This photo shows Bonnie Haim with her young son, shortly before she vanished in 1993. At the time, her 3-year-old son claimed that his dad had killed her, but there was no evidence to support his story. 20 years later, while renovating their home, the son dug up his mother’s remains in the backyard.
Twentieth century mummies on display in the vault of the Panteon cemetery at Guanajuato, Mexico, 1955
Photograph of a threatening letter assembled from newspaper lettering which claims to have been written by the killer, 1947
Went into my neighbors’ quiet empty house to feed pets, looked into their sitting room and jumped back after seeing this.
Mary Toft, an English woman who tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. Mary inserted small animal parts such as rabbit legs, heads, and other organs into genitals, 1726
Oliver Plunkett head in a glass case on an altar in St Peters church, Drogheda. Preserved since July 1, 1681, he was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
Illustration of a group of hooded Ku Klux Klan members preparing to lynch president Abraham Lincoln, circa 1867
In 1966, ‘alien enthusiasts’ Manoel Pereira da Cruz and Miguel José Viana, were mysteriously found dead in Rio de Janeiro with strange lead masks over their eyes. They were also dressed in formal suits.
A painting of mine. Deep in a creepy, dark forest of giant sequoias. Could you see yourself living there?
headline news of execution of Ruth Snyder, she killed her husband and was sentenced to death, before her last breath she uttered, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing”
In one of the most infamous scenes in The Birth of a Nation (1915) , a Ku Klux Klan posse is shown with a prisoner, about to be tarred and feathered.
In May 1997, school boy Jamie Lavis was abducted and murdered by bus driver, Darren Vickers. Vickers then moved in with the Lavis family, claiming that he wanted to help them find Jamie. This photo shows Darren sitting in between Jamie’s parents.
Remains of the Skull Tower (“Ćele Kula”) near Niš, Serbia.It was constructed by the Ottoman Empire following the Battle of Čegar of May 1809, during the First Serbian Uprising.
Statue of Saint Bartholomew, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ was skinned alive and then beheaded. The thing wrapped around him is not a robe. It is his skin…
