5 true stories that were made into horror movies (part 1)
In short Five real crimes that inspired horror and thriller films: the cannibal Albert Fish, the young Argentine killer Cayetano
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Peter Bergmann, the mysterious man
In short In June 2009 a man calling himself Peter Bergmann arrived in Sligo, Ireland, checked into a hotel under
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Travis, the chimpanzee who disfigured a woman
In short Travis was a chimpanzee raised like a son by Sandra Herold in Stamford, Connecticut. On February 16, 2009
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5 best preserved bog bodies
In short Bog bodies are corpses naturally mummified in the peat bogs of northern Europe, where acidic water, cold and
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Gordon Stewart Northcott, the murderer who inspired “Changeling”
In short Between 1926 and 1928 Canadian Gordon Stewart Northcott abducted, abused and murdered at least three boys at his
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Woman in Sweden accused of having sex with skeletons, later acquitted
In short In September 2012 Gothenburg police found six skulls, a spine and many other human bones in the home
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Alexander Pichushkin, the chessboard killer
In short Alexander Pichushkin, the “chessboard killer”, killed at least 49 people between 1992 and 2006 in Moscow’s Bittsa Park,
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Enumclaw horse sex case, dead after sex with a horse
In short In July 2005 Kenneth Pinyan, a 45-year-old Boeing engineer, died from internal injuries sustained during sex with a
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The torture of breast ironing
In short Breast ironing is a practice found mainly in Cameroon: mothers, grandmothers and aunts pound and massage the breasts
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Goldeneagle, the infernal car
In short Goldeneagle is a 1964 Dodge 330 which, according to an American legend, is cursed, a real-life “Christine”. It
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Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, metal fang
In short Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, born in 1952 in Kazakhstan and nicknamed “Metal Fang” because of his dental crowns, killed and
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Sergei Ryakhovsky, the hippopotamus
In short Sergei Ryakhovsky (1962-2007), known as the Balashikha Ripper or “the Hippopotamus” because of his size, killed at least
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