6 Chilling Mysteries That Cast a Shadow on Christmas
All vanished?
it's Christmas Eve in 1945 George solder and his wife Jenny are at their Cozy home in fville West Virginia celebrating the holiday with nine of their 10 kids their oldest daughter makes the night even more special bringing extra gifts for her younger sisters good night kids the couple heads to bed around 10:00 but they decide to let the kids stay up late to enjoy their new toys little do they know that right then at that very moment it it's the last time their whole family is together at half midnight the phone rings Jenny wakes up and rushes downstairs to answer it it's an unfamiliar female voice on the other end and creepy laughter emerges in the background Jenny says that the person has the wrong number and quickly hangs up on her way back to bed she closes the curtains locks the door and turns out the lights she glances at her oldest daughter who is peacefully sleeping on the living room couch so Jenny thinks to herself that the kids must be upstairs in bed well she probably should have double checked that it's 1:30 in the morning and Jenny wakes up once more this time a thick smoke is creeping into her room Jenny and her husband rush out of the room only to find Flames everywhere despite being completely shocked by the tragic scene the couple and four of their kids managed to escape but the other five kids are still inside the house I mean they must be right the thing is investigators did a brief search of the grounds on Christmas day but they didn't find any trace of the kids and that's strange you see the family's home was reduced to ashes in 45 minutes and a body usually takes 2 to 3 hours to fully disappear in a fire could someone have taken the kids well that's one theory on the night of the fire one witness indeed reported seeing a black sedan full of people speeding away from the family's house and the chilling part is that some people reported seeing the kids in a car at a restaurant and even in a hotel on the following days but none of these reports were confirmed and not even a billboard with the missing kids photo could give them any clues as to their true whereabouts a disappear appearance case as mysterious as this one occurred in 1996 in Wilson County Texas Patty vaugh was described as the kindest person in the world and an amazing mom to her three kids on Christmas morning she called her sister all tii saying that she had had a big fight with her husband but that was not surprising because they were going through a tough divorce after 13 years of marriage later that day Patty met with her husband at their house so he could celebrate the holiday for a couple of hours with their kids but Patty had a different plan for the evening she wanted to drop their kids at her cousin's house and enjoy the last hours of the holiday with her new boyfriend unfortunately she never got to meet him that night the day after the traditional gift exchange Patty's boss found her blue Dodge Caravan on the side of a road leading to her home and workplace but she wasn't inside and she was never seen again have you ever heard of Britain's Roswell yep that went down during the holidays actually on the day after Christmas in 1980 on that day two officers reported seeing a strange light in rendelsham forest located in suffk England according to the witnesses this strange flying object was fast I'm talking about traveling 60 m in Just 2 seconds a commercial plane for example would fly around 0.2 28 mi in that same time so the officers thought that whatever was there it was clearly under the control of the intelligence well this story is quite well known but there's another UFO mystery in England that's even more eerie and it also happened during Christmas imagine being woken up at 125 on Christmas Day by a loud noise coming from the roof that can't be Santa Claus of course but you start start to question yourself what's started as the noise of branches hitting the roof becomes louder and louder until it sounds like giant hailstones making you crazy you stick your head out of the window and see nothing absolutely nothing the sound then turns into a hum then into a faint whisper what looks like a horror movie plot happened to Mildred head in 1964 in Warminster a small town in Wilshire England but she she was not the only one later that morning another woman was walking down the street when she was suddenly thrown to the ground by the force of savage sound waves around the same time a couple was surprised by a similar noise they described that frightening sound as if 5,000 tiles from their roof were ripped off and then put back on again in total more than 30 people reported hearing mysterious noises that Christmas morning that was just the start of what we now call the Warminster thing a decades long Enigma of UFO sightings scary sounds and cars mysteriously breaking down after these strange occurrences over 50 years have passed yet no Theory can fully explain what happened in the UFO capital of the UK Santa Claus coming down the chimney eight tiny reindeer stockings filled with gifts this perfect holiday recipe is described in the TW the Night Before Christmas poem but there's a mystery hidden in that iconic poem you see the verses were first published in a newspaper called the Troy Sentinel on the 23rd of December 1823 but there was a problem the poem didn't have an author this mystery persisted for 21 long years until a language Professor from New York city named Clement Clark Moore claimed authorship mystery solved well not exactly a letter from 1879 raises an intriguing possibility the author of the poem might not be who we think in this letter the daughter of a New York poet and farmer named Henry Livingston Jr says that TW the Night Before Christmas is actually her father's work she was too young to have heard the poem when it was originally recited but the family says that her father read the poem to his kids 16 years before it was first published in the newspaper but don't get too excited because this whole story will probably remain a Christmas mystery the truth is that the alleged author passed away just 5 years after the poem's publication never once claiming to be the real author the holiday season is usually a peaceful time of the year but 1997 was an exception to this rule it's December 22nd and Beth and rickets decides to do some Christmas shopping in the morning she grabs her black purse and leaves her home in De Moine Iowa she buys gifts for her kids and even decides to treat herself choosing a special dress for New Year's Eve unfortunately she never got the chance to WRA those presents bethanne never returned home and a series of strange events unfolded after her disappearance later that same day at 2:00 in the afternoon a fire broke out in her house in her B bedroom to be more precise and the firefighters couldn't determine its cause on Christmas Eve TV networks in De Moine were discussing Beth Anne's disappearance shortly after her story aired her boyfriend called the police and informed them that she wasn't missing after all according to him Beth Anne called him saying that she was okay and didn't want to be found unfortunately she hasn't spoken with friends or relatives since that holiday not even her two daughters and her son and that's weird to say the least so her family is still searching for the answers to this mystery
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