What Scares You?
In 1970, Donna and her friend Angie shared a small apartment. Both were nursing students and about to graduate from college. Donna’s mother, as a gift, bought a Raggedy-Ann doll at a local hobby store and gave it to Donna. Donna took an immediate liking to the doll, thinking it was cute, and placed it on the foot of her bed as a decoration. The doll, was Annabelle
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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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The Iron Chair was a device used extensively during the Middle Ages. It’s primary strength lied in the psychological fear it caused its victims. It was common practice to coerce a confession by forcing a victim to watch someone else be tortured with the chair.
The chair was lined with hundreds of sharp spikes, which would cover the back, seat, arm rests, leg rests and foot rests. The number of spikes in a chair would range from 500 – 1,500. Some versions of the chair even had spikes on the headrest, and the torturer would push the victim’s head against it.
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The New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City sits between 7th and 8th Avenue, just off Times Square, and is the star of haunted Broadway. This 11-story building was designed by architects Henry Hertz and Hugh Tallant, and was instantly dubbed “House Beautiful.” The building opened in 1903, and originally contained two theaters, offices, several lounges and a lobby. It also features a spectacular ghost. Olive Thomas, a model and actress in the 1910’s enjoys a bit of mischief and fun, and is known to be, by far, the most active ghost on Broadway.
It’s 1995, and you’ve met an amazing woman. You know she has a violent temper, but when the two of you are together, things feel magical. You ask her to move in with you, and she agrees. What’s better, is that she gets along wonderfully with your two sons. She asks you to marry her, but you refuse. Not because you don’t love her, but because you’ve been married before, and so has she. It’s never worked out, so why put that sort of pressure on things. You tell her you still love her, but it’s not enough.
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The Judas Cradle was a tall, thin, stool with a metal or wooden pyramid on top. The victim would be stripped and bound with ropes. The victim would then be lowered, very slowly, onto the device, where the pyramid would then enter the vagina or anus. Any movement by the victim would cause an increasing amount of pain.
The Judas Cradle was often used to acquire vital information. If he or she refused to talk, the torturer would then rock the victim, raise and drop them repeatedly onto the device, move the legs, causing the tip of the pyramid to protrude in different ways. Often olive oil would be spread over the pyramid, or brass weights hung from the victim’s legs.
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Fan Man-yee (樊敏儀) was finally living a clean life. At 23, she was married, had a son, and had cleaned up her act, having worked as a prostitute and been a drug addict in the past. Unfortunately, past mistakes could still haunt you, even if you had changed. And though you yourself may have had no affinity for Hello Kitty, that’s what you would become known for. The Hello Kitty Murder.
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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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Sonny Graham was a resident of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. He had lived there for 40 years, and had been happily married to his wife, Elaine, for 35 of those years. He and Elaine had two wonderful children, Gray and Michelle. Sonny was the director of the Heritage Golf Tournament from 1979 to 1983, and volunteered at the event every year thereafter.
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It’s 1978, and you need a better job to pay for that new car you’ve got your eye on. You’re just a kid, so options are limited, but when you hear about local man, John Wayne Gacy, who prefers to hire young men, you know you’re a shoe in. After all, he is a good Catholic man, who runs his own business and was also active in the community. He was the children’s party clown, what could go wrong?
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