Announcements, Disturbia, Everything Scary, Real Life Horror Stories

Kobe Bryant, daughter among 9 dead in helicopter crash in Southern California

Basketball legend Kobe Bryant is among nine people who died in a helicopter crash in the wealthy Southern California residential neighborhood of Calabasas. Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria Onore Bryant was also killed. There were no survivors, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said. The sheriff’s department received reports of the downed aircraft just after 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m PT). Bryant, 41, and his … Continue reading Kobe Bryant, daughter among 9 dead in helicopter crash in Southern California

Carrie DeanJanuary 26, 2020Leave a comment

Everything Scary, Strange and Mysterious Disappearances, True Crime & Murder Mysteries

Body of missing teen found in bin in South Philadelphia

Authorities have positively identified the body of a woman found in a plastic bin last week, as police investigated a possible case of human trafficking in a South Philadelphia home. The body is that of 18-year-old Erin Schweikert, who was reported missing in September 2019. Authorities have notified her family. Authorities said the body was found in the basement of a home on the 2100 … Continue reading Body of missing teen found in bin in South Philadelphia

Carrie DeanJanuary 22, 2020January 22, 2020Leave a comment

Encounters with Evil, Everything Scary, Suicide stories, True Crime & Murder Mysteries

Orsi Family Murder/Suicide

Three people are dead and two children are injured in an apparent murder-suicide in Elmore County on Saturday, July 7, 2018. The girl’s mother, Charlene “Charley” Orsi, 44, was shot and killed by her estranged husband, Robert “Bob” Orsi, 51, as she came to the family home on Granite Drive to pick up the children, Franklin said. One of the triplets died in the incident. … Continue reading Orsi Family Murder/Suicide

Carrie DeanJanuary 21, 2020January 21, 2020Leave a comment

Creepy Origins, Disturbia, Real Life Horror Stories, True Crime & Murder Mysteries

Nora Quoirin, Found Dead In Malaysian Jungle

Nora Quoirin, 15, disappeared while on vacation at a Malaysian jungle resort. She starved and died of intestinal rupture, say Malaysian police, who have ruled out foul play in her death. It is likely that she survived for six or seven days and suffered a slow and agonising death as trackers desperately tried to find her in the dense jungle. It appears Nora, who had … Continue reading Nora Quoirin, Found Dead In Malaysian Jungle

Carrie DeanAugust 15, 2019August 15, 2019Leave a comment

Cold Case Files, Strange and Mysterious Disappearances, True Crime & Murder Mysteries

Staten Island Mysterious Missing Father – Solved not Resolved

When the answer finally came, after 45 years of heartbreak for a Staten Island family with a mysteriously missing father, it brought more questions than closure. Vincent Palmieri Sr., age 36, disappeared without warning on April 30, 1972, leaving a wife and nine kids behind in their crowded outer borough home. He was last seen around midnight after visiting with a friend at a local … Continue reading Staten Island Mysterious Missing Father – Solved not Resolved

Carrie DeanAugust 15, 2019August 15, 2019Leave a comment

Disturbia, Everything Scary, Spooky Locations Around the Globe

The Plain of Jars – Laos

The Plain of Jars is a group of fields containing thousands of stone jars cut out from rock thousands of years ago. The sites are located around the city of Phonsavan in Xiangkhouang province, North East Laos. While some of the sites contain just a few jars, others contain hundreds many of which are broken or have fallen over. The history of the stone jars … Continue reading The Plain of Jars – Laos

Carrie DeanJuly 14, 2019July 14, 2019Leave a comment

Creepy Ghost Stories, Spooky Locations Around the Globe

Queen Mary Hotel

Resting in Long Beach Harbor is the RMS Queen Mary, a colossal ship that was bigger, faster and more powerful than the Titanic. The 1,000-foot ship began her life when the first keel plate was laid in 1930 at the John Brown shipyard in Clyde, Scotland. The Depression held up her construction between 1931 and 1934, but she was finally completed, making her maiden voyage on … Continue reading Queen Mary Hotel

Carrie DeanNovember 25, 2018Leave a comment

Cold Case Files, Everything Scary

Dyatlov Pass Incident

On the surface, what’s become known as the Dyatlov Pass incident seems fairly explicable: Of a party of ten skiiers, nine perished in the middle of a high-difficulty trek in conditions that reached -30 degrees Celsius. But the details, which are mostly based on diaries of those involved as well as records from Soviet investigators, are chilling: On the night of February 2, 1959, members … Continue reading Dyatlov Pass Incident

Carrie DeanNovember 23, 2018Leave a comment

Everything Scary, Strange Tales

Great Aunt Buried Alive

My grandma (born in 1905) once told me a story about when she was a kid, probably around 1912 or so. One of her great-aunts died at home. It was a rural community so they didn’t bother to get a doctor in, and in the tradition of the time the body was laid out at the house to let relatives pay their respects. Normally you’d … Continue reading Great Aunt Buried Alive

Carrie DeanNovember 19, 2018Leave a comment

Cold Case Files, Everything Scary, True Crime & Murder Mysteries

Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam

Elisa Lam was a 21-year-old student who maybe had a manic episode that led to an “accidental” drowning. She was traveling from Canada when she went missing and the conspiracy theories take off from there. The case of Elisa’s death is full of coincidences and weird details that do not seem to fit. People who do not believe that the case was solved correctly. The … Continue reading Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam