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The Ghost In My Machine

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Creepy Wikipedia: Émélie Sagée And Her Mysterious Doppelganger

June 2, 2025 by Lucia

Previously: Book Curses. The Wikipedia page for “Émilie Sagée” is perhaps inaccurately named: Although the young woman in question is often identified with this name, the original source for her Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: Émélie Sagée And Her Mysterious Doppelganger

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Creepy Wikipedia, doppelganger, doubles, history, weird history

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Unresolved: The Green Children Of Woolpit & The Question Of Folklore Vs. Fact

June 3, 2024 by Lucia

Previously: Who Was The Poe Toaster? What would you do if, one day, you were suddenly approached by two seemingly lost children? Would you try to find out from them information that might help Continue Reading > about Unresolved: The Green Children Of Woolpit & The Question Of Folklore Vs. Fact

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: English village, English villages, folklore, Unresolved, unresolved mysteries, weird history

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Creepy Wikipedia: The Exhumation Of Mercy Brown And The New England Vampire Panic

March 11, 2024 by Lucia

Previously: Hot Montauk Monster Summer. Mercy Brown wasn’t a vampire. Not really — not even though she’s filed under the page title “Mercy Brown Vampire Incident” at Wikipedia. She was simply a Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Exhumation Of Mercy Brown And The New England Vampire Panic

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Creepy Wikipedia, legend tripping, Mercy Brown, New England, Rhode Island, tuberculosis, vampires, weird history

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The Man From Taured, Solved: John Zegrus And How A Real-Life Event Became An Urban Legend

January 15, 2024 by Lucia

Previously: Who Was The Man From Taured — And Did He Even Exist At All? Way back in 2015, when The Ghost In My Machine was still in its early years, I took a relatively brief look at a story that Continue Reading > about The Man From Taured, Solved: John Zegrus And How A Real-Life Event Became An Urban Legend

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: the internet, The Man from Taured, Unresolved, unresolved mysteries, weird history

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The Fascinating & Gruesome History Of Madame Tussauds Chamber Of Horrors

October 3, 2022 by Lucia

Previously: A History Of Haunted Attractions In The United States. Wax museums are fun, but they’re also undeniably creepy. But creepier even than your standard wax facsimiles of Marilyn Monroe, Continue Reading > about The Fascinating & Gruesome History Of Madame Tussauds Chamber Of Horrors

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Chamber Of Horrors, European history, history, Madame Tussauds, wax museum, weird history

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Unresolved: What Caused The Atlanta Blood House’s Mysterious Mess?

August 2, 2021 by Lucia

Previously: The Missing Girl In The Odessa Catacombs. The house located at 1114 Fountain Drive in Atlanta, Georgia is small and cozy. Built in 1945, it’s made of brick and has three bedrooms. Continue Reading > about Unresolved: What Caused The Atlanta Blood House’s Mysterious Mess?

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Atlanta, Atlanta Blood House, Georgia, Unresolved, unresolved mysteries, weird history

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Creepy Wikipedia: The Life And Times Of Mike The Headless Chicken

April 19, 2021 by Lucia

Previously: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident. In the spring of 1945 — April 20, to be precise — an egg hatched on a farm in Fruita, Colorado. Unsurprisingly, out popped a chicken. But this chicken Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Life And Times Of Mike The Headless Chicken

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Creepy Wikipedia, Mike the Headless Chicken, Miracle Mike, weird history, Wikipedia

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Creepy Wikipedia: The Moberly–Jourdain Incident, Time Slips, And The Ghosts Of Versaille

January 4, 2021 by Lucia

Previously: Weegee. Have you ever been to the Palace of Versaille? I haven’t — not yet. (Ironically enough, despite being the only member of my family to have studied French, I am also the only Continue Reading > about Creepy Wikipedia: The Moberly–Jourdain Incident, Time Slips, And The Ghosts Of Versaille

Filed Under: Tales Tagged With: Charlotte Anne Moberly, Creepy Wikipedia, Eleanor Jourdain, European history, France, haunted places, hauntings, history, Moberly-Jourdain incident, residual haunting, time slip, time travel, Versaille, weird history, Wikipedia

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