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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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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Authorities have launched an official investigation after a woman allegedly gave birth to a live gecko.
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The woman who aged from 23 to 73 in ‘a few days’. Pictures may look like an attractive woman in her 20s and her grandmother. But they are said to be the same person apparently taken just days apart.
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Wolf at Large in Allendale was the headline of The Hexham Courant on 10th December 1904. The Courant reported that in the last three weeks, farmers around the village of Allendale were stabling
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The witch bottle is a very old spell device. Its purpose is to draw in and trap harmful intentions directed at its owner. Folk magic contends that the witch bottle protects against evil spirits and magical attack, and counteracts spells cast by witches.
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Whipping Tom was a mysterious man who wandered the streets of London in 1680. He shocked 17th-century society by lunging at women, lifting their dresses, and spanking their bums while shouting Spanko! before escaping capture. At one point, things got so bad that armed men would patrol the streets dressed as women in the hopes of drawing him out.
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The ‘Well to Hell’ is a putative borehole in Russia which was purportedly drilled so deep that it broke through into Hell, traditionally considered to be located underground in Christian mythology. This urban legend has been circulating on the Internet since at least 1997. It is first attested in English as a 1989 broadcast by a U.S. domestic TV broadcaster, Trinity Broadcasting Network.
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