Janet and Jack Smurl moved into their West Pittston, Pennsylvania duplex in 1973
Janet and Jack Smurl moved into their West Pittston, Pennsylvania duplex in 1973. In 1986,…
Janet and Jack Smurl moved into their West Pittston, Pennsylvania duplex in 1973. In 1986, newspapers reported that the family had endured 18 months of unrelenting torture from a “demonic horde.” Two exorcisms had failed to cleanse the house of its evil, the family claimed, and everyone – including their German Shepherd – was under…
Today Bobby Mackey’s Music World is a popular nightclub full of dancing and good times, but this cheerful setting holds a much more sinister past. The Slaughterhouse On this same site in 1850, a large slaughterhouse and meat-packing facility was constructed to serve northwestern Kentucky and nearby Cincinnati, Ohio. In the lowest part of the…
Harvey Glatman was an American serial killer. He exhibited his antisocial behavior and sadomasochistic sexual tendencies from an early age. Media quickly nicknamed him “The Lonely Hearts Killer”. Glatman started when he moved to Los Angeles, where he posed as a professional photographer to lure girls into his hotel room with the promise of easy money…
In the hills of Iceland there lives a giant troll with hooves for feet and thirteen tails named Gryla. Every Christmas, Gryla comes down from her mountain cave to hunt for naughty children. Once she brings her bounty back to the cave, she boils the children alive in a stew and eats them for supper….
The Cuban Club in the heart of Tampa’s Ybor City is a century old and rich with history, and some say some of that rich history still lurks within its walls. Cuban immigrants frequented the Cuban Club at the turn of the century in 1902, forming recreational societies to gather, to help each other, and to…
There is no shortage of actual accounts of ghostly encounters stories in Riverside County. Here are some links to explore – are you a believer or a skeptic? You can tour the Winchester, CA, Patterson House (link https://winchestercahistory.homestead… ), go book shopping in Riverside at Downtowne Booksore (link https://www.facebook.com/Downtowne-Bo…) or check in to a room…
The towering figures were created from the cemetery’s fallen old-growth trees. GLENWOOD CEMETERY IS A HISTORIC Washington D.C. cemetery some know for its opulent Victorian monuments and infamous residents: It is the resting place of George Atzerodt, a co-conspirator for Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, and the murderer Frederic De Frouville. But amid the graves of its notorious and…
An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves. THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES BUILDING IN Washington, D.C. houses some of the United States’ most foundational texts, including the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. These three documents are collectively known as the Charters of Freedom, and could be the most…
Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas. BENEATH WASHINGTON, D.C., A DIMLY lit web of passages weaves throughout row after row of eerie wall graves, recalling early Christian burials in the catacombs of ancient Rome. The subterranean complex is located underneath the Franciscan Monastery…