The “staircase murder” is widely considered one of the most bizarre and puzzling murder mysteries of all time. Background Michael Peterson was a former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps who lied about having received various military honors while running for mayor of Durham, NC in 1999. Peterson wrote three novels about the Vietnam war […]
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Ed and Lorraine Warren are a fascinating couple if you’re into the macabre. The self-professed Catholics created the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR) in 1952 and spent their lives investigating paranormal phenomena. Ed Warren styled himself as a “demonologist” despite never having gone to seminary (he went to art school). Lorraine Warren claimed […]
Continue readingThere is no movie quite like Teen Witch (1989). The teen fantasy movie was supposed to be the girl version of the mega successful Teen Wolf (1985) but was a colossal box office failure. However, as the film began being shown on cable, it developed a cult following among teens and is now a well-regarded […]
Continue reading“They said we was nothin’ but a bunch of drunk old fools,” Kelly murmured, hunched over the whiskey I bought him. “Worse things, besides.” “If you had it to do over again,” I asked him, “Would you still tell anyone?” As discreetly as I could I slid my phone closer to him. I hoped any […]
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It’s no secret that not everything in this world can be explained. Like dark matter, the Bermuda triangle, deja vu, and whatnot—they remind us that there’s a seed of doubt, an underlying level of uncertainty in things we share this planet with. No wonder some people are more superstitious than others. But even if you […]
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Grandpa’s war buddy “It was one of my grandfather’s old war buddies who told 9 year old me in great and gruesome details about when he used to sneak into the enemies camp and come back with a bag of fingers.” — hectic_ad A serial killer in the making “I knew a guy in college […]
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Last year in the black hole of horror movies being delayed due to the pandemic, Dave Franco quietly released his directorial debut, a horror movie called The Rental. He also produced and co-wrote the script with Joseph Swanberg, who wrote one of the segments in the original V/H/S (2012). Franco’s wife, Alison Brie, starred and […]
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There are a lot of romantic horror movies. There are even regular horror movies that I consider romantic because I’m a creepy horror fan. For instance, I happen to think this Billy Loomis line from Scream (1996) is one of the most romantic pieces of dialogue in horror history: Scream Scream Really makes you miss […]
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Same-sex couples seem controversial in parts of the world even nowadays—imagine what it was like to live half a century earlier when such thoughts were viewed with disdain. Of course, it’s not an issue of the past, either, as there are plenty of people who’d even now like to pretend there’s no such thing as […]
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People on r/askreddit discussed the personal cases where someone they knew went missing or was murdered and what it was really like to be on the inside of the case. “Nothing” “One of my college professors from about 7 years ago when I first started school at the community college level disappeared. Nobody knew he […]
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