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“Tommy, Are You Listening?” | Official Audio Visualizer | Dark Weirdness

“Tommy, Are You Listening?” | Official Audio Visualizer | Dark Weirdness

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In the winter of 1985, a college athlete at SUNY Geneseo moved into room C2D1 in Erie Hall — and spent the next three months being followed, watched, and ultimately physically attacked by something he couldn’t see. The claw marks across his back were real. The witnesses were real. The journal kept by his neighbor documenting every event was real. And the identity of what may have been haunting him goes back to a Revolutionary War soldier tortured to death on the very ground the dormitory now stands on.

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A Grave-Robbing Bomber, A Ghost In The Dam, And Babe Ruth’s Best Year

A Grave-Robbing Bomber, A Ghost In The Dam, And Babe Ruth’s Best Year

The Morning Weird Darkness

A man robs a grave, murders a hermit, and then decides to take up bombing. A ghost has been standing in the same flooded tunnel for over 160 years. Workers may still be sealed inside one of America’s most famous landmarks. A gunman holding dozens of hostages picks up the phone and calls a radio station. A soldier walks off base in the middle of the night — and keeps walking. And a real boy named Ken becomes the most famous plastic man in history.

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It Was 50 Feet Long And Climbing Out of a Ravine! A Living Dinosaur? | Monster of Partridge Creek

It Was 50 Feet Long And Climbing Out of a Ravine! A Living Dinosaur? | Monster of Partridge Creek

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In 1903, two hunters tracking moose through the frozen Yukon wilderness stumbled upon a massive furrow in the mud — thirty feet long, flanked by clawed footprints the size of a man — and followed the trail straight to something that shouldn’t exist. What a French traveler, a gold prospector, and a Jesuit priest would witness clambering out of a remote Arctic ravine defies every assumption about what still roams the Canadian wild.

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Worst School Fire Ever, Spy Poisoned on a Park Bench, A U.S. President Killed By His Own Speech

Worst School Fire Ever, Spy Poisoned on a Park Bench, A U.S. President Killed By His Own Speech

The Morning Weird Darkness

One man’s completely ordinary sick day on this date would go on to cost tens of millions of people their lives. A school full of children goes up in flames. Two people were found poisoned on a park bench. Something was launched into orbit from a US military space shuttle and we still don’t know what it was. A film was screened for the first time on this date that gave the world its first vampire. And it’s a day to triple-check your grammar. | The Morning Weird Darkness

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