Journal of the Bizarre

It seems that either something fishy is afoot, or that the survivors of the October 1 Las Vegas shooting are some of the unluckiest folks to ever walk the earth. First there was Kymberley Suchomel, the 28-year-old who passed away suddenly earlier this month in Apple Valley after fleeing the scene of the massacre. Suchomel, who had attended the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, posted several detailed paragraphs of the shooting to her Facebook page on Oct. 4.

"I kept looking back expecting to see the gunmen- and I say MEN because there was more than one person. There was more than one gun firing. 100% more than one," she wrote, just days before she was found dead in her bed by her grandmother.

And then there was Danny Contreras, whose body was recently found inside an empty Las Vegas house with multiple gunshot wounds. He was found after a neighbor who called 911 after hearing the sound of a man groaning from inside a building on the 5800 block of East Carey Avenue. According…

"I am Charles Mark Brandon, duly authorized representative of the dead, and I am going to prove it!"
These are the words of a man who, from his nondescript modern apartment in Brooklyn, has produced scores of videos and photographs purporting to show evidence of the supernatural. Hundreds of these videos appear on his YouTube channel, "A Brooklyn Haunting", where the viewer comments run the gamut from "Wow, that's really weird" to the "Dude, what are you smoking?" variety.

In most of Charles' videos, the camera is fixated upon bathroom mirrors which allegedly reflect the faces of the dead, although some may speculate the faces are nothing more than a simple case of pareidolia caused by the combination of reflections of textured bathroom tiles, foggy glass and camera angles. Charles refutes this explanation, of course. "If I see faces, you see faces, someone else see faces, a bunch of people see faces, then how can it be this?" h…

A strange report from the Philadelphia Inquirer from April 26, 1902.

Jesus Campos, a.k.a. "The Vanishing Mandalay Bay Security Guard" finally emerged from hiding to give a highly-anticipated television interview. Being that he holds the key to solving the riddle of the ever-changing official timeline of events, Campos was sought out by journalists and television personalities throughout the country. He disappeared without warning, bailing on 5 scheduled television interviews, and emerged this week to appear on the Wednesday edition of Ellen DeGeneres' show.

Since "Ellen" is hardly synonymous with hard-hitting investigative journalism, Campos' decision to discuss the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting with DeGeneres left many people scratching their heads.
However, once you see how the threads of MGM and Ellen DeGeneres interweave, it's easy to put the pieces of the puzzle together and see why Campos agreed to appear on 'Ellen'.

First, in case you missed the interview, here's the summary.

During the interview, DeGener…

Jesus Campos, the security guard reportedly shot in the leg by Stephen Paddock at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on October 1, has received a ton of media scrutiny for his sudden disappearance and his strange behavior ever since the Las Vegas massacre, leading many conspiracy theorists to believe that Campos may have played the role of accomplice in the deadly event (thus far, no credible evidence has been found to support this theory).

Earlier today Fox News attempted to clear up some of the mystery surrounding Jesus Campos. According to David Hickey, labor boss of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA), Campos was taken to a UMC Quick Care facility. Hickey told Fox News that Campos was looking forward to "telling his side of the story" and that it was Campos himself who requested permission to "go public".

But all that changed when Campos decided to bail on five scheduled television interviews, including one with Sean Hannity of Fox Ne…

On September 8 James Murren, CEO of MGM Resorts International-- owners of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino-- sold over 80% of his stock shares. Just three weeks later, the deadliest mass shooting in the modern history of the United States would unfold from within a room on the hotel's 32nd floor.

Was it a mere coincidence? ESP? Or is there a more sinister explanation?

According to the Ledger Gazette, Murren dumped 294,150 shares of MGM Resorts International stock on Friday, September 8, at a price of $34.08 per share. Murren pocketed $10,024,632 from the deal, while holding onto 71,442 shares of the company. Prior to the October 1 massacre, those shares had a combined value of $2,434,743. As of today, those same shares are now worth a mere $29.44 each.

In other words, if Murren had not dumped his stock shortly before Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers from inside his room at Mandalay Bay, he would've stood to lose approximately $1.7 million dollars. But he …

The conspiracy surrounding the Las Vegas shooting intensified deeply over the past 24 hours, first with the unexplained disappearance of Jesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay security guard who was set to give five television interviews. As we reported earlier, Campos' home had been under guard by armed private security while shooter Stephen Paddock's inexplicably unguarded Reno home-- part of a criminal investigation by the FBI-- was burglarized by unknown persons.

Next came the bizarre press conference just a few short hours ago in which Sheriff Lombardo and the LVPD banned conservative independent journalists Laura Loomer and Mike Tokes from attending and asking questions (it was Loomer and Tokes who first broke the story about the armed private security guard at the Campos home).

And now comes perhaps the most startling development in the case of the Las Vegas shooting-- the sudden death of a seemingly healthy 28-year-old witness who went on record claiming that there were multipl…

Yesterday we delved into the mystery surrounding the Las Vegas shooting and the unanswered questions surrounding Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos, such as his peculiar GoFundMe page and the fact that his home is being protected by a private armed security guard. Independent investigative journalists have revealed that the company protecting Campos-- identified as "On Scene Investigation & Security, Inc."-- is a Las Vegas-based company whose business license expired in January of 2017.

Also adding fuel to the conspiracy theories was the report by investigative journalist Laura Loomer claiming that Campos' name has been "scrubbed" from the casino's employee database.

It was also reported earlier this week that gunman Stephen Paddock's Reno home was broken into.

But things have just taken a new bizarre twist. Gateway Pundit just announced that Jesus Campos is missing.

Campos was scheduled to appear on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News but, a…

Our regular readers have probably noticed that we don't delve into conspiracy theories as much as we used to, the reason being that it's not a lot of fun receiving angry emails threatening us with violence or lawsuits. A few months back we wrote an article about Seth Rich and it only took about 45 minutes before the death threats came rolling in (someone eventually flagged our article and those First Amendment-loving patriots at Google forced us to remove the piece). We also wrote several articles about Sandy Hook, only to be threatened with legal action by no less than four parties related to the victims (which seemed strange, since we never definitively concluded that Sandy Hook was a hoax, false flag or cover-up. In fact, we debunked quite a few claims made by some prominent Sandy Hook "Truthers"). When it comes to conspiracy theories, apparently you can't please everyone.
But the recent developments in the Las Vegas shooting case has forced us to once again q…

In the summer of 1913 a strange feast took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The culmination of the banquet resulted in six Chinese men being arrested, accused of playing a role in the bizarre suicide of Ho Why.

Ho Why had arrived in America twenty-six years earlier and opened a Chinese laundry at 200 Kentucky Avenue. It was a popular line of work among Chinese immigrants, who devotedly toiled over their washtubs to send money back to families in China. Ho Why was a hard worker, and his years of labor had caused him develop a chronic illness. He coughed all the time, he grew frail and dangerously thin, and everyone knew that his time in the mortal realm was drawing to a close. But to Ho Why, his greatest shame was the fact that he had no son and that the family name would die along with him.

In June of 1913 Ho Why sent invitations to all of his friends and relatives living in the United States to join him in a sumptuous feast. From New York came Shu Nan, Lee Don and Hong Jan; from Ne…

In our previous post, in which we discussed a few of the most baffling cases of poltergeist activity, we mentioned the infamous Tarcutta Mystery, which took place on an Australian dairy farm throughout 1949. Since some of our readers expressed an interest in learning more about this case, we've decided to devote an entire post to this bewildering mystery.

Lawrence A. Wilkinson owned a dairy farm in sparsely populated region of New South Wales not far from the village of Tarcutta, whose reputation as a sheep and cattle raising center dates back to the late 19th century. The first white men to set foot in the region were the European explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, who encountered a tribe of Wiradjuri aborigines there in January of 1825. Within three decades, a post office would be built in Tarcutta and the village officially sprang into existence in 1890.

It was in early 1949 when witnesses began seeing strange things happening on Lawrence "Laurie" Wilkinson…

Poltergeist is a German word translating, literally, into "racketing spirits". While a great deal of paranormal activity is of the silent variety, poltergeist activity is characterized by the inexplicable moving about of objects in an often violent manner. Because of the malevolent nature of poltergeists, these spooky spirits have captured the imagination for centuries.

One of the earliest chroniclers of poltergeist phenomena was the famed religious leader John Wesley, who devoted a great deal of time to the study of poltergeists from his home in Epsworth in 1717.

In the first half of the twentieth century, Wesley's research was carried on by Harry Price of the Society for Psychical Research. Price extensively studied paranormal activity at the infamous Borley Rectory between 1930 and 1935, documenting more than 2,000 separate reports of poltergeist phenomena for his 1948 book, "The End of the Borley Rectory". The phenomena examined by Price and his team of re…