The Real Walking Dead: The Rituals of Toraja
If you think that this walking corpse is the fantasy of a Hollywood make-up artist, then you are deeply mistaken:…
Strange Mass Hysteria: The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
In 1962, the Tanganyika region, now called Tanzania, suffered a mass epidemic, unlike anything seen throughout history in the rest…
The Jatinga Bird Suicides: The Mystery Of Small Town
Imagine it’s November and you’re exploring the East on vacation. India, first stop. You start out in Bangladesh city and…
Real-Life Zombies In Haiti: They Truly Exists
In the spring of 1962 Clairvius Narcisse, a forty year old man was diagnosed as deceased and buried – the…
The Bizarre Story Of The Funhouse Mummy
Did you ever hear the funhouse mannequin’s urban legend, which was actually a dead body? The story goes that children…
Kabayan Fire Mummies
The Philippines Ibaloi peoples had one of the world’s most elaborate burial practices, a process that looked more like cooking…
Big Nose George Parrott… Who Became a Pair of Shoes
George Parrot is infamous not only for being hanged as an outlaw, but also for being the only man in…
Ella Harper – The Camel Girl Story
Ella Harper was born on January 5th 1870 with a very rare orthopaedic condition that caused her knees to bend…
Mary H. Reeser – Spontaneous Human Combustion Victim
Reports of spontaneous human combustion, where a person bursts into flame with no apparent cause, date back to the late…
Margorie McCall – Lived Once, Buried twice
After succumbing to a fever of an unknown origin in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall of Lurgan, was hastily buried…