She got exactly what she wanted for Christmas—a beautiful doll with purple fingernails—but what the doll wanted was something far more sinister.
She got exactly what she wanted for Christmas—a beautiful doll with purple fingernails—but what the doll wanted was something far more sinister.
Long before Dickens penned A Christmas Carol, our ancestors gathered around midwinter fires to tell tales of spirits and monsters lurking in the darkness. Tonight, we explore why Christmas and ghost stories have been intertwined for thousands of years — then share true accounts that prove the tradition is very much alive.
Two centuries ago, a desperate young servant girl buried a piece of amber in the frozen Nova Scotia earth and summoned something with rows of gleaming teeth and an ungodly stench. Every Christmas Eve since, it returns to collect its payment — in flesh.
Santa Claus is supposed to bring joy and gifts — but these killers used the beloved red suit to bring terror and death. From Christmas party massacres to serial killers hiding behind the jolly disguise, these are the true crimes that prove not every Santa belongs on the nice list.
After his wife divorced him at Christmas, a man snapped — and used the classic holiday carol as a twisted blueprint for a cross-country killing spree.