Stories of the Paranormal, Supernatural, Legends, Lore, Mysterious Macabre, Unsolved and Unexplained
When a mysterious elderly salesman arrives at his door claiming to sell encyclopedias, a lonely introvert discovers the book contains impossible knowledge about his life – including his date of death and the identity of the father he never knew. But the price of learning his true heritage will force him to make a choice between the quiet life he’s always known or something darker than anything he could ever imagine.
From Salem’s gallows where twenty innocent people swung in 1692, to modern Tanzania where elderly women are butchered with machetes for having red eyes, the pattern of witch hunts remains horrifyingly consistent: torture until confession, murder for being different, and children weaponized against their own families. What most people don’t realize is that these brutal executions never stopped; they simply evolved, moved to new countries, and learned to hide behind the masks of religion, justice, and mob rule while continuing to claim thousands of lives every year.
Between the 15th and 18th centuries, approximately 50,000 people died accused of witchcraft across Europe and America. Most of what we think we know about these executions is wrong. And sadly, the killing never stopped.
Lucy begins coughing up long red hairs and finding them throughout her apartment. As she searches for answers, she learns an unsettling truth.