Mystery man's annual visit to Poe grave
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Undeterred by controversy, a mysterious visitor paid his annual tribute at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe early Saturday, placing three red roses and a half-filled bottle of cognac before stealing away into the darkness.
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Spanish researchers said Monday they've won permission to open a tomb in the Dominican Republic purported to hold remains of Christopher Columbus, edging closer to solving a century-old mystery over whether those bones or a rival set in Spain are the real thing.
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PHILADELPHIA, Miss.  - An elderly woodsman and  preacher who tends to the sick and is loved by his neighbors. A  hate-filled Klansman who masterminded one of the most notorious  civil rights-era crimes in American history.
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A lore has grown up around the man in paper targets at police firing ranges, giving birth to multiple theories on who he is.
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"Stranger in Paradise" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 293 pages, $25.95), by Robert B. Parker: That Wilson Cromartie would dare return to the fictional town of Paradise, Mass., is surprising. But Cromartie has a bigger surprise in store. He waltzes right into Police Chief Jesse Stone's office and asks for help.
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MIAMI -- For almost six months, Fort Myers police have puzzled over the eight skeletons discovered in the spring in a forested wetland.
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A centuries-old code carved at a British manor house, according to popular legend the key to finding the Holy Grail, is thought to be a cryptic message from an 18th century Christian sect, experts said.
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Call it theater of the macabre: A jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's killer, will be on display when the musical "Assassins" opens in Philadelphia.
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Street artists have speculated for months about the identity of a mysterious figure who has become known as âthe Splasher.â
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Vince Wilson sets out to prove and explain the existence of ghosts with an arsenal of poltergeek gear. By Chris Suellentrop from Wired magazine.
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Late movie star Richard Harris has been honoured with a statue in his   hometown of Limerick, Ireland - 20 years after former Mayor Pat Kennedy launched a bid to   immortalise him.
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For centuries, their seemingly uncanny ability to discern private facts about strangers have bolstered the claims of spiritualist mediums to be able to contact the dead.
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Police called to a Long Island man's house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set.
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By Sandy Bauers, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jun. 21--As soon as he viewed the photo -- those fanglike teeth, like something out of a horror movie -- John Lundberg knew what the mystery creature was.
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PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - For more than a dozen years, Punxsutawney Phil has seen something just as familiar as his shadow: the face of his handler.
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SAN CARLOS CITY -- Officials, relatives and supporters of Fernando Poe Jr. grieved upon knowing the death of the movie actor Tuesday.
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Fernando Poe Jr., a movie actor who almost defeated Philippine President Gloria Arroyo in this year&#39;s elections, was brought to his final resting place by hundreds of thousands of fans and supporters.