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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

Tag: history

“Believe It or Not, I Am Shaken by This”: The 1983 Cabbage Patch Kids Riots

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“Like She Wanted Me to Know All About It”: The Greenbrier Ghost, and True Crime’s Uneasy Relationship with the Supernatural

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Autassasinophilia, Fetish Forums, and the Early Internet: The Murder of Sharon Lopatka

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The Matter of the Mummy of Manchester

A woman paranoid about being buried alive after witnessing her living brother’s near-internment, an eccentric local doctor, and a mummy that would haunt Manchester (literally and figuratively) for centuries – let’s about about Hannah Beswick, the Mummy of Manchester.

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A Deep Dive into The Queerbaiting Heist of the Century: t.A.T.u.’s All The Things She Said

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The Lindow Woman: How an Ancient Bog Body Solved a Twenty-Year-Old Missing Person Case

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The Mystery of the Miniature Coffins of Arthur’s Seat

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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light: S2E6: Light

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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light: S2E5: Mirror

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“If People are Dying, Let’s Get Started”: The Brutal Relay of the Nome Serum Run

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