
Haunted History BC
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Haunted History BC
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Researching paranormal activity, legends of hauntings and local folklore while preserving Canada's past and present history. Award winning historians.
British Columbia Canada Bergabung Mayıs 2020
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If you like #ghosts, #cryptids, #ufo, spine tingling tales combined with stunning photos, pick up our new book & first Canadian #paranormal magazine. Evenings & Avenues—Hauntings in the Outskirts available now. #spooky #WritingCommunity #haunted #books #authorscommunity #Reading
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In Plain Sight: UFOs, Bigfoot & Strange Encounters Edition - The Paranormal 60 News x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Missed an episode of Haunted Discoveries? Catch up now, full episodes streaming FREE at the link below 👻 watch.sling.com/1/franchise/c5…
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Join us next month for a thrilling paranormal event @PittMeadowsMuse. We’ll investigate not only the museum but the Hoffmann & Son building. This is the first time this location will be open to the public for such an event. Message us here or instagram for tickets. #paranormal




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Hey Paranormal fans! A follow up special series to Paranormal Mysteries launches today on @streambeacontv Paranormal Mysteries Unlocked.
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Shane Pittman@StarringShane
Have you ever wondered what went on behind the scenes of our cases and investigations? Tune in TOMORROW for a BRAND NEW series, Paranormal Mysteries Unlocked, to hear from me, Dave, and Cindy. You’ll hear about things that didn’t make it on your screen and so much more!
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HAUNTED MINDS - The Paranormal 60 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@HauntedHistory2 Hit me up dave@paranormal60.com id love to have you on the radio show or podcast
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Love this episode! And happy birthday @WilliamShatner
The Sting@TheStingisBack
William Shatner is 95 today! Bill’s Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (1963) remains one of TV’s most iconic moments. Shatner captures sheer terror and unravelling paranoia locked in a metal tube miles high, seeing something no one believes. Just brilliant.
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In Victorian England, one mistake—one scandal—could cost a woman her entire life...
Harriet Mordaunt seemed set up for the kind of story society liked to celebrate. She was born into privilege, known for her beauty, and raised with all the expectations that came with her class. At eighteen, she married Sir Charles Mordaunt and stepped into the glittering world of the Marlborough Set: aristocrats who dined, hunted, flirted, and bent the rules in private while preaching “respectability” in public. Men’s indiscretions were brushed off as sport. A woman’s desire, though, was treated as catastrophe.
Then, in 1869, everything cracked open.
After the birth of her daughter—who was reportedly blind—Harriet made a confession that set her world on fire. She admitted to affairs with multiple men, and most explosively, she named the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII. Whether that confession came from postpartum distress, pressure from people around her, manipulation, or a moment of reckless honesty, we can’t fully untangle now. But what happened next is clear: powerful families moved fast to contain the blast.
Her husband filed for divorce. The Prince of Wales was summoned to testify in 1870—almost unheard of, a future king in a courtroom denying involvement. The problem was bigger than marriage. A full public reckoning threatened reputations at the very top, including the monarchy. And so the story shifted.
Harriet was declared mentally unfit.
Instead of scandal, there would be silence.
She was labeled “insane” and spent the next thirty-six years moved between private asylums and country houses—no dramatic trial, no prison sentence, just doctors’ opinions, legal paperwork, and the heavy weight of family authority. Some physicians questioned whether she was truly mad. It didn’t matter. Under Victorian law and custom, husbands and elite families had enormous power to take control of a woman’s freedom—especially when “protecting reputation” was the priority.
Harriet lived out her life erased from public view. Not executed. Not locked in a cell. Simply institutionalized—out of sight, and no longer a threat to the men who had far more to lose.
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