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Munchkin House, La Jolla

There used to be a land the Munchkin houses in La Jolla, but recent developments and developers have wiped out all but one of these diminutive domiciles. While searching for the elusive locale, a local jogger related the accepted legend: After production wrapped on The Wizard of Oz in 1939, a few of the actors…

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Lupe Velez

Lupe Velez was an actress who made her way from a performer in Mexican vaudeville to a star of the silver screen. Recovering from a failed marriage, Velez fell in love with Harold Ramond and became pregnant out of wedlock. On December 13, 1944, after spending an evening with friends, Velez Swallowed 70 Secobarbital with…

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The 27 Club is an urban legend

The 27 Club The 27 Club is an urban legend that popular musicians and other celebrated artists die at age 27 with statistically anomalous frequency, notably Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse. The claim of a “statistical spike” for the death of musicians at that age has been…

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Pine Barrens, New Jersey Jersey Devil

The heavily forested Pine Barrens spans over 1 million acres and seven counties in New Jersey. The area thrived during the Colonial period, host to sawmills, paper mills, and other industries. People eventually abandoned the mills and surrounding villages when coal was discovered to the west in Pennsylvania, leaving behind ghost towns—and, some say, a few supernatural wanderers….

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Christine Chubbuck

Christine Chubbuck was a 30-year-old news anchor who worked for a program called Suncoast Digest at WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida. She struggled to make human connections and would often complain to family members that she was unloveable. Her constant self-deprecation and subsequent depression concerned her family, even so, Chubbuck never underwent psychiatric care. On July 15, 1974,…

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Virginia Woolf

English author Virginia Woolf is considered a pioneer due to her use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. One of the most important modernist writers of the 20th century, she was also plagued throughout her life with mental illness which led to her institutionalization on several occasions. Though she was happily married, in…

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Freddie Prinze

Comedian Freddie Prinze began his career in New York City performing at The Improv, though his big break came in 1973 with a set on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Just a year later he landed the lead role on Chico and the Man, which became hugely successful. In 1975, he got married and the couple had their…

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