/bizarreIn the early 1900s, young women known as the Radium Girls worked in factories painting watch dials with luminous radium paint. To keep their brushes sharp, they were instructed to shape the tips with their lips—unknowingly swallowing tiny amounts of radioactive material every day
/creepyIn 1922, on a remote farmstead in Bavaria, Germany, six people were brutally murdered in what would become one of the most disturbing unsolved crimes in history: the Hinterkaifeck Murders. Days before the killings, the family reported strange things. Footprints in the snow led
/creepyLong before chocolates and roses, Valentine’s Day had far darker roots. Its origins are often traced back to Lupercalia, an ancient Roman festival held in mid-February. During the ritual, priests sacrificed goats and dogs, then cut the animal hides into strips. These strips we
/bizarreValentine’s Day in the Victorian era wasn’t always about roses and romance. Some people sent what were known as “vinegar valentines”—cheaply printed cards filled with insults, mockery, and cruel caricatures. Instead of poetry, these cards called the recipient lazy, ugly, greed
/creepyFriday the 13th has a reputation for misfortune, and history has given people plenty of reasons to keep one eye over their shoulder. On October 13, 1972, a chartered plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team vanished into the Andes Mountains. The crash didn’t kill everyone—what follo
/bizarreIn 1889, a small Japanese company called Nintendo was founded in Kyoto, originally producing handmade playing cards known as hanafuda. Around the very same time, on the other side of the world, the streets of Whitechapel were still echoing with the terror of Jack the Ripper, the
/creepyMost people assume that when someone donates their body to science, their remains are treated with dignity… studied, cremated, and respectfully returned to their families. But in one of the most disturbing scandals in recent years, that wasn’t what happened. At Harvard Medi
/bizarreVictorians loved to perform civilization—polite society, proper hats, moral lectures—but their obsession with ancient Egypt had a rotten underbelly that feels like a gothic fever dream: they treated mummies like both entertainment and “medicine.” The product was called mumia (or
/bizarreSpontaneous human combustion is the unsettling idea that a person can catch fire with no obvious cause—no tipped candle, no smoking gun, no warning. It’s the kind of phenomenon that sounds like folklore… until you read the reports and realize how often the aftermath is described
/creepyThe shoreline was the first thing John White recognized—gray water, hard wind, trees bending like they were eavesdropping. But Roanoke wasn’t welcoming him back—and what once was familiar to him, was drastically different. White was the governor of the Roanoke Colony, and the
/bizarreAt night, Griffith Observatory doesn’t just look down on Los Angeles—it seems to watch it. Griffith Observatory is supposed to be a place about wonder—planets, stars, the endless sky. But the hill it sits on carries a more bizarre story, one that begins with the man who gave i
/creepyFor centuries, people in parts of Poland feared that the dead did not always stay dead. Archaeologists have uncovered graves that reveal just how seriously these fears were taken. In several burial sites, skeletons were found with iron sickles placed tightly across their throats
/bizarreThe Power Rangers were childhood heroes—colorful warriors who fought evil and saved the world. But in real life, the story of Ricardo Medina Jr. took a much darker turn. In 2015, the former Power Rangers actor was arrested after a violent argument with his roommate escalated i
/bizarreIn 12th-century England, villagers in Woolpit discovered two terrified children at the bottom of a wolf trap. Their skin was green, their clothes unfamiliar, and they spoke in a language no one understood. The children refused all food until someone offered raw beans, which th
/creepyInside Old Melbourne Gaol, the air feels thick, like the building is holding onto something it refuses to release. This is where Ned Kelly spent his final days. Kelly wasn’t just a criminal—he became a legend. An Irish-Australian bushranger, he led a small gang, robbed bank
/bizarreThis photograph of Sharon Tate is often cited as one of the last images taken of her—captured just three days before her murder in August 1969. Behind her hangs a large, somber painting—dark, muddy, filled with struggling figures and lifeless bodies. Many who study the photo
/bizarreThe lion once belonged to Frederick I of Sweden, who received it as a diplomatic gift in the early 1700s. It lived as part of the royal menagerie until it eventually died, after which its skin was preserved for display. That’s where history took a bizarre turn. When the ski
/creepyAnatoly Moskvin was a respected Russian historian and linguist whose obsession with cemeteries turned into one of the most disturbing cases in modern crime history. Known for studying burial traditions and epitaphs, Moskvin secretly exhumed the bodies of young girls from cemeteri
/bizarreIn 1922, when the sealed tomb of King Tutankhamun was opened in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the world celebrated a miracle of archaeology—golden relics, jeweled coffins, and a boy king preserved almost perfectly for more than 3,000 years. But the celebration didn’t last long. Al
/creepySo many incredible vendors, the creepiest merch, and classic horror movie legends everywhere you turn. The energy here is unreal — and the community makes it even better. 🖤 I’m especially excited to meet the actors from my all-time favorite horror movie… can you guess which one
