Mar 8, 2016 | Scary True Stories
Life really is stranger than fiction. When I was a kid, a twisted horror tale called The Most Dangerous Game was mandatory reading in high school. In Richard Connell’s story, written in 1924, a big-game hunter matches his wits against a deranged captor who...
Feb 23, 2016 | Scary True Stories
“My grandma just shot me!” It was a recipe for disaster. In 2012, Jonathan Hoffman’s life seemed to be falling apart. His sister was suffering from brain cancer and his family was splitting up. When his parents prepared to move to Arizona for the...
Feb 2, 2016 | Scary True Stories
“It must be a man.” That what police thought when a serial killer stalked Mexico City’s older women in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. The sheer strength needed to manually strangle people – even the elderly – decided it. Le...
Jan 20, 2016 | Scary True Stories
The stench was overwhelming. The room reeked so much that the Parisian police officers had to retreat and gather their courage to try again. This time, they found what they were looking for. On a rotting straw mattress, cowering under a dirty, tattered blanket in the...
Dec 16, 2015 | Scary True Stories
I’ve had my fair share of creepy moments in my life. I remember hearing voices and strange sounds at night when I used to visit my great Aunt Susie in Memphis. I remember a time when I seriously thought a feral gray cat with a scratch over its left eye was hunting my...
Dec 1, 2015 | Scary True Stories
When little Olga Chardymova was just ten years old, she insisted on being able to leave the apartment by herself for the first time. She wanted to show she was a “big girl” by walking to Grandma’s house on her own. She never made it. A drug dealer...
