Midnight Ledger

This source presents a narrative recounting the chilling case of Samantha Koenig's disappearance and murder, delivered by the YouTube channel MrBallen. The video transcript details how Samantha, a barista in Anchorage, Alaska, vanished from her coffee kiosk after closing on February 1, 2012, leading to a missing person report and a subsequent robbery investigation. Authorities initially suspected Samantha until security footage rev...

The text provides an extensive narrative, sourced from a MrBallen video transcript, detailing the 1961 disappearance of Michael Rockefeller off the coast of New Guinea. It explains that Rockefeller, an heir to a wealthy American family and an art enthusiast, was traveling by catamaran to trade for Asmat tribal art when his boat sank, forcing him to attempt a long swim to shore for help. The story contrasts the initial widely acc...

The provided texts offer a comprehensive overview of the Dancing Plague of 1518 in Strasbourg, an event where hundreds of people danced uncontrollably until some died from exhaustion. Sources widely discuss the dominant and competing historical explanations for this phenomenon, primarily focusing on Mass Psychogenic Illness (MPI), or mass hysteria, and Ergotism, which is poisoning from a fungus found on rye grain. The MPI theory...

We examine the enduring mystery of the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend, which describes the disappearance of 130 children from the German town in 1284, after the town reneged on a debt to the Piper for removing rats. The texts highlight historical evidence from town records and plaques that confirm the event's date and the number of missing children, while noting that the element of rats was a later addition to the folklore. A signi...

The sources analyze the brutal and unsolved 1912 Villisca axe murders in Iowa, focusing on the historical crime where eight people, including six children, were bludgeoned to death in the Moore family home. They review several theories regarding the killer, noting that prominent suspects included local rivals and a transient serial killer, while traveling minister Reverend George Kelly was tried twice and ultimately acquitted. The ...

The sources primarily document the complex and tragic history of the Hotel del Salto, located on a cliff overlooking the Tequendama Falls southwest of Bogotá, Colombia. Initially built in 1923 as an opulent mansion for the country’s elite, the French-style structure soon converted into a hotel that gained a morbid reputation as a notorious suicide hotspot and was widely regarded as a haunted site. This somber history is layered upo...

The sources detail the notorious 1973 Enfield Monster sightings in Illinois, focusing on the horrifying reports from resident Henry McDaniel, who claimed the creature was a four-and-a-half-foot-tall, three-legged entity with short arms and large, glowing red eyes. Although McDaniel fired at the beast, which he believed was extraterrestrial in origin, the bullets were ineffective, and the monster fled by covering remarkable distance...