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New Jersey Devil

The story of the Jersey Devil has become layered with myths and variations, obscuring the original events that gave rise to it. Not surprising considering the story comes from colonial-era political intrigue, Quaker religious infighting, and a future Founding Father.  Most skeptics  know the story of the Jersey Devil.  Sometime in the early part of the eighteenth century in the New Jersey forest  called the Pine Barrens, a woman known as Mother Leeds gave birth to her thirteenth child and cried out, “Oh, let this one be a devil!” The “child” arrived  with horse-like head and bat-like wings. It yelped menacingly and flew up and out of the chimney, disappearing into the dark to spend centuries  accosting anyone unfortunate enough to encounter it.  The commonly held story of the Jersey Devil bears no resemblance to any sort of reality, however. The  story is one born not of a blaspheming mother, but of colonial-era political intrigues, Quaker religious in-fighting, almanac publishing,

important!!

hey, guys, I am going to start doing posts once a week about haunted locations, serial killers, urban legends, and many creepy unsolved cases. you can email suggestions and I will get to them as soon as I can. the first "haunted" location is... the Cecil Hotel.

The Cecil Hotel

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the Cecil hotel is located in Los Angeles, California. it opened in 1927.  The good times of the Roaring 20s were short-lived. In October 1929, the U.S. stock market crashed, signaling the start of the  Great Depression .  While the Cecil held onto its glamorous appeal through the 1940s, the bright lights of the surrounding   neighborhood dimmed, and poverty set in. Main Street, where the hotel stands, became known as Skid Row. In the years that followed the hotel fell on hard times.  The first of many suicides to occur at the Cecil happened in November 1931, when 46-year-old W.K. Norton, who checked in as James Willys. After getting his room, the man took a large amount of poison pills and ended his life. Roughly a year later, 25-year-old Benjamin Dodich checked into the hotel, concealing a gun in his belongings. When a maid went to go clean the room on September 17, 1932, Dodich was found dead with a self-inflicted gun wound in his head.   In 1934, 53-year-old former Army Med

struggles of being class of 2024

i am the class of 2024 and these are my struggles My trip to Washington D.C was canceled, I don't get to be seen as mature because of my peers, Being depressed is becoming trendy, I hate P.E but want to be more fit, Half my classmates are assholes, People underestimate how smart I am, hey guys so those are some of my struggles right now. i am a writer also so you might get updates/excerpts from my book  ttyl remember you are worth it so stay alive, stay beautiful, and (try) stay positive.