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Psychic and Police Share Details on Discovery of Human Remains in Maine

In an update to the curious case of the psychic who located mysterious human remains in Maine, the medium and local authorities have shared enlightening new details on the remarkable discovery. Laurencia Bourget sparked headlines earlier this week when it was revealed that, while helping a family with a decades-old missing person cold case, she zeroed in on an abandoned bowling alley where a skeleton was subsequently found. The unfathomable turn of events understandably raised eyebrows as it would appear to be undeniable evidence for the reality of psychic phenomena. Since news of the odd discovery broke, the medium as well as the police department where the remains were found have come forward with insights on what unfolded.

Explaining how the wondrous event came about, Bourget explained to a local TV station that she first received the psychic tip three years ago when she heard a voice reference a bowling alley. The message fell through the proverbial cracks until earlier this month when the mysterious communication occurred again. “It was very obvious when I heard it for the second time,” she recalled. The clarity of the communication was significant enough that she reached out to Dick Moreau, whom she has been working with in an attempt to find answers to the 1986 disappearance of his daughter Jennifer.

When Bourget and members of the Moreau family searched the location, the psychic quickly stumbled upon some clothing in a forested area behind the bowling alley. “I saw what looked like a stick sticking out of the sleeve,” she said, “so I went and grabbed it and pulled it out, and it was a bone.” Reflecting on the “emotional” experience, Dick mused that “she felt strongly, and we went there, and sure enough, we found a body.” Sadly, in a strange twist of fate, the remains were later found to be from a yet-to-be-identified man and not Jennifer Moreau, leaving her family yearning for closure to the cold case.

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WWII British submarine, missing for 81 years with 64 crew members, discovered off Greek coast

A British World War II submarine, HMS Trooper, which vanished during a secret mission in 1943, has been discovered off the coast of Greece, solving an 81-year mystery.

The submarine, lost with all 64 crew members, including Australian volunteer Lt. John Stuart Ryder, was found at a depth of 830 feet (252 meters) in the Ikarian Sea between Ikaria and Kos islands. The wreck, discovered by the Greek deep-sea research company Planet Blue, is broken into three sections—the bow, middle, and stern—indicating a violent sinking caused by a German mine.

HMS Trooper was on a secret mission to patrol between Donoussa islet and Ikaria after British intelligence warned of a potential German landing on the island of Leros. It failed to return to the port of Beirut on October 17, 1943, and was declared lost, with the crew presumed dead. Subsequent searches, beginning in 2000, spanned 14 missions, none of which yielded results until the recent discovery by Kostas Thoctarides and his team from Planet Blue.

Thoctarides, speaking to Live Science and Greek news agency ANA-MPA, explained that his team located the wreck on October 3, 2024, after using shipboard sonar to create a detailed map of the seafloor, followed by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to inspect the wreckage. Thoctarides noted the wreck had been missed in earlier searches because previous expeditions focused too far east. He also emphasized the challenging nature of the Ikarian Sea, known for its harsh weather conditions, strong winds, and powerful underwater currents.

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China’s top economist disappears after criticizing Xi Jinping

China’s top economist, Zhu Hengpeng, criticized Chinese President Xi Jinping in a private chat. At first, he was detained and removed from office, and then he disappeared, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Sources report that in the spring of 2024, Zhu Hengpeng made several “impolitic remarks” about China’s weakening economy and indirectly criticized Xi Jinping in a closed chat on the Chinese messaging app WeChat.

As a result, a case was opened against Hengpeng, leading to his detention and dismissal from the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where he had worked for 20 years, including the last 10 as deputy director.

Additionally, references to him were removed from the online staff list of one of Tsinghua University’s centers.

It is unknown where the economist is now and what happened to him. His name has also disappeared from the CASS staff lists, and he has not responded to emails from the Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. No one answered the door at his apartment in Beijing. The Chinese agency handling media inquiries has not responded to requests for comment.

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Romania’s Bermuda Triangle: The Creepy Hoia Forest

Outside of Romania, especially in the English-speaking world, Transylvania is a land associated with vampires, specifically Dracula. Inside Romania, where Vlad the Impaler is a national hero, his associations with the famed vampire are not as popular, though Transylvania is arguably still known for being home to one of the creepiest sites in the world. The Hoia Baciu forest, whether it is deserved or not, has earned the reputation of being the Bermuda Triangle of Romania.

Over time, the forest has gained a reputation for being haunted by unfriendly spirits, a site of UFO activity, and a place where cultists open portals to other dimensions.

The forest is said to have been named Hoia Baciu after a shepherd by the same name went missing there with 200 of his sheep. In the late 1960s, a biologist by the name of Alexandru Sift is said to have taken pictures of a disc or flying saucer hovering over the forest. In 1968, a military technician by the name of Emil Barnea is said to have taken a picture of a UFO. It is claimed that he had no reason to make the story up since he had nothing to gain because the communist government at the time considered belief in the paranormal to be a sign of insanity and a threat to the state.

Other strange stories have also been told about the forest. In one, a young girl disappeared for five years, only to re-appear again with no memory of where she had been. In another tale, over 60 visitors were seen trying to open a portal to another dimension. People also report seeing strange lights in the forest, hearing footsteps from unseen figures, capturing otherwise non-existent faces in photographs, and hearing unexplained laughter or female voices.

It is stories like these which have given it the distinction of being the “creepiest forest in the world.” Furthermore, people who have gone into the forest report being overcome by nausea, strange rashes, unexplained fatigue, and the feeling that they are being watched. Some people have also reported experiencing time lapses, with no recollection of what they did during the missing time.

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Incredible new theory on what happened to three men who escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 – as respected author reveals exactly what he thinks happened to them

An incredible new theory on what happened to the three men who managed to escape from Alcatraz in the 1960s has emerged. 

Brothers John and Clarence Anglin, alongside friend Frank Morris, tunneled out of their cell of the maximum security prison in June 1962 before disappearing into the waters of the San Francisco Bay and have never been found. 

And now writers Ken Widner and Mike Lynch share their fascinating theory. Their book, Alcatraz: The Last Escape, alleges the trio escaped the jail in a makeshift raft and used wires to hitch themselves to a passing boat.

From there, the fugitives met a second boat in the San Francisco Bay area, which took them to dry land. A private plane chartered from a small airport at neighboring Marin County flew the trio to Mexico to begin a new life, it is claimed. 

They later moved to Brazil, where at least two of the men are said to have survived until the 1990s.  

Federal investigations into the escape – which was immortalized in the 1979 film Escape From Alcatraz – concluded that the Anglin brothers and Morris must have drowned in the freezing, shark-infested bay. 

Widner Lynch, who have used family interviews, historical documents and photo evidence to approach their theory.

Widner, who also happens to be the nephew of the Anglin brothers, claims the trio made their way south and married locals, raising children of their own and tended to farms in the mountains of Brazil until at least the 1990s.

Hoping to correct the record about his uncles, Widner deep dived into their upbringing which stretched back to their formative years in Ruskin, Florida, with their parents who were seasonal farmworkers. 

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Mystery as male and female firefighter ex-high school sweethearts are found dead in car a week after vanishing

Two Georgia firefighters who were once high school sweethearts were mysteriously found dead in a car in Tennessee following a week-long search for the pair. 

Reagan Anderson and Chandler Kuhbander, both 24, vanished on June 24 from a Crunch gym parking lot, with authorities launching a multi-state search after the pair were believed to have left in Anderson’s car. 

On Sunday, their bodies were found over 450 miles away inside the vehicle, however law enforcement has not offered any details over their cause of death or the manner in which they were found. 

Kuhbander’s mother said they had dated for seven years in a ‘toxic’ relationship, and claimed that Anderson took their recent breakup badly and threatened to kill herself and was harassing her son. 

Kuhbander was last seen leaving a Crunch fitness in Savannah, Georgia, where his mother Jane said he was seen walking ‘out of the building, and he looks very comfortable, like he just had his workout.’ 

‘He doesn’t look rushed as he walks through the parking lot,’ she told WJCL. ‘After that, we don’t see him again.’ 

Kuhbander’s mother said she saw surveillance footage showing Anderson circling the gym’s parking lot several times while he was inside. 

Security footage showed him head towards his car, however Kuhbander’s mother said she believes he got into her Ford Focus ‘under duress.’ They claimed his car never left the parking garage and his family later went to retrieve it.  

It appears the couple began driving together, with Anderson last seen in surveillance footage at a gas station in South Carolina that day, at the same spot where Kuhbander’s phone last pinged off a cell tower. 

Officials have not said why the former couple were driving together or what their intended destination was. 

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British Couple Killed To Make Witchcraft Potions in South Africa

A suspect who confessed to the killing of a British couple and to selling their body parts for use in witchraft (muti) has been released by South African authorities.

Anthony and Gillian Dinnis, both in their 70s and originally from Kent, England, disappeared without a trace from their farm in KwaZulu-Natal’s Mooi River area on 30 August last year.

After their disappearance, their children began receiving strange text messages demanding money for their release.

The couple’s gardener soon became a suspect. He later admitted to being one of three men who kidnapped the couple, before killing and dismembering them. Their body parts were then sold, or planned to be sold, by the suspects.

Despite the confession, and being refused bail, the suspect was released on 13 June this year. The National Prosecuting Authority has said there is “insufficient evidence” to proceed with the prosecution.

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The girl who never came back: New York socialite who vanished in 1910 is America’s oldest missing persons case – here are the top theories about her disappearance

Dorothy Arnold was 25 when she disappeared from her Upper East Side mansion with today’s equivalent of $1,000 on an icy Monday morning in December 1910. 

The eldest daughter of perfume importer Francis R Arnold left her jewelry and passport at home and strolled towards Central Park, never to be seen again, according to The Charley Project which tracks missing persons cases. 

Her disappearance has stumped detectives for more than 100 years, making her case the oldest recorded missing persons case in American history and what the Times has called ‘one of New York’s greatest mysteries’. 

‘A hundred years later, I don’t expect any kind of resolution,’ Jane Vollmer, Dorothy’s great-niece told the National Geographic last month. 

Full name Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold, the socialite’s last words to her mother were ‘I’ll telephone you’ as she stepped out of their Manhattan mansion on East 79th Street. 

Arnold gave different accounts of her plans for the day to different people – telling one friend she was shopping with her mother, and her mother that she wanted to go by herself. 

She set off toward Fifth Avenue and stopped at the Park and Tilford’s candy store where she paid for some chocolates using her father’s credit card at 1.45pm. The clerk told investigators at the time that she had appeared to be in high spirits. 

Arnold went on to purchase a book at Brentano’s on 27th and Fifth, before bumping into a friend who she chatted with for a few minutes, telling them she was headed for Central Park. 

Her mother waited to meet her for lunch at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel that day, but she never turned up. 

When she didn’t return home that night, the family grew concerned. Fearing bad publicity from contacting the police, they hired a private investigator.   

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German police discover Christian Brueckner emails linking him to Madeleine McCann – the first ever time investigators have found evidence connecting him to her case

German police have discovered an email account linking Christian Brueckner to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, investigators have claimed.

Titus Stampa, a senior detective, told a court in Germany that investigators had found emails on a Hotmail account used by Brueckner that linked him directly to the case.

The bombshell revelation is the first time an investigating official has alluded to evidence directly connecting Brueckner to the three-year-old’s disappearance from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal in 2007.

But Stampa said he was unable to share details of the evidence as it was ‘related to the killing’ of young Madeleine.

Brueckner, the prime suspect, is currently on trial in Germany for unrelated sex crimes. He denies involvement in Madeleine’s 2007 disappearance.

Speaking at the Braunschweig regional court in Germany, Stampa referred to the ‘murder’ email account allegedly possessed by Brueckner.

‘An external hard drive is also belonging to the killing case – and I am not allowed to talk about it.’ 

He declined to say whether emails recovered included photos or videos implicating the suspect, as reported by The Mirror.

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The mysterious disappearance of a Mexican ‘supermodel’ Gabriela Rico Jiménez who emerged screaming from glitzy hotel claiming the elite were ‘eating humans’ … and then vanished

The strange case of Gabriela Rico Jiménez, a Mexican woman who unleashed wild accusations about a host of powerful people before suddenly disappearing, is one mired in mystery.

The then-21-year-old vanished in 2009, after a video of her emotional outburst and subsequent arrest went viral. In the aftermath it was widely reported that she was a supermodel, but no evidence of this exists.

Her case has now resurfaced in a recent podcast by Mexico Unexplained, available now on Apple Podcasts, as speculation over her fate remains. 

The incident occurred outside a luxury hotel in the Mexican city of Monterrey Nuevo Leon, where people were said to be partying. From there, she emerged in a frantic state, wearing a ripped shirt bearing the words ‘yum yum.’ 

She quickly began hurling accusations at the royal family, Disney, and one of the richest and most powerful men in Mexico, almost immediately drawing a crowd. The woman accused them of living in a subterranean base and stealing children and eating human flesh. 

She was swiftly cuffed by cops, never to be seen by members of the public again. 

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