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BOY IN THE BOX ..

It was the year 1957 in Philadelphia when a hunter found the bruised body of a boy in a JC Penney box. The boy, around four to six years-old, was nude and wrapped in flannel. He seemed to have died from blows to the head. Fearing his muskrat traps would be confiscated by police, the hunter didn't report the body. It was two days later when a college student found the body, that the police started on the case of "America's Unknown Child." It immediately attracted the media's attention, and flyers of the boy were seen throughout Pennsylvania.

Although police received thousands of leads, they were never able to uncover the identity of the young boy. They tried tracing back the JC Penney box and checking the boy's fingerprints, but everything led to a dead end. However, there were two promising leads of note. One lead involved a foster home located 1.5 miles away.

A medical examiner, who pursued the case until his death, had a psychic lead him to the foster home, where he found a bassinet similar to the one that was sold in the box. Hanging on the clothesline were blankets much like the one wrapped around the boy. He believed the boy belonged to the stepdaughter of the man who ran the home, and she didn't want to be found as an unwed mother. Police interviewed the couple, but closed the investigation.

In 2003, they opened the case again when interviewing a woman identified as "M" who claimed her abusive mother bought the child back in 1954. According to her, her mother killed the boy in a fit of rage. Because "M" was mentally unstable, the investigation was closed as well, leaving the boy to remain "America's Unknown Child."

THE DEAD WOMAN WHO NAMED HER KILLER
..Although this case has been solved, how it was solved remains a mystery. In 1977, a respiratory therapist in Chicago was murdered in her apartment. Teresita Basa was found under a flaming mattress, a butcher knife buried in her chest. Police attempted to track her stolen jewelry with no luck. They also failed in trying to link any of the suspects to the crime. It seemed impossible to find the perpetrator, that is, until Remy Chua, a co-worker who barely knew the victim, involuntarily became a leading source of information.

Chua began having frequent visions and nightmares about Basa. It started in the locker room of her work, where she experienced seeing a man's face behind Basa. This would repeat in her dreams. Chua then began channeling Basa's spirit when conversing with her husband. While channeling Basa's shirit, Chua told her husband the entire story of Basa's murder. She claimed an orderly at the hospital named Alan Showery was helping Basa with her television when he assaulted her. He then killed her and set her mattress on fire. The spirit was even able to give the details of what happened to her jewelry, which was given to Showery's common-law-wife. Mr. Chua convinced his wife to give these details to the police.

The police were skeptical at first, but after seeing the Basa's jewelry on Showery's wife (Basa's cousin was able to confirm it just as the spirit said she could), the police were able to convict the man for fourteen years in jail. Unfortunately, there was not enough evidence to convict him longer. But was it really Basa's ghost who named her killer? Perhaps Chua had knew some facts in the case and disguised it as a spirit possessing her? What ever led police to the killer remains to be a mystery.

The Severed feet
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In 2007, a girl was roaming a beach in British Columbia when she found a sneaker. To her horror, as she opened up the sock, she found that a human foot was inside. Since then, a number of severed feet have washed ashore. The feet have been connected to five men, one a woman, and three of unknown sex. Throughout the years, with a hoax foot thrown here and there, the case has never been completely closed, with many theories floating around as to who the feet belonged to.

The Vancouver police managed to identify one foot in 2008, matching its DNA to a man who was described as suicidal. They later were able to match two other feet to a woman who was also believed to have committed suicide. Because of these findings, many speculate that the feet belong to those who jumped off a bridge to their deaths. However, because of the rarity of only feet and no other body parts showing up, some believe that the feet were connected to a plane crash by a nearby island. Other suggest they were those of the victims of the Asian Tsunami in 2004, since the make of the shoes were all manufactured before 2004. Whatever sources these feet are coming from, they have left the world baffled for years.

The Tara Case

On the morning of September 20th, 1988 in Belen, New Mexico, it seemed like a perfect day to ride a bike. Tara Calico borrowed her mother's pink bike to go out for a spin. Extroverted and active, she worked as a bank teller and was studying to become either a psychologist or psychiatrist. She planned to play tennis that afternoon and asked her mom to drive out after her in case she got a flat tire and didn't return home by noon. She never did return. Every lead went to a dead end until a year later, when a photo was found depicting a young woman her age and a missing boy, both gagged.

The Polaroid photograph was found in a parking lot outside a Junior Food Store in Florida. The nine-year-old, Michael Henley, went missing in the same area as Calico in April of 1988 when he was hunting turkeys with his father. They appeared to be in the back of a van, with a copy of a book written by V.C. Andrews, Calico's favorite author, lying right beside the girl. Initially, Tara's mother didn't think the girl was her, but the girl in the photograph had a scar identical to Calico. But still, due to the lack of evidence, many experts dismiss the photograph. In 1990, Michael Henley's body was found in Zuni Mountains where he was hunting, which strongly disconnects the theory that the two were abducted and taken to Florida. Calico's parents would eventually die, never finding out who took their daughter.

The Zodiac Killer wasn't the only one who loved to use codes. On the morning of December 1st, 1948, a body was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. The man's body was in perfect condition, with no injuries to be found. He was well dressed, although all the labels on his clothes were missing. In his pocket was a train ticket to Henley Beach, never to be used. It would be a month later when they would find a suitcase linked to him at Adelaide Railroad Station. Its label was removed as well as those on the articles of clothing inside it. Unfortunately, it led to no clues, just like his autopsy, which reported no foreign substance in his body that could directly link his death to poisioning. A month later they would find the most substantial but puzzling evidence in a secret pocket in the man's trousers. It read, "Taman Shud."

Public library officials called in to translate the phrase. They concluded that it meant "ended" or "finished", which can be found in a collection of poems entitled The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Immediately police ran a nationwide search for the book where this scrap paper was torn from. A man came forward, claiming that he found the book in the backseat of his unlocked car a week or two before they discovered the body. On the back of it was a strange code scrawled out in pencil. A phone number linking to a nurse was also discovered, though the nurse said she had given a copy of the Rubaiyat to an army officer named Alfred Boxall. Both the man who found the book and the nurse denied any connection with the dead man. They never got any further with the case, although many suspect it may have been a suicide since the book's theme was about having no regrets when life ends. Others think he may be a spy. It remains unsolved till this day

Morning Gorelovers The following unsolved police cases are strange, creepy, and frustratingly without a conclusion. They are some of the most baffling unsolved mysteries of our time.

Let's start with one of the most publicized unsolved cases, so popular, there's even a website dedicated to tracking this murderer down.
ZODIAC KILLER

Most people are usually quiet about their crimes, but "Zodiac", as he dubbed himself, was anything but. From 1968-1969, he terrorized San Francisco with his murder spree, taunting the police with his coded letters to the local paper. He had at least five killings directly connected to him, although he claims to have killed 37 people. His terror began when Betty Lou Jensen, 16, and David Arthur Faraday, 17, were found lying outside of their bullet-peppered car. Jensen was found dead at the scene with five gunshot wounds to her back, while Faraday died of a bullet to the head en route to the hospital. Half a year later, a couple who parked their car four miles away from that crime scene was also gunned down, one injured and one killed. The survivor, Michael Mageau, was able to give a description of the killer. He described a heavyset white man around 5'8". It would be the Zodiac Killer himself that would give the police the remaining evidence.

At 12:48 a.m. that same night, police received a strange call:

"I wish to report a double murder. If you go one mile east in Columbus Parkway to a public park, you will find the kids in a brown car. They have been shot with a nine-millimeter Luger. I also killed those kids last year. Good-bye."

A month later, newspapers received the first letter from the Zodiac Killer. He demanded them publish the letter on the front page or he'd go on a killing rampage. The letter described the murders, all written with mysterious ciphers that seemed to form a code. This was a common theme with the other letters he would send, all signed with a crossed-circle symbol. One such letter was decoded by a high-school teacher and his wife. It read:

"I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUE ANAMAL OF ALL TO KILL SOMETHING GIVES ME THE MOST THRILLING EXPERENCE IT IS EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH A GIRL THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAE WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND THEI HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY SLAVES I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOI DOWN OR ATOP MY COLLECTIOG OF SLAVES FOR MY AFTERLIFE EBEORIETEMETHHPITI."

The Zodiac Killer would go on killing and leaving frustrating evidence for the police– coded letters, anonymous phone calls, the crossed-circle written on victims' cars, sending over blood-stained shirts, accounts from survivors– but the police never found him.

[quote author=Jagaban880 post=100449328][/quote]paradox in literal form

Jacksparrow7:
If this thing has never happened in Nigeria just forget it. E mean say Pakistan Islam and Nigeria Islam are not the same

well ignorance is not a good mix with r3ligion .nuff said kind sir

Underneath we are same .

Aside Amputees

Begining and ending the same

No one knows when

Smile , only you can

Love your Parents no Matter what , some dont have.

People.

How you should see everyone

Who are you?

Happiness

He's happier than Dangote in his Bentley

Happiness is subjective very subjective .

You don’t need to be complete or have it all before you help. You can still help from the little you have.
No one is perfect, we all are imperfect somehow. But when we are united, we complete each other.

Ignorance or courage ?

Freedom comes with a cost

When death comes it comes , the deer gets the picture .

A picture from Palestine

brownemmanuel43:
Mehnnnnnnn, op one crate for your head. Thanks for sharing and also pls do update up

wanted to but its been derailed

Sistergal80:
Yup baby

you better xx

budaatum:
We need to develop our minds. Kind of like become as children and abandon our preconceived beliefs and look at things anew and with fresh eyes in order to be reborn.

Basically, we should evolve from the 'age of believing' that we are currently in, into the 'age of use the senses' so we can progress into the Age of Enlightenment.

And we are on our way already, I dare say, slow as it seems, which is unfortunately the nature of evolution. One just need read the numerous threads of the unbelievers to see how much progress is being made. And one day there'll be a seismic shift of minds. And voila!

Evolution is fast . very fast even . think about that a while

inumidun2010:
I Dont like the Concept of SLAVERY. Can't imagine someone waking me up to work in a Sugarcane Plantation...

worse part is they worked to death


The Obas didn't know this, they say the Europeans as equals with Africans , they saw the idea that the slaves would obviously treat the Africans the same way slaves were treated in Africa . it was not , it changed the course of black history , and perception of the Black Man Worldwide .

Sistergal80:
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hi yeah I didn't get the caption right , thank you , was banned since last night though . so couldn't make editions . having a good day?

budaatum:
Delude yourself, why don't you! Perhaps you are one of those who missed out on history, or never read wide enough so it can be said that you "never heard of still to this day", when the truth is you covered your eyes with your hands and stuck your fingers in your ears.

We might not have whipped or chained our slaves because we hardly needed to since we never found a use for as many as America did except where there were resources like mines when we did chain them, and where we didn't we successfully imprisoned their minds and they obeyed for fear of death, but our gods loved slaves as sacrifices and we loved feeding our gods.

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DPawnship_was_a_common_practice%2C%2C_and_the_Fon_people%29.?wprov=sfla1]Here is a good place to start[/url]. Pay special attention to the references at the end.

Resources. That's why we are poor. We just are not resourceful enough, the greatest resource being our minds.

thank you for you opinion Budaa

NB - We were never slaves, we should not feel inferior .


The American Blacks were Slaves , still fighting for equality till this day

But you in Nigeria , own Nigeria , Have a say in Nigeria , no matter your class in the society .

These African Empires had Armies , Educational centers , Medicine , bit there was another way of making money to our new found counterparts (the Europeans /Americas ) , selling slaves to get profit , and yes they did . and even made Mali have one of the richest men to ever exist in the 1st World.
But then the idea of slavery was been questioned as been humane (even though the bible supports slavery ) , it was later found out slavery is wrong , and Africa whose basic means of making profit were slaves , Agriculture and minerals (which were already owned by the Brits )

When slavery became illegal in the industrial era , our means of profit dwindled so bad , as the world developed right in our eyes , iron ore , steam to power trains , gold , ,factories , even 80 percent of the device you are holding to view this was originally from Congo , so where do we fit in ? When our only source of income is now illegal , and the world was developing fast .

Contrary to mainstream media , that we had slaves , yes we did , but slaves here was not same as American Slaves , never worked plantations and died , whipped , no the slaves here actually integrated with the chiefs or owners , treated them with respect some even integrated to the family , (especially the Yoruba's ) , The Igbo's well had a segregational style of slaves , more traditionally or culturally linked (called OSus )


Now why did we not Develop like our Sister continents ? No it wasnt a planned plot to impoverish Africa , it just became suitable and as it worked over time it became reliable and profitable to impoverish Africa


During the times of Empires , The Roman Empires , Greeks , There was the Shongai Empire , Mali , Empire and do many African Empires we never heard of still to this day , now what happened ?

Lalasticlala , I was banned from my last topic , please unblock .