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[color=#333333]Elva Zona Heaster - Testimony of a ghost [/color]

[color=#333333]The Greenbrier Ghost is the name popularly given to the alleged ghost of a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, who was murdered in 1897. [/color]

[color=#333333]The events surrounding the haunting have led to it becoming a very late instance in American legal history in which the so-called "testimony of a ghost" was accepted at a murder trial.[/color]

[color=#333333]Elva Zona Heaster was found dead on January 23, 1897. When the doctor and coroner arrived an hour later, her husband, Edward Shue, had moved her body to the bedroom and dressed her for burial.

He dressed her in a high-necked dress with a stiff collar, placed a veil over her face, and covered her neck with her scarf. When the doctor and coroner arrived, Shue was sobbing so hard that the body was only given a brief examination.

The only thing determined was that there was bruising on the neck. Shue wouldn’t let the doctor look any closer. Elva's parents were told about her death, and this is where the story gets stranger.

Four weeks after the funeral, Elva appeared to her mother in a dream. She said that Shue was a cruel man who abused her and had broken her neck when she didn't cook meat for dinner. The mother convinced the prosecutor to exhume Elva's body and perform an autopsy. The autopsy confirmed that her neck had been broken and her windpipe smashed.

Shue was brought to trial for murder on June 22, 1897, and Elva's mother was the star witness. Shue's lawyer tried to prove Mrs. Heaster unreliable, but she wouldn't waver in her recounting of the ghost story. The judge tried to get the jury to discount the ghost testimony, but it was difficult to poke any holes in it, because Elva's mother was so consistent in it.

Because the autopsy had revealed that she had actually died of a broken neck, the story was considered very credible, and Shue was convicted to life in prison.[/color]

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[color=#333333]The oldest dog lived 29 years![/color]

[color=#333333]Bluey was an Australian cattle dog born on June 7, 1910. He was owned by Les and Esma Hall and lived in Rochester, Victoria, Australia. Even though the record is unverified, he is believed to have lived until November 14, 1939 making him 29 years 6 months and 12 days old when he passed. [/color]

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[color=#333333]Scientists examine a 15-year-old girl who lived in the Inca Empire, then was sacrificed and remained frozen for 500 years[/color]

[color=#333333]Grim evidence of how the Incas “fattened up” children before sacrificing them to their gods has emerged from a new analysis of hair from two 500-year-old mummies preserved near the summit of a volcano…[/color]

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[color=#333333]Elisabeth "Lilo" Gloeden stands before judges, on trial for being involved in the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life, 1944.[/color]

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[color=#333333]"Tank Man", one of the iconic images Tiananmen Square protests of 1989[/color]

[color=#333333]"Tank man" blocks a column of Type 59 tanks heading east on Beijing's Chang'an Boulevard (Avenue of Eternal Peace) near Tiananmen Square during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. This photo was taken from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel, about half a mile away, through a 400 mm lens. The name and fate of the man is un[/color][color=#333333]known.[/color]

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[color=#333333]An undercover police officer apprehends a mugger on the New York City Subway, 1980.[/color]

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[color=#333333][size=3]Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, 1965.[/size][/color]

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[color=#333333][size=3]One of the first photos that was taken inside of Hitler's bunker (Führerbunker) in 1945 by Allied soldiers.[/size][/color]

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[color=#333333]A beggar running alongside King George V's coach. England, c. 1920[/color]

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[color=#333333][size=3]Miss America 1924[/size][/color]

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[color=#333333]Animal trainer Robert Baudy dresses boxer dogs as lions. The special lion masks worn by his dogs save him the cost and the danger of working with real lions. 1956.[/color]

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[color=#333333]A steam engine passing over a highway in Detroit, 1950.[/color]

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[color=#333333]Dead Man Walking - The Strange Story of Jeremy Bentham[/color]

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[color=#333333]A rare photograph of Washington County’s Company “I” which fought in the Spanish-American War,1898.[/color]