Creepy Paranormal Documentaries That Will Make You Question Everything
One day when they heard a baby crying from the dead-end alley, one of the cousin’s friends decided to go investigate. While he never revealed what he saw, it was obvious it was something he would never forget. This story will definitely spook people at a campfire, and have you all guessing what he was exposed to. John List killed his whole family-wife, mother, daughter and two sons.
I brought my dog along for protection, and Amy and I fell asleep with our fingers tangled in his warm fur. Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were found unresponsive in their Fall River, Massachusetts, home on August 4, 1892. Even while homicide wasn't unusual in the late 1800s, the fact that they were slain with an axe and their 32-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden, was the prime suspect made it so. The subsequent trial and crime attracted international media attention. Despite being finally found not guilty of the homicides, Lizzie and the house where they were carried out are forever linked.
Seen here are detectives and the coroner examining the remains of two victims on Aug. 16, 1938. In a world before Ed Gein or Ted Bundy, these macabre crimes shocked the nation — particularly because the perpetrator was never caught. Before burying their loved ones for good, grieving relatives in the Victorian era would honor the deceased by photographing the corpse in what look like otherwise normal portraits. These Victorian death portraits were surprisingly common, especially when the deceased was a child.
Prominent in the ghost story genre is the idea that the dead have unfinished business in the living world, leaving them unable to move on to the afterlife. This concept also goes back centuries but had its heyday in cinema between the 1970s and 1990s, when Hollywood churned out movies like Field of Dreams, Ghost, and Heart and Souls. Still today we feel the shadowy presence of our ancestors' struggles to explain the mysterious in almost every facet of our lives. Whether it be in the form of religion, urban legends, pop culture, ghost stories, superstitious rituals, and so much more we are still just fighting to keep our monsters in the dark.
In ancient Babylonia, it was believed that ghosts walked through the night like the living walked through the day. They weren’t the incorporeal spirits that we think of today when someone mentions ghosts. Back then, it was thought that ghosts could possess the bodies of living animals and that the ghosts of the world’s demons had a particular affinity for possessing the bodies of birds. Evil spirits possessed wild dogs and lions, which were driven to hunt—and to occasionally hunt humans—because of the ghosts within them. Another Assyrian belief painted ghosts as the harbingers of death, destruction, and tragedy.
This was the time I usually showed up and went to bed, cause I worked the graveyard shift. That’s it, I just stood there staring at the door where it fled and I’m just like… wow I really can’t believe what I just saw. In American horror movies and scary stories, there’s hardly anything about ghost monkeys. I don’t consume that kind of content… and ghost monkey?? “He was just 2 years old and with his mom running errands. She let go of his hand to pay the cashier, and he wandered away.
Finally, a 22-pound (10.0 kg) iron bar, described in court as a railway fishplate, was dropped on him. Bulger suffered ten skull fractures as a result of the iron bar striking his head. Dr. Alan Williams, the case’s pathologist, stated that Bulger suffered so many injuries—42 in total—that none could be isolated as the fatal blow. Forensic evidence showed that all had been beaten to death with a sledgehammer which was found near the family’s remains. Joseph McStay suffered four blows to the head and the family’s youngest child, only four years old, suffered seven.
But now he had to navigate a human body once more. The cocktail shrimp tastes like wet sticks, and I swallow it. The crackers, tasteless, damned by salt, dry my mouth. Cold and dead things; I eat and that’s normal of me. I stand amongst lifelong friends I’ve seen just today.
In 1989, a man named Jeffrey Stambovsky purchased a house in Nyack, New York, which had previously been occupied by Helen Ackley and her family. However, it was not until after Stambovsky and his wife moved in that he learned that the house had attained much notoriety and was rumored to be haunted. For years, Ackley had been claiming that her house was occupied by ghosts, and she even sold her story to Reader’s Digest www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZDc6pegNs and other media outlets. The problem was that neither Ackley nor her realtor bothered to disclose this to Stambovsky before he purchased the home. Washington Irving's 1820 tale of a headless horseman who terrorizes the real-life village of Sleepy Hollow is considered one of America's first ghost stories—and one of its scariest. Irving may have drawn inspiration for his story while a teenager in Tarrytown, New York.
Now, nightmares from a mirror of all things sounded like a little fun to me, but my brothers, who were also sleeping in the same room, ask me to cover it. I asked my Dad about it before he left and he said ghosts use it as an entryway. A week later, I brought it up with my grandmother and she scoffed saying, “oh, this house ain’t haunted”. I agreed, but told her that the reason I brought it up was because my Dad told me to cover a mirror.
If ghost hunting isn’t your full-time job and you aren’t a professional researcher on the science behind dreams, the best thing would be to get a life and stop obsessing over ghost things. Watching all paranormal documentaries and even ghost images on your walls. If that is the case, then your dreams could be recurring ghost dreams, where you met ghosts and made your own paranormal documentary. If you read too many ghost novels, watched too many ghost movies then why wouldn’t your dreams have a ghost in them. The discomforts from the heavy dinner you had late which the body is trying to digest can result to a story where the ghost is squeezing your stomach or passing through your stomach to the other side behind you.
In this terrifying and nail-biting horror story, Judas Coyne is a rockstar obsessed with disturbing and morbid things. So when a ghost comes up for sale on an online auction site, Judas immediately purchases it. When Judas receives his haunted box, he discovers the suit inside belongs to the revenge-obsessed spirit of a man whose stepdaughter killed herself after being used by Judas.