A Recently Widowed Man Took This Photograph Of His Daughter Playing With Her New Christmas Presents Only

in conclusion i love this show

Grief by Gloom82

Francisco Goitia

The Witch, 1916

Oil on canvas

39x33 cm

Ulla Thynell

Bobby Mackey’s Music World is a haunted nightclub found in Wilder Kentucky. In 1850 Bobby Mackey’s Music World was once a slaughterhouse and once it closed in the 1890′s people believe a cult started meeting there. In 1896 a girl’s headless corpse who was later identified as Pearl Bryan was discovered in a field 2 miles from the former slaughterhouse. Pearl was pregnant and her boyfriend Scott Jackson and his friend Alonzo Walling attempted to give her an abortion however something went wrong so they dumped her body in a field and decapitated her. Eventually the two were caught due to them leaving the shoes on the body which made her identifiable to the authorities; the two were sentenced to death and Alonzo Walling right before his death said that he would haunt the area forever. In the 1950′s a girl named Johanna fell in love with a singer named Robert Randall; eventually Johanna got pregnant and wanted to run away with him however her father forbade and had the singer killed; Johanna was so upset she poisoned her father then killed herself in the basement and she is said to haunt the building to this day with the smell of her rose scented perfume and Bobby Mackey even wrote a song about her called “Johanna”. Bobby Mackey eventually bought the building in 1978. People believe that the nightclub has a portal to hell in its basement. The headless ghost of Pearl Bryan and Alonzo Walling are also said to haunt the nightclub. Possessions and exorcisms have taken place there and one night the club’s manager was closing for the night and the jukebox started playing the Anniversary Waltz even though it was unplugged and did not have the song listed. Ghost Adventures did an investigation here.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium is thought to be one of America’s most haunted buildings, and due to it’s imposing appearance, it isn’t hard to see why. Officially opening it’s doors to the public in 1910, it was originally built to house “40 to 50″ tuberculous patients after Jefferson county suffered a severe outbreak. At the time, the swampland surrounding Louisville made the perfect breeding ground for TB bacteria, and the disease quickly spread amongst the population. Sure enough, Waverly Hills was inundated with sick, dying, patients so the government had to intervene.

An expansion was ordered to hold an extra 400 patients, however the doctors didn’t have sufficient training and were swamped with the dead and dying. Reportedly, many patients suffered from depression and committed suicide before the disease could take them, whilst others simply succumbed to the gathering fluid in their lungs.To make things even more horrific, the dead were stripped from their dignity and transported via the infamous death chute (an underground tunnel in complete darkness) as part of their final journey to the grave.

To this day, Waverly Hills Sanatorium remains a terrifying looking building, and has featured on many paranormal shows, hoping to capture the huge building’s long-suffering patients, nurses, and doctors.

The unnerving sight of an approaching car in the dark: photos by Henri Prestes.

The killing of Elsie Frost is one of the UK’s most violent unsolved murders. On Saturday 9 October 1965, Elsie, 14, set off home on the outskirts of Wakefield from a nearby youth club sailing event. Dressed in a bright red anorak, yellow cardigan and floral skirt, Elsie walked along the canal towpath – so she didn’t get her new leather shoes muddy. But she never made it home.

As she walked through a 30ft tunnel beneath a railway embankment she was attacked. Struck from behind and stabbed – twice in the back, twice in the head and once through the hand. One of the blows pierced her heart. Fatally injured Elsie stumbled through the tunnel to the bottom of a steep flight of stone steps – known as the ABC steps as there are 26 – that led up to the main road.

That’s where she was found, dying by a local dog-walker. Others soon appeared on the scene. An ambulance was called, but Elsie was dead by the time they arrived. The hunt for the killer was national news. Elsie was intelligent, bookish, close to her family – police couldn’t establish any motive.

Officers went door-to-door, interviewed 12,000 men and teenage boys – but her killer was never found. Decades past, her parents, Arthur and Edith, died without seeing justice for their daughter. The case is still one of the UK’s most violent unsolved murders, and Elsie’s family continue to push for justice. Still, over half a century on, the killer, murder weapon and motive remain unknown.

The Connecticut River Valley Murders. (1978-1987) 

SCOOB! by Zac Retz