supernatural
The hidden world of all things supernatural; a look inside witchcraft, spells, vexes, black magic and other spine-tingling supernatural phenomena.
The House That Kills
The House That Kills The Victorian mansion at 1247 Blackwood Avenue has stood empty for twenty years now, and local real estate agents refuse to list it regardless of price because the property has a documented history that no one can explain rationally and no one wants to continue, and the pattern is so statistically improbable that even skeptics admit something strange is happening even if they refuse to attribute it to supernatural causes. Between 1975 and 2002, the house went through nine different owners, and every single one of them died within three years of taking possession, and while the deaths were all attributed to various natural causes including heart attacks, strokes, sudden aggressive cancers, and one case of a previously healthy forty-year-old woman who developed a mysterious neurological condition that killed her in eighteen months, the statistical improbability of this pattern has never been adequately explained by medical professionals or statisticians who have examined the cases, and the house remains abandoned, slowly deteriorating while neighbors refuse to discuss it with outsiders and property values on the entire block have been suppressed by its reputation.
By The Curious Writera day ago in Horror
In June
June 3 I find myself still strangely lightheaded from my purchase this afternoon. My intent upon entering the antique shop had been merely to escape the sweltering heat, yet I soon found myself in the back of the place, standing before a statue, my breath heavy and rhythmic, my hand rubbing at my wallet. I cannot recall crossing through the store.
By Aaron Morrison2 days ago in Horror
The Overtoun Bridge Dog Suicides
The Overtoun Bridge near Milton, Scotland, is a beautiful Victorian structure built in 1895 that arches gracefully over the Overtoun Burn fifty feet below, offering scenic views of the Scottish countryside, and it should be an unremarkable example of nineteenth-century engineering except for the deeply disturbing fact that since the 1950s over six hundred dogs have jumped from the bridge to their deaths or serious injury, and the dogs almost always jump from the same side of the bridge, almost always at the same spot between the final two parapets, and many of the dogs that survive the fall and are rescued have attempted to jump again, returning to the bridge and leaping a second time as though compelled by some force their owners cannot understand or control, creating one of the most bizarre and unsettling mysteries in the modern world. The phenomenon has been documented for decades, with local residents and visitors reporting seeing dogs suddenly break away from their owners, jump up onto the parapet wall, and leap over the edge without any apparent provocation or warning, and the consistency of the behavior across hundreds of different dogs of various breeds and temperaments suggests something about the specific location triggers this suicidal behavior rather than individual psychological issues with particular animals, though what that triggering factor might be has never been definitively determined despite extensive investigation by animal behaviorists, scientists, and even paranormal researchers.
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Horror
The Villisca Axe Murders
The small town of Villisca, Iowa, population around two thousand in 1912, seemed an unlikely setting for one of America's most brutal and mysterious mass murders, but on the night of June 9, six members of the Moore family and two overnight guests were systematically murdered with an axe as they slept, their skulls crushed by an attacker who moved through the house methodically killing everyone inside, and despite an extensive investigation that considered numerous suspects and even resulted in two separate trials, no one was ever convicted of the crime and the identity of the person who committed these horrific murders remains unknown over a century later, making the Villisca Axe Murders one of the most infamous unsolved cases in American criminal history. The victims were Josiah Moore aged forty-three and his wife Sarah aged thirty-nine, their four children Herman aged eleven, Katherine aged ten, Boyd aged seven, and Paul aged five, and two friends of Katherine's, Lena Stillinger aged twelve and her sister Ina aged eight, who had been invited to spend the night after all the families attended a children's program at the Presbyterian Church that evening, and neighbors would later report that everything seemed normal when the families returned home around 9:45 PM, with lights on in the Moore house and no sounds of disturbance, and sometime between then and dawn every person in the house was murdered.
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Horror
Elisa Lam's Death
The death of twenty-one-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam in the water tank on the roof of Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel in February 2013 became an internet obsession and urban legend due primarily to the disturbing surveillance footage from the hotel elevator showing Elisa's strange behavior in the minutes before she disappeared, behavior so bizarre and inexplicable that it sparked countless theories ranging from mental health crisis to paranormal activity to murder involving unknown assailants, and while the official investigation concluded her death was an accidental drowning complicated by bipolar disorder, the circumstances surrounding how she accessed the locked roof, how she entered a closed water tank, and what caused the erratic behavior captured on video have never been adequately explained to the satisfaction of many observers who continue to believe there are missing pieces to this puzzle that authorities either cannot or will not acknowledge. Elisa was on a solo trip through California, staying at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, a location with a dark history including multiple murders and suicides and a past connection to serial killers Richard Ramirez and Jack Unterweger who had both stayed there during their killing sprees, giving the hotel a reputation as a place with bad energy though Elisa likely chose it simply because it offered budget accommodation in a central location.
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Horror
