In 1599, a royal physician decided to put a demonically possessed woman to the test — and what he discovered raised questions that science still can’t fully answer.
Tag: historical true crime
The Monster of London | Britain’s First Serial Predator!
For two years, a knife-wielding predator terrorized the women of London — but when authorities finally made an arrest, the evidence was shakier than anyone wanted to admit. “The Monster” terrorized fashionable women by slashing their clothing and flesh, leading to a sensational manhunt that captured a suspect – but was he really the culprit?
Worst School Fire Ever, Spy Poisoned on a Park Bench, A U.S. President Killed By His Own Speech
One man’s completely ordinary sick day on this date would go on to cost tens of millions of people their lives. A school full of children goes up in flames. Two people were found poisoned on a park bench. Something was launched into orbit from a US military space shuttle and we still don’t know what it was. A film was screened for the first time on this date that gave the world its first vampire. And it’s a day to triple-check your grammar. | The Morning Weird Darkness
Saponification: How a Cold Lake Preserved a Murder
A woman’s body was pulled from the icy depths of Lake Crescent after three years — her flesh transformed into soap, her face unrecognizable, and her identity a mystery that would unravel one of the most sensational murder trials in Washington state history.
The Cold Lake Turned Her Body to Soap | It Protected Evidence That Convicted Her Murderer
A woman’s body was pulled from the icy depths of Lake Crescent after three years — her flesh transformed into soap, her face unrecognizable, and her identity a mystery that would unravel one of the most sensational murder trials in Washington state history.
How the Radium Girls Exposed One of History’s Deadliest Corporate Cover-Ups
Young women hired to paint watch dials with radium were told the glowing substance was harmless — even as their jaws crumbled and their bones slowly turned to dust from the inside out.
SPRING-HEELED JACK: The Fire-Breathing Demon That Terrorized Victorian England
For nearly seven decades, a clawed, flame-spewing figure in a tight white suit and a black cloak terrorized the streets of England — and no one was ever convicted of being him.
They Brought Their Missing Daughter Home, They Found Their Real Daughter’s Body Elsewhere
In 1922, a French family was overjoyed when their missing toddler was found 250 miles away — until a headless body wearing her clothes was discovered near their farm. Are changelings and doppelgangers real? You might choose tobelieve so after hearing about the strange disappearance of Pauline Picard.
Shot in the Back of the Head, Yet He Managed to Hide His Watch First – Why?
In 1948, a dying cab driver deliberately crashed his taxi into a parked car — but the man who shot him in the back of the head walked away into the Boston night and was never seen again.
True Thanksgiving Horrors: Unsolved Murders, Cold Case Crimes & Mysterious Disappearances
Three young brothers vanish from their father’s backyard on Thanksgiving Day, a hijacker parachutes into the night with $200,000 and is never seen again, and a grandfather’s ghost story leads to the discovery of a 200-year-old mass murder — these are just some of the chilling mysteries that have turned America’s day of gratitude into something far more sinister. From unsolved killings and baffling disappearances to haunted hotels and tragic shipwrecks, this episode explores the dark side of Thanksgiving that most families never discuss at the dinner table.
France’s King Danced at a Ball That Turned Men Into Human Torches
A masquerade ball meant to entertain an unstable king ended with four nobles burning alive on the ballroom floor.
The Aztec Tower of Skulls: 603 Human Remains That Shocked Archaeologists
Archaeologists keep finding more skulls beneath Mexico City – and they’re not who everyone expected.
The Dark Angel of Durham… Britain’s Forgotten Serial Killer, Mary Ann Cotton
When a woman’s stepson died in 1872, nobody suspected the chilling truth behind 21 mysterious deaths.
BLACK BART: The Gentleman Bandit Who Terrorized Wells Fargo While Writing Poetry
He robbed 28 stagecoaches without firing a single shot, left poetry at crime scenes, and vanished into legend—this is the strange tale of Black Bart, the gentleman bandit.
WAS SHE A WITCH, A FAIRY, A CHANGELING? The Horrifying True Story of the Bridget Cleary Murder
A religious Irish man murdered his wife in front of witnesses and showed no remorse — because he genuinely believed he was killing a fairy changeling while his real wife remained trapped in another realm.
ROOM 1046: The Unsolved Murder That Still Haunts Kansas City – Unknown Killer, Unnamed Victim
On January 2, 1935, a young man checked into Kansas City’s Hotel President under a fake name, insisting the maid leave his door unlocked while he sat alone in complete darkness. Three days later, he was found brutally tortured and murdered in Room 1046—and when someone mysteriously paid for his funeral with a note signed “Love forever, Louise,” investigators realized they had no idea who the victim really was or who killed him.
THE LONELY HEARTS KILLER: He Wrote Love Letters While Building His Concrete Dungeon
In 1931, a lonely Illinois widow and her three children vanished after she fell for a charming stranger’s love letters—only for police to discover their bodies in the concrete dungeon he’d built behind his West Virginia home.
NEARLY DECAPITATED IN A LOCKED APARTMENT: The Mysterious Murder of Helen Knabe
In 1911, Indianapolis’ pioneering female doctor was found nearly decapitated in her locked apartment with no sign of how the killer entered or escaped—and the murder weapon had vanished without a trace.
THE PLAISTOW HORROR: The Boy Who Slept Next To His Mother’s Corpse After Murdering Her
In the sweltering summer of 1895, two boys lived with their mother’s decomposing corpse for ten days while playing cricket and going to the seaside — a Victorian crime that shocked even the most hardened of London’s East End residents.