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The history of Spiritualism
March 29, 2021InWeird Book Club

The History of Spiritualism

Explore the roots of Spiritualism, from the Fox Sisters and their haunted home in Hydesville, to the seances, spirit cabinets and ectoplasm of the early 1900s.

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March 19, 2021InArchitecture, Film

Houses of Horror: Mills View Mansion and Stimson House

Ed Gein brought back to life with Deep Nostalgia AI technology
March 1, 2021InTrue Crime

Ed Gein Reanimated with Deep Nostalgia

Searches of the unexplained
November 9, 2020InCult of Weird Blog

Searches of the Unexplained

Spiritualist Thomas Bradford committed suicide to prove the afterlife
February 6, 2020InParanormal

The Spiritualist Who Killed Himself to Prove the Afterlife

Time Travel

According to Andrew Basiago, a government experiment called Project Pegasus sent him back in time to the Gettysburg Address.

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Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his family in the Amityville Horror house
March 16, 2021InTrue Crime

Ronald DeFeo Jr., the Amityville Horror killer

Ed Gein graphic novel by Eric Powell and Harold Schechter
March 5, 2021InTrue Crime, Weird Book Club

Ed Gein Graphic Novel Coming from Eric Powell and Harold Schechter

Human skeleton guitar
February 10, 2021InCabinet of Curiosities

Man Builds a Skeleton Guitar from His Uncle’s Remains

Bigfoot hunting season
January 22, 2021InCryptozoology

Bigfoot Hunting Season in Oklahoma

2020 in review weird news
December 30, 2020InWeird News

2020 Weird Year in Review

Weird Wisconsin Winter Wonderland
December 21, 2020InStrange Destinations

Wisconsin Oddities: Weird Winter Wonderland Edition

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Seely's Castle in Asheville, North Carolina
March 19, 2012InStrange Destinations

Seely’s Castle and the Satanic Mountains of Asheville

Was the imposing mansion known as Seely's Castle the secret headquarters for Satanic rituals in Asheville, North Carolina?

The Magical Member of the Mad Monk

Long after he was poisoned, beaten, shot, and drowned, Rasputin’s infamous instrument of love may still linger on.

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Ed Gein

Ghoul of Plainfield

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.

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Inside the Head of a Serial Killer

The bisected and mummified head of executed serial killer Peter Kurten now hangs on display in the Waterpark Capital of the World.

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The bisected and mummified head of executed serial killer Peter Kurten now hangs on display in the Waterpark Capital of the World.

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Grave Hunter

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The Periwig Maker

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Haunted Things

A haunted bunk bed that scared a family out of their home. A haunted toaster possessed by the devil himself. A haunted painting sold on ebay. An entire town left haunted by experiments to communicate with the dead. Go beyond the veil to explore more bizarre stories of the paranormal.

Paranormal Stories
"Old Sparky" electric chair at Sing Sing

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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.

Laurence Matheson "Asleep" gravestone
March 26, 2012InFrom the Grave

The Gravestone of Laurence Matheson

The story of the marble sculpture created by artist Paul Shipperheyn that serves as Laurence Matheson's gravestone.

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65 years ago, James Dean died in a tragic crash in his new Porsche Spyder. His story came to an abrupt end, but the curse of Little Bastard was just getting started.

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The grave of Eleanor Adams just ahead of the Gein The grave of Eleanor Adams just ahead of the Gein family plot in Plainfield Cemetery.

It holds an empty coffin.

Gein exhumed her soon after her burial in 1951 and used her remains for various creations around his home.

More Gein: @houseofgein

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I've been watching Buried by the Bernards and Surv I've been watching Buried by the Bernards and Surviving Death on Netflix. They both deal with death, though in very different ways. One is great for laughs, the other explores evidence for life after death through a variety of interesting situations.

Both are well worth the watch.

Still jealous about that $600 hearse Uncle Kevin bought, though.

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After his execution, the head of German serial kil After his execution, the head of German serial killer Peter Kurten - the Dusseldorf Vampire - was preserved and dissected in hopes of discovering an anatomical explanation for his horrific crimes. Today, it can be found on display in the "Waterpark Capital of the World." Learn more now on cultofweird.com - LINK IN BIO.

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Ernest Hemingway's cat cemetery from @dearly_odd. Ernest Hemingway's cat cemetery from @dearly_odd. Thanks for sharing!

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Hemingway's house is still home to many cats, most of which are polydactyl and are descendants of his first six-toed that was given to him in 1932.

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Great shot from @cemetery_diary 💀Share your a Great shot from @cemetery_diary 

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The Witherell House is haunted and cursed, accordi The Witherell House is haunted and cursed, according to local legend, though its real history is actually a bit stranger. Elihu Phillips, who was born the seventh son in his family and believed to have the divine gift of healing, bought the land from the second governor of the Wisconsin Territory James Duane Doty and built the house in 1853.

Throughout his childhood, people brought their sick family members to be cured by Phillips “to his disgust,” but it seems he was unable to help his loved ones. He had already lost two wives and two infant sons before he left New York for Wisconsin with a 20-year-old invalid daughter. He hoped it would be a better environment for her. She died just two years later, leaving him alone in the house for ten years until he finally moved into the city.

The house changed hands several times after Phillips sold it. It was owned by prominent Wisconsin businessmen and politicians during the late 1800s and early 1900s. By the time of the Great Depression, however, it had fallen into disrepair. Archibald and Adelaide Witherell acquired it for a good price in the mid-1930s and fixed it up. Archie died in 1967, but Adelaide continued to occupy the house until her death in 1981.

The Witherells were the last to physically live in the house.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Kenneth Stormo, who consulted on the Jeffrey Dahmer case in 1991, bought the property and maintained it, but never lived there.

Sometime during the 1980s or 90s the house gained the reputation as a crime scene where either a mentally ill child brutally murdered her parents, or the patriarch of the Witherell family murdered his wife and children before hanging himself in the barn. Passersby claimed to see horrific shadows in the windows and hear screams echoing from the empty house. Parents warned their children to avoid the property because it was “cursed by death.”

There could have been numerous natural deaths in the house in its nearly 170-year history, but there is no evidence that anyone was ever murdered. Still, decades of trespassers drawn by the legends have left the house in ruin.

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Got a new print from @caseykingart. Despite all th Got a new print from @caseykingart. Despite all the skulls, taxidermy, vintage Ouija boards and other objects in the collection with connections to the dark corners of history, these are the first ghosts to roam the halls of #cultofweird HQ.

Thanks @caseykingart!

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Monks in the crypt of the Santa Maria della Concez Monks in the crypt of the Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome from @ginger__cinnamon. Thanks for sharing!

Visit @ginger__cinnamon for more.

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