What Scares You?
Vampire: A being that survives by feeding on the life essence of the living.
Vampires are most often described as the undead; creatures of darkness surviving from the blood of their victims. They are beautiful, immortal, and terrifying; the ultimate predator.
Are Vampires purely fiction though? Is there any truth to their legend?
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On September 5, 1946, William George Heirens was sentenced to 3 consecutive life sentences for the murders of 43 year old Josephine Ross, 32 year old Frances Brown, and 6 year old Suzanne Degnan. He will forever be known as the Lipstick Killer. But did he really do it?
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Zoo; noun: an establishment that maintains a collection of wild animals, typically in a park or gardens, for study, conservation, or display to the public.
Zoos are not a foreign idea. Back in 2400 B.C, Shulgi, the ruler of Ur (which is now known as South-East Iraq), had a collection of animals. Although it was not a public zoo, it set the standard for years to come. The first zoos were created as private collections known as menageries, by the wealthy to demonstrate their power.
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Each year there are approximately 800,000 missing children reported in America; that’s more than 2,000 every day. That would be the equivalent of the entire population of San Francisco, California, just disappearing.
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October 2, 2001, Robert Stevens, a photojournalist for the Sun, returned home from a visit to North Carolina. He was exhibiting symptoms of the flu, but when he went to the hospital, doctors admitted him, believing he had developed meningitis. Further testing proved that he had developed pulmonary anthrax, confirmed by the CDC. Robert Stevens died on October 5, 2001, making him the first victim of the 2001 anthrax attack, and the first death from anthrax in 25 years.
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Late February, 1957, a young man, checking his muskrat traps in the woods off Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase, Philadelphia, found an old cardboard box. Upon further investigation, he found the body of a dead boy. He left the box and the body there and returned home, afraid the police would confiscate his traps. A few days later, college student Frederic Benosis, was in the woods, spying on girls at the Good Shepherd School when he, too, came upon the box. Afraid to tell the police why he was in the woods, he chose to not report it, until the next day, February 26, 1957.
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July 26, 2015, dogs sniffed out the remains of 79 year old Valentina Ulanova at an apartment building in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, Russia. Her body had been decapitated and spread out across seven different garbage bags. CCTV and blood trails on the floor of the apartment building led police to the door of 68 year old Tamara Samsonova, who had been working as a caregiver for Mrs. Ulanova.
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May 1, 1981, an ad was placed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat newspaper, a paper produced by students at the University of Arizona. This ad was cryptic, a cipher of sorts, but so simple and plain, that no one really paid it any attention. Ads continued to be published in the Daily Wildcat, every year on May 1 (or nearest weekday as the paper did not run on weekends), and a few random times throughout the year.
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At first glance, the Winchester Mansion just looks like any other architectural wonder, combining both Victorian and Queen Anne architectural styles. In its time, the mansion was a modern marvel, with indoor plumbing, central heating, and multiple elevators. The mansion spans 24,000 square feet of living space, on 6 acres of land, and if that wasn’t impressive enough, it boasts 161 rooms (one previously unknown room was just discovered in the attic of the house. In it contained a pump organ, a dress form, a sewing machine, a Victorian sofa, and several paintings), 40 bedrooms, 47 staircases, 10,000 windows, 2 basements and 2,000 doors.
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On Christmas Eve, 2002, in Middletown Pennsylvania, Scott Wholaver, 28, drove his brother, Ernest Wholaver Jr., 42, to the home of his estranged wife and his 2 children. Ernest broke into the home and crept into the bedroom of Jean Wholaver, 43, and pulled out his .22 calibre pistol. He shot her in the head.
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