Cruelties / Horror

Armin Meiwes is a German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via the Internet.   After Meiwes and...

Johann Conrad Dippel: The original Frankenstein   He was born at Castle Frankenstein near Darmstadt, and therefore once (at his school) the addendum Franckensteinensis and once (at his university)...

Death is a very powerful thing, so powerful that it has been linked to the supernatural since the beginning of human civilization. This supernatural aurora that surrounds...

If you considered the actual only real things killing people on Halloween night were needle filled apples and chocolates, you better think again. In fact, nobody has...

“Getting away with murder” now provides as a euphemism for avoiding the consequences of just about any kind of bad behavior. In its most literal sense, nevertheless,...

Bela Kiss preyed on lonely women looking for love by placing ads in a Budapest newspaper, his ideal victim being a woman with lots of money and...

There are a variety of methods and situations where people who are unbalanced terrorize society by committing large scale murders that we term serial killers. From...

1. Sedlec Ossuary — Kutná Hora, Czech Republic   Why you should go: Imagine going into a real-life set of Jeepers Creepers, but instead of human skin on the...

Urban legends are in most cases fascinating stories, which include many folkloric elements; and for that reason they generally spread quickly through a community or society. The...

Hinterkaifeck, a small farmplace located between the Bavarian towns of Ingolstadt and Schrobenhausen (approximately 70 km north of Munich), was the scene of one of the most...