Jews who are not baptized by holy water.
The Palleto's power is centered in a magic calder known
as ananga, where he strives to create a miniature universe
of death and corruption, where souls are sucked in and trapped,
compelled to do the Paletto's bidding. Inside it are blood, bones, coins,

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remains of animals and humans, railroad spikes, poisonous insects and
deer antlers, and putting together the naganga, a Pollero will
seek the key ingredient, which is a fresh corpse known
as killumba Cemeteries are robbed to obtain a head, rib, fingers, tibias,
and toes. Eventually, other ingredients are added, such as blood

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or organs obtained through ritual sacrifice as in juju and
other Afro Caribbean cults. Death by torture is preferred for
sacrificial animals and human being, so that the spirits are
charged up with pain and fear when they reach the
other side. Twenty eight sacred sticks are buried in it
and used to call forth the captive spirits known as

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the geese, which are fed with blood. A blending of Santeraiya,
Palomayumba and Abacua are believed by international authorities to have
been practiced by Adolfo Constanzo and his followers. Constanzo was
anarcho Satanist who, along with his cult followers, kidnapped met
student Mark Kilroy in nineteen eighty nine. Kilroy's body, along

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with others, was found buried in the Shallow Graves and Matamoros, Mexico.
They all showed signs of torture and being ritualistically sacrificed.
How our stories of Abacco murders predated this event by decades.
In nineteen o five, The Evening Star detailed a horrendous
crime candidat in Cuba and involved the sacrifice of a
child by Abrujo named Domingo Bocourt, a Lukumi from Africa.

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He told a woman nam Dadela, that her dementia could
be cured by the blood of a white child. Juana,
another woman who could not conceive, was told she was
cursed and could only be cured by the blood and
heart of a white child. He selected two followers, through
Peto Ponce and Victor Molina, to find a child for
the cures. In November nineteen oh four, they went to

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the neighboring farm Reseba, located the village Gavriel on the
outskirts of Wuia de Melena. The act was described as
the following quote. Molina, one of them went to cut
palms on the sunnya farm, a joining that on which
lived the three Diaz brothers, each of who had had
young children, had and possessed himself of one of these,
the little soil A Dias. He and the other went

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to the latter bog court's house and their butchered their child,
taking out her heart and collecting her blood in a
glass jar, after which the corpse was preserved, probably by
first saulting and then smoking it. The blood and hearts
were administered to the patients without any perceptible effect. On Adela.
While it is toorthy for Wanna's faith in their efficacy
to be confirmed or shaken. End quote. The child was

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only twenty months old and taken from the backyard of
her home. The family could not understand how their young
daughter could disappear so suddenly, since she would be unable
to walk a long distance. A search by the authorities
and neighbors only produced a cavasol with blood stains. Initially
it was a belief it was a kidnapping, but there
no request for ransom was sent to the parents. There

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were no clues as to what happened to the child.
A detective, mister Jose Valdez, lived in the village of
vede Eda, Nueva. He had recently lost his own daughter
about the same age to sickness. He read of the
disappearance of the child in the newspapers and asked the
local authorities to be assigned over the case. Upon his
arrival in the village Gavriel, he started to read the

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people who lived there. He had worked other cases of kidnapping,
and normally an act where a child was taken would
be spoken of by everyone. However, he observed that no
one made mention of the kidnapping, not on the streets
the taverns are anywhere. He considered this his first clue.
After this, he went to see the governor over the

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municipality and explain that he believed what happened to Soula
was the work of individuals who lived in the area.
This was a person the local populace were afraid of.
Diaz also noted many men that seemed unemployed, in which
were non Yigos. The governor refused to believe that members
of the cult existed in his jurisdiction. However, he had
heard a number of Negroes Brujos resided there. Detective Valdez,

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in the guise of a worried father, approached the witches,
saying that his young daughter was sick and that he
would do anything in order to save her. Previous to this,
he had inquired from the parents what Jurisoila had been
wearing when she disappeared. She had a necklace made of
jet and small gold, earrings with pieces of coral, and
a bracelet made of coral. Valdez arrived at the home

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of the head witch and spoke to a man named
juliang Amato. He told him his young daughter had sickened
and a Congolese woman had helped to make her better,
but she had sickened again on her third visit. The
woman had instructed him to come to this village because
she knew a young girl named Soila, which had disappeared.
If the head witch would give him the necklace Soila
was wearing, once he placed it on his daughter, she

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would be cured. Detective Valdez described a necklace was made
of ten pieces of jet and fifteen corals. He offered
a motto twenty cent deenais for the necklace. Julian told
him he had to speak to some one above him
named Jorge Gadinas, and they agreed to meet later in
the day at a tavern. When Valdez met with god
Denas late in the day, he kept up the pretense

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of the distraught father. He became convinced there was a
group of men involved in the crime after Cadinas told
him he would bring the necklace he had described. However,
the days passed and Godanas did not come forward with
a jewelry. The detective then received he permission to bring
Godina's in for questioning, but the man did not admit
to anything. However, suspicion deepened when he denied meeting with

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Juliang Amado in the prior days when it was known
they had. While Gordina's was being held on a minor charge,
his house was placed under surveillance. They saw a young
woman named Mikhaiela Romero leave with a bulky package. Police
questioned her as to what she carried and where she
was taking it. She initially tried to deny everything and
then said it was only clothes that had to be ironed.

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The police went to the house where she had left it.
The owner said that Mikhaila had arrived with what she
said was clothes at her to be iron and had
left the package in one of the rooms. They took
Mikaila to the house and the ounster to retrieve it.
Inside they found the newspaper with the human skull. It
was also a tibia and other things. Both women with
the contents of the package were taken to the police station.

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Inside were different colored powders, roots, horns, colored glass and
other objects used in witchcraft. From the arrest of Horree
Gadinas and Julianga Model, they obtained the name of Domingo
Book Corps, known as elbrujore san Gritol, which translates to
the witch of Saint Christopher. The search for the girl
had become so intense that the murderers were forced to

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throw the body in a thicket equally distant from the
house of the perpetrator, where it was found. In January
nineteen o six, Domingo bok Corps and Victor Molina were
garroted in prison by the executioner, Patricio Lopez Abeleda. He
was an accused murderer who agreed to execute prisoners in
order to reduce his sentence. For each execution, will receive

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an ounce of Spanish gold. Becort told him before his death,
priparate gevasat arahat, which translates to prepare yourself you are
about to work. The executioner responded, I don't wish to,
but if there is one occasion I will do my
work with satisfaction. It will be now, since I will
execute the author of one of the most horrendous crimes
I have known of. A Dozen other men and women

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were arrested in connection with the crime, and eventually six
of them were convicted. In nineteen seventy six, Roberto Suro,
with the Chicago Sun Times word of a visit to Cuba.
He learned that Cubans and those years believe the CIA
succeeded in poisoning Fidel Castro and that he was saved
to buy a quote black doctor who recited a chant

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that drew the poison out of Fidel and into his
own body. The doctor died, exchanging his life for Egommandante.
Suro toured the Museum of Guanawacoa, where a guide told
him of three sects that were active in Cuba based
on beliefs the slaves brought from Africa. The guide described
that the Bakua drums to recreate the voice of God.

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Each member of the sect was tasked to make a
drum from a human skull that would be used at
his funeral. As to how they acquired the skull, Sudo
was told that no one is really certain. Each of
the Abaqua rituals is punctuated by the slaughter of a
goat that is first caressed and kissed for several hours
to make a human. They are forbidden to speak of
these things to non believers. That is why human sacrifice

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among these cults referred to the victim as a goat's
without horns. The guide spoke of rujos also called ballettos,
which have the most primitive beliefs. He asked the guide
of these cults and adapted to communism. Her answer was
that Fidel Castro felt a certain debt to them because
many Abaqua and Santetos fought with him to overthrow the

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government and take over Cuba. Sudo asked an anthropology student
at Havana University about how many people belonged to these cults,
and it was told that there were fifty thousand people
waiting to join the Abaqua and the sects had many
hundreds of thousands between them. He concluded that Castro had
not ended voodoo worship, despite communists adhere to atheism and

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the united the existence of any deity. In Precastro years,
ninety percent of all Cubans were practicing Catholicism. In the
late nineteen eighties, Cuban artist Balki Sayoung was inspired by
the Abaqua sect. Mostly it was based on the story
of the Princess Sikhan, the only woman in Abacua lore,
who was put to death for revealing the religion's secrets

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to a fiancee. Towards the end of her life, she
produced let Me Out, in which a woman appears to
be trapped by fire, a painting Sikhan's results in the
Face of Death is here replaced by claustrophobic fear and anguish.
Ion's interpretation is of the artists who identified with the
sacrificed princess Ion committed suicide in nineteen ninety nine at

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the age of thirty two. Versions of this dark practice
can be found in other countries, and not only the Caribbean.
In nineteen seventy nine, as many as five children were
believed to have been sacrificed in a candomble and makumba
rite in Cantagallo ri Lejando, Brazil. An investigation started after
Antonio Carlo's Maga Hayes, a two year old, disappeared. His

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aunt worked on a farm owned by Monsieur Valente. She
told police that Valente, along with an employee, Renato Annezzio Ferreida,
had sacrificed a child in a black magic ritual. According
to the ant, Valenti's spiritual adviser, a bruho named Ogiir,
told him to offer the blood of a goat, a
black chicken and an innocent child to insure cement plant

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he planned to open would be successful. Up to them,
Valenti had tried to find European investors, but without success.
This is when he decided to seek help from Ogir.
Police found the boy's body decapitated and cut in half.
His blood had been poured into a plastic bag. His
corpse was placed in two other bags and was found
behind a clump of trees. It was believed Valenti had

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drawn the child's blood as part of the ritual. After
this discovery, both men were arrested to other employees while
dis des Susalima and Maria de Concierl Bontis were accused
of helping the wealthy farm owner. Lima and Bontes told
police as many as four other child victims who had
been sacrifice were buried at Valenti's farm. Antonio Carlos Magahis

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had been the last one. A mom of two thousand
residents surrounded the police station, demanding immediate justice. They set
fire to four police cars and then stormed the jail.
Seven policemen fled before the fury of the townspeople. The
crowd kicked the two prisoners and then threw them into
a burning car, where they perished. Police protection was ordered

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for the other two suspects. The authorities continued to search
the farm for bodies of four other children reported missing. However,
it's unknown if they ever found anything. No doubt if
the authorities did find the other children, they might have
thought it prudent to keep it from the townspeople. After
what happened to the murderers. Valente's spiritual adviser, Ogier, was
said to have turned himself into the police. Believe that

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a fear of retribution from other practitioners of Gondomble for
bringing scandal to the religion. Gondomla and Makumba are African
based beliefs like a bakba. So there you go. Secretive cultish,
deadly wherever they are, bad combination and yes, of anybody's sinking. Yes,

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they do still exist in modern times. But that's where
they were saying. They they operate very much, you know,
low profile things of that nature. Okay, next story. Also
strangers in fiction stories is unclaimed unsolved since nineteen ninety nine,

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a trail of disappearances and the discovery of human remains.
Literally small towns in the South was a sheer coincidence
or the work of one killer. On July twenty second,
two thousand and seven, partial skeletal remains were found wrapped
in a six by eight foot green tarp tied with
seventy two feet of rope. The remains were buried on
private property about forty feet from the Cousa River at

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three Away Gladys Road, Titus, Alabama. This was only forty
feet from the Cusa River. The remains were discovered when
the property owners were gardening. They seldom visited the location
since nineteen ninety one. Lima limes seemed to have been
used around the burial site to stifle the smell of
putrefaction or Estimated date of death range from nineteen fifty

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to two thousand seven. Elmore County. Jane Doe was probably
thirty to forty years of age and was black or biracial.
She was five feet tall and had long, dark brown hair.
Fingerprints are not available, but dental and DNA evidence is available.
There was no clothing, jewelry, or other personal items available
to identify her. She suffered several broken bones in a

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period of time before her death. Two months later on
September twenty nine, two thousand and seven, a skull and
upper javabone were found on the road set at six
eighty three Old agat Altaga Otagoville Road in Prattville, Alabama,
by inmates picking up litter. The area had historical significance,

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with nearby sites such as the lass at her home place,
an Altaga place listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The skull had a small medallion with a pentacle glued
to it. Little is known about who this skull belonged to,
accept that she was a black female with an estimated
age of forty to sixty years of age. She could
have died between nineteen fifty to two thousand seven. No

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dental or fingerprints are available by DNA is. She was
dubbed Ottaga County Jane Doe. Was a pentacle glued to
the skull as part of occult practices, or was this
just something that a person with a golf flare for
decorating discarded. In some black magic practice, keeping the remains,
whether a victim or dug it from a cemetery, is

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a way to bind the soul for divination services or
as a messenger. In twenty nineteen, a Reddit poster related
the following quote. In early two thousand and six, grave
robbing was happening not far from where the skull was found.
Just a little tidbit, albeit unlikely related to these cases
end quote, or it might be Another cold case tied

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to the same area is the disappearance of Shannon Nicole Pak,
age eleven, who was last seen in the Candlestick Orvey
Park where she lived with her mother and sister. Maria.
Palk left for work at seven am and left Shannon
the care of her older sister, who was sixteen years old.
When she got home, her daughter was not there at
seven pm. The family became concerned and residence of the

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Rvy park began looking for her. Police contacted Shannon's father,
Billy Joe Palk, who lived in Eufaula, who confirmed she
was not there. She was reportedly playing outside and visiting
neighbors that day, including a friend on Met Street and
a neighbor who was a Prattval police officer, before being
seen near the pond and the Halloween Man's house. The

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Halloween Man is a nickname given to a neighbor in
the Candlestick Park mobile home park. He earned this nickname
due to his elaborate Halloween decorations and the fact that
he gave out candy to neighborhood children. On the day
Shannon went missing, a witness named Miss Mary saw Shannon
knocked on the Halloween Man's door, but he did not answer,

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leading Miss Mary to believe he was not at home.
This sighting is one of the last confirms observations of
Shannon before he disappearance. Halloween Man's true identity has never
been disclosed by police. Shannon was believed to have been
kidnapped between noon and one fifteen PM after leaving the
officer's house without the baby walker she had been carrying,

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which was later found in the curb near the Halloween
Man's house. The walker had been cleaned by a pregnant
neighbor who found it, destroying any potential evidence. Federal, state,
and local authorities conducted an intense search for her without
any love. In September two thousand one, a three minute
segment was aired on America's Most Wanted. They also aired
a composite of the man the police were looking for.

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As a witness, Someone had placed a man talking to
Shannon the day she disappeared. He was described as a
white man about six feet tall, stocky, muscular built, very tanned,
with a beer belly. He was estimated to be thirty
five to forty five years old. His arms were hairy
and his yellow in. His teeth yellow and crooked. He
had pronounced creases around his eyes and mouth and across

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his brow. A bump on the bridge of his nose
indicated had once been broken. It was once broken. He
had a prominent mole under his right eye, with hairs
growing out of it towards his nose. At that time,
the man wore his dark hair short, and he had
a mustache and go tea. He was driving a white
four door car that was covered in red dirt. He
may have been inside Candlestick Park before Shannon's abduction and

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had access to different vehicles. It was not until two
thousand eighteen that this whole scenario, including the sketch rendered,
was found to be totally false and manufactured by the witness.
Now think about it, This person, this witness, gave this
very good description of somebody and it turned out to

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be false, which of course led police astray looking for
this person. Incredible. At the beginning of October two thousand
and one, the search ended rabbit hunters in a wooded
area in the Outaga Wildlife Management Area, approximately fifteen miles
north of Prattville, found the body, which was later identified

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via DNA as Shannon Polk. According to Margaret Faulkner, an
FBI agent assigned to the case, they were looking for
a suspect who was familiar with the mobile home park
which Shannon lived and the area where the body was found.
A sergeant with a Prattville Police department said the suspect
may have changed his personal appearance by growing or removing
facial hair or changing his hair color. He asked people

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in the area to look for someone who recently cleaned
his car more than he would be normal. Despite all
the effort by law enforcement and the community, the case
went cold. Several individuals were considered persons of interest over
the years. Jack Earl Gibson, known as the Routier Man,
earned his monikers since he gave children root beer and

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candy in exchange for performing odd jobs around his home,
a practice that many of the community found unsettling. He
lived just two blocks from Shannon's home and was known
to pay her to clean his house. He lived across
the street from the Halloween Man and was arrested the
same night Shannon disappeared for possessing over a thousand explicit
images of children, though none wish of Shannon typ Foster,

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another neighbor, was arrested in two thousand and three on
unrelated sexual abuse charges and was later found to have
a history of child related offenses, including possession of child
pornography and assaulted a miner. He pled guilty to assault
asnomy charges involving a nine year old boy in a
Baldwin County courtroom, with the trial moved from Prattville due

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to the high profile nature of the Polk case. Despite
being a person of interest and having a history of
criminal activity involving children, Foster was never formally charged in
connection with Shannon Polk's murder. Traces of Shannon's blood were
found in his home, which he attributed to a Nosebleach
had experienced there. Her family confirmed this was accurate. Investators

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have explored potential connections to other similar cases, such as
a disappearance of eleven year old heaven Leche Ross, who
was reported missing on August nineteenth, two thousand three, in Northport, Alabama.
It was just two years after the abduction and murder
of Shannon Polk. Despite massive community searches with hundreds of volunteers,
Heaven's body was not found until December eighteenth, two thousand six,

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in an abandoned house eight miles from her home. This
led police to believe her killer was someone from the community.
They have never revealed how they believe Heaven was killed.
Two years before Shannon Polk was kidnapped, eleven year old
Teresa Dean was walking to a friend's house in her
mobile home park in Twigs County, Georgia, on the evening
of August fifteenth, nineteen ninety nine. She vanished. The police

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department tried to determine if Heaven's murder was connected to
Shannon Polk's case and the disappearance of Teresa Melissa Dean.
All three girls disappeared in August. They were eleven years old.
All three lived in trailer parks. In all three cases,
commercial construction, road work, or bridge building was being done nearby.
When Teresa Dean was last seen in nineteen ninety nine,

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she was walking down Lawrence Street near her family trailer
at about eight p m. On the way to a
friend's house to see some puppies. She was wearing a
gold and white striped shirt, orange knit pants, clear Jills,
Jel sandals, and gold ball earrings. She had a speech impediment.
Cody Dwayne Landers, TERA's Teresa's mother's living boyfriend at that time,

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filled a polygraph test which he took voluntarily short after
Teresa disappeared. He said it had been improperly administered. Relationship
between him and Teresa's mother ended. In October two thousand
and one, he was convicted on seven child molestation charges
involving two children and sent to prison. He has been
released and lives in a southern state. He has registered

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inter National Database as an adult Tier three sex offender.
Teresa's body has never been found an authorities believe she
was a victim of foul play. Teresa's fourteen year old sister, Charity,
was put into foster care after her disappearance. There must
have been some type of risk at the home for
her to be removed from her mother's care. A write
poster commented, quote and the fact that someone else called

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the police because they thought the family was in searching
properly is heartbreaking. A throwaway child end quote. Three months
before Heaven leshe Ross went missing. Thirteen year old Tabatha
Tutors was last seen walking to her school bus stop
on the morning of April twenty nine, two thousand and three.
In Nashville. Martin tim Boyd arrested four months after Tabitha's

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disappearance for attempting to lure an eleven year old girl
into his Carneial home was investigated, but never linked to
her case. Neither Teresa Melissa D nor Tabitha Tutors have
ever been found. Authorities do not currently believe these cases
are linked. Despite the similarity between the victims and the
setting they were taken from, all these cases remain unsolid.

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In some instances the victims are unnamed. So here you
have the remains of what looked sounds like full grown women, okay,
a skeleton, a skull, And then you have these girls
being abducted, and you say, well, sometimes they are in

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different states, but they're spaced and they have something common
which is what they look like, their age, and what
was going on around them. And unfortunately maybe even where
they lived that there was people that were that were
dangerous to children. So yeah, all these these cases remain open,

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and I think the worst had to be And I
don't understand. I didn't why that person gave such a
detailed but false description of this person that was seen
with polk Why why would you do that? That must
have led Remember this was not disclosed till how many
years till twenty eighteen. Yeah, it's like an it's a

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clear boyfriend or what all right? Next? One out of
stranger in fiction stories is called the Cursed Coastline. The
Devil's Slide is an infamous section of Highway one, which
is two miles south of PACIFICA and it's been eroding
since it was open in nineteen thirty six. The Devil's
Slide is a steep nine hundred foot cliff consisting of

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shale and sandstone with a soft sedimentary layer. This makes
the rock very prone to erosion. It's a scenic but
dangerous spot, and events of high stranges are called to
it like a moth to flame. In nineteen seventy three,
serial killer Edmund Kemper threw the heads of two of
his victims in the ocean from that spot. Seven years later,
a large chunk dropped three hundred feet into the Pacific Ocean.

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A roadway had to be closed for several weeks to
allow for repairs. In nineteen eighty six, James Lund, thirty six,
decided to take his life by driving his pick up
over the side. Stories like these were common every year,
in addition to unusual accidents that occurred in the stretch
of the California coast line. In September nineteen fifty, Harry E. Bates,

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aged forty six, from Oakland, a mechanic, was driving along
the highway with his wife and friend. He stopped at
the Devil's Slide to admire the view. He started to
climb to the spot below the highway when he lost
his footing, fell and died. Unfortunately, this was not an
uncommon currents. In the late nineteen eighties, Dan Moss was
driving north along the road when a deer bolted in

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front of his vehicle. A twist of the steering wheel
plunged the car over the edge. Luckily, he dropped to
only fifty feet of a two hundred foot cliff below.
Churned the ocean waves, he climbed up the rock face.
His vehicle was beyond any help, though he had two
broken ribs and a gash on his head. In twenty seventeen,
his twenty two year old son Richard, drove through the

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same stretch. A traffic camera inside a nearby tunnel captured
his Hyundai going through the tunnel, but this was the
last scene of him. The mystery of his disappearance was
solved a year later when a cervical vertebrae was found
at the Montera State Beach. It belonged to Richard Moss.
Parts of his car were in the ocean near the
area where he was last seen driving. A DNA match

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confirmed his identity. But there is more than tragedies at
the Devil's Slide that have produced strange stories. In nineteen
seventy nine, Pat Hart bought an old two story house
that had once belonged to George E. Dunn, known as
a coast side pioneer. She moved it from seven eighty
five Main Street to four o Wake Grove Street, half

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Moon Bay. She had bought an old cottage already on
the property about eight years before, and measured only fourteen
feet by twenty feet and was supposedly built around eighteen
eighty on a stand of cypress trees. It had no
running water or electricity. It's unknown as she named the
small structure Goal House, or if that was its name already.

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She moved it to the rear of the lot to
make space for the dun House, where she planned to live.
Throughout the years, she had noticed strange manifestations around the
cottage during harvest time. While gardening outside, she would hear
footsteps or knocking inside when there was no one there.
Items would disappear and then turn up. The door would
slam shut and open by itself, even on windless days,

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as well as locking and unlocking mysteriously. Occasionally, a misty
face would materialize in a corner and then dissolve. Shelter
described an incident of automatic writing where her pen was
taken over by an unseen hand. Hart also described an
incident of automatic writing where her pen was taken over
again by an unseen hand. Prior to moving to the

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dun House to the site, she tried to sell the cottage.
When she realized the cost of renovating it, she allowed
a buyer to tour the house, which is when the
ghosts made its presence known outside of its regular timeline.
The potential buyer made the casual remark that he'd probably
tear it down, referring to a six foot long redwood shelf.
The words had just left his mouth when the shelf dislodged,

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sailed through space and hit him on the head. That
marked the end of the tour. I'll say all right.
Patricia Hart said that after owning it for three years,
the older woman, an older woman confronted her and said, quote,
you know, I was the one who found the body

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when I was a child, back around nineteen ten. End quote.
She went out to describe that one day she was
sent on an errand to buy eggs from the recluse
name Peter Tronson. She was the one who found a
the composing body which had been there about two weeks.
The old lady who told her that Tronson's body had

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been found in the corner where the shelf had fallen
and where the footsteps were heard more frequent, most frequently.
Then in the fall of nineteen eighty, the feeling inside
the cottage became hostile. An icy chill was accompanied by
the smell of leather. She as in heart asked Lynne Davis,
a trance medium, to come to the cottage and find
out why the haunt had changed. Davis claimed to make

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contact with the departed soul through her spirit guide Anna,
the supposed spirit of Peter Tronsen communicated to the psychic
that he manifested during the autumn because of the energy
coming from children during the pumpkin festival. He gave advice
on decorating the house and asshured Pat he would never
harm her. But nineteen eighty to the house had changed
hands and the new owners lived there and established a

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therapy office on the premises. They used the little house
as a storage space and remained tucked away behind the
garage of the old dun house that shares the same lot.
One has to wonder how much truth there was in
Pat Hart's story. There is no reference dead or alive
of Peter Trounsen at Half Moon Bay or close by,
not even in the cemetery. Also, the story of a

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man being found dead in his cottage even a recluse,
would have made the newspapers, and there is no mention
of this event. The description of Peter's ghost becoming active
only during harvest time due to children being around as
pretty far fetched for what was described as a foreign
born man who did a mix with his neighbors and
only sold milk and eggs produced by his animals. One

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can imagine a crusty bachelor coming back and giving hints
on decorating his one time home either. However, research finds
that Peter Trunson different spelling did exist. But during those
years he lived in Grass City, California, and around nineteen
o three he worked for the Union Blue Gravel Mine
in Bloomfield. He was kind of an unusual character, and

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that same year he was arrested for a complaint of
disturbing the peace. The incident occurred when he went to
the stage office for his baggage, which had been unloaded
from the Bloomfield stage. He was in a hurry to
catch the car going to grass City and asked to
have his bags brought out. Mister Crawford, who worked at

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the station, asked him for a hand with a heavy piece.
Tronson said he would only pay a dollar since he
had helped taking his own luggage down, for which he
charged fifty cents. Charged Crawford threatened to keep his luggage.
Tronson then cocked the hammer with a shotgun he was
holding in his hands, commanding Crawford not to touch the articles.

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A bystander stepped in and further trouble was avoided. Crawford
summoned the marsh who arrested Tronson. When the sheriff examined
the shotgun, it was not loaded, which is why he
was only charged with disturbing the peace. The charge was dismissed.
In nineteen oh nine, Peter Tronsons small cottage that was
located several miles below Grassit he burned down. He had
friends living there. A couple of months later, he took

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a thirty foot fall from a pine tree while gathering
sugar pine cones on Banner Mountain. He was taken to
Jones Memorial Hospital, where it was found he had a
badly wrenched back, but no broken bones. It wasn't until
nineteen twenty four that Trownson was heard from again. He
was referred to as a ranch owner who had moved
to Half Moon Bay. He lived in the area of

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one nineteen or leed, a park who was planing to
visit England and New Zealand during that year. Peter Trownson
was born December eighteen fifty four in England. He emigrated
to the United States in eighteen eighty and he died
December nineteenth, nineteen thirty six, in San Mateo. California. He
was about eighty one years old. There is no mention
of a suicide connected to his death, and this was

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years after the anonymous old lady said she found a
dead body? So who was haunting guld Cottage? And Patricia Hart?
That being said, it doesn't mean the place was not haunted.
It had been occupied for many years before pat Hart
moved in it. Even though neighbor described with a little
house had stood empty for many years before being bought.
That a lonely soul stayed behind someone who once had

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this windswept cottage to keep out inclement weather or where
they dwelt as the years when by is very possible.
The cottage still stands and keeps its secrets. Not far
from the Devil's Slide. There was another place owned by
the Neil family, which had settled in the area since
the eighteen seventies. Built amid a two hundred acres spread,
it was known as the Kneil House. The last family member,

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Mary Maud Neil, died in nineteen fifty four. The pilot
episode for the series The Ghost and Missus Muir, which
ran from nineteen sixty eight to nineteen seventy, was filmed
at the Neil House. Its tie to the title of
Gold Cottage was only the name used in ra Dick's
original story The Ghost and Missus Weir. The properties located

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in Santa Barbara Inland, about a quarter mile The on
screen illusions of it being a coastal property in Maine
was created with clever camera work. Eighteen eighty eight, the
Neil House was being sold and described as needing a facelift.
Since then, it was renovated and went on the market
for several million dollars. The real Skull Cottage Seagull Cottage

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was originally built in nineteen o six on a headland
overlooking the sea in an area known as Portuguese Bend
by a family of shipwrights. Later it was owned by
the Vale family, who were wealthy bankers. It was close
to the ocean on Channel Drive. Different members of the
family lived there seasonly, but it was owned by Hugh Vale.
He married Clara Beale in nineteen oh two and they

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divorced in nineteen eighteen. They had three children who were
adults when in nineteen twenty four he was found seated
in a chair in front of the stove dead after
in Haley Gas Hugh Vale's parents were related and sprang
from the Vale family, which were Quakers originating in New Jersey.
Some newspapers inferred he committed suicide due to a problem
with alcohol and financial failure. They claimed he left letters

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addressed to relatives, friends, and business acquaintances. However, none contained
any statement why he wished to end his life. This
was not entirely accurate, since he did leave a note
that read quote, my friend was all in all to me.
Since death robbed me of my friend, I have simply
existed and cannot hope to come back. So what's the use?

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No one cares now and I'm no good to anyone
end quote. The mystery was that none of his family
or his intimates knew who this mystery friend was, that
he mourned so profoundly, and had supposedly died a few
months before Hugh Veile took his life. The only person
who had recently died was a maternal uncle, Benjamin Vale.

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You had taken a leave at the Fugazi bank where
he worked, to travel to New Jersey and attend a funeral.
He never returned to his job. His uncle had served
as a judge in Elizabeth, New Jersey and had never
married or had children. By the time of Hugh's death,
his younger brother, Edward Farvail, left with his family to
Italy and did not return to Santa Barbara until nineteen

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forty one. Hugh Veyle was said to haunt the property,
now far from the Devil's Slide. Another site said to
be haunted the place is the Moss Beach Distillery, twenty
miles from south of San Francisco. The phantom is a
blue lady, named thus for the blue dress she is
always seen wearing. She is like a banshee. Her appearance
comes as a warning of injury, tragedy, or accident. The restaurant,

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Frank's Place was built in nineteen twenty eight by Frank Torres,
a Peruvian immigrant. Next door, he built the Marine View Hotel,
which burned down in nineteen fifty three. Up to then,
he had run the Marine View Tavern, a speakeasy located
close by. They were rumors that a bordello operated from
a building next door, and business men would take their
mistresses over to the hotel after eating dinner in a

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secluded restaurant. The coast line next to the restaurant was
a favorite spot for bootleggers. During the nineteen thirties, the
liquor came from Canada to be transported over the Devil's
Slide to San Francisco. Under the cover of fog, the
Canadian rum runners unloaded ships and hauled their cargo up
the cliffs. No doubt this is why it became a

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favorite speakeasy for silent film stars, politicians, and even Dashal Hammett,
who visited and used it as a setting for one
of his stories. Murders and shootouts came with a business
of rum running near Devil's Slide. It was during those
years that the Blue Lady is said to have been
killed on the beach below the distillery. No one knows
her name and there were no police records about her murder.

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It was said she was the wife of a jealous
part tender who caught her being unfaithful with a piano
player named Charlie. He found the pair walking on the beach,
which is when he killed his wife and left his
rival injured. There's another version of the tragic episode, and
this when the Blue Lady dies in a car accident.
Another story is where the piano player had another lover
and the Blue Lady committed suicide by jumping from the

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cliffs into the ocean. Prohibition ended in nineteen thirty three,
and so did the illegal activity, but the Blue Lady
stayed behind. Frank Torres continued to run the business as
a restaurant, which later became known as the Moss Beach Distillery.
His son Vic continued as owner until nineteen sixty four,
when he died of a heart attack. Mike Murphy bought

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it and changed the name to the Galloway Bay Inn.
The next owners were David Patricia Andrews, who changed the
name to the Moss Beach Distillery. They kept it for
eight years. They've claimed to hear chairs moving upstairs when
the restaurant was empty, fawcets would turn on by themselves,
and he said the Blue Lady had even locked him
out of his office on more than one occasion. In

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nineteen eighty one, Mike and Shirley Sarno, the new owners,
told the story of the Blue Lady to a reporter
from the San Francisco Examiner, and the ghost story took wings.
Waitresses claimed they would hear the ghosts call their name
in a monotone voice. However, there would never be anyone there.
In nineteen ninety two, Sylvia Brown, the Teefee psychic, visited

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their restaurant. She gave the ghostly lady a name, it
was Mary Morley, and April she held a seance. The
ghosts were identified. One was the unfortunate Mary Morley, a
married woman, her lover John Cantina, and Anna, who was
a second woman Contina was involved with. According to Brown,
Anna threw herself from the cliff and Mary died from

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injuries received to her head in the upper body. Even
though Contina died when he was older, they all returned
after death to haunt the place they would meet at
during their life. Research found that Mary Morley did exist
and died in a car accident in November nineteen nineteen. However,
the crash happened on the sam Bruno Road after she
drove off the road when she encountered a fog bank.

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Her husband Fred was traveling with her. He was hurt
but survived. This place is not close to this monster di'stillery.
Anne's predated the existence of the speakeasy. Census records do
not find a John Contina or Anna Philbrook living in
this area during the years that would correspond to Brown's story.
A fourth ghost that Brown encountered was Hannah Elder, a

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lady from the late nineteenth century with an unknown tie
to the area. Some believe that Sylvia Brown, who had
who had known of her visit to the distillery a
year before, had a staffer do a little research. They
came across the story of Mary Morley's death on a
San Mateo County highway and assumed it was close to
the restaurant. With his information and hand, they tied her

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to the mysterious Blue Lady. In two thousand and eight,
the show Ghost Hunters investigated the Moss Beach Distillery and
found several pranks implemented throughout the building, including a mirror
with a ghostly reflection and a censor triggered speaker that laughed.
Darren Coleman, a former Disney employee, in a twenty eighteen
interview with The Fresno b said he installed a hydraulic

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lover that causes chandeliers to sway and a phone to
ring by itself. You would think this would cast some
doubts about the Blue Lady, except there's a tantalizing clue
that appeared in dashl Hammett's story The Girl with the
Silver Eyes, released in nineteen thirty seven. The setting is
a road house south of San Francisco had Half Bay
during Prohibition, where his private eye hero finds trouble and

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a beautiful femin fatale named Alvira, the silver eyed girl
referenced in the title. Her real name is Jean Delano,
a gangster mole, which is ultimately turned over to the law.
One has to wonder if the description of his lady villain,
like the setting of the story, is based on a
real woman. Quote is a passage from the story. I

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had seen the girl before. She was a slender girl
in a glistening blue blue gown that exhibited a generous
spread of front, back and arms that were worth showing.
She had a mass of dark brown hair above an
oval face of the color that pink ought to be.
Her eyes were wide set and of a gray shed
that wasn't altogether unlike the shadows unpolished silver that the

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poet had compared them to. In November nineteen twenty eight,
residents of Moss Beach were questioned concerning what was suspected
to be a murder ring that was responsible for the
deaths of at least three persons during four years or
were found that pillar point. The last body belonged to
Harold L. A k A. Harry Peterson, h thirty nine,

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a San Francisco waiter who was killed by blows on
the back of the head. According to the half Moon
Bay Corner, he was found at the bottom of a
dry reservoir, his personal effects scattered around him. After the
removal of Peterson's body, at three foot length of heavy,
bloodstained rope was found near the reservoir. Strangely, the rope
was not there when the body was found or on

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the following day. Four men living in a house at
Moss Beach, where Peterson was last seen alive on September
twenty third, were questioned. They told authorities they had been
making beer. Fred Barns and Jack Cases said Peterson was
in poor health physically and mentally, and had been drinking
heavily three weeks before his death. He had worked at

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twenty to fifty one Market Street in Francisco, which was
a business owned by Brearans. Mister Baron's would follow his
friend to the grave two years later, in nineteen thirty,
when he was thirty seven years old. The cause of
death is not specified in as opit. Within the next
few years, the body of a cook and a blacksmith,
both former residents of Moss Beach, were found near where
Peterson's body was dumped. Both men were killed by skull

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fractures identical to what caused Peterson's death. Despite promises from
the local sheriff that clues were being followed to bring
the culprits to justice, none of the murders were ever solved.
No doubt that stretch of coastline holds many secrets, including
a long forgotten story of an unlucky lady that wore
blue dress when she met her end. So yeah, there's

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like a true things made up things. But then again,
you know when people are doing illicit things like rum
running or you know, things happen, people get killed, people
disappear and nobody's there to point the finger or even
find them. So yeah, I'm sure there's people there that
disappeared that they didn't even know what happened to them. Okay.

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This next story is out of Daily Mail and is
titled Colorado Woman's bodies found feet from her home seven
years after she disappeared. It makes you wonder how hard
did they try to find this poor lady? But anyway.
The body of a Colorado woman who had been missing
for seven years was found just ten just feet from
her body by a man clearing junk out of a

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garage on September tenth. As in this past September tenth,
the man found a bone he thought might have been
a Halloween decoration, since fake skeletons were set up around
the property at that time. He called authorities After the
he and a neighbor determined the bones were real, and
late October police identified the remains in Lochboulay or Loch

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Beeue or like Loch Beuey, a town northeast of Denver,
as belonging to Terry Ann Ackerman. No cause of death
has been released. Terry, fifty six, was reported missing from
her small ren style home in August twenty eighteen by
her husband, Delbert Ackerman. After her disappearance, lach Beuy police

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and multiple other agencies extensively searched the home and the
surrounding area with dogs and drones. Authorities also interviewed numerous
people and reviewed surveillance footage to no avail dale. Ackerman,
who has since died, had said that Terry was sleeping
in their bedroom when he left for work at five
am on Thursday, August twenty third. This was the last

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time he saw her, he maintained. On that Thursday, Terry
paid a visit to her daughter, Ambry Carolas. According Okay
to her daughter, Ambry Corollas, Corolla said her mother was
acting normal, but also described her as down on herself.
Around four pm four thirty pm, Terry left her daughter's home,

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only to call her three hours later. Upset and crying.
She told Corollas that she could not watch her grandchildren
the next day. Corolla said Terry took medication for her
bipolar disorder, and those pills were missing from the house
after she disappeared. Corollas added that her mother's condition was
manageable and as she didn't believe it could have contributed
to what happened to her the next day. On Friday,

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Dale showed up at Careless's door early in the morning
to watch the kids, but careless husband had already taken
off work to watch them. Dale then went home and
reported Terry missing to the police that afternoon. The family
has pointed out allegedly strange behavior from Dale on the
day of the disappearance, and said that Loch buy police
failed to effectively lead the investigation. Dale was never charged

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with Terry's death, and Sean Ackermann, Dale's stepson, believed his
father could never have killed a stepmother. The chain of
events that led to Terry's remains being found was triggered
by Dale's death. In February twenty twenty five at age seventy,
Shawn inherited the loch Bewey property Dale and Terry once
lived in together, but he decided that it was in

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such poor condition that he would sell it. A contact
who offered to take scrap metal and other junk away
from the home, opened up the garage on September tenth
and made the gruesome discovery. The garage was reportedly stuffed
with boxes from Florida's ceiling and reeked of cat urine.
Three feet into the mess of boxes, the man found
the bones, Sean said. Sean said a couple of boxes

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fell on top of the bones, obscuring it. He wonders
if the police ever searched the garage. He had that
none of Terry's belongings had been touched after he went
through a trailer on the property. All of her clothing
was exactly where it was. He said. Everything that she
had on the bed was still on the bed. He
still slept on half a bed that he hadn't cleaned
for seven years. Her picture was there, everything was there.

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I just know if my dad would have known she
was there, it would have killed him before the cancer did.
Sean said, I don't know. Let me ask you. They'd
be brought in dogs, but you're gonna tell me these
dogs are not going to fine because even though there
was other smells, you would think also that nobody visited

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this man for the seven years afterwards when he died
in February or a body smells pretty bad. I don't know.
It does seem like somebody dropped the dropped the ball
on this sounds like there was a lot of mental illness,
some hoarding. But question is did she just die, did

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she do something to herself, or did somebody do something
to her? Interesting? Huh? All right? Next story out of
Daily Mail, Arctic radar station worker met horrific fate after
ignoring warning signs to go outside and photographed polar bears.
Oh here we go, another person with a poor sense
of self preservation. Here we Go. An amateur photographer was

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malted death by two polar bears after ignoring warning signs
to get a better shot of the creatures. This happened
in Canada. Christopher Best died after he left the safety
of an Arctic radar site we had only worked for
two days. On August eighth last year, the thirty four
year old from Labrador walked past a large polar bear
warning sign and appeared to have kept a safe distance,

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but did not realize that the second animal was lurking nearby.
Best I photographed them early and asked the wildlife monitor
at the side of Brievert Island to a form him
when the animals were in the area so we could
take more. He uploaded pictures of a hulking beast the
day before it was viciously torn apart. It's unknown if
it was one of the same polar bears that killed him.

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The next day, Chris said, well, yeah, they're not close
to us. His mother, Shelley Cox, said he told his
stepfather on a call moments before he died. God, Daddy said,
you know, I know the difference. Right at the end
of his shift, the wildlife monitor told Best that a
bear was outskied. According to a report by his employer,
the nasty took corporation. After exiting the door's Best went

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around the side of the building and believed he had
enough space between himself and the bear. Surveillance video shows
that the second animal cut off Best way to a
nearby building and charged them. According to the report, the
first beard then attacked the worker as well, and employees
saw them walling and yelled for a gun. However, when
nothing was available, he ran to the wildlife monitor. The

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staff member fired a non lethal bear banger from a
twelve gait shotgun, causing both bears to take off, but
one of them turned back. The gunman was forced to
fatally shoot it as best body was loaded into a truck.
Another armed employer arrived to keep watch. Best had some
training on polar bear awareness, but some documents to complete
the course from missing, according to the report. Cox told

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CTV that she believed the accident could have been avoided
further safety measures had been taken at the site, such
as installing fences and motion sensor monitors with alarms. The
report proposed improvements to their safety policies, which included a
public address system as well as announcements being made when
bears were known to be outside. In addition, it requires

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any worker going outside after hours to obtain permission from
a manager or supervisor. Another measure of proposed was to
fence off certain areas of the site. This Nasituka has
sent Best to had sent Best to do logistics works
on Brevard Island, but he was waiting for security clearance
and was working as a fuel tank cleaner. In the meantime,

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no injuries or fatalities from bears have ever been recorded
during the company's projection project of the previous company, the
the DW line over the past seven decades, according to
the report. NACI Took said that it was unable to
comment to comment since the government report was not yet finished.

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A spokesman said, we care deeply for the safety and
wellbeing of our employees and feel for everyone who continues
to be affected by this tragic incident. Now look, well,
for you, those of you you're gonna see there's a
video here of of a man running because they've got
a polar bear charging him and he gets on that
on that sled and takes off. And you know what,

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besides having a poor people people think that these animals
are like Disney animals. They're wild, they're predators, They're apex predator.
It's like, stop being touchy Feely's animals is like respect them.
I don't understand that anyway. Another story from The Daily Mail,
Yellowstone National Park has fifty miles zone of death where

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all crime is legal. As experterial wy loophole has never
been closed, an iconic American park is hiding a fifty
mile area where all crime is legal, and expert claims
it's been two decades since Professor Brian cult uncovered the
zone of death at Yellowstone National Park. The Michigan State
University College of Law professor published research in two thousand

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and five. In a paper called the Perfect Crime. He
theorized that all crime in the fifty square miles section
of Yellowstone that sits in Idaho can't be prosecuted. Yellowstone
stretches across nearly four thousand square miles in Wyoming, with
small portions of the park located in Montana and eastern Idaho.
When Congress designated the park's borders in eighteen seventy two,

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Yellowstone became one of the few federal parks that fall
exclusively under the federal government's jurisdiction, meaning that states are
powerless to prosecute crimes. According to the sixth Amendment, alleged
criminals are entitled to a trial by jury comprised of
residence who live in the district where the crime was committed. However,
the fifty square mall section of Yellowstone in Idaho is

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desolate land where no humans live. Therefore, any trial for
crime committed in the zone of death would violate the
defendant's six Amendment rights. When Cult initially published his research,
he noted that the findings weren't meant to inspire crime,
but to raise awareness among lawmakers about a potential legal
loophole one has yet to be closed. It's incredible. Crime

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is bad, after all, but so violating the Constitution. If
the loophole described in this essay that exist, it should
be closed, not ignored. Gault argued Yellowstone was the world's
first national park, so there was no precedent for setting
up the legal framework to prosecute crimes that occurred within it,
and what called a constitutionally faithful decision, Congress designated the

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entire park to fall into the federal District of Wyoming,
making it the only federal court that includes parts of
other states. Some have argued that if a crime were
to be committed in the Zone of Death, the court
could request a change of venue to fill a jury. However,
Colt noted that under the sixth Amendment, only the defendant
can request to change the trial's location. It's unlikely that

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a defendant would request to change the venue if there
was a possibility the case could be thrown out. Since
Cult publishes research, the Zone of Death had been widely
covered and even inspired a book about a fictionalized killing spree,
and was the premise of an episode of the hit
television series Yellowstone. Colt said in twenty twenty three that

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its paper went as virable as a law journal article
can go. The professor added that when the fictionalized book
titled Free Call, I'm Sorry Free Fall by C. J.
Box was released, while Maker's finally attempted to close the
legal loophole. In a follow up paper, Cult revealed that
before he published the work, he wrote to the Department
of Justice and the US Attorney to pre empt them.

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The US Attorney responded that they didn't have the power
to amend the law, and the Department of Justice ignored
the message. The only person who responded to cult at
the time was a summer intern for the House Committee's
Majority Council. Finally, in twenty twenty two, a representative from Idaho,
Colon Nash, sponsored a House resolution to close the legal loophole.

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The resolution called on Congress to put the Zone of
Death region under the district of Idaho instead of Wyoming
to avoid constitutional hurdles with the sixth Amendment. The resolution passed,
but Congress never moved forward voting to make the bill
into law. Coult told newspapers this week that he doesn't
believe legal action will ever be solidified unless a serious

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crime motivates lawmakers to prioritize closing the loophole. There has
been no movement on the issue, even with the Idaho's
legislature resolution, he added. Cal said he doesn't see anything
changing until the defendant uses the loophole to get away
with a crime. Oh. The legislature not doing anything. That's
that's incredible. Oh, I refuse to believe that. Not. So

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here we go. A lot of interesting stuff happening out there.
I'm telling you, it's weird, weird, weird. But I'll be
back soon because like I said, it's weird, weird, weird.
Till next time, Take care,

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