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Haunted locales and houses of horror from the Amityville home to the Tower of London; travel tips for those seeking a trip filled with fun and evil.
The Badger's Debt: The Tzompantli of Tenochtitlan
The Mexican sun was a physical weight, a humid press against the skin that smelled of crushed marigolds and ancient dust. For the "Madison Five," Class of ’08, the annual trip was sacred—a chance to shed their tailored lives and return to the rowdy ghosts of State Street.
By Meko James about 20 hours ago in Horror
The Bauman Story
This isn’t a ghost story per se. It isn’t folklore passed down through generations. This is something President Roosevelt claimed was told to him directly by a man named Bauman. A seasoned hunter and trapper who had spent years in the unforgiving wilderness of the American frontier.
By Veil of Shadows4 days ago in Horror
The Beast of Bray Road
There are roads you take to get somewhere. And then there are roads that seem to take you through the dark, mile by quiet mile, until something at the edge of your headlights makes you wish you'd chosen another route. Bray Road is one of those roads.
By Veil of Shadows11 days ago in Horror
The Cry That Never Ended” – The Haunting of Shaniwar Wada
Shaniwar Wada is a saga of grandeur, power, deceit, and tragedy. Shaniwar Wada is located in the ancient city of Pune. The fort, built in the 18th century, was a symbol of glory in the reign of the Maratha Empire. Now, the ruined fort is no less popular in terms of spine-chilling stories than in terms of its historical importance.
By Kyrol Mojikal12 days ago in Horror
The Man from Taured: The Traveler from a Country That Doesn’t Exist
Some travelers arrive late... Some arrive early. And then there are those who arrive… from places that don’t exist! In the summer of 1954, a man stepped off an international flight into Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. He carried a suitcase, spoke calmly, and presented a passport like any other traveler. But within minutes, airport officials realized something was wrong. Because, according to his documents, the man was from a country called Taured. A country that had never existed.
By Veil of Shadows14 days ago in Horror
Hinterkaifeck Murders
The farmstead of Hinterkaifeck sat isolated in the Bavarian countryside about forty-three miles north of Munich, and in the cold early days of April 1922 the six people living there were brutally murdered with a mattock, a pickaxe-like farming tool, and their killer or killers remained in the house for several days after the murders, feeding the livestock, eating food from the kitchen, and sleeping in the beds while the bodies of the victims lay undiscovered in the barn and house, creating one of the most disturbing and puzzling unsolved murder cases in German criminal history. The victims were the farmer Andreas Gruber aged sixty-three, his wife Cäzilia aged seventy-two, their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel aged thirty-five, Viktoria's children Cäzilia aged seven and Josef aged two, and the family's new maid Maria Baumgartner aged forty-four who had only arrived at the farm on the day of the murders and whose terrible luck in accepting this position would cost her life within hours of her arrival, and the previous maid had quit six months earlier claiming the house was haunted, hearing strange noises in the attic and experiencing events she could not explain, details that would take on sinister significance after the murders were discovered.
By The Curious Writer19 days ago in Horror
