Watch this video first. It’s just fascinating. For people with an imagination and who tend to be gullible, you might find this experiment to be feasible. Of course, it was not. For one thing, a gas that fully occupied an enclosed chamber would have suffocated the prisoners by significantly decreasing oxygen levels. For another, since the prisoners… Continue reading The Russian Sleep Experiment of the 1940s
Well, sometimes. Ever noticed how many films use children’s dolls and clowns to spook the audience? Consider some of these: Child’s Play – Chucky was one ugly little monster who supposedly embodied the spirit of a serial killer. Dead Silence – a nasty ventriloquist’s dummy with secrets about a woman’s murder. Puppet Master – A man… Continue reading Deadly Dolls Dominate Dreadful Films
This confession appears to be valid. I was skeptical at first because so many hoaxes thrive on Youtube, however I googled the prosecutor, and he does indeed exist. And I found the story online on CBS’ Crime Profiler, verifying for me that Matthew Cordle is the real deal. Franklin County prosecutor Ron O’Brien said Cordle was… Continue reading “I Killed A Man”
We’ve heard many urban legends about murder victims and people who die quite by accident, yet remain tied to the place where they have met their untimely demise. Personally, I believe that’s a bunch of nonsense, but it is fun to entertain the possibility of ghosts, particularly those on a mission of vengeance. Ghost stories… Continue reading Spiteful Spirits and Sacrificial Souls Suffer in Sinister Silence and Sincere Sorrow
INTRODUCING THE CRYPT KEEPER One of the all-time mind-blowing puppets on TV has to be the Crypt Keeper. Five men were responsible for his creation, all of them big-time producers and directors: Richard Donner Joel Silver Robert Zemeckis Walter Hill David Giler A 6th man, Kevin Yagher, was in charge of CK’s production. He designed Chucky… Continue reading Tales from the Crypt – a Mechanical Mastery
Here’s an oddball case that doesn’t involve gore and guts but nonetheless is quite fascinating to the more macabre among my (few) readers. This is the tale of an innocent dog and a narcissistic 43-year-old woman named Sandra Anderson, of Sanford, who used “man’s best friend” to her own advantage. She managed to fool many police forces… Continue reading Man’s Best Friend – Woman’s Worst Enemy
The Winchester Family The Winchester Family of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company ,bears the honour of the peculiar Winchester Mystery House. Initially William Wirt Winchester and Sarah Winchester (nee Pardee), and for a short time, their daughter Annie Paradee Winchester, who died only a few weeks after her birth, lived in an elegant manor in New Haven, Connecticut. Sarah spoke four… Continue reading Schizoid Sarah’s Strange Staircases
Many people have heard about Dorothy Allison. She was a self-proclaimed psychic. In May 1988, she was featured on Unsolved Mysteries. When Dorothy was 14, she predicted her father’s death and he died a few weeks later. Allison used her abilities to help police find missing children and their predators. In her voluntary detecting career, … Continue reading Dorothy Allison All-Seeing, All-Knowing All-Psychic Abilities
This blog started out as a blog about in-person stalking, not a subject that interests me in particular. Then it grew into a blog about stalking and cyberstalking, which I discovered is a subject that does particularly interest me. I hear so much about “regular stalking”, if there is such a thing, (and see enough of it… Continue reading Stuck with a Stupid, Stinkin’ Stalker?
Seldom do we put together danger and sex in children’s stories but the history behind many folk and fairy tales often intertwines the two. In fact, many old tales were used as a warning to young virginal girls and adults about guarding the innocence of girlhood. They were tales about morality and the implication that a deflowered… Continue reading Dangerous Sexuality in Kids’ Fairy Tales
Tales from the Dark Side 