Best of the History Guy: Spooky History

When I was pregnant with my first child ; I was sitting at the kitchen table in my husband's family home when someone tapped me on the shoulder and whispered into my ear that I was having a daughter. Noone was home but me so I just laughed it off as an over active imagination. Later that day when my MIL came in with the grand kids the youngest told me that Grandma Ivy told her my baby was a girl. Grandma Ivy had passed away several years before the youngest grandchild was born. I named my daughter Ivy.

Elephants are fascinated with the remains of their family members. They will visit them and touch them and vocalize as if in a memorial function.

I was a volunteer on an archeological dig alongside the Iglesia San Agustín in downtown Laredo, Texas. The dig was in a parking lot, but we were turning up skeletons in each of 6 digs. The "Important Ladies" of Laredo insisted that even though it had been a cemetery, all the bodies were moved years prior. Well, they had not been moved, obviously. The church still built another damn parking lot on top of this cemetery, which in Spanish is called Campo Santo, or holy ground. Apparently however a commercial parking lot was more important to them then preserving the dignity of a cemetery dating back to 1759. Laredo is the only city that celebrates Founders Day, and then parks on top of the founders.

We have vampire graves here in Bulgaria. They have had their teeth removed and an iron spike is driven through their heart.

There was a man near Winchester, VA, who was buried standing, up on a hill, overlooking his land. It's said that he to, was buried with his shotgun and a fifth of whiskey. You can see his 'standing place,' up on the hill, even from the road that now cuts through his old farm. The trees were cut in a fashion to leave the way clear, for him to continue to survey his land, unobstructed by the surrounding trees.

You're the History teacher I always wanted growing up! Although its almost 30 years since I graduated from school, its definitely better late than never lol.

So the next time Aileen Wournos is referred to as "the first female serial killer", remember Belle Gunness.

I read an article that described an ancient burial, it was of a Neanderthal. It seems that personal effects and other things were buried with the corpse. That meant that human burials were more ancient than we once believed.

Regarding the first story: So what you're saying, Lance, is that catfishing has been a thing for a LONG time?

I had a dream once that two of my best friends who got married had a daughter named Fiona. I called him and told him about it and he called me back the next day. He said his wife was pregnant, it was a female and they were going to name her Fiona but they were keeping it secret. They found it so strange and did discuss the situation and decided to tell me. I was the first one they told. I can't explain that.

I'm from Laporte! Went to high school there and lived near the local roller rink where her land was situated.

This is one of the best channels on YouTube. Every time I listen to these stories I am compelled to too much thinking.

The idea of the ghost's testimony made it into an episode of "the 1970's TV series "Kung Fu."

okay, the story of Abelard and Heloise was tragic, but the part where it is said that Abelard's corpse reached out to Heloise' corpse to embrace her eternally I think says to me that true, romantic love knows absolutely no bounds.

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Serial killers are the real monsters in the world, and as such, we are fascinated because any one of us could be the next random victim, and anyone of us has the potential to be that monster.

The Human really is an f'ed up animal.

Life isn't a road it is a story. Thank you

I think it is a waste of real-estate, and resources to bury bodies the way we do. Composting is probably the least expensive and most environmentally friendly way of doing away with our empty vessels.

I remember the Lore episode about her. Always good to get more history about spooky subjects.