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Centralia : USA

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There is a coal mining town in the Eastern United States that was once home to over one thousand people, most of them members of the secret society that founded the town.  When the coal fires started throughout the mines fifty years ago, those that didn’t die abandoned the town. The coal fires burn to this day covering the streets in ash. Those of you familiar with the Silent Hill video games and movie may think that I’m talking about that town, but I’m not – this article is about the very real town that Silent Hill was based on. Welcome to Centralia Pennsylvania…

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The Slender Man : Everywhere

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The Slender Man wears an old black suit sometimes described as circa 1920s, he is of course very tall and slender, but what is most commonly described are his long tendril like arms. He feeds on children, outstretching his arms and rendering his prey into a hypnotic state. Whether he does in fact eat them, or simply carries them off is unknown as no remnants are left behind. Although modern Western social media has safely relegated the creature to the realms of “urban myth” and more so “urban myth created on the internet”, that is far from the case. Welcome to the nightmares of almost every culture on Earth for the last three thousand years…

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Captain Tony’s Saloon : USA

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In 1521 the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León and his crew discovered an island covered in human bones. They named it Cayo Hueso, which translates literally as “bone key”. Regardless of the human remains, the island was settled. In later years it became a major shipping hub, but with shipping comes pirates, and with pirates comes murder and hangings. Five hundred years later, the bones and the name Cayo Hueso are long forgotten, and the island has a new name. Welcome to Key West, Florida…

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Cape Otway : Australia

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UFO sightings, alien abductions, and extraterrestrial communications have always been easily explained by sceptics; never so much as to satisfy the believers, but explained none the less. I’m going to tell you about what happened to Frederick Valentich as he flew into Southern Australia, and maybe the sceptics out there can tell me if they can explain it. Welcome to Cape Otway…

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Unit 731 : China

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On the outskirts of Harbin city in the far North of China is a large facility that having been nicknamed the Auschwitz of the East makes the atrocities that occurred in places like Athens Lunatic Asylum look like prepubescent bullying. An estimated 200,000 people died from torture and experiments in weapons testing, germ warfare, and vivisection without anaesthesia within the walls of what was officially know as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department. Welcome to the Unit 731 Experimentation Camp…

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San Zhi Resort : Taiwan

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In the late 1970s a series of pod like buildings were constructed in New Taipei City as a new age resort for American soldiers doing their tour in the Far East, it was then immediately abandoned before even opening. It was abandoned for one simple reason: people keep dying in the resort. In fact, people keep dying outside the resort on the road that’s just passing by. People die everywhere around the resort. Welcome to the San Zhi Resort…

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The Bell Witch Haunting : USA

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“I had rather face the entire British Army than to spend another night with the Bell Witch”, those are the words of General Andrew Jackson, who would later go on to become President of the United States. He and his troops had found themselves in circumstances that required they spend the night at the farm. It was a night that haunted him the rest of his life. Welcome to the John Bell farm, home of the Bell Witch Haunting…

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The Manila Film Center : Philippines

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At the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex in Pasay City, a large section of scaffolding gave way. That morning, 169 workers fell to their death in the accident, and what’s more frightening is that they landed in the quick drying cement below and were sealed in. What’s even more frightening is the speculation that although their bodies could have been retrieved, the Philippines’ first lady who was on site during the accident gave the order to seal their bodies in. To this day 169 corpses are buried in the cement under the orchestra pit. Welcome to the Manila Film Center…

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