The Bélmez Faces in Spain
The Bélmez Faces or the Faces of Bélmez is an alleged paranormal phenomenon in a private house in Spain. The phenomenon started in 1971 when residents claimed images of faces appeared in the concrete floor of the house.
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The Strangers Chapter 1 (2024) Official Trailer
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After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple is forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive.
Release date: May 17, 2024 (USA)
Director: Renny Harlin
Story by: Bryan Bertino
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Music by: Justin Burnett; Òscar Senén
Produced by: Alastair Birlingham; Charlie Dombek; Gary Raskin; Christopher Milburn; Mark Canton; Courtney Solomon
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The Bell Island Boom in Newfoundland, Canada
One April Sunday morning in 1978, dozens of Bell Island homes were preparing to gather around the kitchen table when a loud noise permeated everything.
It sounded like lightning, but like no lightning anyone had heard before. Short. Sharp. And then gone.
Word of the boom travelled fast and everyone was soon fixated on one home in particular in Lance Cove, the picturesque community on Bell Island’s south east corner.
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The Aokigahara Forest
Aokigahara, also known as the Sea of Trees, is a forest on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji on the island of Honshu in Japan, thriving on 30 square kilometres of hardened lava laid down by the last major eruption of Mount Fuji in 864 CE
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The Amityville Horror
The Amityville haunting is a modern folk story based on the true crimes of Ronald DeFeo Jr. On November 13, 1974, DeFeo shot and killed six members of his family at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, on the south shore of Long Island. He was convicted of second-degree murder in November 1975.
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The Alcatraz Escape
In June 1962, inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States. Late on the night of June 11 or early morning of June 12, the three men tucked papier-mâché heads resembling their own likenesses into their beds, broke out of the main prison building via ventilation ducts and an unused utility corridor, and departed the island aboard an improvised inflatable raft to an uncertain fate. A fourth conspirator, Allen West, failed in his escape attempt and remained on the island.
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Banff Springs Hotel (Alberta, Canada)
The Banff Springs Hotel is one of the largest and most renowned of the resort hotels established by Canadian railway companies during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to encourage tourists to travel their transcontinental routes.
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Château de Brissac
The Château de Brissac is a French château in the Brissac-Quincé area of the commune of Brissac Loire Aubance, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire, France. The property is owned by the noble Cossé family, whose head bears the French hereditary title of Duke of Brissac.
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The Legend of the Phantom Barber in Mississippi
On a dark, sultry night in June of 1942, a mysterious figure broke into a Catholic boarding school and clipped the hair of two young girls while they slept. Though the person left no trace behind, the phantom barber struck terror in the hearts of residents living in the small coastal town of Pascagoula, Mississippi.
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The Legend of the Wendigo
A mythological cannibalistic monster in the spiritual tradition of North American Algonquian-speaking tribes. It is associated with winter and described as either a fearsome beast that stalks and eats humans or as a spirit that possesses humans, causing them to turn into cannibals.
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The Winchester Mystery House in California
The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Winchester's death in 1922.
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The Legend of the Grey Man of Pawleys Island
In South Carolina ghostlore, the Gray Man is a ghost reportedly seen on the coast of Pawleys Island, South Carolina that warns residents of coming severe storms and hurricanes. Although there are many variations of the legend, most say the Gray Man was first seen in 1822, three years before the town government was incorporated. The last reported sighting was just before Hurricane Florence hit in 2018 and previously just before Hurricane Hugo hit the area in 1989.
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The Curse of the Maori Warrior's Stolen Heads in New Zealand
The Maori people in New Zealand tattooed their heads (moko) and buttocks by chiselling a design into the skin and rubbing ink into it. Moko was chiselled into the face to create permanent grooves in the skin. The face was 'carved' like wood, and then pigmented. The tattoos gave the Maori warrior an intimidating, fearsome appearance. They also displayed the wearer's capacity for pain and endurance.
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The Cursed Mirror
One stormy morning, Sir Oswallt and his squire Gwyn journey to a distant island to discover the fate of its inhabitants and battle a terrible ghoul.
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The Skirrid Mountain Inn in Wales
Supposedly the most haunted pub in Wales, The Skirrid Mountain Inn just north of Abergavenny used to be a courthouse and jail. Behind the bar, you can still see the beam from which hundreds of prisoners were hanged. Visitors have reported hearing hushed voices, slammed doors and creepy footsteps.
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The Bleeding House of Palatine in Illinois
There's a supposedly haunted street called Rainbow Road near White Cemetery that is teeming with paranormal activity.
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The Legend of La Llorona
La Llorona (Latin American Spanish) the Crying Woman, the Wailer') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her. Whoever heard her crying either suffer misfortune or death and their life become pitiful and unsuccessful in every field.
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The Ghost Ship Octavius
The Octavius was a legendary 18th century ghost ship. According to the story, the three-masted schooner was found west of Greenland by the whaler Herald on 11 October 1775. Boarded as a derelict, the five-man boarding party found the entire crew of 28 below deck: dead, frozen, and almost perfectly preserved.
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The Black Forest Haunting
Hardly any sunlight breaks through the dense fir trees of the Black Forest, and the myths surrounding these woods are more fantastical than paranormal: A headless horseman riding on a great white steed, a king who kidnaps women to take them to his underwater lair where he lives among the nymphs, friendly dwarves, and lurking werewolves.
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The Curse of the Crying Boy Paintings
The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin (1911–1981). This was the pen-name of the painter Bruno Amarillo. It was widely distributed from the 1950s onwards.
There are numerous alternative versions, all portraits of tearful young boys or girls.[1] In addition to being widely known, certain urban legends attribute a 'curse' to the painting.
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The Bridgewater Triangle in Massachusetts
The Bridgewater Triangle is an area of about 200 square miles within southeastern Massachusetts in the United States, claimed to be a site of alleged paranormal phenomena, ranging from UFOs to poltergeists, and other spectral phenomena, various bigfoot-like sightings, giant snakes and thunderbirds.
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The Yonaguni Monument in Japan
The Yonaguni Monument, also known as "Yonaguni Submarine Ruins", is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan. It lies approximately 100 kilometres east of Taiwan. Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura claims that the formations are man-made stepped monoliths.
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