Netflix’s docuseries ‘Haunted’ has fans skeptical about the truth, so we investigated

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“You call ‘em strays. They were disposable. Human life meant nothing and that’s what he tried to teach, that people—once you got what you needed from them—the best thing you could do was get rid of them. That way, it would never come back onto you.” 

That’s Jacob, a middle-aged man from upstate New York, recounting a childhood consumed by terror. Jacob sits alongside his mother and aunt, Sadie and Terrilyn. A camera pans across their gaunt faces as each subject recounts the realities of living with their family patriarch—a man responsible for dozens, if not hundreds, of murders. 

Jacob continues to paint a horrific, vivid portrait, detailing what it was like to be “groomed” by his serial killer grandfather. He has nightmarish anecdotes of abuse and theories on where many of these victims are buried. Jacob even has memories of destroying hundreds of grandpa’s “trophies” following his death.   Read more…

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Jenny McCarthy thought her house was haunted, but it was just her Google Home

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Jenny McCarthy’s home is haunted by technology. 

The actress and avid anti-vaxxer was doing what every normal person does — checking herself out in a gilded mirror, denying scientific evidence, and pushing incorrect narratives about autism — when she heard a piano trill echo through the living room. 

“Donnie?” she called out to her husband, Donald Wahlberg. “DONNIE? Someone just played the piano!” 

Freaked out by the spectral sound, McCarthy posted a Nest video on Facebook: “HAUNTED! Just happened in my house! I had to look at the security tape to prove it. Ahh!!”

While one commenter was convinced that she saw an otherworldly shadow pass by the piano, another pointed out the true culprit: McCarthy’s Google Home rebooting.  Read more…

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