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Was the imposing mansion known as Seely’s Castle the secret headquarters for Satanic rituals in Asheville, North Carolina?
He lived alone in his dilapidated farmhouse, dressing up in the skin of dead women he dug out of local graveyards. Today, more than 60 years after the bizarre crimes of grave robber and murderer Ed Gein were discovered in rural Wisconsin, the Butcher of Plainfield continues to fascinate.
The bisected and mummified head of executed serial killer Peter Kurten now hangs on display in the Waterpark Capital of the World.
Robert Greene Elliott was a quiet family man and devout Methodist with an electrical contracting business. On the side, he earned his reputation as the “Agent of Death” serving as a freelance executioner, or State Electrician, for six states. He threw the switch on 387 men and women during his 13-year career, earning $150 a head.
Elliott had his busiest day on January 6th, 1927, when he executed 6 inmates in two different states all on the same day.
The story of the marble sculpture created by artist Paul Shipperheyn that serves as Laurence Matheson’s gravestone.
Rasputin’s Penis: The Mythical, Magical Manhood of Russia’s Mad Monk
Aliens Serve A Wisconsin Man Pancakes from Their UFO
Cthulhu Power Zones in Wisconsin
The Radium Girls, Radium Jaw and the Women Doomed to Die
The Radioactive Death of Eben Byers
Most Famous Circus Freaks
Edmund Fitzgerald Bodies: The Shipwreck that Never Gave Up Its Dead
The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal
Video of the Bizarre Magnapinna Bigfin Squid
Time Travel and Project Pegasus
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Mummified human remains, whether preserved naturally by the elements or purposefully through ancient practices and sacred rites, are not only a window into the past, but a direct connection to those who came before us. The dead are never really too far away, and they still have so much to say.
