Bleeding House

Atlanta, 11^th September 1987, and a strange mystery occurred that has the police and those involved quite baffled. William Winston, 79 years old and his wife, Minnie Clyde Winston, 77 years old, were both in their late 70’s at the time of the strange event. Interestingly depending on the source you get 8th September 1987 as well, the house is listed as 1114 Fountain Drive, but I believe some sources use the date of the edition of the Lawrence World Journal as the event date, not taking into account it would have been printed after the fact.

Real Paranormal Experiences state that Winnie spotted a pool of blood on the bathroom floor after getting out of her bath, that she realised it was also coming from the walls as well and on opening the door she found it was in the hallway. 

They found blood in the basement and four of the six rooms of the house, and called the police due to a very valid concern. The house currently states it has seven rooms, but when it was built in 1945 it had six rooms, so reports will vary again depending on the source you go to. 

The police took samples of the blood away because they were insistent that it was not theirs, both the occupants have type A blood and the tests came back to say that the blood type on the samples was O. Detective Steve Cartwright was said to have gone out to investigate and his team searched the house for hours, they found no one there hiding or otherwise apart from the two occupants. 

Initially they thought it might have been Williams’s blood, he was on dialysis and they were trying to rule out various options. It was not the case however and both people tested means they have no leads but it’s really odd that they found nothing else.

The concern is that there is no sign of a crime but plenty of blood, if this was a hoax there seems no reasoning for it either. The mystery seems to be heightened that there’s no sign of a homicide in terms of a body but to find blood spattering around the house would certainly have been distressing for the elderly couple if they had no idea what was going on. There was no further incident after that one evening. 

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The Bleeding House on Fountain Drive

Black Dahlia

Elizabeth Short was an American woman who was murdered January, 1947 at 22 years old. Short was born in Boston, USA, on 29th July 1924. Her father lost most of his money in 1929 when the stock market collapsed. In 1930 he parked his car on a bridge and it was presumed that he had committed suicide, only years later he was found alive and kicking in California. Model father!

At 19 years old she had reconnected and went to live with her father, they moved to Los Angeles in 1943. She left after an argument and somehow ended up at Santa Barbara, where she was arrested for underage drinking. She ended up in Florida and met Major Matthew Michael Gordon, Jnr. She told her friends he had written to her to propose marriage while he was recovering from injuries in a place crash whilst serving in India. She accepted the offer but he died in a second crash 10th August 1945. Short then came back to Los Angeles July 1946. She spent the last six months around southern California, mostly L.A.

15th January 1947, the naked body of Short was found in two pieces on a vacant lot in Leimet Park. A local resident, Betty Bersinger, found her as she was walking with her three-year-old daughter. Originally she thought it was a mannequin, when she realized it was a corpse she fled to call the police.

Short’s body had been washed by the killer, it was drained of blood and her mouth had been slashed from lips to ears. Her body showed horrific signed of violence and the cause of death was eventually determined as hemorrhaging from the lacerations to her face and shock due to the blows on her head.

A reporter from the Los Angeles Examiner got hold of her mother, they told her that Short had won a beauty competition to get information on her private life. Once the press had as much as they needed they told her about her daughters murder. The papers offered to fly her out, to stop her getting to police and other press with the idea of getting exclusive content being more important than the truth and solving a murder. It was the press that created the image of the prowling Black Dahlia, this adventuress woman that got herself into trouble and murdered.

Over the years more than 50 men and women have tried to confess to the murder. Short was finally buried and her mother moved to be closer to where her daughter was laid to rest. There were other rumours at the time suggesting she was pregnant but there is nothing in any casework to state this. Her unresolved murder is regularly revisited and has been made into t.v documentaries, a book and a film.

Timesuck NSFW on the case.

 

Elizabeth Short in 1946.