INFANTICIDE: April 27, 1958 Long Beach, California Baby Jane Doe

 On April 27, 1958, a newborn girl was found washed ashore in th Alamitos Bay in Long Beach, California.

Jane Doe was 1'3" to 1'6" and 7 lbs. She was wrapped in a woman's long housecoat size 38-40, it was in a duster-style and lightweight. The housecoat was faded with red piping on the collar. It opens from the neckline to the waist and is fastened with two buttons. The brand was Charmode which was sold at Sears Roebuck & Co.

SOURCES:

NamUs

INFANTICIDE: April 24, 1924 Roker Beach, England Baby John Doe

On April 24, 1924, the body of a newborn baby boy was found on Roker Beach near Sunderland, England. The infant was burned, had a fractured elbow and a scalp wound. It's believed that right after birth the infant was placed in a fire and burned to death.

SOURCES:
Unsolved Murders UK

GHOSTS: The Gelin

 

The Gelin (meaning Bride in Turkish) is a female demon or ghost in Turkish and Anatolian Greek folklore. More than likely hear stories in Heybeliada from Prince Islands about them. She is often seen as a beautiful young woman wearing a white wedding dress. Many of them become Gelin due to tragedy. Like being betrayed by a husband or fiance or being unmarried and pregnant. They usually die brutally typically by suicide.

These women are typically a harbinger of death similar to a banshee. She can sometimes haunt a family line or sometimes she rides a white horse in a graveyard. In the graveyard, she attracts men and kills them if they make contact.

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

Sabah

Encyclopedia Mythica

UNIDENTIFIED: November 29, 1985 Conroe, Texas Doe

 On November 29, 1985, a man fishing in Rish Creek in Conroe Texas would snare a skull with his fishing pole. It is suspected that the skull was a war trophy from WWII as there were faint scribblings on WWII, the Japanese, and the date April 22, 1942.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Doe Network
Unidentified Wiki

UNIDENTIFIED: April 21, 1823, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania John Doe

 On April 21, 1823, an unknown man died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

John Doe was a black male and was around 50-years-old. 

SOURCES:

Find A Grave

Murder of William Ewart Bamford

On April 20, 1912, 26-year-old William Bamford was in Manchester, England. Around 11:30 pm he returned to his home in Hare Place, Rochdale in a taxi bleeding from his face. He at first wouldn't admit what had happened, but would later admit he had been attacked in Manchester.

 He was sent to the Rochdale Infirmary for his injuries, but released. However, due to his injuries, he was admitted to the Dearnley Workhouse Infirmary on September 27, 1913. He would never leave and on February 4, 1914, he would pass.

During his post-mortem, it was found that there was evidence of an operation on him. That there were holes in the vault where his brain mass was protruding. In larger pieces of the brain, there was an abscess. The abcess would cause weakening by discharge which resulted in William's death. 

SOURCES:

Unsolved Murders UK

UNIDENTIFIED: April 19, 1854 Boston, Massachusetts Jane Doe

 On April 19, 1854, a woman's body was found in the water near Battery Wharf in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. She appeared to have drowned recently as hours before she was seen. She was walking the streets and seemed to have been acting insane. 

The woman is about 35-years-old.

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

Boston Evening Transcript April 20, 1854

Strange History: Francis Leavy's handprint

 

On April 18, 1924, at Engine Company #107 a fire department in Chicago it began like any other day. Except on firefighter, Francis Leavy was acting strange that day. He had an air of gloominess around him. He didn't greet his coworkers, smile, or even talk. He just busied himself with cleaning and maintenance around the firehouse. He then admitted to his fellow firefighters that he felt like he was going to die. At the time some of them possibly poked fun at it, because they never thought it could be true.

After 7 p.m. while Leavy was cleaning the windows a call had come in there was a fire at the Curran Hall. Like many of the other firefighters, Leavy left to the fire that was only a few blocks away. Engine #5 and Engine #103 were fighting the fire inside. While firefighters from truck #12 were working the ladders outside.

The four-story building showed some weird anomalies. Some witnesses said that the fires went downstairs like liquid flowing and when it had gotten to the boxes on the stairwell they exploded. Those fighting inside had to take turns running to the windows to breathe fresh air because at the time they had no breathing apparatuses.

Unfortunately for all those who fought the fire inside. Thirty minutes in the fire had damaged the structure of the building too far. First, the roof collapsed and then pushed out the outer walls of the structure causing the whole building to collapse. Those within the building had been hurt or lost their life.

Within thirty minutes all recuse agencies in Chicago were called in. It was difficult to rescue those trapped beneath the building because when the building collapsed it knocked out power lines leaving the search in rescue in the dark.

20 firefighters were injured and 8 firefighters died that night 1 firefighter died 8 days later. One civilian, William Behr, died while trying to help rescue trapped firefighters. Funerals for the fallen occurred on the 21, 22, and 23 where 125 firefighters were officially detailed to honorary escorts for the services. For the first time in history a civilian, William Behr, had 6 firefighters serve as honorary pallbearers.

Truck 12 lost 6 of their firefighters, Engine #5 lost 2, and Engine #107 lost only one and that was Francis Leavy.

The fire itself was found out to be the cause of arson. The reason that the fire spread like liquid flowing was because wood alcohol was spread around the building and lit on fire. The one who started the fire was the owner of the sporting goods and novelties shop that resided on the second floor. They were convicted of arson and murder. It's sad to think all these people were injured, killed, lost their coworkers and friends just because the owners wanted to get $32,000 from the insurance company.

The next day the other firefighters noticed the half-cleaned window that Leavy was working on had a strange stain on it. In the middle of it was a handprint and when they tried cleaning it the handprint would not leave. They scrubbed, scraped with razors, and used different cleaning chemicals, but nothing would work on the window. They even hired people to clean it, but no one could remove the handprint.

It had been suggested to replace the window, but some of them working there didn't want to. They believed that they shouldn't mess with the unknown. It was also left as a reminder or in memory of Leavy and those who lost their lives that night.

On April 18, 1944, exactly 20 years after Leavy and his fellow firefighters lost their life something happened. A paperboy carelessly threw a newspaper and it shattered the window. Thus destroying the mysterious handprint that couldn't be removed.

SOURCES:

Illinois Fire Service Institute

The Paranormal Guide

Paranorms

UNIDENTIFIED: April 13, 1989 New York City, New York John Doe

 On April 13, 1989, the Synagogue on 12 Eldridge St in New York City, New York was undergoing renovations. A worker was shoveling a pile of coal ash in the basement when a skull would be found. Police were called and the rest of the skeletal remains of a teenage boy were found. It's believed that the remains may have been there for a long time. There was a bottle from the 1930s was found in the same area. It's not clear how it may be forensically significant to this case. Also, the building did not have a coal burner for the last 50 years. So it's believed the young man had died between 1930 to 1960. 

John Doe was a black male between 14 to 17 years old. He was around 5'2".

SOURCES:

NamUs

Unidentified Wiki

Daily News April 14, 1989

Daily News April 15, 1989

UNIDENTIFIED: April 24, 1924 Valdosta, Georgia Jane Doe

On April 12, 1924, a woman died from heart disease and kidney problems in Valdosta, Georgia. She had been in the city for around 20 days and was doing housework for a living.  She was buried in the Lowndes County Poor Farm Cemetery in Mineola.

On the death certificate, there is a name on there. The only thing I can make out is last name was Howell but next to that it is noted as Don't Know. So it may be the name she was using, but it's unknown if it was actually her name. She was a widow but don't know is also listed beside it.

Jane Doe is a black female and was around 50-years-old at the time. 

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

Unidentified Wiki

Murders of Thomas Smith and Squire Knyston

Photo of Thomas Smith

On April 4, 1905, 15-year-old Thomas Smith would leave his home on Wood Street in Chorlton-on-Medlock in Manchester, England. His mother would think that he was looking for work. However, the timid boy would not return home that night. It was assumed that maybe he had gone to visit either his sister in Dunkinfield or the one in Denton. 

The next day two boys he knew came to the house and asked if Thomas was going to work. Not knowing where Thomas was and not wanting him to lose his job she sent a note to his employers that he wasn't feeling well. However, she was worried sick about him. She would make inquiries to see if he was at either sisters, but he wasn't.

At 3pm on April 11, 1905, a rag-and-bone men would go to an uninhabited house on Hoyle Street off Fairfield Street in Ancoats. While gathering items he looked in the cellar window a body would be found lying on his back under a slab. He would tell another rag-and-bone man his discovery and the two would go to the police. 

The police would break into the home and go down to the cellar. It was obvious that the boy was murdered brutally. There was a bloody brick on his neck. A newspaper comic of "Funny Cuts" from April 8th was found stuffed in his mouth as a gag and his red handkerchief with 7 black stripes was tied over it. He was partially dressed and what clothes he had were torn and disarrayed. His pants were pulled down in the back and cut in the front. 

 His face was so beaten that he was unrecognizable. His body was also covered in bruises. He had fought back with his attacker that the nail from his middle left finger was torn off. His arms were covered in scratches he wasn't just beaten, but also stomped as a boot print was on his stomach. His genitals were also mutilated while he was alive. 

It could not be said if he was sexually assaulted, but it was suspected that he was. 

Even though the brick was bloody and found at the scene the coroner believed that a knob-like object was used to beat him. 

It was thought that he had been dead for a couple of days even though he had been missing for a week. It's not stated if they think he was held prisoner, but they know that the crime didn't happen in the cellar he was found in. The only access was a window as the doors to the cellar were locked. 

He had not been reported missing, but when the description was put in the paper his mother knew it was him. His mother and older brother, Issac, would go to identify him. They could not identify him from his face due to the brutality on it. Instead, they identified him by his clothes. At the time he was dressed in a black Vicuna jacket, black vest, dark grey trousers with black stripe, blue and red striped cotton shirt, two odd black stockings, and clasped clogs. He also had in his possession a second-class ticket for the swimming bath, Mayfield Baths, number 7,837.

In 1906, 15-year-old Squire Kynston lived with his mother at Whitsuntide at 7 Back Grey Street in Manchester, England. In August he and his mother would get into an argument after he had stayed out all night. She saw him the day after he stayed out on Butler St. She would say "You naughty boy, go right home and stay in the house" while slapping him on the side of the head. She would never see him again after this argument. 

Someone had told her later he was with his cousin. She would assume that Squire was staying with her sister and assumed he was safe. She did not check up on him however since she and her sister did not have a good relationship. It wasn't stated if he was staying with his aunt or just assumed he was. 

On Chapel St behind London Road Station, there was an unoccupied house set to be demolished. On November 20th A workman would enter the house. He stated when he entered the ground floor rooms of the home there was a stench in the air. He would find out that the stench was coming from the cellar. He would go down the stairs nearly tripping over something. It was Squire's body. The worker would quickly go and get the police. 

One of his shoulders was under a slab of flag and his head was partially under a slope stone. Squire was not wearing any clothes when he was found, but a thin strap was found wrapped around his neck. It's believed it was wrapped tightly around his neck. It was unknown what his cause of death was as he was too decomposed and rats had been eating him. However, it was believed he may have been sexually assaulted as his pants were not on him. He was not beaten on his head like Thomas.

Though both boys had died in different ways, the way they were found in similar ways and places. 

SOURCES:

Unsolved Murders UK (Thomas)

Unsolved Murders UK (Squire)

Days of Horror

Manchester Evening News April 12, 1905

Leicester Mercury April 12, 1905

Birmingham Evening Mail

Agnaiyaaq or Little Girl

 

In 1994 Coastal Erosion exposed the body of a little girl at Ukkuqsi in the old whaling village of Utqiagvik in Alaska. The little girl was between 5 to 8 years old and lived and died between 800 and 1200. She was a member of the Thule people. Her name was lost, but she is known now as Agnaiyaaq or Little Girl. 

The little girl was loved in life. She was chronically sick in her short life. It was found that she had lung damage due to emphysema, and a rare congenital disorder, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency. Though she was chronically sick her body and burial showed signs that she was well-loved. 

She had evidence in her lungs that she spent much of her life by fire and being cared for and chewing on leather trying to soften them. A little girl helping her family. She however only had clay, leather, and fur in her stomach. It's not believed that she was intentionally starved, but that she and her clan were starving at the time of her death.

With a mixture of her illness and starvation, the girl would pass away. She would be laid to rest carefully. She was buried with a small toboggan made of whale bone likely used to help move her and wrapped in her fur parka. She was then buried in a cold cellar. 

After her scientific look at her body, she was then laid to rest by the Inuit people in Barrow, Alaska. 

SOURCES:

Jstor

Mummipedia

Seattle Times October 1995

End of Watch: Deputy Warden Joseph Clark

In 1864 a man called George Chase was in jail on Collins St in Joliet, Illinois for being a horse thief. It was believed that his name was George Chase, but it was not positive. He refused to talk about his loved ones or where he was from. George was about 30 and described as a stout and healthy man with blue eyes and sandy hair. 

On April 4th George would attempt to escape but failed. However, during his attempted escape, he would hit Deputy Warden Joseph Clark with a rock or club. This injury would cause the Deputy Warden to die weeks later. 

The following January he would be sentenced to death. He was to be the first man executed in Joilet. Because he refused to talk about family friends or even where he was from his only visitors were 3 ministers. On July 27, 1866, George was taken from his jail cell at about 2:30. The three ministers would follow him with their Bibles reading from them. 

He would be walked to a large hallway in the county jail. There was a gallows made specifically for George. There were two posts on each side of the hallway with a beam overhead. a noose would hang from the beam and the other went into a hole in the basement. It was tied with three heavy sandbags that were to bring him up. 

Several official witnesses and newspaper reporters watched the execution. George was tied with ropes and looked to have a dead expression as he was seated in a chair. The chair was under the noose. He would be asked if he had any final words and he did. 

“I don’t think I’m guilty,” he said. “I don’t see any proof that I murdered that man. I think I’ve got as good an explanation of that as you have.” Before he was done talking the Sheriff placed a white hood over his head. “I’m not ready for that yet,” he continued. “I’m as innocent a man as any of you. I am as innocent a man as any in the United States. I admit that hanging is justice. But hanging for a thing a man ain’t guilty of and can’t prove I am guilty of is another thing. It ain’t justice.” He then complained about how tight his bindings were. When the hood was completely placed he muttered, “Gentlemen, I am to be slaughtered.”

The noose would be placed around his neck over the hood. The sheriff would signal the deputy in the basement to drop the bags and they were. George would be pulled from his chair and hung 5 feet in the area. There was a little struggle. They would leave him to hang for 20 minutes. 

He was not taken to a funeral home or buried right after his death. Instead, his head was removed so that doctors could look at the brain attempting to see if there were any clues about his criminal behavior. However, there were no "signs of insanity" in his brain. 

The head was given to a phrenologist and used for lectures. His headless corpse was buried at the prison cemetery known as Monkey Hill. 

SOURCES:

Legal Executions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, and Missouri page 3

Will County, Illinois Genealogy 

The Incan Woman

 

Panzer et. al, PLOS ONE 2014

Allegedly, in the 1890s, during her trip to South America Princess Therese of Bavaria received two mummies. It's unknown what had happened to one of the mummies, but the other was that of an Incan woman. Parts of the legs of the woman were destroyed during WWII, but still remain well intact other than her missing legs.  She was donated to the Anatomical Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilian University in 1904. 

It was initially thought that she was a European bog body at first. After an Analysis of her hair though it showed that she was from South American Origins. This made sense because the braided style of her hair was not common in Europe. The bands holding her hair together were made from alpaca or llama hair and had a high diet of seafood and maize. This likely means she is from near the coastline of Peru or Chile, but there was a change in diet the 10 months before her death. She either changed her diet or moved from the area where she lived. She was likely buried in the dry sands of the Atacama Desert to preserve her body. 

It's believed that she was a pre-Columbian Incan woman.  She was between the ages of 20 to 25-years-old. 

A CT scan of the woman shows that she was murdered. It is unknown if she was a sacrifice or not, but it was likely.  She had been killed by being hit with a sharp object several times to the front of her skull. The skull bones were found in her brain cavity. However, even if she wasn't killed she was dying from Chagas disease caused from parasites. 

SOURCES:

National Library of Medicine

Archeology

Mummipedia

Murder of Berry Adams

On March 30, 1874, Primus Edwards (black) would kill 25-year-old Berry Adams (black) at the plantation of Captain John A. Cobb in Sumter County, Georgia. He would claim that the murder happened because Berry was ogling Primus's woman. There is little information about the murder that I could find. One source said that Berry died because Primus was defending himself.

On November 13th Primus would be the first man hung in Sumter. He was quiet and claimed to be a child of God. Between 250 to 300 people came to witness the execution. Before his execution, a large portion of the people who came to witness his execution was able to come and visit him at his cell to say goodbye.

He would have a 6-minute speech before the hanging. He stated that he was being wrongfully hung and that the colored witnesses were the cause of this. His photo was then taken on the scaffold. At about 11:20 a.m. Primus would be hanged in the jail yard and pronounced dead 17 minutes later.

SOURCES:
Legal Executions in Georgia page 18
Sumter County History
The Sun and ColumbusWeekly Enquirer April 7, 1874
Georgia Weekly Telegraph, Journal, and Messanger November 17, 1874

INFANTICIDE: March 29, 1924 Gosport, England Baby Jane Doe

On March 29, 1924, an engine-room artificer of the Royal Navy was on duty at the Costal Motor-Boat Base at Haslar Creek in Gosport, England. He would spot a suspicious brown paper parcel on the foreshore near the pontoon. It was a few feet above the tide line which was at the time dead low.

He would go and get the parcel and unwrap it. Inside was the body of a newborn baby girl. It was found that the child was born alive and had lived for at least a few minutes before dying from exposure and want of attention at birth. She had been dead for more than 3 days. 

SOURCES:

Unsolved Murders UK

GHOSTS: Charley The Doll

 

Photo by Cauer an Atlas Obscura User

In 1968 a doll would be discovered in the attack of a Victorian home in Upstate New York. It was inside a forgotten trunk. It had laid among tattered newspapers from the early 1930s and a yellow piece of paper containing the Lord's Prayer. The doll however could not be dated. 

The doll would be given the name Charley and added to other antiques in the home. He would blend in well with the rest of the dolls in the collection. There was little attention given to him until he began moving from his place on the bench of dolls. 

The parents would blame their five children because if it wasn't the parents it had to be the children. The children never fessed up to moving the doll, however. The parents never witnessed anything, but the children began to act weird around the doll. 

The youngest daughter (4) had at one point claimed that Charley spoke to her when she got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. The parents believed it to be her wild imagination. Then the other four children refused to use the bathroom at night or go near the bench within 5 feet. One day the youngest was covered in scratches with the blame placed on Charley instead of their cat. 

The parents wanting to end the children's antics removed Charley from his place. They would lock him back up in the attic in the trunk he was originally found in. Everything would go back to normal and Charley wasn't being blamed for anything. He would lay there for years forgotten. 

Years later after the children were grown the house was sold. The trunk was found in the attic and sold in a garage sale. Charley was one of the last things to go and went to a woman wanting him for her own antique doll collection. She was warned of Charley's antics. 

Charley would switch hands several times with stories of moving from time to time. It was made sure his story of the family in 1968 was told to each owner. It's said that he is more active around children.

In Salem, Massachusetts a shop called the "Local Artisan". The shop beholds odd things suck as taxidermied animals, unusual art, and oddities. He can now be seen by the public. 

SOURCES:

Atlas Obscura

From Tiny Pennies

The Ghost in My Machine

UNIDENTIFIED: March 23, 1921 Northbridge, Massachusetts John Doe

On March 23, 1921, the body of a man was found in the Blackstone River in Northbridge, Massachusetts. It was assumed that he had drowned and had been dead for a long time.

John Doe was a white male. He was around 5'10" and had black hair.

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

UNIDENTIFIED: March of 1885 Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Baby Jane Doe

 In March of 1885  Milwaukee County, Wisconsin a baby was found dead. It is believed that the infant was a stillbirth.

SOURCES: 

Find a Grave

UNIDENTIFIED: March 15, 1924 Jackson County, Missouri

On March 15, 1924, a man was found dead in Jackson County, Missouri. I couldn't really read what the cause of death is, but I think it says acute "something" nephritis.

John Doe is a white male and the estimated age is either 15 or 75 cannot tell.   

SOURCES:
Find a Grave
Missouri Digital Heritage

The Natchez Drug Company Tragedy

 

At the Corner of Main and South Union St. in Natchez, Mississippi was where the Natchez Drug Company was. It was originally the Temple Opera House but was purchased by John H. Chambliss and made into the Natchez Drug Company. An accident will bestow the five-story building.

On March 14, 1908 a gas explosion caused the whole building to collapse. That morning workers of the company complained about a gas smell and a plumber, Sam Burns, arrived that afternoon to look for the leak. He had used a candle and searched the basement. The light from the candle would cause a gas explosion.

The shock from the explosion could be felt for several blocks, and buildings shook. Some even thought it was some sort of earthquake. A second and third explosion would follow crushing the adjoining buildings.

There were still people in the building and many would survive, but 9 people would lose their life. Those who lost their lives were Cleaveland Laub (25), Uriah Hoskins, Eliza Kitteringham, John Carkeet, Luella Booth (teenager), Mary “Lizzie” Worthy (12), Carrie O. Murray (22), Inez Netterville (teenager) and Ada White (teenager). 

None of the deaths were easy. Cleaveland a pharmacist for the Drug Company would be found under a mattress likely trying to protect himself from the flames that would eventually kill him. Uriah a carpenter working on the third floor died when he jumped out of the window to escape the fire. He had died from impacting the ground. Eliza and John were both bystanders who had died due to the explosion. John was standing in front of his own building and flying timbers would penetrate his legs later causing him to die in his home.

John Chambliss would feel guilty about the explosion and tried to share condolences with those who lost their loved ones. He would buy a lot in the Natchez Cemetary and pay for 5 of the girl's burials. Luella, Mary, Carrie, Inez, and Ada would be buried together. The tombstones would simply state their last names, but he would commission of a stone angel to watch over the young ladies. 

It's said that the angel moves on its own. That it will turn and watch cars driving by. It's said to be most noticeable at night as headlights shine on it around the bend of the road. On June 23 2020 someone vandalized that statue rocking it back and fourth until it fell off it's pedestal estimating the damage to be $40,000. 

SOURCES:

Atlas Obscura

Historic City of Natchez

The Vintage News June 30, 2022

And Speaking of Which

INFANTICIDE: March 12, 1924 Allonby, England Baby Jane Doe

 On March 12, 1924, the body of a newborn baby girl was found by a man walking his dog at the Reading Room near Allonby, England. The man was walking his dog heading towards Silloth when he saw his dog near the Reading Room. He would go home without the dog. Later he would see his dog coming back over the Skew Bridge with something in his mouth. It was the arm of a newborn.

The man would then go back to the Reading Room and would find more of the babys' remains above the high water mark about 2 to 3 ft from the grass. The baby's other arm was missing and her neck and face were disfigured. It's not stated if this was due to other animal activity.

SOURCES:
Unsolved Murders UK

Murder of Stanislaus Bilansky

Mary Ann Evard Wright who went by her middle name Ann was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1820. This was where and lived there with her first husband. He would unfortunately die in a railroad accident. She would move to Pleasant Hill, Illinois, and then settle in St. Paul, Minnesota in April of 1858.  She had moved there because her nephew, John Walker, was sick with Typhoid Fever.

Stanislaus Bilansky was born in Poland in 1807/1808. He had lived in Wisconsin, but then moved and settled in St. Paul in 1848. He was one of the first Polish Immigrants to St. Paul. He had been divorced twice previously and was in custody of his 3 young children. He was a poor man who owned a small cabin that doubled as a bar, and a grocery store. He was known to drink heavily. 

In September of 1858 Ann and Stanislaus would get married. Ann would frequently take care of the children when Stanislaus was ill or working. It was said that she was a good stepmother. However, the marriage was not perfect. Soon after Stanislaus would get sick and seemed to have hypochondria. He was also a violent drunk. 

February 28, 1859, Ann and her friend Lucinda Kilpatrick (20s) went shopping. The two went uptown to the post office to send letters and retrieve mail. They would then walk to W.H. Wolff's drugstore on Third St and Wabasha St. She went inside and asked for rat poison so that she could use it in the store since the mice were getting into the vegetables. She claimed her husband wanted it. The rat poison was too much though. 

The two would then go to Day & Jenks, a different drugstore, where Ann purchased a jar of arsenic for ten cents. Lucinda thought it was strange that they needed rat poison. She had never seen any or even heard about any mice in the Bilansky home. 

  

Stanislaus would become sick once again between March 6 and March 11th. It was thought to be indigestion, but his condition would worsen quickly. When his condition worsened he would take both alcohol and Graffenburg pills. No one believed that he was dying other than Ann. Lucinda would witness Ann sitting by her husband's bed. She would cry and ask what to do with the children if he died. 

Lucinda thought this was strange as no one thought he was dying. On March 10th Lucinda would sit with Stanislaus. He would tell her that "he had nothing to live for" and this worried her. She never heard him say anything remotely close to that before. 

She would tell him a small story to perk himself up. She would tell him a story of a sick man being taken care of by his wife. He recovered, but his wife died. Then the man would marry a young man afterwards. 

On March 11th Stanislaus was really bad. Luicinda's husband Andrew wanted to sit by Stanislaus's bedside. Ann refused that and refused to call a doctor. He would then pass away.

 A coroner's jury would determine that it was a natural death. He would be buried on March 12th. Lucinda would claimann asked her to take the blame for buying arsenic. She would tell the police about Ann asking him about what to do with the children, the rat poison, and the odd comments she made. 

On March 13th the body would be exhumed. Medical examiners would then find a trace that resembled arsenic. This would lead to Ann's arrest later that day. March 15 his nature of death would change. A new coroner’s jury ruled the death a homicide.

The murder trial would begin on May 23, 1859. Ann would claim innocence that she was not responsible for her husband's death. 

 Lucinda would go on stand to repeat what she told the officers and what led to the discovery of the murder. Another witness Rosa Scharf stated that Ann had changed with the door open after the funeral. That she did this even though her nephew, John, was in the home. She also stated that the two had a weird air about them and gave each other sneaking glances as if they were having an affair. 

She stated that one day they were sitting in the Bilansky home before Stanislaus's death. An old man would go past the window “I had better set my cap for him, for he has money,” Ann said. Rosa would state that a loveless romance would not be fulfilling. Ann would then respond “You could give him something to sleep himself to death.” She then would tell her how much poison would kill a man.

She also claimed that when she was doing dishes Ann warned her about Stanislaus's plates. She also noted that his meals were made separately from everyone else. That she should be careful about them. Also after the funeral Ann would say "Must of taken poison" which threw Rosa off since no one thought that was how he died. 

There was no solid evidence, only circumstantial. 

It was believed that Ann wanted out of her marriage and did so by poisoning Stanislaus. That she was in love with John and poisoned her husband because of it. 

On June 3td she would be found guilty. She would try to appeal her case on July 23rd but was denied. Within hours of finding out her appeal was denied Ann decided to escape. She escaped from the jail by squeezing through the window bars. She was not missing long as she was caught a week later. 

The case went to the state supreme court, though on narrow and technical grounds. The court denied the defense’s appeal on July 23. Within hours of learning her appeal had been denied, Ann Bilansky escaped from jail by squeezing through window bars. Authorities caught her a week later just a few miles away.

On December 2, 1859, Judge Edward Palmer would give Ann her sentence. She was to be executed. Then Governor Alexander Ramsey would set March 23rd as a hanging day. Ann had some hope though as she had many supporters, a new attorney who was former territorial governor Willis Gorman, and two more avenues to pursue. 

On March 5, 1860, the legislature passed a bill commuting Bilansky’s sentence to life in prison. This would be vetoed though by Governor Ramsey, whose brother Justus had served on the jury. Throughout all this, she would maintain her innocence. 

She would be the only woman executed in Minnesota. She was executed on March 23, 1860. 

These were her last words;

“I die without having had any mercy shown me, or justice. I die for the good of my soul, and not for murder. May you all profit by my death. Your courts of justice are not courts of justice — but I will yet get justice in Heaven. I am a guilty woman I know, but not of this murder, which was committed by another. I forgive everybody who did me wrong. I die a sacrifice to the law. I hope you all may be judged better than I have been and by a more righteous judge. I die prepared to meet my God.”

SOURCES:

Murderpedia

Wikipedia

American Ghost Walks 

The Atavist Magazine

UNIDENTIFIED: March 1672 Retford, England Stranger

 In March 1672, a stranger was found dead in the street in or near Retford, England. On March 11th they would be buried at the St. Swithun Churchyard in Retford. Gender was never stated.

SOURCES:

Find a Grave 

UNIDENTIFIED: March 9, 1924 Aston, Delaware John Doe

 On March 9, 1924, a man's body was found on Concord and Bridgewater Rd in Aston, Delaware. He was frozen to death due to exposure.

John Doe was a black male around 55 years old.

SOURCES:
Find a Grave

Murder of Patricia Lupton

  

On Feb. 16, 1959, 12-year-old Patricia Lupton and her three friends saw a babysitting notice posted on the bulletin board at the A&P supermarket in the Kennedy Park Shopping Plaza at Kennedy Rd and Eglinton Ave E. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

The girls all put their names, addresses, and phone numbers for the ad, as they all had a history of babysitting. On March 9th Patricia would receive a call from the man answering the ad. Patricia was not the only one who received a call as two of the other friends were. One missed the call as the line was busy and the other was sick.

He called himself Mr. Johnson and told her that he and his wife were visiting their infant son in the hospital and needed a babysitter for their slightly older son.  Patricia agreed and was excited as she liked taking care of younger children. She was supposed to get picked up by Mrs. Johnson at the Kennedy Park Drugs in the same Plaza where she saw the bulletin. 

Her parents felt safe with her accepting the job as she was highly regarded by the people she previously babysat for. She told her parents she was going to check in with them when she got home. At 5:30 pm she left her home to the Plaza.  

A call that was supposed to happen never came and this worried her family. Unknown to them her body was found at 7:20 in a snowbank on McCowan Rd, less than two miles from her home. She had been strangled to death with her own scarf, her knees were bruised, and her clothing was in disarray, she was not sexually assaulted, but it can be assumed that that was the motive.

Four hours later her family learned of what had happened to her from the news.

SOURCES:

Toronto Police Service

Find a Grave

UNIDENTIFIED:March 1924 Honeybrook Township, Pennsylvania John Doe

  In March 1924 a man was found in  Honeybrook Township, Pennsylvania. He had died from Dropsy. 

John Doe is a black male about 60 years old. 

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

MONSTERS: Dearg Due

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There is a  tragic tale in Celtic folklore that ends in revenge. The woman of this tale's name is long gone, but she is now known as Dearg Due. It's a tale of "Hell Hath no fury like a woman scorned". 

In life, Dearg Due was a woman who was born and raised in Ireland. She was said to be kind and sweet. She even fell in love with a local peasant who was similar as he was kind and handsome. Her father was cruel and greedy. He was lucky his daughter was so beautiful, and that a rich man wanted her. This was a time when arranged marriages were commonplace. 

She would then be sold into marriage and separated from her love and her father got richer. Her husband was a cruel older man who would place his hands on her and verbally berate her. Her husband seemed to love doing this to her. 

Knowing that she had a lover waiting for her outside he would lock her up in a tower. She was isolated as those she used to know would never see her again after the wedding. She would wait and pray for her love to come and save her, but he never was able to. She would begin to waste away as she refused to eat and drink. This would eventually die from this.She is buried in a small churchyard, near “Strongbow’s Tree,” in the County of Waterford in Southeast Ireland

Her husband and father did not grieve her death. Everyone else grieved her, especially her lover. He would visit the grave every night crying and talking to her. Her husband was said to have remarried quickly after. Her lover was filled with regret and rage at how her life had been ruined. 

Dearg Due was also filled with rage. She craved retribution so much that she was able to crawl out of her grave. The first person she visited was in the home she grew up in. She would stand next to her father and watch as he slept. The cruel man would sleep as if his daughter did not have a cruel fate. She would place her lips on his and suck the life out of him. 

She would then go to the home she would die in. She would find her husband surrounded by women. He also did not care about what he put her through. The women were fulfilling his lustful desires and she would stand there watching. Rage would fill her and she would throw herself at her husband and draw his life. Her fury was so harsh that not only did she take his last breath but all his blood. 

She would meet her love again. Even though his love and rage brought her back to life she did not feel love anymore. She would also make the man a victim of hers. 

It said that she only hunts on the night of her death. She then kills men on that night. 

SOURCES:

Irish Central

Got Ireland

Myth and Folklore Wiki

Irish Road Trip

Unsolved Murder of Herbert Baker

 On March 1, 1924, Herbert Baker passed away from wounds caused by a hit and run 10 years before.  He was hit by a vehicle on Station Road in Winsford, England, and was found unconscious and suffering. He was also suffering from a contusion of the spine. Over the years he would weaken and develop muscular degeneration of the heart. This would cause his death. 

SOURCES:

Unsolved Murders UK

CRYPTIDS: Boroboroton

 

Boroboroton as depicted in Toriyama Sekien's Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro

The Boroboroton belongs is a specific kind of Japanese Yokai called Tsukumogami or artifact spirit. These kinds of spirits are from manmade objects either possessed by ghosts or spirits or they form their own spirit from constant use for at least 90 to 100 years. If They form their own spirit they often look brand new or pristine despite their old age.

The Boroboroton is a tattered futon or a Japanese sleeping mat. They come alive at night and will come to life at night especially if it feels ignored or needless. In revenge, they will rise up in the air and kill any sleeping person they make contact with. It will wrap around the head and neck of the sleeper with the intent of strangling them to death. 

Sometimes they will meet with other Tsukumogami and throw noisy parties or leave the gome search for other beings. 

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

Yokai Wiki

UNIDENTIFIED: February 27, 1991 Adel, Georgia Jane Doe

On February 27, 1991 skeletal remains would be found in Adel, Georgia. It's believed that these may be historical remains. There is little information in this case.

Jane Doe was a female between 30 to 60 years old. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

INFANTICIDE: February 19, 1924, Leeds, England Baby John Doe

On February 19, 1924, a newborn baby boy was found wrapped up in brown paper on the Wellington Bridge in Leeds, England.

SOURCES:

Unsolved Murders UK

Death of George Spencer Millet

February 15, 1909, was George Millet's 15th birthday. The boy worked at a well-known insurance company in the NY Metropolitan Life Building in Manhattan, New York. On this day he would show up to work. The boy was well-known in the office. All throughout the day his female coworkers teased that they would give him a kissing spree after work.

At 4:30 pm the six stenographers would chase the shy teenager playfully. Before the chase he had apparently just placed it in his pocket and which was a 6-inch metal tool in the shape of a knife. In the chase, he would slip and fall. He would scream "I'm stabbed" before going unconscious in a pool of his own blood. When he had fell the ink eraser in his shirt pocket pierced his heart stabbing him.

 

One of the girls went to help him automattically,but passed out from the sight of blood coming from his chest. On the way to the hospital, George would pass away. 

His grave says: 

LOST LIFE BY STAB IN FALLING ON INK ERASER EVADING SIX YOUNG WOMEN TRYING TO GIVE HIM BIRTHDAY KISSES IN OFFICE METROPOLITAN LIFE BUILDING.

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

Wikipedia

Atlas Obscura

Slate

UNIDENTIFIED: February 14, 1959 Miami, Florida John Doe

 On February 14, 1959, the body of a man was found in shallow water near the shoreline of a rock pit on Bailes, Rd in Miami, Florida. He was found nude and laying face down. His cause of death was unknown or unstated.

John Doe was a black male between 30 to 40-years-old. He was 5'5" and 150 lbs. He had black curly hair and black eyes. Clothes were found near the body by the shoreline. The clothes were a white T-shirt, white jockey shorts, a blue sports shirt, tan pants, and a pair of army-type ankle high-laced shoes. 

There were also various pans and food scraps found nearby. 

SOURCES:
NamUs
Doe Network

Uncovered

Murder of Oscar Mann

On February 11, 1924, 15-year-old Harrison Brown and 23-year-old Oscar Mann would get into an argument. They were arguing at a sawmill they worked at in Upson County, Georgia. It wasn't stated what the argument was in the newspapers, but Harrison was so mad he went home and came back with a shotgun. He would chase Oscar for half a mile with it before shooting and killing him, It was described in newspapers as a black-on-black crime.

The trial would happen soon after and by February 20th the 15-year-old was sentenced to hang. He would be hanged on August 15, 1924.

SOURCES:

Legal Executions in Georgia page 124

The Macon News Feb 20, 1924
The Butler Herald Feb 28, 1924

The Macon Telegraph August 16, 1924

UNIDENTIFIED: February 10, 1952, San Pedro, California John Doe

 On February 10, 1952, the body of a man was found floating in the surf at the end of Barracuda St on Terminal Island in San Pedro, California by two fishermen. He was greatly decomposed when he was found and was missing body parts such as the legs below the knee and both arms. 

John Doe was between 20 to 25-years-old. He was between 6'0" and 6'5". 

SOURCES: 

NamUs

Unidentified Wiki

News-Pilot February 11, 1952 

Murder of Anne Head

 On February 8, 1924, Anne Head died from corrosive poisoning in Croydon, England. There is little information in this case.

SOURCES:

Unsolved Murders UK

UNIDENTIFIED: February 5, 1924 Jinnampo, North Korea Doe

  On February 5, 1924, the body of a mutilated toddler was found in Jinnampo, South Pyongan Province, North Korea. At the time it was under Japanese Occupation and Japanese police were in charge. A publication ban was placed so it was not widely reported. 

The infant was estimated to be around 2 years old and his death was horrific as they were done to him while still alive. His neck was severed, their limbs and genitals were removed, their skull was fractured, and their brain had been removed.

A suspect was quickly arrested, 24-year-old Lee Chang-po. He had reported to the police that he had witnessed the child's brutal murder and the details matched the scene. Lee was suffering from syphilis and was considered mentally unwell. After his arrest, he would confess but he seemed confused. He was often repeating vague statements and mumbled and mismatched words. He claimed he dug up the child from the cemetery, but that was untrue. 

He would recant his confession as it after the autopsy contradicted him. He would then claim that he did it himself and that the missing flesh, organs, and limbs would be found at his home. When Lee lead officers to the home they came across his mother and he asked her "Where did you put the knife and child's flesh you used earlier?" His mother screamed at him "This crazy person!" and refused any involvement with the child's death. Other family members also denied any involvement and the house turned up nothing. 

There was no evidence against Lee and they determined that he lied during his confession. Lee was mentally ill and this helped clear him. They believed he may have witnessed the murder as he stated and that his family was the ones who had done it. If they had it was possible that they believed like a Korean superstition at the time that eating the liver of a young person or child would cure diseases. 

SOURCES:

Unidentified Wiki

Namu

GHOSTS: Hairy Hands

 

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Between Postbridge and Two Bridges in Dartmoor, England there is a legend of a sector who loves to cause vehicle accidents. The story begins around 1910 and drivers and cyclists have reported that in this area their vehicle would jolt and steer off the road. The cause of it? The Hairy Hands appeared out of nowhere and grabbed the steering wheel or handlebars causing a crash. 

There would be no fatalities until 1921 when E.H. Helby would wreck his motorcycle. His two daughters who were sitting in the sidecar would survive, however. 

It's unknown who the spirit is and why they want to cause wrecks. Some suspect that it wasn't a spirit, but people unfamiliar with the area getting in accidents and knowing the legend and blaming it on that. 

SOURCES:

Wikipedia

ObscUrban Legends Wiki

UNIDENTIFIED: February 1, 1992 Grand Rapids, Michigan Doe

 February 1, 1992, partial skeletal remains were found in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This person died between 1940 to 1992.

SOURCES:
NamUs

INFANTICIDE: January 29, 1924 Whitehaven, England

 On January 29, 1924, the body of a newborn baby girl was found on the roadside in Whitehaven, England by two boys. The baby was burned and her arm and leg had been burned off. She was then wrapped in a newspaper and left at the roadside where she was found.

SOURCES:
Unsolved Murders UK
North Mail, Newcastle Daily Chronicle Feb 12,1924

UNIDENTIFIED: January 22, 1924, Limerick, Ireland Doe

 On January 22, 1924, a child's body was found in the Clonmacken neighborhood in Limerick, Ireland. they were listed as being found at Clonmacken Bank and may have been found near the River Shannon. The cause of death and gender was not listed. 

SOURCES:

Unidentified Wiki

Find a Grave

UNIDENTIFIED: January 1872 Whitwood, England

In January of 1872, someone died in or close to Whitwood, England. The person died falling down a pit. 

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

UNIDENTIIFIED: July 1, 1970 Grottoes, Virginia John Doe

 On July 1, 1970, while police were searching for missing vehicles in an abandoned manganese mine in Grottoes, Virginia skeletal remains of a man were found.  It's believed that the man had died between 1957 and 1960. 

John Doe's race is unknown and he was between 35 to 55 years old. He was around 5'7" to 6'2". 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Unsolved Murder of Albert Mark Fairhead

 On January 15, 1924, 53-year-old Albert Fairhead was found dead in his home at 379 Newport Road, Middlesbrough, England. He was found with his head in a water tub and drowned. He likely did not commit suicide as it would have been very difficult to do it this way and he seemed to have had no worries in his life.

SOURCES:
Unsolved Murders UK

INFANTICIDE: January 12, 1880 Hull, England Baby Girl Doe

 On January 12, 1880 body of a newborn baby girl was found in a box in the lady's lavatory in Paragon Station in Hull, England. It's not stated if she was born alive or not. 

SOURCES:

Unsolved Murders UK

Lemon Grove Girls

 

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In 1966 a couple of teenage boys were obsessed with archeology. They heard of how in Mexico people were buried or mummified in caves. The boys would spend over a month exploring the caves of Chihuahua, Mexico for a discovery. They were successful in doing so as they discovered a pregnant mother and her child. In order to not be caught they would smuggle the remains over the border to Lemon Grove, California. The boys could not show off their discovery or turn the bodies over to a museum because what they had done was illegal. 

When the two were drafted they asked a friend if they could store the box in their garage. More than likely it was unknown to the friend what was inside the box. In 1980 the friend's mother opened the box while cleaning the garage. She was horrified at the sight and called the police. Where everything was discovered.

The remains were discovered to have lived and died between AD 1040 and AD 1260. The bodies were then donated to the San Diego Museum of Man and the Mexican Government decided to grant the U.S.  custody of them.

The mother was estimated to be around 15-years-old and was around 7 months pregnant and close to giving birth. The infant girl was around 1. It's not stated if the two were related. It's not believed that they were purposly buried. The teenage girl laid with her arms over her head.

One refrence states that a CT scanof the young woman revealed a dislocated shoulder, ossified hematoma on the back of the head, indicating blunt force trauma, and a dislocated hip. These injuries are similar to a fall, and she had died soon after.

Another refrences don't mention their deaths, but that it was suspected from their positions that they may have died in their sleep. 

SOURCES:

Atlas Obscura

Ancient Orgins

The Lemon Grove Mummies

Mumipedia

`MONSTERS: Ta-Awi

 

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Ta-Awi is an ogre-like creature in the Philippines. The creature has a body bigger than an ordinary man but despite the size, they are very agile. They are described as being very ugly and their voice is very thunderous. Their voice is so thunderous that it would terrify Maranao hunters. 

Ta-Awi is known to raid villages and devour people alive. They avoid eating the eyes as for some reason they cannot digest them.

SOURCES:

Art and Fiction + Philippine Folklore and Mythologies

Cryptid Wiki

Myth and Folklore Wiki

Myth Museum

UNIDENTIFIED: January 4, 1851

On January 4, 1851, someone died or their body was found in Montgomery County, Ohio. Their body was buried at Old Greencastle Cemetery in Dayton. Gender was not stated on the tombstone, but the age listed is 24-years-old. 

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

UNIDENTIFIED: January 3, 1766 Ramsey, Isle of Man Unknown Lady

 On January 3, 1766, an unknown woman was thrown in at kk Bride in Ramsey, Isle of Man.

SOURCES:
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