Tara Calico disappeared without a trace. Then, nearly a year later, a Polaroid photo was found in a convenience store parking lot. The photo was of a young woman and boy, bound and gagged. It is believed that she was the woman in the photo.
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They say the craziest stories come out of Florida. The story of Austin Harrouff, the Florida Frat Boy Cannibal is just one of those stories.
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After murdering 8 nursing students in their dorm, Richard Speck became known as one of the most fiendish mass murders in American History.
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It’s midnight, and you hear someone at the front door of your house. You recognize her voice, so you open the door, but the person standing on your doorstep is not who you thought it would be. Instead you find a witch, Nale Ba, and the timer on your life begins to tick down – you have less than 24 hours left.
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Hitchhiking is rarely a good idea. I’d venture so far as to say never a good idea. We see examples of this when we look at serial killers, Ed Kemper and Ivan Milat. We see this in movies, such as The Hitcher. Unfortunately, in 1977, people weren’t as aware of the dangers of hitchhiking. So when Colleen Stan set out to travel from Oregon to California, she didn’t expect what happened next.
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There is nothing more disgusting than a person who commits child abuse. Even the hardest criminals, convicted of anything from murder to cannibalism, consider children off limits. So you might wonder why a horror game would choose child abuse as one of its prime themes. The game is Sad Satan.
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This is the story of Joe Metheny, a serial killer/cannibal from Maryland. “My murder rampage started out as revenge but ended up as a passion for the taste of blood and the overwhelming sense of power one gets for taking the life of another,” said Metheny in his confession.
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On June 4, 2010, 7-year-old Kyron Horman disappeared without a trace. Although he had been at school that morning for the science fair, he never showed up to his class. It wasn’t until he didn’t return home on the school bus, that his family realized he was missing.
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After coming across a post on Instagram claiming that during the French Revolution, the government allowed the bodies of those guillotined to be skinned and tanned, and then turned into various goods, such as boots, pants, and jackets. The post also claimed that the skin of a man was preferred for fashion, because the skin of a woman was too soft to be useful. Is there any truth to the claim? Is there a market for Human Leather?
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Imaginary Friends are a psychological and social phenomenon where a friendship takes place in the imagination rather in physical reality. To the person, usually a child, the friend is real, and they often get frustrated when others can’t see their friend. Often, as they grow older, children lose their imaginary friends, whether that friend leaves, or is simply forgotten over time, we may never know. For one little girl, she shared her imaginary friend with the world when she first wrote, “This is Lisa.”
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