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67Thoughts On 10 Scary Urban Legends
I was just checking to see what the current top scary urban legends are. The list hasn't changed much at all in decades! These are the same scary stories that I first encountered as a kid, with the exception of #4 below. About .com lists the...
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79Curse of Chief Cornstalk
Chief Cornstalk (his native name meant "blade of corn") was probably born in the Pennsylvania area, but he and the Shawnee people were pushed into and settled into the Ohio area, near present-day Chillicotte, by the late 1730's. As the Shawnee...
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79Strange Deaths: Middle Ages Time Period
Usually, I write about odd things that end up being part fiction, partly true stories. While trying to track down information on a certain legend where a strange death occurred, I found out that this strange...
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65Point Pleasant Oddities
Point Pleasant is a city with over 4600 residents (2000 census stat), located in Mason County, West Virginia. It is located near to where the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers join. Point Pleasant has a history of strange and disastrous occurrences which...
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65Silver Bridge Disaster
Two major structural fractures, including the snapping of a south side chain, along with the weight of extra traffic on the Silver Bridge during Christmas shopping season caused the bridge to collapse. With...
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