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Ann-Margret sizzling in red, 1966.

Poor Ann-Margret. As one of the leading sex symbols of the 1960s, the sultry Swedish singer, dancer, and actress was often typecast as a beautiful, yet worldly seductress. The press dubbed her a ‘sex kitten’. She starred opposite Elvis in the 1963 Bye Bye Birdie and the 1964 Viva Las Vegas which helped launched her to stardom. When she…

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Jane Seymour in the early 1970s

When this photograph of the lovely Jane Seymour was taken in the early 1970s, the British-born actress was still a fresh face in Hollywood with her star on the rise. She appeared in an uncredited role as an extra in the 1969 musical, Oh! What a Lovely War as her screen debut before tackling a leading role…

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The walking dead

I’m a psychiatric nurse and early in my career, I worked at a residential mental health facility. One of our residents was an elective mute, which means that he didn’t/wouldn’t/couldn’t talk, but there were no medical reasons as to why. He had spoken earlier in his life and in fact seemed quite normal back then,…

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The Smurl Haunting

In 1974, Jack and Janet Smurl moved into a house on Chase Street West Pittston, Pennsylvania. Strange occurrences followed, leading the Smurls to believe that a demon possessed their home. They claimed the demon had slammed their German shepherd into a wall, bit Jack’s ear, and pushed one of their daughters down a flight of…

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Enfield Poltergeist

In 1977, single mother Peggy Hodgson called police to her home in Enfield, telling them that she had witnessed furniture moving and her two of her four children had heard knocking from inside the walls. In the subsequent 18 months, more than 30 people, including the neighbors, psychic researchers, and journalists, said they witnessed heavy…

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The Perron Family

When Roger and Carolyn Perron moved into a 200-acre farmhouse in Rhode Island with their five young daughters, they had no awareness of its dark history. Many former residents had died under horrible circumstances; a few were murdered, and others hung themselves on the grounds. The Perrons came to believe that their spirits were still…

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