Category: History

Who wouldn’t love the opportunity to find a mummified body inside their home? Most people would not appreciate it, I’m sure, but it has happened…

If you have never watched the original silent film “The Birth of a Nation” (1915), you can watch the entire movie for free below. Before…

Plenty of strange things have happened inside the almighty bathtub and history is full of both disturbing and chuckle-worthy bathtub stories. Did you know that…

There are reasons why children today find cellars so creepy. For one, people would often place dead bodies in the cellar for safe keeping until…

If you love fairy tales and The Mother Goose Rhymes, then you have probably heard of French author Charles Perrault, but what you probably didn’t…

Bats have long had a bad reputation. They have been called pests, associated with the night and witchcraft, and have been accused of murdering people….

Throughout the United States and Europe, there were certain trees designated as Hanging Trees. These were the select trees that were used to hang criminals…

The American public was fascinated by the Chinese culture in the early 1900s, and were particularly interested in their forms of torture and punishment. Below…

The early 1900s is filled with cases of children being chained up for various and dubious reasons. Parents were nearly always the ones who chained…

People have found themselves tied to the bed for all sorts of unsettling reasons. It was once very common for robbers to break into homes,…