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America’s first serial killer family + Mayan megalopolis found + Lost Viking army - C C - Feb 4, 2018
The “Bloody Benders”: America’s First Serial Killer Family
http://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/the-bloody-benders-were-americas-first-serial-killer-family/
EXCERPT: When you think of haunted hotels, there's the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles where Elisa Lam died on the roof, where wretched things are rumored to happen. There's the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago where an inordinate amount of murders, suicides and accidental deaths have occurred. There's the Chelsea Hotel where Sid Vicious is accused of killing Nancy Spungen, and the Myrtles Plantation down South which is rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of the slaves who perished there at the hands of the sadistic overseers. There are the fictitious Bates Motel and Overlook Hotel. And then, there is the Wayside Inn, which was tucked away on the Kansas prairie in the late 1800s. The Wayside Inn was one of the evilest lodging houses in history, thanks to the sadistic maniacs who ran the place...the Bloody Benders, America's first family of serial killers.
Prairie Ghosts: The Benders
https://www.prairieghosts.com/bender.html
EXCERPT: T. . . he danger of dining with the Bender’s came when seated with your back to the canvas wall. Some travelers complained of hearing strange sounds from behind the curtain while they ate. They didn’t realize what might be coming their way for dessert. Kate would also place her spiritualist clients with their backs to the curtain. In the darkened room, she made all sorts of strange manifestations appear, usually with her family’s earthly assistance, and managed to keep the sitter transfixed in place for an extended period of time. However, some of the sitters became unnerved with their backs against the canvas wall. One man was so scared that he insisted on being moved to another seat. Kate became so angry with him that he stayed put. Finally though, after hearing what he believed were otherworldly whispers on the other side of the sheet, he jumped up and ran from the inn....
Bloody Benders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders
Guatemala's Maya Society Featured Huge 'Megalopolis,' LiDAR Data Show
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/maya-laser-lidar-guatemala-pacunam/
EXCERPT: In what’s being hailed as a “major breakthrough” in Maya archaeology, researchers have identified the ruins of more than 60,000 houses, palaces, elevated highways, and other human-made features that have been hidden for centuries under the jungles of northern Guatemala.Using a revolutionary technology known as LiDAR (short for “Light Detection And Ranging”), scholars digitally removed the tree canopy from aerial images of the now-unpopulated landscape, revealing the ruins of a sprawling pre-Columbian civilization that was far more complex and interconnected than most Maya specialists had supposed....
MORE: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/maya-laser-lidar-guatemala-pacunam/
Bones clue to 'lost' Viking army which made England
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-42918121
EXCERPT: A lost Viking army which was a "key part" of the creation of England may have been identified by archaeologists....
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