GHOSTS: Ghost Boy Bridge

Photo by Kim Gorga

In West Milford, New Jersey there is a  a road, Clinton Rd., that is about 10 miles long. There are several Urban Legends that either are on the road itself or near. One of which is of The Ghost Bridge Boy. The boy haunts the bridge at Devils Curve over Clinton Brook.

The boy died either drowning while swimming or had fallen into the water while sitting on the edge of the bridge. It's said that if someone puts a quarter in the middle of the road where the yellow line at one of the bridge or throw it into the water it'll return to them.

Some have said to have seen the boy or what helped by him. It's said that a person who's looking over the side of bridge and an oncoming car is approaching the boy would push them into the water to save them. 

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Wikipedia

Road Trippers

Weird NJ

Lost Literature: Like Father, Like Son (1682)

Sketch of Aphra in 1873 by George Sharf for a now lost portrait

Like Father, Like Son or The Mistaken Brothers is a play written by Aphra Behn, a famous female writer, and was first performed by the Duke's Company in 1682. The play was a comedy and was based off of Thomas Randolph's The Jealous Lovers which was printed in 1640 and printed in 1643. Compared to her other works this was a failure with audiences. This was the only one of her plays to have not been printed. All that exists of the play is the prologue and epilogue.

Pierre Danchin believes that the title is based on a popular whig poem with the words "like father, like son" in it. It's believed that she chose this title as inciting regicide for Aphra Behn was a royalist.

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DB Pedia

February 1922 Mason County, Kentucky Baby Doe

  In February 1922 the body of a newborn (a day old) baby was found in Cabin Creek in Mason County, Kentucky. 

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Find a Grave

Monsters: Bekatarō

The  Bekatarō is an ugly, malevolent, and cannibalistic Japanese Yokai. It's believed that it was a wicked child born with a supernatural and unquenchable hunger. They consume anything they can find including humans. It's said that he was so hungrey he started eating humans and thus became a yokai. Their hunger allows them to devour more than what 10 or 20 adults could and want more.  They have a humanoid form and are usually seen pulling their lower eyelids with its finger and sticking its tongues out in a mocking gesture. 

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Yokai

Yokai Wiki

Monsters Wiki

WANTED: Alfonso Angel Diaz-Juarez

 

Alfonso Angel Diaz-Juarez is wanted for alleged involvement with an international sex-trafficking organization between 1999 to 2013 as a padrotes or pimp. He and 13 other individuals were indicted in October 2013 for it. Alfonso, a Mexican national, is alleged to harbor illegal aliens, mostly Mexican women and children. Alfonso allegedly was very violent and would use force, fraud, coercion, and locked rooms or a combination of so to control and prostitute young women and girls in the Houston, Texas area. He was known as the most violent one out of the people indicted and the last remaining fugitive. 

On October 10, 2013, a federal arrest warrant was issued by the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. 

Alfonso is a Mexican national and was born on August 2, 1968. He is a white Hispanic. He has black hair and brown eyes. He's 5'2" and around 160lbs. He has previously gotten his appendix removed. He went by Alfonso Angel Diaz, Alfonso Angel-Diaz, Poncho Diaz, "Poncho", Javier Perez-Garcia, and "El Greñas".

He previously worked for Demolition and Abestos removal. 


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FBI

Monsters: A Camacrusa

A Camacrusa is a french bogey that habitats Aire-sur-L’Adour in the Landes. The creature is a disembodied leg and is a terrifying appearance as sometimes it's flayed. It is very rapid in movement and is capable of hiding behind haybales, jumping over ditches and hedges, and easily running after prey. It typically goes after children and eats them. It's unspecified how it eats the children.

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Cryptid Wiki

Myths and Folklore

Monsters: Cheval Mallet

Photo by Janosch Diggelmann

A Cheval Mallet (meaning Mallet Horse) is evil but fabulous horse in French folklore. It's seen around Vendée, Poitou, and Pays de Retz, near Lac de Grand Lieu. It's described as a beautiful white or black horse saddled and bridled. It tempts exhausted travelers and the unwary who choose to ride the horse are said to never be seen again. The only thing to protect the traveler from the horse is a protection spell as a medal of St. Benedict or have them n the price of traveling.


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Wikipedia

Monsters Wiki

Myths and Folklore Wiki

Disappearance of Sveinbjörn Jakobsson

 At 7 p.m. on October 9, 1930, 46-year-old Sveinbjörn Jakobsson, an Icelandic fisherman, took a taxi to a household in Reykjavík, Iceland. He left the taxi without paying and went inside the household. When Sveinbjörn didn't return to the car the taxi driver contacted the police. 

Police would ask residents of the home the taxi driver claimed that he went into. People inside claimed to have not seen him, and he had not been there. Sveinbjörn was never seen again, and foul play was suspected in his case.

The next day he was supposed to return home on a cruise ship. He was a fisherman and was believed to have had a significant amount of money on himself at the time because it was the end of Herring season. 

 His case was the first disappearance to be investigated as a homicide in Iceland. 

Sveinbjörn is a white male and was 46-years-old at the time. He had false teeth.

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Internation Missing Persons Wiki

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Monsters: Black Annis

In the countryside of Leicestershire, England there is a cannibalistic witch living in a dark cave in the Dane Hills. She's known as Black Annis' Bower by the locals. She is very tall and horrible, with blue skin, long sharp teeth, claw-like fingers, and glowing eyes. The entrance of the cave is an old oak tree which she often hides at night and waits for her next meal. 

She only leaves the cave to find tasty children with the tastiest being those who misbehave. If no children could be found then she would feed on livestock like sheep and lambs. It was most common to see her pull the children with her long arms through windows (no glass at the time). The children would be warned of her visit as her howl could be heard from miles away. Sometimes you can even hear her teeth grinding.

She would suck her preys dry of blood, and then the skins are hung on the oak tree to dry. 

Her cave was filled with dirt into the late 1800s, possibly burying Black Annis in her home. It's unknown as it's believed that she was an immortal being able to adapt to the modern world. It's said that she adopted the name Cat Anna at the end of the 1800s and was said to be living in cellars under Leicester Castle where a supposed subterranean passage connect to Dane Hills. 

It's unknown where Black Annis would reside now. Her territory is entirely lost now as the hillside is now a large housing estate. 

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Wikipedia

Monsters Wiki

Murder of Sharmon Malone

At 2:15 am on October 8, 2005, 23-year-old Sharmon Malone was leaving Champs Tavern on 2979 N. 8th St. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He left with two friends to a vehicle on the 2900 block of N. 8th St. When they entered the vehicle tree armed suspects approached and fired at them. Sharmon was shot once and died the next day.

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Milwaukee Police Department

October 7, 1989 Phoenix, Arizona John Doe

On October 7, 1989, the body of a man was found outside near the area of 1400 West Madison in Pheonix Arizona. He had recently died.

John Doe is a white male between 21 to 44-years-old. He was 5'8" and 115lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. He was sporting a goatee. His teeth were in poor condition, and he had a 4-inch linear scar on the front side of his right shoulder. He was wearing brown pants, a multicolored shirt, a brown belt, and black and white shoes. He had a blue lighter and a black comb with him.

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NamUs

Doe Network

Unidentified Wiki