Jun 24, 2015 | Murder at the Movies, Tales of the Supernatural
Since the first movie was released in the 1980s, the Child’s Play franchise and its cursed doll Chucky have become horror-movie classics. But did you know Chucky is based on an actual voodoo doll? The real thing is so much creepier than the Hollywood version. It...
Jun 22, 2015 | Scary True Stories
I’ve been friends with Ev for a long, long time–we go back to the iVillage writing forums, if anyone remembers those. It’s funny how you can know someone quite well and still not know critical things about them–it seems Ev lives in a haunted...
Jun 1, 2015 | Scary True Stories
It always surprises me when Aileen Wuornos is referred to as the “first female serial killer.” There were plenty of female serial killers long before Wuornos came along. One of the main differences between serial female murderers and their male...
May 18, 2015 | Murder at the Movies, Scary True Stories
It’s been over thirty years since Wes Craven’s A Nightmare On Elm Street terrorized a generation. Thanks to a bunch of schlocky sequels, it’s easy to forget how frightening the original was. People were afraid to go to sleep. One of my friends...
May 13, 2015 | Scary True Stories
What’s a girl to do when she’s hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, but still needs some new shoes? How about murder little old ladies and steal their credit cards? That’s what Dana Sue Gray did in 1994. The pretty suburban woman was a former...
