Your pregnant wife returns home from a business trip in the early hours of the morning. You’re happy to see her, your daughters are happy she’s home, and when you leave to go to work, everything is as it should be. That is until you get a call, your wife never showed up for an appointment, and isn’t answering the door. She’s gone, and so are your daughters. This was a reality for Colorado resident, Chris Watts on August 12, 2018 .
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“I can’t do it, I can’t do it,” she says. “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.” Candace Newmaker cries out during a rebirthing session. A minute later she says she’s going to die, continuing to beg for air. The adults reposition themselves, pushing harder. “Please, please stop pushing, I can’t breathe.” The pressure doesn’t stop, though. “OK, I’m dying. I’m sorry,” she says.
“You want to die? OK, then die. Go ahead, die right now,” the doctors yell back at her.
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Christmas parties are a time for joy, laughs, and family. A time to be shared with the ones you love. But sometimes, the ones who love us, have a different plan. That was the case of Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, the Killer Santa.
Okiku: The Doll Who Grows Human Hair
Most people would agree that dolls are creepy. They are intended to be nothing more than a child’s plaything, and yet, they terrify adults. Perhaps that’s because of dolls like Okiku, who grows human hair.
The Monster of Royal Street: Delphine LaLaurie
Madame Delphine LaLaurie, made popular by Kathy Bates in American Horror Story: Coven, was a first class monster. A figure of high society, she was well known for her mistreatment of slaves. But no one knew just how sick she truly was.
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Imagine wanting something so bad, that when you decide to try and take it, you destroy it. That’s what happened in the case of William Neil and Fannie Gibbons.
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Anneliese Michel was born Anna Elisabeth Michel on September 21, 1952 in Leiblfing, Bavaria, West Germany. Her family were devout traditional Roman Catholics, and attended Mass twice a week. Growing up, Anneliese expressed the desire to become a teacher, and teach the principles of the catholic religion.
Anneliese had not been the most healthy of children. Before the age of 5 she had suffered mumps, measles, and scarlet fever. She was considered a fragile child, and so did not start school at the same time as other children her age, instead remaining home one extra year until she was stronger.
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Colonial America was filled with new discoveries, new beginnings, and new conflicts. One of these conflicts has gone from being celebrated, to being a highly controversial topic. The revenge of Hannah Duston.
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Folie à deux; French: [fɔli a dø]; French for “madness of two,”, or shared psychosis, is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief and sometimes hallucinations are transmitted from one individual to another. In the case of Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, Swedish twins, Folie à deux resulted in reckless behavior and homicide.
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“Ominous unknown killer is still at large.” That is how the story of Jeff the Killer begins. But how will the story end?
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