The Sylvia Plath Effect
This is the phenomenon that suggests poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers.
Read it HERE!
The Max Headroom Signal Hijacking
In 1987, 2 televison stations in Chicago had their signals hijacked by a man in a Max Headroom mask and costume. He made comments about Coke, TV show, WGN anchor Chuck Swirsky, and ended with a shot of an exposed butt being smacked by a flyswatter. They never found the culprit.
Read it HERE!
Captain Midnight Broadcast Signal Intrusion
In 1986, an electrical engineer named John R. MacDougall jammed the HBO satellite signal during a film, with the message above. He did it protest the insane monthly rates, but to date, no one knows how he did it.
Hijack the article HERE!
Toynbee Tiles
These are messages of unknown origin found embedded in the asphalt of various streets in 24 major cities across the US and 4 South American cities.
Read it HERE!
The Kennedy Curse
This is a series of deaths, accidents, and other mysteries that have involved the members of the Kennedy family.
As recently as earlier this month, the curse struck Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter Maeve and her son Gideon, when they went missing during a canoe trip.
Read more HERE!
Folie à Deux
This is a psychiatric disorder that’s characterized by a shared psychosis. This is when symptoms of a delusion are transmitted from one individual to another or a group.
Share in the madness HERE!
The Moberly-Jourdain Incident
This is also known as “the Ghosts of Petit Trianon/Versailles.” This is a tale of time travel and hauntings, reported in 1911.
Read it HERE!
A List of mysterious Cyphertexts
This is a deep one. There’s a long list of cypher texts, mysterious messages, and codes that no one’s been able to crack.
Read them all HERE!
Hunter S. Thompson
This rabbit hole isn’t creepy, but more insane and fucking gonzo. You’ll definitely lose yourself for hours here. Then, you’ll want to watch Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Check it out HERE!
The List of Fatalities at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Since it opened, 73 individuals have been killed here: 42 drivers, 1 motorcyclist, 13 mechanics, and 17 others including pit crew members, track personnel and spectators.
And most of them weren’t in ways you’d expect at a race track.
Read more HERE!
UKUSA Agreement
This is an agreement between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US to share signals intelligence. It’s also called the “Five Eyes.”
Not so much creepy in the traditional sense, but definitely in the Orwellian sense.
Spy on yourself HERE!
The Peoples Temple and Rev. Jim Jones
Jones started a religious movement that was all over California until they were forced out. After moving to Guyana, his church participated in the Jonestown Massacre.
This one is f@#ked up and you can find it HERE!
The Loveland Frog
This is a legendary humanoid frog, spotted in Loveland, OH.
Sedlec Ossuary
This chapel beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in the Czech Republic contains the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people; all used as decorations.
Read more HERE!
Sailing Stones
This is a geological formation where rocks move and create long tracks along a smooth valley floor with no human or animals present.
There’s a scientific explanation, but it’s still spooky nonetheless.
Unit 731
This was a covert biological and chemical warfare R&D unit of the Japanese Army during WWII. They were known for doing lethal human experimentation, and also subject to “Operation Paperclip” after the war.
This is gonna give you nightmares.
Bunny Man
This was an urban legend from Fairfax County, VA in the 70’s. It involves a man wearing a rabbit costume, who attacks people with an axe.
Read more HERE!
Bubbly Creek
This is the nickname of the South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River. It got the name because of the gasses that bubble out of the riverbed due to the decomposition of the blood and entrails dumped into the water by the meatpacking district.
Read more HERE!
Visual Release Hallucinations/Charles Bonnet Syndrome
This is the experience of complex visual hallucinations in someone who has partial or severe blindness.
Truly creepy info HERE!
John Murray Spear and his Mechanical Messiah
Spear was an American Spiritualist clergyman, who tried to create an electrically powered Messiah, who he called “New Motive Power.”
Check it out HERE!
Circumstellar Habitable Zone
Also known as the “Goldilocks Zone,” this is the area that’s just the right distance from a star, where life can thrive and water can exist in liquid form.
I include this because how fucking mind-blowing it is that we’re just the right amount of distance from the sun to be alive. Wonder if there are any more planets like this out there?
Tanganyika laughter epidemic
This was an outbreak of mass hysteria in 1962. It started at a mission-run boarding schools nd lasted over 16 days.
Read more HERE!
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