Mongolian Deathworm

feeds@yuku.com (Basement Troll) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:17:26 GMT

This I found over at the Discoverychannel.com

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Belle Gunness

feeds@yuku.com (Basement Troll) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:18:43 GMT

Belle Gunness
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name: Brynhild Paulsdatter Strseth
Born: November 11, 1859
Selbu, NorwayFlag of Norway
Died: 1931?
Killings
Number of victims: 20+
Span of killings: July 30, 1900 through 1908
Country: USA Flag of the United States
State(s): Illinois,...

Springheel Jack

feeds@yuku.com (Basement Troll) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:22:29 GMT

I unabashedly reprint in whole a splendid article about one of Victorian England's most mysterious and colourful legends.

(www.mikedash.com/investig..._paper.htm )

When this time period is brought up the inevitable references to Jack the Ripper are usually first and foremost in peoples' minds and poor Jack is seldom mentioned. I have always been fascinated...

Real Life brain eaters.

feeds@yuku.com (Basement Troll) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:33:38 GMT

Didn't quite know where to stick this one, thought this might be the logical place. After all, an amoeba capable of doing this in reality is a true monster.

Tk

6 die from brain-eating amoeba after swimming
Rare organism that lives in lakes entered victims bodies through the nose

PHOENIX - It sounds like science fiction but its true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.

Even though...

Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

feeds@yuku.com (absyntheimmortal) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:22:51 GMT

Yes! There was actually a Sweeney Todd:

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd, the English boogeyman was born into a world of violence, disorder and a place where brutal punishments for crime were the norm. The year was 1748 and London was a dire, dark place to live. Both of his parents were alcoholics; gin was the drink of choice. Just having been introduced from the Netherlands, gin was much cheaper than the sherry or wine so often desired by the working...

Sad Mystery in the Trial of Serial Killer Robert Pickton

feeds@yuku.com (absyntheimmortal) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:43:15 GMT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - The trial of Robert "Willie" Pickton was filled with stories of pain and horror, but perhaps the saddest of all is the unfinished tale of Jane Doe.

Pickton will be sentenced on Tuesday after his conviction on Sunday for the second-degree murder of six women. Sentencing will conclude the first of two scheduled trials for the pig farmer, who is accused of killing a total of 26 women and butchering their bodies in his...

The Headless Horseman

feeds@yuku.com (HorrorWench) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:52:07 GMT

The Headless Horseman is one of the creepiest and most frightful ghosts to roam our world. There are many legends of the headless ghost riding his massive steed and terrorizing anyone who is unlucky enough to stand in his way. He is known by several names according to legend: simply the headless horseman, Dullahan, the Dead One and El Muerto. Tales of his appearance have come from Scotland, New England and Texas as well as countless other places that have been ravaged by war. He rides...

Bloody Mary

feeds@yuku.com (HorrorWench) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:51:05 GMT

Bloody Marythe name strikes fear into many of us as we recall the game we played as kids. Go into a room with a mirror such as a bath or dressing room. Turn out all the lights, light a single candle and begin in a soft whisper to chant the name Bloody Mary thirteen times. Each time you say the name, your voice should get louder until the 13th time you are screaming it at the top of your lungs. Some variations of the game have you spinning around with each mention of her name and glimpsing...

Fictional Serial Killers: Michael Myers Vs Jason Voorhies

feeds@yuku.com (HorrorWench) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:49:26 GMT

Fictional Serial Killers Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th fame and Halloween's Michael Myers are two popular and sinister Hollywood 'slashers'. The term slasher was coined as a description of a certain movie monster. It is defined as: "A character portrayed on screen as a serial or mass murderer, motivated by some deluded or self-justifying revenge or outrage. The murders committed by the slasher are usually unrelated to their actual survival needs. The slasher monster is someone who...

Axeman of New Orleans

feeds@yuku.com (HorrorWench) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:46:12 GMT

He came in the Night. The legend of "The Axeman of New Orleans" is a brutal tale of savage murder and false accusations. It is also a case of a mysterious serial killer that remains unresolved to this day.

In 1918, three Italian grocers and their wives were slaughtered by an axe-weilding assassin. The police found evidence of a break-in. A wooden panel had been chiseled out and removed from the...

BTK Strangler

feeds@yuku.com (HorrorWench) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:44:29 GMT

A self titled serial killer, The BTK Strangler [Bind, Torture, Kill], is linked to eight unsolved homicides that terrorized Wichita Kansas between 1974 and 1986. After years of silence, the killer surfaced again in March (2004), sending cryptic messages and a letter to the Wichita Eagle newspaper with information on an unsolved 1986 killing...

The letter contained a copy of the victims driver's license...

Cryptozoology

Monsters & Madmen

Snakes on a plane, in the Amazon and up the Congo.

Giant Congo Snake

Nessie-sary Fun.

Recent monster finds.

Giant Sea Scorpion.

Recently Unearthed Devil Frog

Ancient "devil frog" may have eaten baby dinosaurs

Ghostbuster called in after sewage workers stalked by 'zombie' in underground tunnels

Globster chowder anyone?