In 1657, young Richard Jones of Shepton Mallet fell victim to bizarre fits after meeting an elderly woman. Accused of witchcraft, Jane Brooks was tried and executed, leaving behind one of Somerset’s most infamous witchcraft cases.

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In 1768, Owen Parfitt, a paralyzed man in Shepton Mallet, vanished from his chair outside his sister’s cottage without a trace. Was it abduction, escape, or something supernatural? His disappearance remains one of England’s strangest unsolved cases.

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https://www.history.co.uk/articles/more-historys-most-famous-unsolved-disappearances

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In May 1932, police forced open the door to a small apartment in Stockholm’s Atlas district. Inside lay the body of 32-year-old Lilly Lindeström, a sex worker last seen on Walpurgis Night. She had been bludgeoned to death during a sexual encounter, but the scene held something far stranger: her body had been drained of blood, and a gravy ladle smeared with it lay nearby. Newspapers dubbed the unknown killer the “Atlas Vampire,” and though police interviewed every client and acquaintance they could find, no one was ever charged. Nearly a century later, Lilly’s murder remains Sweden’s most bizarre unsolved case.

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https://sweden.postsen.com/local/90790/The-murder-of-Lilly-Lindstrom–called-the-Atlas-Vampire.html

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