Whether it’s innocent babbling about the “parents they had before” or the particularly macabre games they made you play in boarding school that sees you being accidentally waterboarded, kids are creepy. With no perception of consequence, context or the permanence of death, it’s no surprise their make-believe games leave you worried your sharing your…
Category: Unsolved Mysteries
The Haunted Hexham Heads
I first came across the story of the Hexham Heads some years ago, which resulted in my own strange experience one dark and stormy night, but we’ll get to that. For now, we’ll travel to Northumberland, where a chance find leads to one of the most obscure tales in modern British folklore. The Discovery of…
The Amityville Saga, Part Three: Hoax or Haunting?
So, what can we make of the Amityville Saga? If we are to take the claims at face value, it would be obvious that the house at 112 Ocean Avenue was seemingly cursed from its very beginnings. If that were the case, where do the DeFeo murders fall into the Amityville cannon? Was Butch, as…
The Amityville Saga, Part Two: The Lutz Haunting
If you thought the Amityville story begins and ends with a family massacre, I’m afraid you’re mistaken. Fast forward through the trial that found Ronald DeFeo Jr. guilty of six counts of second degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, and we’re in December 1975. 112 Ocean Avenue had been sitting empty for 13…
The Amityville Saga, Part One: The DeFeo Murders
Nobody could have predicted how the events of November 13th, 1974 would forever change the sleepy little town of Amityville, Long Island. Indeed, the crime and the spectacle that followed have cemented their place in the forefront of modern conciseness and strikes a chill to this day. The case brought together the realms of true…
Around The World In Eighty Ghosts: Part Four
Can you believe we’re already at the end of our little ghost tour? I can. So here it is! The last 20 stops on our Around The World In Eighty Ghosts Series. I think this proves that not all ghosts stories consist of floating white figures, roaming the halls of English manors, although there are…
Around The World In Eighty Ghosts: Part Three
The end is in sight so let’s buckle up and continue our whistle-stop tour of the weird world we live in. Read Part’s One and Two 41. Highland Towers – Selangor, Malaysia On December 11th 1993, a 12 storey tower block in Selangor, Malaysia collapsed, resulting in the death of 48 people. As is often…
The Highgate Vampire: Desecration & Duels
A Modern Day Vampire Hysteria There was a lot going on in 1970’s London – disco was about to take over the world, and fashion was about to become a whole lot more psychedelic, all while learning to live with the fear of nuclear annihilation. It’s a lively backdrop to what would become one of…
Edward Mordrake: Chained Together For Life
Did You Hear The News About Edward? Edward was said to be a sensitive intellectual, given to the lofty ponderings that only a man of favourable birth has the time to ponder. He was also a man of unusual musical talent, with a beauty that could make angels weep. Despite Edward’s status, he lived in…
The Curious Tale Of Gef The Mongoose
“I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet, and if you saw me you’d faint, you’d be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt!” Gef Background I arrived on the windswept shores of the Isle of Man on a Sunday evening in the winter of 1931. The little island…
The Hawthorn Files 