The Mysterious Suicide of French Politician Robert Boulin
Robert Boulin. On October 30, 1979, the body of Robert Boulin was found in a pond in the forest of Rambouillet in southern France. Boulin, a Gaullist politician and veteran of the French Resistance...
View Article20 Classic Woodblock Prints of Japanese Ghosts and Monsters
This is a gallery of 20 Japanese woodblock prints depicting yūrei (ghosts) and yōkai (monsters). Most of these were made in the 19th century. The name of each artist is listed below the respective...
View ArticleThe Werewolf of Bedburg
Woodcut print of Peter Stubbe’s execution. As the Cologne War raged in the Electorate of Cologne from 1583 to 1588, the rural town of Bedburg was plagued with a streak of mysterious murders and animal...
View ArticleThe Frog Boys
On March 26, 1991, a group of five boys between the ages of 9 and 13 left their homes in Daegu, South Korea and walked to near-by Mount Waryong to look for frogs. U Cheol-won, Jo Ho-yeon, Kim...
View ArticleHoichi the Earless: A Classic Japanese Ghost Story
This story comes from “Kwaidan”, a classic collection of Japanese ghost stories written by Lafcadio Hearn in 1904. Hearn’s book in its entirety can be read here for free. A statue of Hoichi the...
View ArticleThe 6 Foot Tall Monkey on a Skateboard that Terrorized New Delhi in the...
Sketches of the monkey-man. Source: cryptomundo.com. In April 2001, three men in the Indian city of Ghaziabad reported being attacked by a monkey while they were asleep. While the first two attacks had...
View ArticleThe Case of Carolyn Wasilewski, a Murdered Schoolgirl who was Found with a...
Picture of Carolyn Wasilewski. Image source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Carolyn_Wasilewski.jpg Carolyn Wasilewski was a pretty blonde-haired girl who dated and hung around drapes, a...
View ArticleElizabeth Klarer and Her Handsome Alien Lover from the Planet Meton
Picture of Elizabeth Klarer. (Image source:http://www.universe-people.com/english/svetelna_knihovna/obrazky/beyond_the_light_barrier_obr_02.jpg) The sort of people who claim to have had sex with aliens...
View ArticleThe Case of Claudia Mijangos, a Mentally-ill Woman who Killed Her Three Children
Claudia Mijangos, second woman on the left. (Image source here.) Claudia Mijangos was a college-educated woman who came from a wealthy family. She had a happy childhood, and had once even been voted...
View ArticleGonzalo Guerrero and Geronimo de Aguilar, Two Spanish Men who Were Captured...
Statue of Gonzalo Guerrero. (Image source here.) Gonzalo Guerreo was a soldier from Spain who had come to the New World in hope of becoming a conquistador. His life, however, ended up taking a...
View ArticleThe Case of Timmothy Pitzen, a Missing Boy Whose Mother’s Suicide Note...
Picture of Timmothy Pitzen and his mother Amy. (Image credit here.) On May 11, 2011, Amy Fry-Pitzen picked her 6-year-old son Timmothy up from his kindergarten class at Greenman Elementary School in...
View Article6 Downright Weird Cases of People Lying About Their Ethnicity
Rachel Dolezal, an “African-American” civil rights activist provoked a media firestorm in June 2015 when she was revealed to actually be a white woman. Dolezal had been practicing what is called...
View ArticleThe House of the Tubes
The House of the Tubes. (Image credit here.) Located in Guadalupe, a city in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, the House of the Tubes is an abandoned building as infamous for its bizarre design as it is...
View ArticleThe Aliens that Waved Back
Picture of Rev. William Booth Gill from a TV interview available on Youtube. On the evening of June 26, 1959, an Anglican missionary named Rev. William Booth Gill was walking out of his house in...
View ArticleThe Case of Russell and Shirley Dermond, an Elderly Couple Brutally Murdered...
Picture of Russell and Shirley Dermond. (Image source/credit here.) 88-year-old Russell Dermond and his 87-year-old wife Shirley lived in a $769,000 two-story lake home in the gated community of Great...
View ArticleThe Haunted Hacienda of Yucatan
One of the abandoned buildings on the San Pedro Cholul. (Image source/credit here.) The San Pedro Cholul is an abandoned hacienda located in Yucatan, Mexico. The hacienda was most active during the...
View ArticleThe Black Magic Murders of Ahmad Suradji
Picture of Ahmad Suradji. (Image source/credit here.) Ahmad Suradji, also known as Nasib Kelewang, was a self-proclaimed black magic master who ritualistically killed 42 women and girls over an 11 year...
View ArticleThe Wildman of China
A costume of the Yeren featured in the movie Big Trouble in Little China. (Image source/credit here.) Accounts of Bigfoot-like creatures in China date back nearly 3,000 years. One of the best-known of...
View Article20 Vintage Pictures of Old-Timey Circus Freaks
Freak shows had been popular since the 16th century, but reached their height of popularity between the mid-19th century and early 20th century. Circus “freaks” were often people with rare genetic...
View ArticleThe Case of Jaclyn Dowaliby: An Unreliable Witness and a Wrongly Accused Man
Jaclyn Dowaliby. (Image credit/source here.) On the morning of September 10, 1988, David and Cynthia Dowaliby reported to the police that their 7-year-old daughter Jaclyn had gone missing from their...
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