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Find the perfect scary books on the Cult of Weird Fall Reading List, a selection of creepy, paranormal and disturbing reads for the spooky season.
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.
Edmund Fitzgerald Bodies: The Shipwreck that Never Gave Up Its Dead
Most Famous Circus Freaks
Ed Gein Tour: 6 Things to do in Plainfield
The Radioactive Death of Eben Byers
The Radium Girls, Radium Jaw and the Deadly Undark Paint
Haunted Toaster Possessed by the Devil
What Happened to Ed Gein’s Gravestone?
Coral Lorenzen: The “Flying Saucer Lady” Who Pioneered UFO Research
Is Ed Gein’s Cauldron Haunted?
St. Nazianz: Haunted Wisconsin Town Founded by Heretic Priest and Mystic Cult Followers
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Alien abduction, crop circles, and extraterrestrial pancakes.
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.
