Cecil Hotel: murders and suicides in the cursed hotel
The Cecil Hotel is one of LA’s most famous hotels, especially thanks to its dark history. Home to murderers, maniacs, and ghosts, some say the hotel is cursed. The Cecil […]
The sad Forgotten Lives Of Jack The Ripper’s Victims
If you go to London and you want a dose of the macabre, you won’t be disappointed! We know that Jack the Ripper was a serial Killer that, thanks to […]
Aokigahara: the Japanese Suicide Forest called “the perfect place to die”.
Aokigahara is known throughout the world as the “Suicide Forest”, and is a 35-square-kilometer spot located at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan. The forest, called “the perfect […]
The flight of the Angel: a centuries-old tradition that officially opens the Venice Carnival.
“Il Volo dell’Angelo” (the flight of the angel), which took place today in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, is considered the opening ritual of the Venice […]
Shanell Papp: The artist who created a life-sized skeleton in crochet.
A life-size skeleton, complete with organs that faithfully reproduce the original ones. If you thought you saw (and realized) everything, you are wrong! The creation, somewhat bizarre, is made by […]
The incredible story of the man who fed a family of Polar Bears in Siberia.
In the second half of the ’70s a strange rumor began to run among the inhabitants of the autonomous region of Čukotka, the north-eastern end of Russia that looks beyond […]
The American Fat men’s that celebrated in excess~
In the mid-1800s, a “Fat Movement” gained momentum when affluent people who didn’t have to work and could afford to eat copiously, started gaining weight. Self-proclaimed “fat men”, in major […]
In Iceland, a Letter sent to a farm with hand-drawn map instead of address gets there anyway!
We are in Iceland, and even if this is a country considered as a beautiful travel destination, it hasn’t lost its small village charm: in fact here a letter with […]
Biddy Early: Healer, Herbalist, Clairvoyant…or Witch?
On the afternoon of 22nd April, 1874 a woman called Biddy Early died in her small, two-roomed, mud-walled cottage. Her life story was first published in 1903 and since that […]
William Hope: the most famous medium in London and his photographies.
During the period of World War I in England, William Hope was a well known and popular character: he was not only a spiritual medium, able to contact the dead, […]
The best Japanese craftsmen make a series of Furniture for Cats.
The tendency to create specific objects for pets is constantly increasing, thanks also to the media success that our small friends receive on social networks and on the web. The […]
The Mystery of Rennes le Chateau.
It was a simple country priest to discover (and to keep hidden) what Rennes-le-Chateau has kept since the times of the Knights Templar. It has little more than a handful […]
William Utermohlen: the artist who documented the progression of Alzheimer’s disease with harrowing self-portraits.
In 1995, at the age of 61, the American artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In response to his illness, the artist, who lived in London, began a […]
The Splendid Waves of the 19th century paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky.
The painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, in the nineteenth century, was the author of some of the most incredible paintings representing the sea. Of Russian-Armenian origin, he was one of the […]
Borley Rectory: the most haunted place in the UK.
When we hear about places haunted by ghosts and poltergeists, one of the first to be remembered is surely the Borley Rectory, in England. This construction was investigated by the […]
The Dramatic Enigma of the Sodder family: what happened to the 5 children?
George, immigrated to America from Sardinia, where met his wife, Jennie, was also from Italy, so getting married, settling in West Virginia, and having 10 children. It seems that George […]
