Some traditional song narratives recall supernatural events or mysterious deaths.

More than two dozen mysterious deaths took place on the lands since the purported curse was made.

At a party he meets and falls in love with a mysterious woman named Singleton ( Jennifer Jones ), who may hold the key to these deaths, but is suffering from amnesia.

Mystery novelist Raymond Chandler wrote The Lady in the Lake in 1943, which revolves around a set of mysterious deaths in the San Bernardino Mountains.

The episode began by detailing the so-called " brain drain :" a number of mysterious disappearances and deaths of physicists, engineers, astronomers, and others in related fields.

The Irregulars help solve the mysterious deaths of three tightrope walkers at a circus.

The idea became so widespread as to become a pop-culture mainstay, especially in horror films ( though originally the curse was invisible, a series of mysterious deaths, rather than the walking-dead mummies of later fiction ).

* Lillian de la Torre, in the short story " The Tontine Curse ," features mysterious deaths related to a tontine in 1779, being investigated by Samuel Johnson.

A former astronaut is hired by a detective agency to help in an investigation of a case of mysterious deaths.

Wes Craven says his inspiration for the basis of Freddy Krueger's power stemmed from several stories in the Los Angeles Times about a series of mysterious deaths: All the victims had reported recurring nightmares and died in their sleep.

The film received favourable reviews ; Watts portrayed Rachel Keller, a journalist investigating the strange deaths of her niece and other teenagers after watching a mysterious videotape, and receiving a phone call announcing their deaths in seven days.

When The Equalizer went on the air, they responded with " The Tranquilizer ", dealing with mysterious deaths on a game show that was a cross between The Price Is Right and The $ 64, 000 Question.

:: Leon Orcot is a hot-headed young detective who attempts to connect the pet shop with mysterious deaths in the region.

Rather than trying to arrest " New D " for the mysterious deaths caused by a pet, Chris only wishes to talk about his brother who disappeared 20 years ago.

Sam and Dean discover that many of the neighborhood children are actually changelings, following several mysterious deaths in the neighborhood.

A bishop of a large Volga province sends an astute nun Pelagia to look into mysterious deaths of his aunt's prize-winning dogs.

* Early July-Wildlife experts announce an investigation into the mysterious sudden deaths of 12 of the 56 rare Royal Bengal tigers in Nandankanan Zoo in Orissa.

His is the latest of the thirty-two mysterious deaths that have taken place at the complex in only three years.

Taking place in both the yearlong series Countdown to Final Crisis ( 2007 – 2008 ) and its spin-off, Death of the New Gods, written by Jim Starlin, was a story-arc involving the mysterious deaths of the New Gods across the universe in preparation for the coming storylines in Grant Morrison's Final Crisis, published later in 2008.

The Rahaga, mysterious beings who capture Rahi in a bid to protect them from the Visorak, rescue the newly-mutated Toa from falling from their cocoons to their deaths.

The river is known for being the site of the mysterious deaths of Dr Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler on 1 January 1963.

The film starts off as a simple suspense story, with police investigating mysterious disappearances and unexplainable deaths.

More mysterious deaths and disappearances occur in the area.

The novel, like the real-life case, featured a wicked stepmother ( and former governess who married a gentleman ), a mysterious and brutal murder in a country manor house, a body thrown down a well, and characters fascinated by madness.

In Agatha Christie's, " Appointment with Death " ( 1938 ), the mysterious and enigmatic Petra is the setting for a murder mystery featuring Hercule Poirot.

Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard Resolution, and the mysterious murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.

Directed by Bob Clark ( later the director of A Christmas Story ), Black Christmas was one of the earliest films to present some of the characteristics that the slasher subgenre would come to be known for: a mysterious stalker, a set of adolescent or young adult victims, a secluded location with little or no adult supervision, point-of-view camera shots representing the " killer's perspective ", a jolting score and graphic depictions of violence and murder.

Organized in 1968, the mysterious Roman Catholic-oriented anarchist Montoneros had already carried out the murder of former de facto President Pedro Aramburu, popular CGT union Secretary General José Ignacio Rucci, construction workers ' union leader Rogelio Coria, former Interior Minister Arturo Mor Roig, and U. S. Consul John Egan, among other murders and kidnappings.

He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ) which is about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy ( Farley Granger ) and Bruno ( Robert Walker ) who staged a battle of wits and traded murders with each other, Dial M For Murder ( 1954 ) with Ray Milland as a villainous husband who attempts to murder his wealthy wife ( Grace Kelly ), Rear Window ( 1954 ) which is about man ( James Stewart ) being convinced that his neighbour is a killer, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), a lightweight thriller set in South of France, Vertigo ( 1958 ), with James Stewart as a retired police detective who becomes obsessed with the disturbed enigmatic ' wife ' ( Kim Novak ) of an old friend, and North by Northwest in which an advertising executive ( Cary Grant ) is mistaken for a non-existent spy and chased across the country while aided by a mysterious woman ( Eva Marie Saint ).

M. Poirot, the hero of The Mysterious Affair at Stiles and other brilliant pieces of detective deduction, comes out of his temporary retirement like a giant refreshed, to undertake the investigation of a peculiarly brutal and mysterious murder.

The film opens with Gordon Cole ( David Lynch ) calling Agent Chester Desmond ( Chris Isaak ) about the mysterious murder of Teresa Banks in the town of Deer Meadow.

He died shortly after in Alenquer under mysterious circumstances ( apparently, murder ), free but sick.

What began as a red tape headache ends in murder when the bureaucrat is later found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold.

In October 1678 Primrose Hill was the scene of the mysterious murder of Edmund Berry Godfrey, and in 1792 the radical Unitarian poet and antiquarian Iolo Morganwg ( Edward Williams ) organised here the first meeting of Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain.

In 1968, Boy is found dead in his car under mysterious circumstances, which might be murder, or a possible suicide.

However, as he draws deeper into the investigation, and his shop assistant Grace Nakimura performs historical research for him, Gabriel links the murder spree both to New Orleans ' voodoo past and towards the beautiful and mysterious New Orleans socialite, Malia Gedde.

The game started out with the mysterious murder of a family known as the Flints, on which the investigators would base their investigation.

At the same time he finds himself at the center of a mysterious conspiracy involving murder or espionage.

The plot of the game revolves around Alexandra Roivas, who is investigating the mysterious murder of her grandfather Edward Roivas.

Sowell presents the evidence of a drunken accident, suicide, and even possibly a robbery murder ( there were reports of a mysterious man following Delahanty ).

In the film, Scott was Joan Crawford's somewhat sleazy love interest, whose mysterious murder formed the basis of the plot.

Eight years following Andross ' assumed defeat, Krystal, a mysterious fox looking for answers to the destruction of her home planet, Cerinia, and the murder of her parents, lands on Krazoa Palace after receiving a distress call from the planet.

Richard is naturally compelled to investigate the mysterious brutal murder of his father who worked as a trader of ancient artifacts.

A group of detectives, each accompanied by a relative or associate, is invited to " dinner and a murder " by the mysterious Lionel Twain ( Capote ).

Just when it seems he might finally solve the murder case, at a dinner party to which a number of important and mysterious guests have been invited, Inspector Bruce is killed -- and was last seen wearing a pair of Chinese slippers, which have vanished.

The story can be read as narrating the gradual possession of the protagonist by a mysterious and possessive feminine spirit, or as a realistic description of a psychotic outbreak culminating in catatonia and murder, told from the sufferer's point of view.

There have been numerous inconsistencies in the investigations into the murder, including the mysterious death of a suspect.