The Pfister Hotel is one of the grandest and most historic hotels in the United States. Situated in beautiful downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Pfister has faithfully served its guests for over 130 years. However, several of those guests have reported strange noises, bizarre happenings, and even apparitions while staying there. Who are the ghosts of […]
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Staying in a haunted hotel was never part of the deal Michael Young agreed to when he joined Major League Baseball. Michael started playing professionally in the minor leagues in 1997 and by 2000 had worked his way up into the majors. His first team was the Texas Rangers, and then later the Philadelphia Phillies
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In late 1990, the body of Mary Lou Pratt was found in a quiet Dallas, Texas neighborhood. She had been severely beaten and then shot to death. If that wasn’t bad enough, it was soon discovered that her killer had expertly removed both her eyes. Mary Lou had just become the unwitting victim of one
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At first, the kids thought that the woman in the grass was a store mannequin. But the more they looked, the more they realized that it wasn’t fake. It was a real body. By the time the investigators with the Dallas Police Department had arrived in the remote neighborhood of Oak Cliff, someone had
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In 1965, two police officers knocked on the door of a small house in Houston, Texas. They were there to check on Fred and Edwina Rogers, an elderly couple who hadn’t contacted their family for a week. Going inside the house, they found no one. On an impulse, they opened the refrigerator and discovered one
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Officer Charles Bullock knocked loudly on the front door of the house. He and his partner, Officer L.M. Barta, listened intently for any sound coming from inside. They heard nothing. Barta looked around the property. There was nothing out of place that he could see. It was a small, 1.5 story wood frame and
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In January of 1926, Ed Rinebold was driving his normal newspaper deliver route in western Illinois when he had a strange feeling. The car at the railroad crossing had just been in an accident. He hadn’t heard or seen anything, but just knew that’s what happened. When he went back, the flaming ruins of the
Ed Rinebold drove his delivery truck carefully down the icy roads toward the railroad tracks at Poppy Crossing, about twelve miles from Moline, Illinois. He had driven that route dozens of times as a driver for the Daily Times, a local newspaper. But he wasn’t taking any chances. The last thing that he wanted to
Swede and Fay Lewis had always been a stormy one, and Fay was finally tired of it. When she finally decided to end it and filed for divorce, Swede was enraged. To what depths would he descend when he didn’t get his way? Sources Former Brazil Man Kills Wife; Ends Own Life. The Brazil
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Fayette, or Fay for short, was 17 years old and living in Brazil, Indiana, when she met Swede, a young coal miner. Several years before, large deposits of coal that was ideal for iron construction and manufacture were found in the region. After the pork production industry had largely been moved to larger meat
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