In the second of our two-part series on the best-known, most widely dramatized haunting case in American History, we finally get to the ghosts! On December 18, 1975, George and Kathy Lutz moved into the house at 112 Ocean Avenue. Twenty-eight days later, they fled the house, leaving most of their belongings behind. This week,…

The Amityville Horror is one of the most publicized hauntings in American history. But 13 months before the Lutz family’s short and spooky stay in the famous house on Ocean Avenue, the real horror came – in the form of six grisly murders, in one night, under one roof. In the first of a two-part…

On part two of our two-part Slender Man series, we dive into the very real consequences of this modern legend of a monster with the infamous “Slender Man Stabbing” case. In May 2014, 12-year old Payton Leutner was discovered, injured and bleeding, on the outside of the woods in her native Waukesha, Wisconsin. Payton had…

Is it possible for an online meme-turned-urban legend to become…real? That’s the question we ask this week as we investigate the origins of Slender Man, an eerie, faceless monster known to have been created on the Something Awful forums in June 2009. While Slender Man’s origins are traceable, his reach has extended much further than…

Between 1967 and 1971, the small city of Stamford, Connecticut was terrorized by a little-known serial killer. A total of five Black women were strangled – most with their own brassieres – and dumped within a 750-yard stretch of the Merritt Parkway. While a colorful local character was eventually arrested and prosecuted for the crimes…

Among the legends of allegedly cursed objects, stories of cursed jewelry and gemstones reign supreme. There’s something mystical about these items, which often fall into the hands of the extremely wealthy, famous, and powerful – from bone-fide royalty to your run-of-the-mill tycoons and socialites. But can these gaudy possessions really be cursed? We cover the…

Even among all the creative execution methods mankind has dreamed up over the years, the Guillotine stands out, raising nightmares of show trials and cutting (ahem) an imposing silhouette. Originally created as a more “humane” capital punishment, the head-chopping machine soon became synonymous with the bloodthirsty excesses of the French Revolution. This week, Sean takes…

In March 1998, the Bradley family – dad Ron, mom Iva, son Brad, and daughter Amy – embarked on a “trip of a lifetime”: a luxurious cruise on the Rhapsody of the Seas, sailing between Puerto Rico, Aruba, and Curacao on a whirlwind vacation of carefree fun and family time. Three days into the trip,…

This week we dive into one of the most persistent legends of secret U.S. military experimentation – the famed Philadelphia Experiment. In the fall of 1943 – so the story goes – highly classified government tech made the destroyer escort USS Eldridge completely invisible – and, as an unexpected side effect, displaced it in time…

In November 1987, one of the weirdest moments of TV history happened right underneath the noses of the Chicago viewing public. That night a mysterious figure wearing a full-head “Max Headroom” mask invaded the broadcasts of local Chicago TV stations WGN and WTTW. Initially, on WGN, the masked marauder was only able to cut in…