| AnytimeWhen it comes to horror, the haunted doll Annabelle has certainly earned her reputation. But what if I told you that she’s just the beginning? Haunted objects from across the world have left a terrifying trail of curses, strange occurrences, and ghostly activity that make Annabelle look like child’s play. From cursed paintings to eerie furniture, here are some of the most spine-chilling, real-life haunted items that will give even the bravest horror fans chills.
1. Robert the Doll – Key West, Florida
One of the most notorious haunted dolls, Robert the Doll, resides in the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West. Given to a young boy named Robert Eugene Otto in the early 1900s,... Read More |
| 1900When it comes to horror, sometimes reality is more disturbing than fiction. Some of the most iconic horror movies actually have roots in real-life events—stories of true crime and terror that filmmakers adapt into chilling cinematic experiences. For those of you with a love for the macabre, here’s a look at the true crimes that inspired some of the horror genre’s most notorious films.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Inspired by Ed Gein’s Gruesome Crimes
In 1974, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre shocked audiences with its raw and brutal portrayal of a family of cannibals, spearheaded by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface. While Leatherface... Read More |
| 2013Kendrick Johnson was a 17-year-old African American student who was found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat at his high school in Valdosta, Georgia, on January 11, 2013. His death has since become a controversial case, with many questions surrounding the circumstances of his untimely passing.
The initial investigation into Johnson's death ruled it an accident, stating that he had fallen into the mat while reaching for his shoe and became trapped. However, Johnson's family did not believe this explanation and conducted their own investigation. They found that there were inconsistencies in the official report, such as the fact that Johnson's organs were missing when his body was returned to... Read More |
| 1988The Junko Furuta case is a true crime story that is sure to shock and disturb even the most hardened true crime enthusiasts. This case, which occurred in Japan in the late 1980s, involved the brutal abduction, torture, and murder of a 16-year-old girl by a group of young men. The case is considered one of the most heinous and disturbing crimes in Japanese history and continues to be a source of fascination and horror.
Junko Furuta was a 16-year-old girl from the city of Mitaka, Japan, who lived with her parents and siblings. She was a bright and ambitious student, who was well-liked by her peers and teachers. However, her life was tragically cut short when she was abducted by a group of... Read More |
| 1957The murder of Joseph Augustus Zarelli is a true crime story that is sure to captivate the attention of horror lovers. This gruesome crime, which occurred in the early 1920s, involved the brutal murder of a young man in a small town in Massachusetts. The case was never solved and remains one of the most mysterious and chilling unsolved murders in American history.
Joseph Augustus Zarelli was a young man of Italian descent who lived in the small town of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was known to be a hardworking and ambitious individual, with a bright future ahead of him. However, his life was tragically cut short when he was brutally murdered in the early hours of October 3rd, 1923.... Read More |
| 31 March 1922On the night of March 31, 1922, the disaster struck a small Bavarian farm at 43 Miles north of Munich, Germany. All the residents of the farm were killed with a mattock and the mysterious murders remained unresolved. A few days before these murders, the father, farmer Andreas Grueber, told the neighbors that he had discovered a mysterious imprint that led from the edge of the forest to the farm, but none of them went home. Furthermore, the keys to the house disappeared a few days before the terrible crime.
Life on the farm became strange when thier maid, Maria, told the family to leave the farm immediately. She had listened to the voices around the house and was awake at night by the... Read More |
| August 2, 1993Eric M. Smith was born on January 22, 1980 in Savona, New York and is famous for murder, sexual abuse and mutilation of 4 year old Derrick Robie. During his early days, Eric was a lonely guy who was often bullied for his protruding low-set ears, thick glasses and his red hairs. Later it was discoverer Eric's mother took an epilepsy drug which is supposed to cause birth defects. It may have been a factor towards the behaviorism that followed.
The Dooms Day
On August 2, 1993, the day of murder, Eric Smith was riding his bike to a camp in a nearby park. Derrick was going to the same summer recreation program, which was being arranged only a block away from his home. While riding, Smith... Read More |
| 2003ANTHONY HARDY - "The Camden Ripper" Specs: Necrophilia - Dismemberment Victims: 3 Birth: May 31, 1951 Method of murder: Strangulation Status: Sentenced to life in prison on November 25, 2003
Anthony John Hardy was born in Staffordshire, after a quiet childhood he became an engineer. He married and had two sons and two daughters.
In 1982 he was accused of domestic violence and been arrested for trying to drown his wife.
Hardy was arrested in 1998 for raping a prostitute but the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.
In 2002 Hardy was investigated after his neighbour found his door vandalized and the police found in the flat of Hardy the body of a... Read More |
| 1980Unspeakable Crimes. Violence. Rapes. These are the terrible atrocities in the life of the infamous cannibalist sequential killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
What We Can Learn from his case...
The case of Jeffrey Dahmer is maybe the most famous cold case ever. Unfolding plot twists, ignored warning signs, and blatant oblivion led police and the public down a swirling rabbit hole of death, doom, and utter confusion. Dahmer was arrested later in 1991, 13 years after he killed and many victims.
Jeffrey Dahmer was born in 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At young age, he became fascinated by things related to death and began collecting the carcasses of dead animals. His father noted how his... Read More |
| January 15, 1947Black Dahlia, was an American woman who was found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Her case became highly publicized due to the graphic nature of the crime, which entailed her corpse having been mutilated and severed at the waist.
Short's unsolved murder and the details surrounding it have had a lasting cultural intrigue, generating various theories and public speculation. Her life and death have been the basis of numerous books and films, and her murder is frequently cited as one of the most famous unsolved murders in American history, as well as one of the oldest unsolved cases in Los Angeles County. |
| .Mystery of the Jamison Family Disappearance
Bobby and Sherilyn Jamison, and their six-year-old daughter Madyson, went missing in the Red Oak Mountain area of southeast Oklahoma in October 2009. Over 100 people were enlisted to search for the Jamison family, but no sign of them was found until November 2013, when the skeletal remains of two adults and a child were found in the woods, face down and side-by-side, roughly three miles from where their vehicle had been abandoned. It wasn’t until July 2014 that these remains were positively identified as the Jamison family, though a cause of death was never determined. Rather than provide closure to the Jamisons’ friends and family, it just... Read More |
| 2007Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs (3 guys 1 hammer) – Warning; GRAPHIC Story And Photos Igor Suprunyuck (left) – Alexander Hanzha (middle) – Viktor Sayenko (far right)
Photo’s and video link are GRAPHIC, not for the faint of heart. If you want to skip the story and go right to the gory video then go to the bottom of this post and click the link.
Residents in the small town of Dnepropetrovsk located in Ukraine, were on high-alert during the summer of 2007. A killer(s) was on a gruesome murder-spree and didn’t care who they hurt or what time of day it was or if people were around to witness. Male, females and children were brutally murdered in a random... Read More |
| late 1960sA career criminal, amateur musician, enigmatic cult leader and unrepentant racist, Manson became synonymous with the dark underbelly and ominous end of the Sixties. The two-day killing spree he orchestrated in August 1969 left seven people dead and, as legend has it, sprang from his mad interpretation of the Beatles' White Album – specifically the song "Helter Skelter" – which he believed foretold a coming apocalyptic race war.A career criminal, amateur musician, enigmatic cult leader and unrepentant racist, Manson became synonymous with the dark underbelly and ominous end of the Sixties. The two-day killing spree he orchestrated in August 1969 left seven people dead... Read More |
| November 2011A woman accused of a single Craigslist murder admitted to the killing and then went on to reveal…
"Alex" (who requested to remain anonymous) met Miranda three years ago in the adolescent ward of a behavioral health facility, where the teens were each seeking treatment for their issues.
In the wake of 19-year-old "Craigslist killer" Miranda Barbour's shocking confession—that she murdered at least 22 people as a member of a satanic cult—authorities and her family are questioning the veracity of her claims. But a friend of Barbour's believes her, telling Jezebel, "She has maintained [the same] solid story for three years now."
"I would imagine that [Miranda] was... Read More |
| Feb 6, 1995She was 18 and had a baby. The coroner did not do time of death or rape kit test on her. Even him saying it was clear that she was raped.
Happened in 1995. She caught a ride two local boys said they would take her to a friend's house she was going to spend the night with. Around 11:56 p.m. two cops stopped to ask them if they needed assistance. Christy was also with them and Daniel Lay refused the cops help saying his had overheated. Few hours later the other boy Eric Amacher had already been back to his and had wrecked it and was found walking. This started saturday night into sunday morning around 1:00 a.m. There is a whole day Christy is not accounted for. Monday the mailwoman was... Read More |
| UnknownWhat happens in Daisy's Destruction?
Prosecutors told the court that Scully allegedly directed a video called ‘Daisy’s Destruction’ where a baby girl was tortured by a masked and naked woman. It allegedly showed the baby girl being tied upside down by her feet, sexually assaulted and beaten. In the series of videos, she is whipped and assaulted with sex toys by Peter Scully’s girlfriend – who he met when she herself was a child prostitute.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the footage was so horrific police called it ‘the worst we have encountered in our years campaigning against child pornography.’
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Reports that the video... Read More |
| 2005-2015The "dark web" is the encrypted network that exists between Tor servers and their clients, whereas the "deep web" is simply the content of databases and other web services that for one reason or another cannot be indexed by conventional search engines. here are some of the worst experienced peoples who suffered on the deep web, they almost died.
The Internet is deeper and darker than many people imagine, and when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you. While most surface level and major websites only hold the usual dangers–like bots crawling your cookies to serve up more precise advertisements for you–there are shadows and ghosts lurking in the... Read More |
| 2001Two female college roommates were staying in their dorm room during the University’s Christmas vacation. All of the other girls on campus had gone home so they were completely alone.
The roommates were trying to do some study, but they ended up just spending hours browsing the Internet on their laptop.
Late that night, one of the girls felt hungry so she told her roommate she was going downstairs to get some food. She assured her friend she would be back in a few minutes. Then she took the keys to open the kitchen door and walked off down the hallway.
The other girl sat in her room, using her laptop and waiting for her roommate to return. After a while, she began to feel... Read More |
| October 2001Joseph “Joey” Cala II held no grudges against his mother.
But the witches did.
And he said in a prison interview that their spirits took him over on the evening of Oct. 15, 2001.
“The day it happened I was feeling real violent because I knew they were trying to make me do violent things,” Cala said from a prison break room at the Michael Unit. “I decided to leave [the house] and told my mom. I walked down and got a hamburger at Red Robin and I felt fine.”
But minutes later, Cala returned to his Hurst home and beat his 79-year-old mother to death, sliced her open, cut out her heart and bit off part of it.
For the first time since the vicious killing, Cala, 55, agreed to an interview... Read More |
| 1980On May 27, 1980, thirty-two-year-old secretary Dorothy Jane Scott dropped her young son Shanti off at her parents' house in Anaheim, California and went to a company meeting.
While there, a coworker named Conrad Bostron complained of pain so severe that Dorothy offered to take him to the hospital with another coworker named Pam Head. The doctors found that he had been bitten by a black widow spider. At around 11pm that same night, the man started to recover and was discharged. Pam stayed with him while he filled out paperwork for insurance, while Dorothy went to fetch the car and bring it close to the entrance so her distraught coworker wouldn't have to exert effort and walk far. After a... Read More |
| 2016A BURKA-CLAD nanny has been arrested in Russia after she allegedly walked the streets of central Moscow brandishing the severed head of a four-year-old girl while shouting "Allahu Akbar".
Chilling footage shows the moment Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, flanked by armed police, took Russian police to the gruesome scene where she allegedly beheaded a four-year-old girl.
Bobokulova, a mother-of-three allegedly strangled defenceless Nastya Meshcheryakova, who had learning difficulties, before cutting her head off with a kitchen knife.
The little girl’s lifeless body was found in a cot at the flat.
The 38-year-old nanny told police she had been haunted by “voices” and was... Read More |
| 1974The Doodler is a serial killer also called the Black Doodler. He–or she– remains one of the most prolific murderers of gay men in the community of San Francisco. The murders committed by the Doodler took place between 1974 and 1975.
During that time, the Doodler was responsible for the deaths of 14 young men. He further assaulted three others who lived to tell about the assaults. The Doodler had a very curious modus operandi. He was known to be someone who would take a sketch of his victims, then have sex with them and finally stab them to death. Of those assaulted only three victims survived to tell about the events surrounding the assault. |
| 200832 year old Matthias Schoormann was a metal head, computer geek and weapons fanatic from Leer in Northern Germany. He was a member of a local Black Metal band called Carpe Noctem and was desperately in love with 27 year old medical assistant Bianca Brust.
Unfortunately for Matthias, Bianca did not reciprocate his love. Try as he did, Bianca kept repeatedly turning him down, breaking his Black Metal heart each time.
On February 20, 2008 Matthias Schoormann made his last attempt to win Bianca’s heart. As had happened each time before, Bianca showed up only to break his Black Metal heart again. Somewhere in that desperate struggle to impress her, as Bianca once again pushed him... Read More |
| 1947Elizabeth Short, born in Boston before being brutally murdered in L.A. is one of the most famous aspiring actresses in crime history and was known as the Black Dahlia.
This notorious cold case is most known for the vicious way in which Betty was severely mutilated then cut in half, her body found by a female resident in the area. She was found on the 15th January 1947 in a vacant lot, her corpse bare and grotesquely exposed. She had been dissected, mutilated and her lifeless body drained of blood.
A detective named Brian Carr was reported to have said "I just can't imagine someone doing that to another human being." Despite a serious lack of evidence, one of very few clues was a... Read More |
| 1870+Albert Fish is known for being one of the most vile pedophiles and killers of all time. After his capture he admitted to molesting over 400 children, torturing and killing several others.
Fish was a small, gentle looking man who appeared to be friendly and credulous, yet once alone with his victims, the monster inside him was unleashed - a monster so perverse and evil, his crimes seem unbelievable. He was eventually executed and according to rumors, turned his own execution into a fantasy of pleasure. Albert Fish was born on May 19, 1870 in Washington D.C., into a family which had a history of mental illness. His parents abandoned him and he was sent to an orphanage which was a place of... Read More |
| 2010The sicko Canadian Air Force commander who ruthlessly raped and murdered two women, and sexually assaulted several others, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday.
Col. Russell Williams, a once-respected military leader and commanding officer of one of Canada's key bases, pled guilty to 88 separate charges involving his twisted sexual exploits, including two charges of first-degree murder.
"David Russell Williams is simply one of the worst offenders in Canadian history," said prosecutor Lee Burgess during his closing statement, which was applauded by people who attended the trial.
The 47-year-old admitted to breaking into the homes of dozens of women, including young girls... Read More |
| 1965Gertrude Baniszewski lived in Indianapolis with her seven children. Since she had a tiny income, Baniszewski took in children for the Summer to earn extra money. In 1965, she agreed to board sixteen years old Sylvia Likens and her sister Jenny, who was a year younger. They were the children of two circus workers who were about to go on tour operating a concession stand.
Jenny was disabled and could not move about very much (Gertrude Baniszewski cynically thought that a 'cripple' would be an undemanding boarder); perhaps the Likens' decision to spare their daughters from the wandering lifestyle of the circus was influenced by Jennie's condition? Perhaps they wanted time by themselves... Read More |
| 1970History of the Perron family and the Harrisville Haunting (true story behind the movie The Conjuring) Oldest surviving photograph of the Harrisville Haunted home
Ed and Lorraine Warren had been investigating paranormal activity since the early 1950’s. During their decades-long careers, they investigated over 4,000 hauntings, including the well-known Amityville Haunting where they were recognized as the first psychic investigators to step onto the scene. The 2013 film, The Conjuring, was based on their terrifying investigation of the Perron family and their haunted farmhouse in Harrisville, Rhode Island. Known variously as the “Harrisville Haunting” or the “Perron Family Haunting”,... Read More |
| 1943On April 18, 1943, four boys were out poaching in Hagley Wood, located in the village of Hagley in Worcestershire, England. There, they found a witch-hazel tree (sometimes mistaken for a wych elm), which they thought would serve as a good place to hunt for bird nests. One of the boys, Bob Farmer, climbed up to check it out.
That’s when he found a hollow opening in the tree’s trunk. A pair of empty eye sockets from within stared back at him, and at first he thought it was just the skull of an animal. He reached in and picked it up. It was human.
A small fragment of skin and hair clung to its rotted surface, and crooked human teeth were clearly visible. Farmer dropped the skull... Read More |
| 1912It has been a century since Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children and two visiting children were hacked to death with an ax while they slept. The tiny town where they lived in Iowa has never been the same
On a quiet residential street in the small Iowa town of Villisca sits an old white frame house.
On a dark evening, the absence of lights and sounds are the first indication to visitors that the house is different from the other homes that surround it.
Upon closer inspection,it's doors and windows are tightly closed and covered.
An outhouse in the backyard suggests that this house does not occupy a place in the 21st century.
That's because on the night of June 10, 1912, the... Read More |