HOUR ONE: Reddit users share some of the strangest, creepiest, most terrifying phone calls they\u2019ve ever received \u2013 many that left the recipient with no explanation as to what just happened. (Creepy Phone Calls) *** Elizabeth Bathory was beautiful \u2013 and wanted to stay that way. So determined was her desire for a youthful appearance that she would bathe in the blood of young girls, thinking of it as a macabre fountain of youth. But how much truth is there to this story? And are there ghosts today, haunting their residences thanks to the Blood Countess? \u2028(Ghosts of the Blood Countess)
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HOUR TWO: \u2028Winnie had two trunks when she arrived at the train station \u2013 trunks that contained the severed body parts of her two best friends. She had murdered them, it seems, all in the name of love. (Winnie Ruth Judd: Trunk Murderess) *** Was British government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly murdered? (Many Dark Actors: Dr. David Kelly) *** Madame Delphine LaLaurie, made popular by Kathy Bates in American Horror Story: Coven, was a first class monster. A figure of high society, she was well known for her mistreatment of slaves. But no one knew just how sick she truly was. (The Monster of Royal Street)
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SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME: A former schoolhouse has accrued a sinister reputation as one of the most haunted, weirdest places in Japan. (Haunted Schoolhouse In Japan) *** The gold rush brought many to North Carolina \u2013 men looking to get rich, and rich men looking to get richer. But the greed also brought cruelty to some mine owners\u2026 and that cruelty sometimes brought death\u2026 and hauntings. (The Skinflint Mine Entity) *** Was a certain female reporter murdered because she knew too much about the death of John F. Kennedy? (The Dorothy Killgallen Murder) *** Something bizarre and terrifying is living below the streets of London \u2013 and there are many theories as to what it might be. (Strange Things Below London)
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SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM TONIGHT\u2019S SHOW:
\u201cThe Monster of Royal Street: Delphine LaLaurie\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/ssf9lm3
\u201cMany Dark Actors: Dr. David Kelly\u201d: https://tinyurl.com/uf4jv5m
\u201cWinnie Ruth Judd: Trunk Murderess\u201d by Troy Taylor: http://ow.ly/kpFb30nhABS
\u201cCreepy Phone Calls\u201d by Aaron Edwards for Graveyard Shift: https://tinyurl.com/spnqq2s
\u201cGhosts of the Blood Countess\u201d by Amy\u2019s Crypt for Paranormal Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/r4lh7rn
\u201cStrange Things Below London\u201d by Nick Redfern for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/ulutgp7
\u201cThe Murder of Dorothy Kilgallen\u201d by Jessika M. Thomas for Ranker: https://tinyurl.com/tjzpaz7
\u201cThe Skinflint Mine Entity\u201d from North Carolina Ghosts: https://tinyurl.com/w6ofq7g
\u201cHaunted Schoolhouse In Japan\u201d by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe: https://tinyurl.com/w4n98c6
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