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The Devil in Oil City

In the spring of 1896, the home of Arthur Ramsay, an eccentric artist in Oil City, Pennsylvania, became the setting for a horrifying tragedy. Ramsay had recently become consumed by an intense and bizarre religious fervor that warped his perception of reality. He developed a disturbing obsession centered on his wife, 26-year-old Effie, whom he…

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The Wieliszew Witch

In the autumn of 1907, a dark superstition took hold in the small Polish village of Wieliszew. It began with a peasant named Jan Zbroh, who harbored a grudge against his neighbor, Josephine Ziolhow. When Jan’s daughter, Marya, suddenly became too weak to get out of bed, she made a startling accusation: Josephine had bewitched…

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The Sausage King

Allen and Lee are back and this time we are covering one of Chicago’s most notorious true crime stories with a little spiritualism and a ghost story sprinkled in. Adolph Luetgert made a fortune selling sausage in the Windy City during the Colombian Exposition in 1893. However, once the festival left town, business started drying…

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Ghost from the Alaskan Gallows

On the morning of September 19, 1902, Nome, Alaska witnessed the state’s first legal execution when 26-year-old Fred Hardy was hanged for the murders of three gold prospectors on remote Unimak Island. Hardy, who had a troubled past, never stopped proclaiming his innocence. Hours before his death, he spoke to reporter Mary E. Hart through…

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