Are you afraid to watch horror films, but still having decided, then for several days you are afraid to sleep without light? Let it be known to you that even more terrifying and mysterious stories happen in real life than the fantasy of Hollywood scriptwriters can invent. Find out about them - and for many days in a row you will peer into dark corners with fear!
Death in a lead mask
In August 1966, on a deserted hill in the vicinity of the Brazilian city of Niteroi, a local teenager discovered the half-decomposed corpses of two men. Local police officers, having arrived for the dough, found that there were no traces of violence on the bodies and in general there were no signs of violent death. Both were dressed in evening suits and waterproof raincoats, but the most surprising thing was that their faces were hidden by rough lead masks, similar to those used in that era to protect against radiation. The deceased had an empty water bottle, two towels and a note. which read: "16.30 - be at the appointed place, 18.30 - swallow capsules, put on protective masks and wait for the signal." Later, the investigation was able to establish the identity of the victims - they were two electricians from a neighboring town. Pathologists have not been able to find traces of trauma or any other reason,leading them to death. What experiment was discussed in the mysterious note, and from what otherworldly forces two young men died in the vicinity of Niteroi? Nobody knows about this until now.
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Chernobyl mutant spider
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This happened in the early 1990s, several years after the Chernobyl disaster. In one of the Ukrainian cities that fell under a radioactive release, but were not subject to evacuation. A man's body was found in the elevator of one of the houses. The examination found that he died of massive blood loss and shock. However, there were no signs of violence on the body, with the exception of two small wounds on the neck. A few days later, a young girl died in the same elevator under similar circumstances. The investigator in charge of the case, together with the police sergeant, came to the house to conduct an investigation. They were taking the elevator when suddenly the lights went out and a rustle was heard on the roof of the car. Turning on the flashlights, they threw them up - and saw a huge disgusting spider half a meter in diameter, which crawled towards them through a hole in the roof. A second - and the spider jumped on the sergeant. For a long time the investigator could not aim at the monster, and when he finally fired, it was too late - the sergeant was already dead. The authorities tried to hush up this story, and only a few years later, thanks to eyewitness accounts, it got into the newspapers.
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Zeb Quinn's mysterious disappearance
On a winter afternoon, 18-year-old Zeb Quinn got off work in Asheville, North Carolina and went to meet with his friend Robert Owens. She and Owens were talking when Quinn got a message. Straining, Zeb told his friend that he had to call urgently and walked aside. He returned, according to Robert, "completely out of his mind" and, without explaining anything to his friend, quickly left, and, moreover, drove off so hastily that he hit Owen's car with his car. Zeb Quinn was never seen again. Two weeks later, his car was found at a local hospital with a strange set of items: it contained a hotel room key, a jacket that did not belong to Quinn, several bottles of alcohol and a live puppy. Huge lips were painted on the rear window with lipstick. As police found out, Quinn's message was transmitted from the home phone of his aunt, Ina Ulrich. But Ina herself was not at home at that moment. On some grounds, she confirmed that it was likely that someone else had visited her house. Where Zeb Quinn disappeared is still unknown.
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Eight from Jennings
In 2005, a nightmare began in Jennings, a small town in Louisiana. Once every few months, in a swamp outside the city or in a ditch on the highway near Jennings, local residents found another body of a young girl. All the victims were local residents, and everyone knew each other: they were in the same companies, worked together, and the two girls turned out to be cousins. The police checked everyone who, at least in theory, could have anything to do with the murders, but did not find a single lead. In total, eight girls were killed in Jennings over the course of four years. In 2009, the murders stopped as suddenly as they began. Neither the name of the killer nor the reasons that prompted him to commit crimes are still unknown.
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Disappearance of Dorothy Forstein
Dorothy Forstein was a well-to-do housewife from Philadelphia. She had three children and a husband, Jules, who earned good money and held a respectable position in the civil service. However, one day in 1945, when Dorothy returned home from a shopping trip, someone pounced on her in the hallway of her own house and beat her to a pulp. Dorothy was found lying on the floor unconscious by the arriving police. During interrogation, she said that she had not seen the face of her attacker and had no idea who attacked her. It took Dorothy a long time to recover from the nightmare incident. But four years later, in 1949, misfortune struck the family again. Jules Forstein, arriving from work shortly before midnight, found the two youngest children in the bedroom in tears, trembling with fear. Dorothy was not in the house. Nine-year-old Marcy Fontaine told the copsthat woke up from the creak of the front door. Going out into the corridor, she saw that a stranger was walking towards her. Entering Dorothy's bedroom, he appeared after a while with the unconscious body of a woman slung over his shoulder. Patting Marcy on the head, he said: Go to sleep, baby. Your mom was sick, but now she will be well.”Since then, Dorothy Forstein has not been seen.
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Observer
In 2015, the Broads family from New Jersey moved into their million-dollar dream home. But the joy of the housewarming was short-lived: the family was immediately terrorized by threatening letters by an unknown maniac who signed himself as "Observer". He wrote that "his family was in charge of this house for decades," and now "it was his time to look after him." He also wrote to the children, wondering whether they "found what is hidden in the walls" and declaring that "I am glad to know your names - the names of fresh blood that I will receive from you." In the end, the frightened family drove out of the creepy house. Soon the Broads family filed a lawsuit against the previous owners: as it turned out, they also received threats from the Observer, which were not reported by the buyer. But the worst thing about this story isthat for many years the New Jersey police have not been able to figure out the name and purpose of the sinister Observer.
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Draftsman
For almost two years, in 1974 and 1975, a serial killer was wielding the streets of San Francisco. His victims were 14 men - homosexuals and transvestites - with whom he met in zany city institutions. Then, having got the victim in a secluded place, he killed her and brutally mutilated the body. The police called him a "draftsman" because of his habit of drawing small cartoon pictures that he gave to his future victims to break the ice when they first met. Fortunately, some of his victims survived. It was their testimony that helped the police find out about the habits of the "draftsman" and draw up his composite sketch. But, despite this, the maniac was never caught, and still nothing is known about his identity. Perhaps he is now walking sedately through the streets of San Francisco …
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The Legend of Edward Mondrake
In 1896, Dr. George Gould published a book describing the medical anomalies that he had to face during his years of practice. The creepiest of these was the case of Edward Mondrake. According to Gould, this clever and musically gifted young man lived in strict solitude all his life and even his relatives were rarely allowed to visit him. The fact is that the young man had not one face, but two. The second was on the back of his head; it was the face of a woman, judging by Edward's stories, with a will and personality, and very vicious: she grinned every time Edward cried, and when he tried to sleep, she whispered all sorts of nasty things to him. Edward begged Dr. Gould to relieve him of the accursed second person, but the doctor feared that the young man would not survive the operation. Finally, at the age of 23, an exhausted Edward, having obtained poison, committed suicide. In a suicide note, he asked his family to cut off his second face before the funeral so that he would not have to lie with him in the grave.
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Disappeared couple
In the early morning of December 12, 1992, 19-year-old Ruby Brueger, her boyfriend, 20-year-old Arnold Archembo, and her cousin Tracy were driving along a deserted road in South Dakota. All three drank a little, so at some point the car skidded on the slippery road, and it flew into the ditch. When Tracy opened her eyes, she saw that Arnold was not in the cabin. Then before her eyes, Ruby got out of the car and disappeared from sight. The police who arrived at the scene, despite their best efforts, did not find any traces of the disappeared couple. Since then, Ruby and Arnold have not made themselves felt. However, a few months later, two bodies were found in the same ditch. They lay literally a few steps from the scene. In bodies that were in various stages of decomposition, Ruby and Arnold were identified. But a lot of copsthose who had previously participated in the investigation of the accident site, unanimously confirmed that the search was conducted very carefully, and they could not miss the bodies. Where were the bodies of the young people for these few months, and who brought them to the highway? The police could not answer this question.
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Kkula Robert
This old battered doll is now in one of the museums in Florida. Few people know that she is the embodiment of absolute evil. Robert's story began in 1906, when it was given to a baby. Soon the boy began to tell his parents that the doll was talking to him. Indeed, the parents sometimes heard someone else's voice from the son's room, but they believed that the boy was playing something like that. When an unpleasant incident happened in the house, the owner of the doll blamed Robert for everything. The grown boy threw Robert into the attic, and after his death, the doll passed to a new mistress, a little girl. She did not know anything about her story - but soon she also began to tell her parents that the doll was talking to her. Once the little girl ran to her parents in tears, saying that the doll was threatening to kill her. The girl was never inclined to dark fantasies, therefore, after several frightened requests and complaints from her daughter, they, out of sin, donated it to the local museum. Today the doll is silent, but the old-timers assure: if you take a picture in front of the window with Robert without permission, he will certainly cast a curse on you, and then you will not avoid trouble.
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Facebook ghost
In 2013, a Facebook user named Nathan told his virtual friends a story that scared many. According to Nathan, he began receiving messages from his friend Emily, who had died two years earlier. At first it was a repetition of her old letters, and Nathan believed that this was only a technical problem. But then he received a new letter. "It's cold … I don't know what's going on," Emily wrote. Out of fear, Nathan drank well, and only then decided to respond. And Emily immediately received an answer: "I want to walk …" Nathan was horrified: after all, in the accident in which Emily died, her legs were cut off. Letters continued to arrive, sometimes meaningful, sometimes incoherent, like ciphers. Finally, Nathan received a photograph from Emily. On it he himself was captured from the back. Nathan swears that no one was in the house when the photo was taken. What was it? Is there a ghost on the Web? Or is it someone's stupid joke. Nathan still does not know the answer - and cannot sleep without sleeping pills.
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The true story of the "Thing"
Even if you've seen the 1982 movie "Thing," in which a young woman is abused and bullied by a ghost, you probably don't know that this story is based on true events. This is exactly what happened in 1974 with housewife Dorothy Beather, the mother of several children. It all started when Dorothy decided to experiment with the Ouija board. As told by her children, the experiment ended successfully: Dorothy managed to summon a spirit. But he flatly refused to leave. The ghost was distinguished by animal cruelty: he constantly pushed Dorothy, threw her into the air, beat her and even raped her, often in front of children who were powerless to help their mother. Exhausted, Dorothy called for help from experts in the fight against paranormal phenomena. All of them unanimously told later,that they saw strange and creepy things in Dorothy's house: objects flying through the air, a mysterious light appearing from nowhere … Finally, one day, right in front of the ghostbusters, a green fog thickened in the room, from which the ghostly figure of a huge man emerged. After that, the spirit disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. What happened in the Los Angeles home of Dorothy Bizer, no one still knows.
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Phone stalkers
In 2007, several Washington families immediately approached the police with complaints about phone calls from unknown persons, accompanied by terrible threats, the callers threatening to cut their throats in their sleep, kill their children or grandchildren. Calls rang out at night, at very different times, while the callers knew for certain where each of the family members was, what he was doing and what he was wearing. Sometimes mysterious criminals recounted conversations between family members in detail, in which there were no strangers. The police tried unsuccessfully to track down the telephone terrorists, but the phone numbers from which the calls were heard were either fake or belonged to other families who received similar threats. Fortunately, none of the threats became reality. But who and how was able to play such a cruel joke with dozens of unknown people, remained a mystery.
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Call from the dead
In September 2008, a terrible train crash occurred in Los Angeles, killing 25 people. One of the victims was Charles Peck, who was driving from Salt Lake City for an interview with a potential employer. His fiancée, who lived in California, was looking forward to being offered a job so that they could move to Los Angeles. The day after the disaster, while rescuers were still removing the bodies of the victims from the rubble, Peck's fiancé's phone rang. It was a call from Charles's number. The phones of his relatives - son, brother, stepmother and sister - also rang. All of them, having picked up the receiver, heard only silence there. Calls back were answered by an answering machine. Charles's family believed that he was alive and was trying to call for help. But when rescuers found his body, it turned out that Charles Peck died immediately after the collision and could not call. What's even more mysterioushis phone also crashed in the crash, and no matter how hard they tried to bring him back to life, no one succeeded.
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