            The words "never seen again" are the creepiest phrase I've ever heard. They show up in childhood fantasy tales, as well as horror stories. So any story, fiction or fact, with those words haunts me. They are creepy and fascinating and a mystery usually not solved.

I’ve heard stories, reports and tall tales about people never seen again. Often they don’t say where the story started from. A lot of these stories are based on at least one ages old urban legend. But, they’re still creepy.

I turned on Tubi and watched a few episodes of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction last night. One of the episodes, ‘The Kid in the Closet’, was about a boy with a monster in his closet. His older brother teased him about it and then, to prove there was no monster, he went into the closet and shut the door. They heard him making a ruckus, yelling and banging at the door, then it went quiet. The Mother came in to see what was going on. She opened the closet, no one was inside. No older brother. But, his shoes and a pile of the clothes he had been wearing were there, without him.

Police were called, inspected the closet and found no way for him to get out. At the end of the episode they said he was never seen again and claimed this story is based on a true event.

Any time someone is never seen again is creepy. The police thought the boy had run away. On the show they left that sort of hanging, but doubtful. Also, the police had not found any way he would have gotten out of the closet, other than the door. His clothes and shoes were left in the closet. Those two things seem a bit odd, even after I found out more.

It turns out, according to the source I found after a bit of a search, that the boy did run away. So, how did he get out of the closet? The police didn’t notice the ceiling panel when they looked? I guess he was at least wearing his underwear, the show didn’t say all his clothes were left in the closet. So, it is still a little puzzle. It is possible the whole thing really is a hoax, in spite of the show saying it was fact, not fiction.

A bit of digging turns up at least one comment on the show’s IMDB message board, posted on February 12, 2008, in which the commenter shared her correspondence with someone who had worked on Beyond Belief and knew the actual truth:

“The Beyond Belief: fact or fiction story about the monster in the kid’s closet was based on an actual event that I personally investigated,” she was told. “At the time it happened there was no explanation for the boy’s disappearance— until two weeks later when it was learned that he had climbed out of the closet through a ceiling panel and ran away from home. He stayed at a friend’s house surreptitiously until the friend’s mother discovered him hiding in the attic of their home and exposed the ruse.”

The show’s producer wouldn’t discover this very important detail until it was far too late.

Source: Stranger Dimensions – Beyond Belief: The Kid in the Closet

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This bizarre electrical phenomenon usually occurs during thunderstorms and lasts for up to thirty seconds. Balls of lightening are said to behave in strange ways, hovering, rolling, hissing and sometimes passing through walls, in a way that seems completely unnatural. As a result, ball lightening has long been associated with aliens and ghosts, and the kind of pseudo-psychic head-cases who believe they can communicate with the other side. Thousands of people throughout history have reported seeing ball lightening, including Benjamin Franklin and my grandmother, but until recently their claims were largely ignored. However, with an increasing amount of photographic and video evidence available, scientists have now begun to take ball lightening seriously and are now attempting to recreate this entirely natural phenomenon within the confines of a laboratory.

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Described by scientists as a plasma phenomenon, St Elmo’s fire is caused by ionization in the atmosphere. Named for the patron saint of sailors, the phenomenon was historically witnessed emanating from the lightning conductors atop tall ships, however it can occur almost anywhere, particularly during thunderstorms. Whilst the phenomenon may appear to be flame-like when a lightening rod is it’s source, it has been more accurately described as a blue-green glow.

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Goat suckers, or Chupacabras, are the hypothetical creatures blamed for a recent series of cattle mutilations in South America. In the past decade hundreds of cattle have been found mutilated across Brazil alone. Often the cattle are found to have had huge amounts of blood drained from their bodies but other signs include the removal of the jaw, tongue or anus in startling similarity to cattle mutilations in the US.

The goat sucker myth began in Puerto Rico where a series of sightings during the 1970s first made headlines. At first it seemed that goats and sheep were the only item on the menu but this soon changed when the creatures were reported in Mexico two decades later and began attacking cattle. There are a number of theories explaining the sudden appearance of this critter in South America. Perhaps the most logical explanation is that their species is native to the Amazon and that deforestation has forced them to leave the rain-forest for the first time in search of food. Another popular, if somewhat unlikely explanation is that the goatsuckers are of extraterrestrial origin, owing to the fact that goat sucker attacks often coincide with UFO sightings.

Descriptions of goat suckers vary hugely and whether they actually exist is a matter of huge debate. Many say that predatory animals could be behind the rise of livestock mutilations or blame covert government experimentation, but the truth remains a mystery.

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Spontaneous Human Combustion

This phenomenon is extremely rare and no plausible, scientific theory has yet been offered to explain how a person can suddenly burst into flames, but it would appear that some few unfortunate people have done exactly that.

Most deaths thought to be caused by spontaneous human combustion can be attributed to the “wick effect”, whereby a person’s body fat acts like candle wax, causing a person to burn in an intensely hot but extremely well contained fireball. Strangely, all that is left in most cases is the lower part of the victims legs, which contain little fat, and their feet, which are usually found to be still wearing slippers. This would seem to explain how homes are sometimes left undamaged after a victim’s body has been burned to cinders along with their favorite armchair. However, whilst the “wick effect” explains the way in which a human body might burn it offers no explanation for the cause of the fire.

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Whilst UFO sightings vary so widely in description that would seem to defy logic entirely, the amazing commonality between individual alien abduction stories would seem to suggest that more is at work here than a few over active imaginations. Psychologists have linked abduction stories to a deep routed fear of pregnancy in both men and women, explaining why so many self-proclaimed abductees claim to have been implanted with alien fetuses. Another well established theory behind alien abduction is that strong electromagnetic fields, perhaps occurring naturally, could cause a person to suffer an epileptic fit whilst simultaneously causing nearby electrical equipment (such as car radios) to malfunction. The person would subsequently see flashing lights before blacking out. Waking up from such an experience, the word “aliens”, would surely be the first on your lips.

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20 of the Creepiest Places on Earth

Places can be creepy for a lot of reasons, whether it’s a terrifying history, ominous architecture, or the eerie sense of unease that comes from simply having been abandoned. Yet that doesn’t stop any of us from finding creepy old places fascinating, and the adventurer in all of us is always thinking about checking them out in person because, really, we’ve all got to die sometime, right? Here are some of the most terrifying places on earth, in case you’re looking for a few locations to taunt death in the near future.

Island of the Dolls – Mexico

Old, battered dolls are inherently creepy, so it’s no surprise that the Island of Dolls, located near Mexico City, ranks right up there among the freakiest places on earth since thousands of the dolls are hanging from trees, covering virtually the entire island in horror.

Winchester House – California

Looking at it from the outside the Winchester Mystery House looks like a relatively normal old mansion, but the former residence of gun magnate William Winchester was believed by his widow, Sarah, to be haunted by the victims of his guns so she just kept building bizarre doors and stairs to nowhere to try to keep the ghosts from finding her.

Leap Castle – Ireland

Located in Ireland, Leap Castle is home to a bloody history of executions and violent rivalries, and to this day is thought to be haunted, thanks in large part to the discovery of a pit full of spikes and human remains by a team of renovators not too long ago.

Matsuo Mine used to be a huge, bustling sulfur mine before being abandoned, and now if you ever wanted to try to check it out for yourself you’d be met with a giant wall of mist that constantly hides it from view, making it look like the scariest ghost town ever.

Centralia – Pennsylvania

Located in central Pennsylvania, Centralia is basically Hell opening up on earth and trying to swallow an entire town – or specifically, it’s a mine fire that’s been burning since 1962 and left the town almost entirely abandoned and looking like a cut scene from the video game Silent Hill, which makes sense since Centralia is one of the inspirations for that game.

Chateau Miranda – Belgium

This long abandoned castle in the Ardennes region of Belgium has a long history that makes it ripe for rumors of hauntings, as it served as an orphanage all the way until 1980, and let’s be honest, there’s not much more terrifying than huge, gothic orphanages that have long since been abandoned.

Takakonuma Greenland Park – Japan

In addition to having one of the most difficult names to spell on this list, Takakonuma Greenland Park is an abandoned amusement park in Japan, and is so freaking creepy that you half expect to see Scooby Doo and the gang chasing ghosts there and nailing Old Man Carruthers as the fraud that he is.

Discovery Island – Florida

It’s amazing to think that hidden in the Magic Kingdom of Disneyworld in Florida, there’s a creepy, abandoned section hidden in plain view – Discovery Island, formerly known as Treasure Island, which has been shut down since 1999 and overtaken by nature.

Candido Godoi – Brazil

On the surface, Candido Godoi seems like a fairly normal Brazilian town, until you look around and realize that it’s absolutely swarming with twins to the extent that there are rumors that a Nazi geneticist actually fled there after the war and started experimenting on the local population to trigger this phenomenon.

Jatinga, a small town in India, has become infamous over the years for being the site of what appeared to be mass bird suicides, with hundreds and even thousands of birds seemingly killing themselves at the same time every year, though now it’s a little less creepy since it’s pretty much certain that the villagers are the ones killing them, making it the creepiest place to visit for birds, at least.

Is Your Television Alive?

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White noise and phantom images are just the beginning. The electronic aethyr is still the great unexplored country.

There is a whole new study developing around the electro-aethyr, or EA as it is sometimes known. Like all new areas of study, the interest in the electronic aethyr, has been developing for some time.

In the early days of radio, telephony and phonography, the very nature of the new communication medium may have hit a nerve. For the first time, disembodied voices were appearing like magic. Imagine, if you will, sitting on a sofa in front of the fireplace listening to a haunting melody sung by a favorite crooner who was, unfortunately dead for many months. Today we are well accustomed to such things, but what a potent brew of nostalgia it must have cased, mixed uncomfortably with the disquieting fear of hearing the dead speak from a music box.

I imagine there was a cold shiver that shook that listener when the thought crossed his or her mind that maybe what was causing the music box to play was actually alive. Perhaps the realization that only the same music played over and over again calmed that listener’s nerves. But I remember an old woman once telling me that her mother swore her phonograph occasionally played songs that were not on the album. It would happen to her just after midnight. The lyrics were German, and half way through the song would just fade away.

Are there really ghosts in our machines?

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Is Your Television Alive? – Ghost Geeks : Ghost Geeks.

More Ghosts in the Machine

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Now that people are more emotionally attached and in tune with their electronics than their houses, is it any wonder more and more people report that their computers are haunted? That there really are ghosts in our machines?

Years ago I came across a report concerning a suicide, where the suicide note claimed “I can no longer stand it. Every night, night after night it tells me to kill myself. It talks to me from my TV. It lectures me, humiliates me and mocks me.” What disturbed me most about this was what I found out with a few brief phone interviews. A neighbor told me that the victim told him that this happened even when the television was off.

“I thought he was crazy,” the neighbor said. “Hell, I knew he was crazy, but I’m telling you one night I snuck up to his living room window to listen. It was last fall. Warm enough for the window to be open but not so hot the air conditioning was on. I listened for ten, maybe fifteen minutes and all I heard was the program he was listening to- CNN or something. So I was feeling pretty stupid by then and I was about to turn around and get out of there when I hear someone say, ‘Cut your wrists. Get the steak knife and do it now.’”

For a minute the phone line was dead between us. I didn’t know what to say, so I just waited it out from him to get going again.

“Now I know you think this is crazy, but his TV was right near the window I was outside of and I’d swear that’s where the voice came from.”

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More Ghosts in the Machine – Ghost Geeks : Ghost Geeks.

I watched a ghost TV show about this hotel. The ghost search didn’t interest me very much, I wanted to see the building! So I went on a search of my own, online. I made screen captures from Google Street View, images were taken in 2013.

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20 of the Creepiest Places on Earth

Island of the Dolls – Mexico

Winchester House – California

Leap Castle – Ireland

Centralia – Pennsylvania

Chateau Miranda – Belgium

Takakonuma Greenland Park – Japan

Discovery Island – Florida

Candido Godoi – Brazil

Is Your Television Alive? – Ghost Geeks : Ghost Geeks

Is Your Television Alive?

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