Daniel "Danny" Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954 – October 25, 2006), known as The Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer who murdered five college students in Gainesville, Florida over four days in August 1990.

He later confessed to raping several of his victims, committing a triple homicide in his home city of Shreveport, Louisiana, and attempting to murder his father in May 1990.

In total, Rolling confessed to killing eight people.

He was sentenced to death for the five Gainesville murders in 1994.

He was executed by lethal injection in 2006.

His killing spree inspired screenwriter Kevin Williamson to pen the script of the 1996 slasher film Scream.

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The Black Dog of Newgate is a legend concerning the haunting of the former Newgate Prison of London, which was located next to the Old Bailey (The Central Criminal Court), close to St. Pauls Cathedral, in London, England.

This account of a haunting based at the prison is an example of the English Black Dog category of supernatural manifestations, featuring a spectral hound of ill-omen or malicious intent, which is a notable archetype in British folklore and superstition.

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The Nixie are humanoid and often shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore. Source - Wikipedia.

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On September 22, 2006, Cassie Jo Stoddart, an American high school student, was murdered by her classmates Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik both 16, in her aunt and uncle's house in Pocatello, Idaho, United States.

Stoddart's body was discovered two days later, when her relatives returned home from their trip.

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This week on Real Monsters we discuss some classic crime with child killer Amelia Dyer who is suspected of up to 400+ murders and the strange case of the unidentified Somerton man.

But first we have a good chat about this weeks Monster Rewinds and get into the story of Gef the Talking Mongoose and the terrifying apparitions known as shadow people.

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The Somerton Man was an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Source - Wikipedia.

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A shadow person (also known as a shadow figure or black mass) is the perception of shadow as a living species, humanoid figure, sometimes interpreted as the presence of a spirit or other entity by believers in the paranormal or supernatural.

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Gef, also referred to as the Talking Mongoose or the Dalby Spook, was an allegedly talking mongoose which inhabited a farmhouse owned by the Irving family, located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man.

The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s.

The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry Price, Hereward Carrington, and Nandor Fodor.

Some investigators of the era as well as contemporary critics have concluded that the phenomenon was a hoax that the Irving family perpetuated by using ventriloquism.

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