DaGoonie55 Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 The Suicide Mouse From Snopes: The weirdness starts around 5:00. You may want to turn your speakers down a bit. Umm yeah. That kinda puts me in a state of paranoia the whole time I watched it. If I wake up tomorrow and randomly make chicken noises, I'm going to be pissed. LOL Definitely a creepy post. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Good stuff in here, Botched. I remember watching a tv special on haunted places, and that doll was one of the featured stories. Dolls and clowns should be outlawed, just on the creepy factor aione. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 http://www.cracked.com/article_20709_9-horrifying-foods-you-wont-believe-people-actually-eat.html That entire article is creepy. I can't believe some of the crap people will eat... don't read that before lunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 http://www.cracked.com/article_20709_9-horrifying-foods-you-wont-believe-people-actually-eat.html That entire article is creepy. I can't believe some of the crap people will eat... don't read that before lunch. I think I'd try everything except the Hepatitis clams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Watching shows like No Reservations and Bizarre Foods definitely prepared me for that article. The toe (and birds) though, is crossing the line. Wtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 The Hinterkaifeck Murders The six victims were the farmer Andreas Gruber (63) and his wife Cäzilia (72); their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel (35) and her two children, Cäzilia (7) and Josef (2); and the maid Maria Baumgartner. The two-year-old Josef was rumoured to be the son of Viktoria and her father Andreas, who had an incestuous relationship.[1] A few days prior to the crime, farmer Andreas Gruber told neighbours about discovering footprints in the snow leading from the edge of the forest to the farm, but none leading back. He also spoke about hearing footsteps in the attic and finding an unfamiliar newspaper on the farm. Furthermore, the house keys went missing several days before the murders, but none of this was reported to the police. Six months earlier, the previous maid had left the farm, claiming that it was haunted; the new maid, Maria Baumgartner, arrived on the farm on 31 March, only a few hours before her death. Exactly what happened on that Friday evening cannot be said for certain. It is believed that the older couple, as well as their daughter Viktoria and her daughter Cäzilia, were somehow all lured into the barn one by one, where they were killed. The perpetrator(s) then went into the house where they killed two-year-old Josef who was sleeping in his cot in his mother's bedroom, as well as the maid, Maria Baumgartner, in her bed-chamber. The police first suspected the motive to be robbery, and interrogated several inhabitants from the surrounding villages, as well as travelling craftsmen and vagrants. The robbery theory was, however, abandoned when a large amount of money was found in the house. It is believed that the perpetrator(s) remained at the farm for several days – someone had fed the cattle, and eaten food in the kitchen: the neighbours had also seen smoke from the chimney during the weekend – and anyone looking for money would have found it. The death of Karl Gabriel, Viktoria's husband who had been reported killed in the French trenches in 1914, was called into question. His body had never been found. The following day, on the 5th of April, court physician Dr. Johann Baptist Aumüller performed the autopsies in the barn. It was established that a pickaxe was the most likely murder weapon. Killer never found. More gruesome details at link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Creepy phone calls A man calls into a syndicated radio show, claiming to be a former employee of Area 51. He frantically describes things he's seen or learned, when the radio suddenly loses it's signal. Is it a hoax? Is he schizophrenic? Or is it...something else? Whatever it is, it's creepy. A man in Washington state dials 911 after his dog is hurled over a fence, and he spots something "real big" in his yard, which he is hesitant to call a man. He's definitely looking at something...but what? The Night stalker was a brutal serial killer and rapist who terrorized Southern California in the 70s and 80s. This is believed to be a recording of his voice, left on the answering machine of one of his victims. He was never apprehended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Can't see the video, but I'm pretty sure the guy who called in claiming to be an Area 51 employee, was calling into Coast To Coast AM With Art Bell. I'm familiar with that story, as I've listened to quite a few of his shows. The guy came back on the show later and fessed up. Standard nutjob looking for 15 minutes of fame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Taman Shud The body was discovered at 6:30 a.m. on 1 December 1948 on Somerton beach in Adelaide, South Australia and the police were called. When they arrived, the body was lying on the sand with its head resting on the seawall, and with its feet crossed and pointing directly to the sea.[3] The police noted no disturbance to the body and observed that the man's left arm was in a straight position and the right arm was bent double. He was dressed in "quality clothing:" consisting of a white shirt, red and blue tie, brown trousers, socks and shoes and, although it had been a hot day and very warm night, a brown knitted pullover and fashionable European grey and brown double-breasted coat.[12]All labels on his clothes were missing, and he had no hat (unusual for 1948, and especially so for someone wearing a suit) or wallet.[4] Clean-shaven and with no distinguishing marks,[4] the man carried no identification, which led police to believe he had committed suicide.[13] His teeth did not match the dental records of any known person in Australia. The autopsy showed that the man's last meal was a pasty eaten three to four hours before death,[5] but tests failed to reveal any foreign substance in the body. The pathologist Dr. Dwyer concluded: "I am quite convinced the death could not have been natural ...the poison I suggested was a barbiturate or a soluble hypnotic". ...a tiny piece of rolled-up paper with the words "Tamam Shud" printed on it was found deep in a fob pocket sewn within the dead man's trouser pocket.[44] Public library officials called in to translate the text identified it as a phrase meaning "ended" or "finished" found on the last page of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam A photograph of the scrap of paper was sent to interstate police and released to the public,[44] leading a man to reveal he had found a very rare first edition copy of Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat, published in 1859 by Whitcombe and Tombs in New Zealand,[notes 6] in the back seat of his unlocked car that had been parked in Jetty Road Glenelg about a week or two before the body was found...The book was missing the words "Tamam Shud" on the last page, which had a blank reverse, and microscopic tests indicated that the piece of paper was from the page torn from the book.[46] "Tamam Shud" (meaning "the end") comprises the last line of text in the book. In the back of the book were faint pencil markings of five lines of capital letters with the second line struck out. The strike out is now considered significant with its similarity to the fourth line possibly indicating a mistake and thus, possible proof the letters are code: Man has never been identified, code has never been cracked, and the case remains a mystery. Lots more details at link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Botched, these are pretty awesome. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 Carl Tanzler Carl Tanzler, or sometimes Count Carl von Cosel (February 8, 1877 – July 3, 1952), was a German-born radiologic technologist at the United States Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida who developed a morbid obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Elena Milagro "Helen" de Hoyos (July 31, 1909 - October 25, 1931), that carried on well after the disease had caused her death. In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos's body from its tomb, and lived with the corpse at his home for seven years until its discovery by Hoyos's relatives and authorities in 1940. Tanzler attached the corpse's bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. As the skin of the corpse decomposed, Tanzler replaced it with silk cloth soaked in wax and plaster of paris. As the hair fell out of the decomposing scalp, Tanzler fashioned a wig from Hoyos's hair that had been collected by her mother and given to Tanzler not long after her burial in 1931. Tanzler filled the corpse's abdominal and chest cavity with rags to keep the original form, dressed Hoyos's remains in stockings, jewelry, and gloves, and kept the body in his bed. Tanzler also used copious amounts of perfume, disinfectants, and preserving agents, to mask the odor and forestall the effects of the corpse's decomposition. Shortly after the corpse's discovery by authorities, Hoyos's body was examined by physicians and pathologists, and put on public display at the Dean-Lopez Funeral Home, where it was viewed by as many as 6,800 people. More at link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 The Atuk curse Atuk (Inuit for "Grandfather") is the name of an as-yet-unfilmed American film screenplay, intended to be a film adaptation based upon the 1963 Novel The Incomparable Atuk, by acclaimed Canadian author Mordecai Richler. The script for the proposed film adaptation has been in existence since at least the very early 1980s, and although numerous Hollywood film studios have shown an interest in producing the film over the years, the movie remains unfilmed and the entire project in development hell. Atuk is most famous for supposedly being cursed and, according to legend, responsible for the deaths of several major comedic actors in the 1980s and 1990s. The "Atuk Curse" has become one of the better known urban legends of Hollywood. Its first victim, supposedly, was John Belushi, who had read the script and was reportedly enthusiastic about taking on the role of Atuk. Shortly afterwards, he was found dead of a drug overdose in 1982. After Belushi's death the part was offered to comedian Sam Kinison, who accepted it in 1988...Not long afterward, while talks were underway to continue the project, Kinison died in a car crash in 1992. The curse supposedly struck again in 1994 when John Candy, who had been approached for the role of Atuk, was reading the script when he suddenly died of a heart attack, on March 4 (the day before the 12th anniversary of Belushi's death). Some believe the curse struck twice that year, since in November Michael O'Donoghue died of a cerebral hemorrhage. O'Donoghue was a writer and comedian who was also a friend of Belushi and Kinison and, the story goes, had read the script (in some versions even worked on it) before recommending it to them. The most recent victim of the "Atuk Curse" is said to be Chris Farley, who idolized John Belushi. Like his idol, he was up for the role of Atuk, and was about to acceptwhen, also like his idol, he died of a drug overdose in December 1997 at the age of 33 (the same age as Belushi). According to some versions the curse would strike once more, only six months later in May 1998 when Farley's friend and former Saturday Night Live cast-mate, Phil Hartman, was murdered by his wife. Farley is said to have shown the Atuk script to Hartman, before his death, and was encouraging him to take a co-starring role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted October 26, 2013 Share Posted October 26, 2013 Carl Tanzler Carl Tanzler, or sometimes Count Carl von Cosel (February 8, 1877 – July 3, 1952), was a German-born radiologic technologist at the United States Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida who developed a morbid obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient, Elena Milagro "Helen" de Hoyos (July 31, 1909 - October 25, 1931), that carried on well after the disease had caused her death. In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos's body from its tomb, and lived with the corpse at his home for seven years until its discovery by Hoyos's relatives and authorities in 1940. Tanzler attached the corpse's bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. As the skin of the corpse decomposed, Tanzler replaced it with silk cloth soaked in wax and plaster of paris. As the hair fell out of the decomposing scalp, Tanzler fashioned a wig from Hoyos's hair that had been collected by her mother and given to Tanzler not long after her burial in 1931. Tanzler filled the corpse's abdominal and chest cavity with rags to keep the original form, dressed Hoyos's remains in stockings, jewelry, and gloves, and kept the body in his bed. Tanzler also used copious amounts of perfume, disinfectants, and preserving agents, to mask the odor and forestall the effects of the corpse's decomposition. Shortly after the corpse's discovery by authorities, Hoyos's body was examined by physicians and pathologists, and put on public display at the Dean-Lopez Funeral Home, where it was viewed by as many as 6,800 people. More at link That is a horrific story.....some of the pics I Googled will give me nightmares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 The girl in the water tank In February 2013, this 21-year-old student from Vancouver, Canada, was found dead inside the Cecil Hotel’s rooftop water tank in Los Angeles. The L.A. County Department of Coroner ruled the death “accidental due to drowning” and said no traces of drugs or alcohol were found during the autopsy. However, there is much more to the story than what is implied by police reports. The first piece of evidence that needs to be considered is an elevator surveillance tape that recorded Elisa’s behavior only a few moments before she lost her life. The four-minute video posted on YouTube shows Elisa pressing all of the elevator buttons and waiting for it to move. Seeing that the elevator doors are not closing, starts behaving extremely bizarrely. Here’s the video. They had to cut open the water tank to remove her body. The circumstances surrounding the case, including how she got inside the tank, are still a mystery. This is not the first gruesome death at the Cecil Hotel. More at link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Paging 1408... People actually used some of the water from the tank to brush, take showers, and drink from. I remember someone posting a thread here with a comment from one of the residents noting how the water "Tasted funny." Sick (and crazy as hell). Wonder if she had a history of mental health problems. Still doesn't explain how the hell she got in there, seeing as how they had to cut something to get her out. Since Hollywood has,for the most part, run out of ideas, I expect that to be a horror movie in about 3-5 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 The Hopkinsville Goblins August 21, 1955 Hopkinsville, Kentucky At about 8.00 p.m., the families began hearing strange and unexplained noises outside. The Sutton family dog which was in the yard outside began barking loudly and then hid under the house, where it remained until the next day. Going outside a few minutes later with their guns, Billy Ray Taylor and Elmer "Lucky" Sutton then asserted that they saw a strange creature emerge from the nearby trees. When the creature approached to within about 20 feet, the two men began shooting at it, one using a shotgun, the other man using a .22 rifle. There was a noise "sounding like bullets being rattled about in a metal drum", and the creature, they said, then flipped over and fled into the darkness and shadows. Sure that they had wounded the creature, Lucky and Solomon went out to look for it. Hendry writes that as the men were stepping from the porch, they saw one of the creatures perched on an awning. They again shot at the creature, and it was knocked from the roof. Again they heard the rattling noise, although the creature was apparently unharmed. Lucky and Solomon returned to the house in a disturbed state. Within minutes, Lucky's brother J. C. Sutton said that he saw the same creature (or at least a similar creature) peer into a window in the home; J. C. and Solomon shot at it, breaking the window, whereupon it too flipped over and fled. The creatures could be heard loudly scurrying about on the roof, and scratching as though trying to break through. For the next few hours, the witnesses asserted that the creatures repeatedly approached the home, either popping up at the doorway or at windows in an almost playful manner, only to be shot at each time they did. The witnesses were unsure as to how many of the creatures there were; except for one sighting of two at the same time, all other sightings were of only one, although the first story claimed twelve to fifteen. At one point the witnesses shot one of the beings nearly point blank, and again would insist that the sound resembled bullets striking a metal bucket. The floating creatures' legs seemed to be atrophied and nearly useless, and they appeared to propel themselves with a curious hip-swaying motion, steering with their arms. Between appearances from the creatures, the family tried to temper the children's growing hysteria. At about 11.00 p.m., the Taylor-Sutton crew decided to flee the farmhouse in their automobiles and after about 30 minutes they arrived at the Hopkinsville police station. Police Chief Russell Greenwell judged the witnesses to have been frightened by something "beyond reason, not ordinary." He also opined "[t]hese were not the sort of people who normally ran to the police ... something frightened them, something beyond their comprehension." A police officer with medical training determined that Billy Ray's pulse rate was more than two times as fast as usual. Twenty police officers accompanied the Suttons back to the farmhouse, and several entered it to assess the damage. According to Daniels et al., "[t]he official response was prompt and thorough." In 1998, Karal Ayn Barnett wrote, "By all accounts, the witnesses were deemed sane, not under the influence [of drugs or alcohol], and in such a state of terror, no one involved doubted that they had seen something far beyond their ken." Police interviewed neighboring farmhouses, whose residents were also distressed and reported to the police strange lights, strange sounds, and of hearing the gun battle at the Sutton farmstead. Police and photographers who visited the home saw many bullet holes and hundreds of spent shells, and further discovered what Clark describes as "an odd luminous patch along a fence where one of the beings had been shot, and, in the woods beyond, a green light whose source could not be determined." Though the investigation was inconclusive, Daniels et al. writes, "Investigators did conclude, however, that these people were sincere and sane and that they had no interest in exploiting the case for publicity. The patch sample, although photographed, was never collected and had mysteriously disappeared by the noon the next day... More at link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesMadisonSkins Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Botched, you've made my day with these posts. Excellent stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 There's a documentary where people attempt to tie the Point Pleasant WV "Mothman" sightings, with the NJ/Pine Barrens "Jersey Devil" sightings, along with various other flying creatures. UFO/"Strange lights" sightings were also a common theme. Interestingly enough, that date (1955 was also very close to the same date where people were reporting the Mothman sightings. With the Mothman thing, they offer rational, scientific, and paranormal explanations. The "Rational" one being a bird of some sort, the scientific one being possible contaminated/mutated birds (which would become elongated) that consumed the waste being leaked into a lake by abandoned weapons plants in the area, and the paranormal/cryptozoology one being some alien creature, or an undiscovered species that has remained hidden in fairly remote/wooded areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Yes, thanks a lot Botched! I look forward to this thread daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Paging 1408... People actually used some of the water from the tank to brush, take showers, and drink from. I remember someone posting a thread here with a comment from one of the residents noting how the water "Tasted funny." Sick (and crazy as hell). Wonder if she had a history of mental health problems. Still doesn't explain how the hell she got in there, seeing as how they had to cut something to get her out. Since Hollywood has,for the most part, run out of ideas, I expect that to be a horror movie in about 3-5 years That is some creepy footage. I wonder what went on there. So odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botched Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Glad you guys are enjoying this stuff. More to come this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 That Elisa Lam death is so damn strange. I'd pay good money to be a fly on the wall for the final 30 minutes of her life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinz4Life12 Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Yea I get cised everytime botched makes a new post in this thread. I love reading this thread, especially around halloween time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Here's a pretty good classic urban legend. My father in law (former father in law now) who grew up in NC told me about this one ( The Vander Light). Apparently, 20/30 years ago (according to him), some high school kids went out there to film it, and claimed to have seen it, and ran, damaging their camera in the process. Apparently shook quite a few people up. The comment section looks pretty interesting as well. I'll leave the link since copy/paste is acting funny. http://hauntedstories.net/mysteries/north-carolina/vander-light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Yes, thanks Botched! Now if we can have you tell us these stories around a campfire deep in the woods that would be even better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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