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The Landlady's Tale By SWORDMAKER copyright 2000Preface The following story was told to me by the woman who rented my parents their first home in California when they moved to Sacramento in 1939. A devout Catholic (so much so that although she had been divorced by her husband, she did not consider the divorce valid and did not remarry until her husband died many years later) the landlady swore on her Bible, in front of my sister and me after she told us the story, that it was absolutely true. She was quite serious about it.In the 1970s, I personally...

To this day, brides leave flowers on her grave on the day of their wedding to avoid a cursed marriageThe morning of October 11, 1641 was cold, wet and misty in Chagford. But despite the depressing weather, a young lady by the name of Mary Whiddon was in a joyous mood: today was her wedding day. Looking resplendent in her white wedding dress, there were gasps of approval as she climbed down from her carriage outside and entered the Church of St Michael the Archangel. Read more: 89 stand-out memories from the Preston area of Paignton After a brief...

President Joe Biden will be signing an executive order on Thursday to ban “ghost guns,” a direct assault on the 2nd Amendment. The executive order may also involve action against “assault” weapons but it is currently unclear at the moment if the order will involve this. “President Joe Biden is expected to unveil a long-awaited package of executive actions to curb gun violence Thursday at the White House, according to four people familiar with the plan,” Politico reported on Wednesday. “Biden will direct the administration to begin the process of requiring buyers of so-called ghost guns — homemade or makeshift...

President Joe Biden is reportedly weighing executive gun control on “ghost guns,” a term Democrats use to describe firearms that can be built from kits or 80 percent frames/lowers. On Tuesday Politico reported that Biden wants to make good on this campaign promise to pursue gun control and sees executive action in targeted areas as the way to do it.

In the footage recorded at 8.27pm on Tuesday, a woman with a pale face and long hair was seen standing by the door inside the house.A social media user recently shared CCTV footage on Facebook in which a 'long-haired ghost' is seen standing by a door of a house in Taiwan and staring outside, drawing much attention from the media. The social media user explained on Thursday that the CCTV camera set at his friend’s house caught an unknown figure at the door at night. The footage almost scared his friend’s mother to death. The footage recorded at 8.27pm on...

The Swinging City has ground to a halt. Eery photos show London looking like a ghost town after the UK capital was forced into strict lockdown over the alarming spread of a new, highly contagious mutation of COVID-19. Streets usually buoyant with tourists and Christmas shoppers were instead empty, while the typical fight to get a seat on a London Underground train was replaced by a struggle to spot other commuters.

We know our dogs have extraordinary senses…but can they sense the presence of a ghost? The answer depends, first, on whether you believe in ghosts. Dogs are extraordinary beings, in part because humans have been breeding them that way for the last 20,000 to 40,000 years. Among their many superpowers, they can sense the presence of actual things that humans cannot, such as impending weather and or the presence of cancer. But can dogs see ghosts? Lots of people believe they can, including psychic crime solver Kristy Robinett, who shared with Reader’s Digest a tale that may make even non-believers...

A British woman who claims she got “engaged” to a ghost has now called off the wedding because he “kept disappearing” and started “partying” too much. “We’ve called the wedding off,” Amethyst Realm, 32, said on UK TV show “This Morning.” “He just completely changed.” Realm said she fell in love with a “sexy” spirit named Ray during a trip to Australia in 2018 — and even consummated the relationship on the flight back home.

The week before I married on my family’s homestead in Alaska, we found out Sarah Palin had been picked to be Sen. John McCain’s vice-presidential running mate. This was big news for Alaska. Nearly everyone we knew was thrilled, even people who weren’t huge Palin fans. At the time, Palin was a popular governor who’d made a name for herself fighting a corrupt good ol’ boys system that had prevailed for too long in state politics. She was a Republican, but seen as a moderate who was willing to work with Democrats and take on powerful special interests, including the...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, there are mysterious canines with short ears, pointy noses, and bushy tails that roam the undergrowth. The creatures, which are one of the least studied variety of dogs on the planet, are rarely seen even by scientists who have spent years studying the region.

A Louisiana real estate firm is giving away a free house for anyone willing to relocate it - the only catch is that it's haunted. Sylvia McLain, the co-owner of McLain Investments, posted pictures of the house, located in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Facebook in March, saying it was up for grabs, gratis, to anyone who was willing to pick up the house and move it off the property. She wrote that the 'iconic home' was built in the late 1920s to early 1930s and that it had been unoccupied for the last six months, but was 'vacated due to development,'...

Hospital workers are separating from their families as a way to protect other family members during the coronavirus pandemic. An Arkansas physician has only seen his 1-year-old son Zeke through a glass door for the last two weeks. During that time, Dr. Jared Burks saw his son crawl for the first time.

The Landlady's Tale By SWORDMAKER copyright 2000 Preface The following story was told to me by the woman who rented my parents their first home in California when they moved to Sacramento in 1939. A devout Catholic (so much so that although she had been divorced by her husband, she did not consider the divorce valid and did not remarry until her husband died many years later) the landlady swore on her Bible, in front of my sister and me after she told us the story, that it was absolutely true. She was quite serious about it. In the 1970s,...

Fleets of tanks lined up among a pool of military trucks. Fatigues hung from clothing lines, airplanes waited to propel into action at the edge of an airfield while cannons and crates of munitions stacked high waited to be loaded onto camouflaged jeeps. Radio signals picked up by the Axis Power intelligence community confirmed what Nazi reconnaissance planes saw while flying overhead: the United States Army's 23rd Headquarters Special Troops was a robust, thriving, battalion of 30,000 men ready for action. What the Nazis didn't know is that they were being duped. The tanks, airplanes, munitions and jeeps were in...

Typically, the scariest thing you’ll encounter at a grocery store is long lines at the checkout or an expired coupon. For shoppers in Wilmington, Mass. it’s an apparition that appears to be a young woman in Victorian clothing. A members-only page on Facebook, dedicated to local events and possible coyote sightings in the area, has the community buzzing after several people reported seeing a young woman, between the age of 17 and 30, with light skin, dark hair, and blue eyes in out-of-fashion clothes wandering the aisles of Market Basket on Main Street. One shopper, according to Patch.com, is familiar...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP/Meredith) — A college student said she thought there was a ghost in her apartment. It turned out to be a man living inside her closet and wearing her clothes. The University of North Carolina-Greensboro student heard strange noises coming from her closet in her off-campus apartment on Saturday, WFMY-TV reported. “I just hear rattling in my closet," she said. "I'm like, 'Who's there?' And somebody answers me. He's like, 'Oh my name is Drew.'"

May as well have some Halloween fun.

It appears as though only women are now living in the tiny village of Kasiguda, in the Nirmal district of Telangana, after reports of the ghost. Word of the reported ghost spread throughout the town of 60 residents after three people, including two brothers, were killed in the village within a three-month period. ... The few people who have remained go to sleep when the sun sets and do not leave their homes until sunrise the next morning. A woman in the town told Tamil News that the reported ghost had not attacked any women. No one plans to return...

I haven't. Do you believe in or not, and why.

HUMANITY has a filthy secret: our ancestors used to have sex with members of other species. That’s the finding in a new piece of research which suggests ancient people used to romp with a “ghost” species of proto human. We are just one of a number of species known as hominins. Members of this family include Neanderthals and Denisovans, which are no longer found on Earth. “It seems that interbreeding between different early hominin species is not the exception — it’s the norm,” said Omer Gokcumen, assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Buffalo. Gokcumen tested the DNA...