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A Halloween themed "reality is creepier than fiction" series...just a couple of true stories that are creepy as hell.
1. Girl in social media groups that talk about and practice the occult mentioned was either trying to get her ex back or get back at her ex (and by the images it looks like an attempted hex). Anyway, she puts out that she's seen one of the spirits (Papa Legba who was depicted in AHS)...dies a couple of days later...and one of the other group members does a ritual to ask Papa Legba if he talked to the girl to which he responds "nope, that was Baron Samedi." Ironically, the Papa Legba depicted in AHS looked a lot more like descriptions of Baron Samedi.
2. This creep broke into homes and assaulted women and children for 11 years. During that time, an innocent man was accused and had to literally leave town for more than a decade over it. The creeper earned the nickname "Beast of Jersey" which caught my attention because I initially thought they meant NJ but nah. Anyway, the real freaky bit here is what he wore...Real life Leatherface lookin' psycho.
3. And finally, this is a interesting article I remembered from back when Cracked.com was in its real prime. The entire thing is a mind-blowing read but the part that always brings me back to this article is about how Cleveland is just straight up full of serial killers.
1. Girl in social media groups that talk about and practice the occult mentioned was either trying to get her ex back or get back at her ex (and by the images it looks like an attempted hex). Anyway, she puts out that she's seen one of the spirits (Papa Legba who was depicted in AHS)...dies a couple of days later...and one of the other group members does a ritual to ask Papa Legba if he talked to the girl to which he responds "nope, that was Baron Samedi." Ironically, the Papa Legba depicted in AHS looked a lot more like descriptions of Baron Samedi.
2. This creep broke into homes and assaulted women and children for 11 years. During that time, an innocent man was accused and had to literally leave town for more than a decade over it. The creeper earned the nickname "Beast of Jersey" which caught my attention because I initially thought they meant NJ but nah. Anyway, the real freaky bit here is what he wore...Real life Leatherface lookin' psycho.
3. And finally, this is a interesting article I remembered from back when Cracked.com was in its real prime. The entire thing is a mind-blowing read but the part that always brings me back to this article is about how Cleveland is just straight up full of serial killers.
I'm not saying that living in Cleveland turns you into a serial murderer, but the city and the surrounding area has produced a suspiciously large number of them -- we've had the Cleveland Strangler, the Cleveland Torso Murderer, the killer who inspired that movie The Fugitive, and many, many more. My obsession with them started in 2005, when I was still working as a reporter for Cleveland Scene magazine. The first story I looked into was the cold-case murder of 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic, who was abducted across the street from the Bay Village Police Department in broad daylight in 1989.
She and I were the same age, and she had lived one town over, so I'd seen her missing posters everywhere when I was a kid. As an 11-year-old, I fell in love with the girl in the missing posters, and I never stopped thinking about her. After I grew up and became a reporter, I looked into Amy's case. What I discovered was disturbing -- the reason the police never solved it was because there were too many men who had the means, motive, and opportunity to kidnap Amy. That's right -- there were simply too many potential child murderers in Cleveland.
The best the FBI has ever been able to do is narrow the list of suspects down to a Top 25. Cleveland being Cleveland, it's entirely possible that every person on that list has at least murdered somebody. Amy's story was too big for an article, so I wrote a book instead. Soon I was the go-to crime guy in Cleveland, and since Cleveland collects serial killers like other cities collect pennants, serial killers became my beat. I've reported on dozens of murders and cold cases in the years since, but I've never dropped Amy's case.