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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 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 Shadows7 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 Mojikal8 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 Shadows10 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 Writer15 days ago in Horror
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
The frozen slopes of the Ural Mountains in Russia hold one of the most disturbing and inexplicable mysteries of the twentieth century, a case so strange that sixty-five years after it occurred, investigators, scientists, and amateur sleuths still cannot agree on what happened to nine experienced hikers who died under circumstances so bizarre and violent that the lead investigator officially closed the case by attributing their deaths to "an unknown compelling force," a conclusion that raised more questions than it answered and that has spawned countless theories ranging from rational explanations involving avalanches and hypothermia to wild speculation about secret military tests, radioactive contamination, indigenous attackers, and even paranormal or extraterrestrial involvement. The tragedy began on January 23, 1959, when a group of ten students and recent graduates from the Ural Polytechnical Institute in Yekaterinburg set out on a skiing expedition to reach Otorten Mountain, a challenging winter trek that the group leader Igor Dyatlov had planned meticulously, and all the members were experienced hikers and skiers who had undertaken similar expeditions before, making the disaster that befell them all the more incomprehensible because these were not novices who made foolish mistakes but competent outdoorspeople who understood winter survival.
By The Curious Writer15 days ago in Horror
The Pilot Who Vanished Into the Pacific and the Clues He Left Behind...
On November 14, 2019, Captain Richard Ashford took off from Los Angeles International Airport piloting a private Gulfstream jet carrying three passengers to Tokyo, and somewhere over the vast emptiness of the Pacific Ocean, the plane simply disappeared from radar without a distress call, without wreckage, without a trace, and the only clue to what happened was a handwritten note discovered in his apartment three days later that read "By the time you find this, I'll be somewhere they can't follow" followed by a series of numbers that investigators still haven't been able to decode....
By The Curious Writer16 days ago in Horror
