Jan 26, 2016 | Unsolved Mysteries
I’ve been thinking about Spain a lot lately. Last year I explored the haunted wonders of Transylvania as part of the Horror Writers’ Workshop. It was a phenomenal experience, and I met so many amazing people. This year, Writers & Publishers...
Dec 8, 2015 | Unsolved Mysteries
By all accounts, Christopher Mittendorf and Kristina Branum were a happy young couple living in Hardin County, Tennessee. On July 27, 2006, twenty-one-year-old Mittendorf went shopping with Branum, his 17-year-old fiancee. Although the couple was living together, they...
Nov 18, 2015 | Unsolved Mysteries
The statistics are horrifying. One million people go missing in the United States each year. Over eight million children go missing worldwide. A single person vanishing is disturbing enough. Three people who vanish at once is even harder to understand. But what about...
Nov 3, 2015 | Scary True Stories, Unsolved Mysteries
An isolated farmhouse in Bavarian Germany. It is winter, 1922. Six months before the Gruber family was murdered, their maid quit. Not an unusual event itself, except for the reason. She was terrified of the house, claiming it was haunted. Before you write her off as...
Sep 30, 2015 | Unsolved Mysteries
It’s ironic that we practice lifesaving techniques on someone who is already dead. The face of the CPR dummy known as Resusci Anne is based on the death mask of a real woman who drowned in France’s Seine River over a hundred years ago. Or did she drown?...
