An unnerving trip through Buddhist Hell.At the entrance, a brightly coloured sign proclaims Welcome To Hell, while beyond lies a garish, in-your-face morality tale of sawn torsos, boiling vats and devilish figures tormenting worldly sinners.
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Think of a man so frightening that he became a legend of folklore, a boogeyman by bedside tales in Bangkok. Back in the 1960s in Thailand, many parents sat down with their children and warned them firmly: Don’t stay out after dark, or the ghost of See Uey will eat you.
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Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the ‘Star Trek’ feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter about a yard.
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Do not upset U.S. teenager Calvino Inman too much – or he may see red. Doctors have been left baffled by the 15-year-old Tennessee teenager, who cries tears of blood.
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The rocky start of Dalton Kropps adolescence would have continued into this year, if it werent for a commercial on A&E one evening when the Kropps were watching Paranormal State.
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Yachtsman Chay Blyth once found himself in trouble in the Atlantic. He had overturned and was trapped for hours before rescue. At that very moment, his wife Maureen suddenly felt nauseous and knew he was in trouble.
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As in the wall sculptures of the Orissan temples, eroticism is a recurrent theme in the shrines at Khajuraho. Various theories have been advanced to account for this, but the commonly accepted explanation is that the many erotic groups depicted here with such abandon represent, the mithuna ritual of the Tantric cult, according to which personal salvation can be attained only through experience: both sensual and spiritual.
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Voodoo is a religious tradition originating in West Africa, which became prominent in the New World due to the importation of African slaves. West African Vodun is the original form of the religion; Haitian Vodou and Louisiana Voodoo are its descendants in the New World.
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Vlado Taneski was a Macedonian crime reporter and serial killer. A career journalist for over 20 years, Taneski was arrested in June 2008 for the murder of two women on whose death he had also written articles. These articles on the murders had aroused the suspicion of the police, since they contained information which was not released to the public.
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Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the Virgin Mary.
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Is it possible a person can be here one minute and then totally disappear the next, never to be seen or heard from again? There are those who would say yes for they claim to be witnesses to just such a phenomenon.
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Vera Renczi was a Romanian serial killer who poisoned 35 individuals including her husbands, lovers, and one son with arsenic during the 1920s. Although Vera Renczi was a stunningly beautiful woman, she was also one of the most prolific female serial killers in history, driven by a pathological need for devotion from men.
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In 1937, Doc Nosspart-adventurer, part-conmanand his wife Babe discovered fabulous treasure inside the caverns of New Mexicos Victorio Peak. They dynamited the tunnel to hide the treasure from other treasure hunters. At least thats what they said happened.
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Peter Plogojowitz was a Serbian peasant who was believed to have become a vampire after his death and to have killed nine of his fellow villagers. The case was one of the earliest, most sensational and most well documented cases of vampire hysteria. It was described in the report of Imperial Provisor Frombald, an official of the Austrian administration, who witnessed the staking of Plogojowitz
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Vampire Husband Drank Wifes Blood for the Last Three Years
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