NIGHT FILES

Disappearances. Hauntings. Cults. Creatures. Strange stories hiding in the dark. Welcome to Night Files.

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If you knew the story behind this painting, would you hang it in your house?

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The Hands Resist Him Cursed Painting: An online auction turned this painting into an internet legend. The seller claimed its figures moved at night and could even leave the artwork. Some viewers said simply looking at it caused dread or nausea.

Music: “Crawling” - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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How do you think their lives got this far out of control? What do you think?

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The Collyer Brothers Mansion: More than 100 tons of possessions turned a Harlem mansion into a maze of narrow tunnels and booby traps. When police entered in 1947, one brother was dead. The other was eventually found buried just ten feet away.

Music: “Angel Heart” – Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

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Do you think there was ever really something supernatural at Highgate, or did the whole thing just spiral into legend?

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Highgate Vampire: Reports of occult rituals, ghosts, and a towering figure with hypnotic eyes turned a London cemetery into the center of a vampire panic. Two rival investigators became convinced the creature was real.

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Do you think the Lutz family was telling the truth, or do you think the whole Amityville story got blown way out of proportion?

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Amityville Horror: The Lutz family lasted only 28 days inside the infamous house. They claimed to experience voices, shadows, unexplained damage, winter swarms of flies, and a red-eyed entity named Jodie. Then they fled and never returned.

Music: “Ghoul” - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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Do you think anyone around Ricardo realized how far gone he was before it was too late?

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Björk’s Obsessive Stalker: Ricardo López filmed 22 hours documenting his fixation on the singer. His obsession escalated until he mailed a dangerous device hidden inside a book to London. Police discovered his tapes four days later and intercepted it before Björk received it.

Music: “The Bone Collector” - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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If the blood was real and it didn’t belong to either person in the house, where do you think it came from?

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Atlanta Blood House: Blood reportedly appeared on the walls, floors, and ceiling of an Atlanta home in 1987.

It tested as human Type O blood, but matched neither resident.

Investigators found no source. Then it simply stopped.

Music: “Every Town a Ghost Town” - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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At what point would you have been convinced something real was happening in that cellar?

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The Scole Experiment: Witnesses at a series of séances in England claimed lights moved through their bodies, invisible hands touched them, objects appeared from nowhere, and humanlike spirits materialized.

Years later, an unknown entity allegedly told the group to stop.

Did they contact the dead?

Music: “Lost City” - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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How powerful does a belief have to be for something like this to become a yearly tradition?

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Xipe Totec: The Flayed Lord was associated with war, agriculture, rebirth, and death.

His priests reportedly sacrificed victims and wore their skins during ceremonies symbolizing regeneration and fertility.

The rituals continued for 20 days every year.

Music: “The Magician” - Symmetry

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How do two completely different groups of people end up dying at the same remote lake centuries apart?

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Roopkund Skeleton Lake: Hundreds of ancient remains were found around a remote Himalayan lake.

A deadly hailstorm may explain their injuries. Local folklore blames a goddess.

Then genetic testing revealed the skeletons belonged to people with very different ancestry.

Music: “Fugitive” - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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Do you think this was an alien encounter, some unknown animal, or something else entirely?

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Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblin Encounter: In 1955, a Kentucky family claimed small glowing-eyed humanoids surrounded their farmhouse for hours.

They appeared at windows, moved across the roof, and reportedly floated backward when shot.

By sunrise, they were gone.

Music: “Portal” - Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio