Cruelties / Horror

It is difficult to imagine witchcraft trials in the 20th century, however, in 1920s York County, Pennsylvania was still steeped in old Dutch mysticism, a superstition that...

Ronald Clark O'Bryan, nicknamed The Candy Man and The Man Who Killed Halloween, was an American killer who murdered his own eight-year-old son Timothy on Halloween 1974...

Jesse Harding Pomeroy was the youngest person ever convicted of ‘Murder in the First Degree’ in the history of Massachusetts, having been found guilty by a jury...

The atrocities committed by the Japanese Military during WWII are well-known. Torture and the killing of POWs was commonplace and violated all rules of modern warfare. One...

Born August 12th 1870 in Silesia in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Ziębice, Poland), not much of Karl Denke’s early life has been recorded aside from the...

Lac Long Quan (Vietnam) Lac Long Quan’s story is perhaps the most intriguing of all the myths and legends of Southeast Asia, for it apparently tells the story...

Imagine yourself waking up, ready to enjoy the scent of freshly brewed coffee in the morning, but found yourself trapped inside of a cold metal coffin instead. Sadly,...

Edward Paisnel (1925 – 1994), dubbed the Beast of Jersey, was a notorious sex offender who terrorised the Channel Island of Jersey for a period of eleven...

The Mad Gasser of Mattoon was the name given to the person or persons believed to be behind a series of apparent gas attacks that occurred in...

For more than 87 years, visitors from all over the world have been lured to a wedding gown shop in Chihuahua, Mexico, to study the eerily lifelike...