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Vigilante justice can often be a very dangerous thing. People can be accused of crimes that they did not commit, leading to unjustified revenge. Furthermore, vigilante mobs often consider bloodthirsty violence as a method of revenge for petty non-violent crimes.

In May of 2016, 42-year-old Venezuelan chef, Robert Bernal, fell victim to unjust vigilantes. An elderly man accused Robert of stealing the equivalent of $5 from his pocket while Robert was on his way to work. Following this accusation, a group of men started to beat a bewildered Robert until he was semi-unconscious. While coming around from the brutal beating, a man poured gasoline over Robert’s head and body and set him on fire.

Robert was a well built man from serving years in the army. He spent much of his free time cooking for his friends and family - it was his passion, they would say. He was a deeply religious man; just the night before his death, he sent his loved ones text messages hoping that God filled their day with blessings.

“These guys I work with every day had turned into demons. I could hear the man’s flesh crackling and popping. When I put the fire out, they threw bottles at my head,” said Alejandro Delgado, the only passerby that attempted to help Robert as he was up in flames. Robert was eventually taken to hospital where he perished from his severe burns. Disturbing footage of the event was uploaded online, where people praised the ruthless and cowardly act. 

Before he passed away, he told his wife and children that he was innocent of the crime he was killed for. But even if he was guilty, the punishment certainly doesn’t fit the crime. His brutal murder highlights the growing problem of vigilante and mob justice in Venezuela.

A recently widowed man took this photograph of his daughter playing with her new Christmas presents only to discover that the developed picture clearly shows a spectral figure crawling across the floor. His daughter seems to have noticed the ghost, as she is looking towards it, smiling. He firmly believes that this is the ghost of his dead wife trying to play with their daughter on her first Christmas without her mother.

Artist: Stefan Koidl Title: A Chernobyl Horror Story 2 “Some random artworks inspired from my trip to Chernobyl” Very scary…

The Overtoun Bridge

Over 300 dogs have jumped off this bridge in Dumbarton, Scotland.  Since the 1960s, the Overtoun Bridge has been a mysterious hotbed for what locals have called “doggy suicides.”

Owners walking their dogs on the bridge would scream in terror as their dogs got away and leapt to their deaths. The dogs that jumped but didn’t die would climb their way back up only to jump again.

One day Lottie MacKinnon was walking her border collie, Bonnie, over the Overtoun Bridge during one of their walking sessions. Suddenly, MacKinnon said she could sense something change in her dog.

“Something overcame Bonnie as soon as we approached the bridge,” MacKinnon said. “At first [Bonnie] froze, but then she became possessed by a strange energy and ran and jumped right off the parapet.” Bonnie, however, was one of the lucky ones to survive a jump off Overtoun Bridge.

There are many theories about why dogs are doing this. Some people believe its supernatural. Animal experts believe its due to the fact that the dogs are simply attracted to the strong scents given off by the mammals living in the lush gorge below the bridge.

Whatever the cause may be, the Overtoun Bridge continues to be a hotspot for jumping dogs. Thus a local member of parliament called on the Dumbarton Council to erect clearly marked warning signs around the area of the Overtoun Bridge in hopes of curbing this bizarre and macabre trend.

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The Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles is notorious for its dark and haunted history: serial killer Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker) and “Black Dahlia” murder victim Elizabeth Short had both stayed there, and the building has played host to numerous gruesome deaths – the most recent of which involved the body of a missing student discovered in a rooftop water tank after hotel guests reported foul-smelling black water coming from their taps.

Now it seems a new ghostly guest has signed in at the Cecil, as reported by L.A. affiliate KABC: this week their website revealed the photo, taken by Riverside resident Koston Alderete, which seems to depict a spectral figure outside a window on the building’s fourth floor.

“When I looked at that window, it just looked kind of creepy to me,” Alderete told KABC, “and then I showed my friend, and he kind of freaked out.” He also claims to have suffered nightmares after taking the photo.

“We Only Come Out at Night”,

by Stephen Mackey,

2014

The unnerving sight of an approaching car in the dark: photos by Henri Prestes.

‪Located in Central Pennsylvania near the Maryland border lies Rehmeyer’s Hollow. Before being renamed, it was ominously called Hex Hollow. ‪

‬ ‪A two-storey wooden house tucked in among the forest still stands. This house was the home of Nelson Rehmeyer. On the night of the 27th of November, 1928, it was the scene of his murder. Another resident, John Blymire, had been unable to sleep or eat for a prolonged period. Believing he was under some kind of curse, he went to local witch, Nellie Noll (also known as the River Witch of Marietta), for advice. Nellie told John that he was correct: he had been placed under a curse. But by who? Nelson Rehmeyer, Nellie replied.‬ ‪

‬ ‪There was a strong believe in witchcraft and curses in Pennsylvania at the time with many people practicing a form of folk magic called “powwow.” However, powwow focuses on healing ailments as opposed to creating them. It certainly was true that Nelson practiced magic but he practised powwow magic and had once allegedly cured Nelson of an illness. Nevertheless, Nellie said Nelson had placed this curse on John which was causing his ailments. He needed to kill him to life the curse, he believed.‬ ‪

‬ ‪On that fateful evening, John and two accomplices, John Curry and Wilbert Hess, made their way to the “hex house.” Once inside, the trio strangled and bludgeoned Nelson to death before mutilating his corpse and setting fire to his home. Somehow, the house survived the blaze, citing so-called further evidence of Nelson’s association with the supernatural. The three killers were soon apprehended; the trial garnered widespread notoriety. John and John were sentenced to life imprisonment while Wilbert was sentenced to 10 to 20 years.‬

‪All three of the killers were released from prison early and went on to live quiet and unassuming lives. The hex hysteria became a distant memory and then transformed into something of an urban legend. Powwowing still exists today.

The Borley Rectory Haunting

Borley Rectory was a house that gained infamy as “the most haunted house in England”. It had been alleged to be haunted ever since it was built in 1862. These reports multiplied suddenly in 1929, after the Daily Mirror published an account of a visit by paranormal researcher Harry Price, who wrote two books supporting claims of paranormal activity.

One of the most interesting manifestations of the haunting were the writing on the wall. It is believed the writings had come from a young deceased catholic woman who wanted her body to be discovered and receive a proper christian burial ceremony. she was trying to communicate with Marianne, wife of the reverend Lionel Foyster, the couple living in the rectory in October 1930. 

The scribbled writing is allegedly from the ghost while the writing below is from Marianne’s attempt to communicate with it.

What I can read: -Marianne light mass prayers -Marianne please help get -

The house burned down in 1939 and was later demolished in 1944. LIFE photographer David Scherman was on hand to cover the event. While covering the demolition of England’s most haunted house, Scherman photographed a brick that rose from the ruins and floated in the air for several seconds.

Bobby Mackey’s Music World is a haunted nightclub found in Wilder Kentucky. In 1850 Bobby Mackey’s Music World was once a slaughterhouse and once it closed in the 1890′s people believe a cult started meeting there. In 1896 a girl’s headless corpse who was later identified as Pearl Bryan was discovered in a field 2 miles from the former slaughterhouse. Pearl was pregnant and her boyfriend Scott Jackson and his friend Alonzo Walling attempted to give her an abortion however something went wrong so they dumped her body in a field and decapitated her. Eventually the two were caught due to them leaving the shoes on the body which made her identifiable to the authorities; the two were sentenced to death and Alonzo Walling right before his death said that he would haunt the area forever. In the 1950′s a girl named Johanna fell in love with a singer named Robert Randall; eventually Johanna got pregnant and wanted to run away with him however her father forbade and had the singer killed; Johanna was so upset she poisoned her father then killed herself in the basement and she is said to haunt the building to this day with the smell of her rose scented perfume and Bobby Mackey even wrote a song about her called “Johanna”. Bobby Mackey eventually bought the building in 1978. People believe that the nightclub has a portal to hell in its basement. The headless ghost of Pearl Bryan and Alonzo Walling are also said to haunt the nightclub. Possessions and exorcisms have taken place there and one night the club’s manager was closing for the night and the jukebox started playing the Anniversary Waltz even though it was unplugged and did not have the song listed. Ghost Adventures did an investigation here.