ROBERT THE HAUNTED DOLL

Robert the doll was once owned by author Robert Eugene Otto.The doll is said to be possessed by evil spirits,and has a terrifying reputation.Eugene was given the doll in 1906 by a Bahamian servant who was skilled in voodoo and black magic and was displeased with the family.Soon afterward,it became so clear that there was something eerie about the doll.Eugene's parents often heard him talking to the doll and that the doll spoke back.Although at first they assumed that Eugene was simply answering himself in a changed voice,they came to have later realized that the doll was actually speaking.Neighbors claimed to have seen the doll moving from window to window when the family was out.Sometimes the doll would emit a terrifying giggle,and the Otto family caught glimpse of it running from room to room.In addition,guests claimed to have seen Robert's expression change before their eyes and he often blinked.When Eugene died in 1974,the doll was left in the attic until the house was bought again.Now a ten year old girl became new owner of the doll.It was not long before the girl became screaming out in the night,claiming that Robert moved about the room and even attempted to attack her on multiple occasions.The doll is annually rotated to the old post office and custom house in October.Strange activity in the museum supposedly increases during such time.

ROBERT THE HAUNTED DOLL

   

DOROTHY STRATTEN

   Dorothy ruth hoogstraten who took the stage name Dorothy Stratten,was a Canadian playboy playmate,model,and actress.She was born in the 1960s.She was murdered at the age of twenty by her estranged husband/manager Paul Snider,who committed suicide on the same day.In 1977 she was attending High School in Coquitlam when,while working part time at a local Dairy Queen,she met twenty-six- year-old club promoter and pimp Paul Snider,who romanced her.Snider later had professional nude photos taken of her which were sent to Playboy magazine.She was under the age of 18 at the time,and when her mother refused to sign the model release,her mother's signature was forged.In 1979 Dorothy and Paul moved Los Angeles together.She began working at the century city playboy club and became an successful actress.After that,Stratten began an affair with Peter Bogdanovich.Stratten and Snider separated and Stratten moved in with Bogdanovich,planing to file for a divorce from Snider. Shortly after noon on August 14,1980,Snider and Stratten met at Snider's house,where the two had once lived as a couple.Stratten had come to talk about an amicable divorce and brought along $1,000 to give to Snider.At approximately 11 p.m.,Snider's private investigator called the owner of the house Cushner on his private line,saying that he had been trying to telephone Snider for several hours,but Snider would not answer his phone.Cushner broke into Snider's room and found the bodies of Snider and Stratten,both dead from shotgun blasts,both bodies were nude.Police believed that snider raped and murdered Stratten,abused the corpse,then killed himself with the same shotgun.

DOROTHY STRATTEN

PAUL SNIDER

STRATTEN AND SNIDER

SNIDER AND STRATTEN'S

CRIME SCENE

   

The Bell Witch

John Bell,Sr(a speaker of Congress,friend of president Jackson,had a dispute over a slave with Miss Kate Batts,she poisoned him and jackson visited the funeral) who made his living as a farmer,resided with his family in Adams,Tennessee in the early 1800s.In 1817 his family came under attack by a witch,who was believed to be a lady called Kate Batts.It began with noises in the walls and grew to include unusual sounds,people being slapped and pinched,objects being thrown and animals being spooked without visible cause.The activity centred on the Bell's youngest daughter,Betsy,and worsened after she became engaged to Joshua Gardner.Some stories relate that the witch being someone who had been cheated by Bell,Sr or a male slave whom bell had killed.The Bell Witch story is an important one for all paranormal researchers.

BETSY BELL

THE BELL HOME

MAN IN THE IRON MASK

  'The man in the iron mask' the name given to a prisoner arrested as Eustache Dauger in 1669 or 1670,and held in a number of jails.He was held in the custody of the same jailer,for a period of 34 years.The possible identity of this mask man has been thoroughly discussed and has been the subject of many books,because no one ever saw his face,which was hidden by a mask of black velvet cloth.The mask man was isolated but not always isolated from the other prisoners.Wealthy and important ones usually had manservants,he was served by a man called La Reviere.The mask man was one of the important prisoner.He died on 19 November 1703 under the name of Marchioly.Nobody knows who was he.

RONALD DEFEO, JR.

  At around 6.30 pm on Wednesday,November 13,1974,23 year old Ronald Defeo, jr entered Henry's bar in Amityville and declared 'You got to help me,I think my mother and father are shot.'Defeo and a small group of people went to 112 Ocean Avenue.They searched the house and found that  six members of the family were dead in their beds.The victims were Ronald Defeo,Sr.( 43),Louise Defeo(42),and four of their children Dawn(18),Allison(13),Mark(12) and John Matthew(9).All of the victims had been shot with a .35 caliber rifle at around 3 o'clock in the morning of that day.Ronald defeo,Jr was the eldest son of the family.He was taken to the local police station for his own protection after suggesting to police officers at the scene of the crime that the killing had been carried out by a mob hit man named Tony Mazzeo.However,an interview with Defeo at the station soon exposed serious inconsistencies in his version of events.The following day he confessed to carrying out the killings himself Mazzeo had an airtight alibi.Defeo told detective,'once I started,I couldn't stop.It went so fast.' He admitted that he had taken a bath,redressed, and discarded crucial evidence like blood-stained clothes,the rifle,cartridges on his way to work as usual.On November 21,1975,Defeo was found guilty and judge sentenced him to six concurrent sentences of 25 years to life imprisonment.Ronald Defeo had a volatile relationship with his father,but the motive of the killings remains unclear.

RONALD DEFEO,JR.

RONALD DEFEO WITH HIS SIBLINGS 

DEFEO HOUSE IN AMITYVILLE

MYESTERY OF THE GREEN CHILDREN OF WOOLPIT

  During the reign of king Stephen of England,there was a strange occurrence in the village of Woolpit.At the harvest time,when the reapers were working in the field,two young children emerged from deep ditches excavated to trap wolves.The children,a boy and a girl,had skin tinged with a green hue,and wore clothes of a strange color,made from unfamiliar materials.They wandered around for a few minutes,before the reapers took them to the village.Because no one could understand the language the children spoke,they were taken to  the local land owner.Here they broke into tears and refused to eat the bread and other food that was brought to them.For days the children ate nothing until the villagers brought them recently harvested beans.It was said the children survived on this food for many months until they acquired the test of bread.As the time passed,the boy who appeared to be the younger of two,become depressed,sickened and died,but the girl adjusted to her new life and was baptized.Her skin gradually lost its original green color and she become a healthy young woman.She learned the English language and married a man at king's Lynn.When she was later questioned about her past ,she stated that the girl and the boy were brother and sister,and had come from 'the land of saints' martin' where it was perpetual twilight and all the inhabitants were green in color like they had been.She remembered that one day they were looking after their father's herds in the field and had followed in to the cavern,where they heard the loud sound of bells.Entranced,they wandered through the darkness for a long time until they arrived  at the mouth of the cave,where they were immediately blinded by the glaring sunlight.They lay down in a daze,before the reapers terrified them and they rose and tried to escape,but were unable to locate the entrance of the cavern before being caught.

    

CALEDONIA JANE DOE

Caledonia Jane Doe or Cali Doe is the name given to an unidentified young female homicide victim found in the town of Caledonia.Caledonia Jane Doe is believed to have been between the ages of 13 and 19.The height and weight of the victim were estimated to be 5 fit 3 inches and 54 kg,respectively.She had brown eyes and wavy,light brown shoulder-length hair that had been frosted in the front about four moths prior to her death and was growing out.Her toe nails were painted with coral colored nail polish.She had visible tan lines.A few hours before her death,Caledonia Jane Doe ate corn,potatoes,boiled,canned ham,possibly from a diner in Lima,New York,where she had been seen by a waitress.The unidentified girl was wearing a red nylon lined man's windbreaker jacket and a boy's multicolored plaid button-up shirt with collar,tan corduroy pant,blue knee socks,brown rippled sole shoes.Police believed the murder weapon to have been a 38-caliber hand gun.She is unidentified until now.

Jane Doe's

necklace

CALEDONIA JANE DOE

Jane Doe's belongings

Jane Doe's locket 

Jane Does's shoes 

CALEDONIA JANE DOE

ELIZABETH BATHORY

 Countess Elizabeth bathory was a countess from a renowned bathory family of Hungary.She has been labelled the most prolific female serial killer in history and is remembered as the blood countess. The stories of her sadistic serial murders and brutality are verified by the testimony of more than 300 witnesses and survivors as well as physical evidence and the presence of horribly mutilated dead,dying and imprisoned girls found at the time of her arrest.She vowed that her soul would be resurrect and inhabit the next body to be born on the 8th day of August.Despite the evidence against her,however,Elizabeth herself was never put on trial because of her family's influence,being instead placed under house arrest.The stories about her vampire like tendencies(being accused of bathing in blood to rejuvenate her skin etc.) are much verifiable  deaths of servants and young girls,these were generally recorded some years after her death.After her husband's (Ferenc Nadasdy) death,she and four collaborators were accused of torturing young 100 girls.Due to her rank, Elizabeth herself was neither tried or convicted,but promptly imprisoned upon her arrest in December 1610 in Slovakia,where she remained immured in a st of rooms until her death four years later.

                                          ELIZABETH BATHORY

BLACK DAHLIA

'The black dahlia' was  a nick name given to  Elizabeth Short an American woman who was a victim of a gruesome and publicized murder.Short was found mutilated ,her body sliced in half at the waist on January 15 1947,in Los Angeles,California.Her body was discovered by local resident Betty Bersinger.Short's severely mutilated body was severed at the waste and completely drained of blood.Her body had been obviously washed by her killer.She was only 22 and was a waitress.Nobody knows who killed her.She had a boy friend,Major Matthew Michael Gordon.Gordon died in an airplane crash before her murder.Short's  unsolved murder case has been a widespread speculation.

  

ELIZABETH

SHORT

Dr. James barry was a military surgeon in the British Army.After graduation from the university of Edinburgh medical school he served in India and cape town South Africa.In his travel he not only improved  condition for wounded soldiers,but also improve the conditions of native inhabitants.Among his accomplishments  was the first caesarean section in Africa by a British surgeon in which both mother and child survived the operation.Dr. barry was actually a perfect female.His true identity revealed after his death.Dr. barry was the first qualified female medical doctor.

                                           
                                           DR.JAMES BARRY