Part Two of Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names
With news of the unidentified body found on Somerton Beach beginning to spread throughout the world, the Adelaide police have their hands full as they chase one lead after another, but will any of it bring a resolution?
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On December 1st, 1948, the body of an unknown man was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia.
Despite recent claims that the identity of the individual, who would come to be known as the Somerton Man, has now been discovered, his story remains one of the most enduring mysteries of modern times.
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In 1685 George Sinclair, the brother of Maister Thomas Sinclair, the man who revealed Major Thomas Weir's confession to the authorities, published a book titled Satan's Invisible World Discovered, which contained a number of stories that neatly outlined the leading superstitions of the day.
Among them, although never referred to as such, is one of the earliest ever recorded cases of an apparent poltergeist...
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In 1670, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Major Thomas Weir, a Covenanter and man of puritanical faith was a much-respected member of the city's Presbyterian community. Until, one day, the mask slipped.
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With the death of Francisco Marto in 1919, followed by that of his sister Jacinta the following year, Lucia dos Santos was left as the only living member of the enigmatic trio who knew the apparent secrets given to them by the Virgin Mary.
Lucia disclosed the first two in 1941. The third one however, she would not reveal, believing it was simply too distressing for the public to hear...
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Part two of Season 6 Episode 20: Children of the Pastures
Lucia is faced with a true test of her faith as the Mayor attempts to put an end to her and her cousin's extraordinary claims.
Meanwhile, excitement grows for the miracle that the Virgin Mother has apparently promised to perform at her 6th and final appearance...
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In the spring of 1916, three young children from the village of Aljustrel in western Portugal claimed to see the Virgin Mary while out tending sheep in a nearby pasture.
The incident marked the beginning of what is now known as the Fatima Prophecies.
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In March 1974, Terry Matthews and his mother, Gerri Betz, came across a strange metallic sphere in the woods close to their home in Jacksonville, Florida.
Then, things got a little strange...
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In 1951, 67-year-old Mary Reeser moved down from Columbia, Pennsylvania to Florida to be closer to her son and grandchildren.
Five weeks later, Mary was dead; killed in the most horrifying and bizarre circumstances that continue to confound to this day.
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Mary Reeser
It is said that St Francis of Assisi was the first person to receive the stigmata, back in 1224.
Since then only thirty or so people have seriously claimed to have suffered from it, with perhaps the most famous of them being Francesco Forgione, or as he would later be known, Padre Pio.
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In the late 1940s, Italian sculptor Amilcare Santini was commissioned to make a statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to use as a model for mass production.
Little did he know, that it would become just about the most famous depiction of the Immaculate Heart ever created.
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Perhaps one of the strangest cases of an unidentified body occurred in Kenora, Canada, in 1974 when an unknown man walked into the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Main Street with disastrous consequences...
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In late November 1970, in a valley just outside of Bergen in western Norway, a 12-year-old girl stumbles upon the burned remains of a body.
The discovery will spark one of the most enigmatic true-crime mysteries of modern times.
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In last week's episode, we learned about Baba Vanga, whose apparent psychic abilities are said to have been analysed by a number of parapsychologists.
As for mainstream scientists, you might think they prefer to stay away from such things.
In fact, there is a long and fascinating history of well-respected academics, many of whom have made significant contributions in their field, putting such people to the test, with often startling results.
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Image drawn by Hella Hammid in her first session
Blinded in a freak storm, Baba Vanga from Strumica in present-day North Macedonia is believed by some to have been the most gifted psychic of the modern age.
Her life story is almost as extraordinary as her supposed gifts.
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Of all the strange aviation related disappearances, perhaps the spookiest of all are those in which the aircraft return, but the crew do not...
Stories like that of US Navy scouting blimp L-8, which in 1942 became the locus of one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.
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Second Officer Donald Repo was one of the 101 people killed when Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed in the everglades just west of Miami in December 1972.
But then, according to numerous apparent witnesses, he came back…
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Early in the evening of November 23 1953, USAF pilot First Lieutenant Felix Moncla and radar operator Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson were scrambled in an F-89 Scorpion to intercept a UFO flying over Lake Superior.
They and their plane were never seen again.
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In May 1967, Stefan Michalak was spotted walking along Trans-Canada Highway 1, just west of Falcon Lake in Manitoba, Canada.
Bleary-eyed and holding a briefcase in one hand, while clutching at his stomach with the other, the story of what he was doing there exactly, is one of the strangest in Canadian history.
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Remorse, guilt, and the ghosts of the English Civil War.
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