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Phi Pob Forces Townspeople to Strip

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Picture generated with AI Location: Sa Kaeo, Thailand Dates Active: February 29, 2016 Category: Evil Spirits, Possessions, Strange Crimes Cause: Phi Pob Status: Unknown Entry ID: 012924C-00056 Summery:   Cops are called on two woman and one man who were forcing neighbors and family members to strip in the street of their village, afterwards claiming to have been possessed by a spirit known as a phi pob. In Depth: Three suspects lead seven neighbors and family members at knifepoint into the street of a village and forced them to strip naked. Some of the victims were injured in the altercation when they resisted, and when the victims did as ordered the three perpetrators burned all of the clothes. Police were called onto the scene, where they immediately disarmed the suspects and brought them to the police station. They later told police that they did not remember the incident at all, claiming that they had been possessed by a ghost known as a phi pob, and that they had only be...

On Patrol for Phi Pob

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Picture generated with AI Location: Amnat Charoen, Thailand Dates Active: June, 2017 Category: Evil Spirits, Possessions Cause: Phi Pob Status: Unknown Entry ID: 012924B-00055 Summery:   Small town cops are asked to increase their presence in response to an evil spirit. In Depth: Frightened embers of a tiny community in rural Thailand called the police in order to help with a ghost known as a phi pob. Police stepped up patrols in the area to help reassure the local population. A phi pob is a type of evil spirit that can hold power over humans, manifesting itself from within a living person until it decides to leave, and from there it can possess another host (usually a woman.) Once in possession of a new host it acts like a parasite, eating their entrails from within while bringing sickness to others around them, killing and eating livestock, and otherwise producing bad luck for the community as a whole. External Links (Last Checked January 29, 2024): Cops Deployed to Protec...

The London Beer Flood

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Picture generated with AI Location: The Horse Shoe Brewery, London, England, United Kingdom Dates Active: October 17, 1814 Category: Mass Deaths, Unnatural Disasters Cause: Porter Beer Status: Closed Entry ID: 012924A-00054 Summery:   7,664 barrels of porter flooded a rookery in London, killing 8 people. In Depth: The Horse Shoe Brewery was built in 1764 at the end of Tottenham Street at the junction of Oxford Street, in London, England, the site which is currently occupied by the Dominion Theater. It wasn't the best neighborhood at the time, being smack dab in the middle of a "rookery": tightly packed slums and houses around nearby St. Giles's Church, which housed many poor families, the majority of whom were Irish immigrants. Despite it's surroundings the brewery was very well off. Though it changed ownership several times over the course of several decades, it still managed to produce over 100,000 barrels of porter in the year 1811. However,...