When you catch your nanny practicing voodoo, a typical response might be to fire her. For Mrs. Otto, that’s precisely what she did. What she didn’t anticipate was the nanny giving her son a doll, a doll your son would come to love and cherish. A doll he would name after himself: Robert the Doll. A doll that would become the inspiration for Chucky, and the Childs Play movies.
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Have you seen the movie, The Hills Have Eyes? Did you think it was a work of pure fiction? What if I told you that the basis for the story was based on a real person? That person was Sawney Bean.
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Late summer, 1817, in Adams, Tennessee. Farmer John Bell was out tending his fields. He saw what appeared to be a dog with the head of a rabbit among his crops, so he shoots at it. The animal disappeared, leaving him wondering whether he hit it or not.
At about the same time as the animal disappeared, something moved into his family home where John lived with his wife, Lucy, and their six children, Betsy, Richard, John Jr., Drewry, Benjamin, and Jesse. There were scratching sounds, rapping against the walls and doors. Then blankets were pulled from beds while they were being slept in. Before long, John Bell’s family was being kicked, scratched, and having their hair pulled.
John’s daughter, Betsy, found herself the primary target. She was slapped, pinched, bruised and her hair mangled. Once, she even vomited pins and needles. Her family, thinking if she weren’t in the home, she would stop being tormented. Unfortunately, the disturbances followed her wherever she went.
Continue reading “The Curse of the Bell Witch”What is Forbidden Death?
The world’s deadliest pandemic hit the world in 1918 and lasted until 1920. The Spanish flu was unforgiving, infecting approximately 500 million, or one-third of the world’s population. Today, this plague is mere history, the virus having been eradicated. But what if it wasn’t, and is forbidden death a possibility?
Continue reading “What is Forbidden Death?”Who is the SlenderMan?
You’ve heard his name. You’ve seen what he looks like. You probably even look over your shoulder when you’re alone at night. But you needn’t worry. He doesn’t want you – he wants the children. Just who is the SlenderMan?
With the ability to control their minds, the SlenderMan stalks children, torturing them mentally over long periods of time. He incites fear and paranoia in his victims, ultimately driving them insane.
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