"Contemporary sources mention the death of the young slave girl who hurled herself from the roof and confirm the discovery of seven c...

Below is not a still from any horror movie, but an actual photograph of a woman who was held captive in her room for 25 years. Mademoiselle...

Little Pauline Picard, aged two, disappeared from her family’s farm in Brittany, France in April 1922. An exhaustive search failed to find...

When Ana Elvia went to feed her cows in the morning, four men quickly approached her and put a bomb around her neck. They ran away, leavin...

In June 2011, emergency services dispatched an ambulance to the home of 65-year-old Barrie Hepburn. Barrie was a retired sports car enthus...

The last thing I saw was my alarm clock flashing 12:07 before she pushed her long rotting nails through my chest, her other hand muffling ...

I have nightmares where I’m trapped in a shower. The drain is plugged, and the water won’t stop pouring down on me. Water rises to my ankl...

The doctors told the amputee he might experience a phantom limb from time to time. Nobody prepared him for the moments though, when he fel...

It was summer. My best friends and I had all turned 13 and 14 that year and had been friends since we were toddlers. Our parents had all g...

Rhoda grew up in Adams County, Illinois. During her teenage years, she fell in love with a farm boy, Charles Phenix, who lived a short dis...

In any city, in any country, go to any mental institution or halfway house in you can get yourself to. When you reach the front desk, ask ...

The Intruder is a silhouette and similar in shape to a Siamese cat. When sitting, it is about 7.5 feet tall. It has two overly large, slan...

Leonarda Cianciulli (November 14, 1893, Montella, Province of Avellino – October 15, 1970) was an Italian serial killer. Better known as t...

Samantha Clairmont, 11, was a girl with Muscular Dystrophy who was beaten to death with a kettle and hammer by her grandmother and a ...

There once lived a lonely man on the 6th floor of an apartment building. One day, he noticed the figure of a woman dancing in a swaying mo...

In late 1951, the hills on the outskirts of the small German town were surveyed for the future construction of a NATO military site. The m...

It's been happening for the past couple of months. The tapping, I mean. Every night, just as I'm about to drift off to sleep, ther...

I’d actually seen him on our way home from school. He looked dirty and disturbed, and stared straight at us as our bus went by. We even ma...

When it got hot in the valley, Thomas and Alfred drove their cows up to a cool, green pasture in the mountains to graze. Usually they stay...