Before Photoshop, There Was the Disturbing Art of Spirit Photography

Ever since technology has allowed people to capture pictures, photographers have been using photo-editing techniques to trick people. One of the most fascinating early examples is spirit photography. William Hope (c) National Media Museum Spirit photography was a trend in which a photographer edited pictures to make ghosts or spirit-like figures appear alongside the human…

Midnight Movie of the Month: A Forgotten “Rocky Horror” Sister Film

What’s your favourite midnight movie? That one totally weird film you tell your friends about at parties, a vintage masterpiece that slipped through the cracks of mainstream culture, because it was just too strange to find a traditional audience, and instead found an unlikely cult following elsewhere. We’ve discovered a midnight movie that’s slipped under…

Not for Tourists: Island of the Dolls

Are you in the mood for a good ghost story? I always am. Doll collecting is a pretty spooky habit on its own. But when you start hanging them from trees on a remote island allegedly haunted by the spirit of a girl, well, things start to tip the scales. Deep in the canals of…

Dining with Alligators

The strangest thing about this terrible tourist attraction, is that I couldn’t find a single newspaper clipping or record of an incident involving a visitor being bitten by an alligator. For almost half a century, more than 1,000 exotic gators were the snap-happy neighbours of a tight-knit community in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles. A major tourist attraction…

5 Places You Really Shouldn’t Get Stuck on Friday 13th

1. An Abandoned Soviet-Era Circus Clowns and abandoned places should never, ever mix…. In the capital city of The Republic of Moldova, there’s an abandoned mid-century communist-era circus located in the capital city of Chisnau. Easily accessible, it’s a pretty popular spot with teenagers, who like to sit, chat, and drink on the steps of the forgotten…

The Real Downtown LA Murder Hotel that Inspired Lady Gaga’s American Horror Story

You don’t need to have watched the new season premier of American Horror Story Hotel to be fascinated by the chilling real-life location that inspired it. I was instantly hooked on the setting for this season: a haunted Art Deco time capsule in Downtown, Los Angeles. The fictional Hotel Cortez is a budget hotel turned residence for transients where a…

The Drug that makes Pablo Escobar look like a Saint

There’s a lot of things that fascinate us in the world, especially the things that scare the crap out of us. And learning about scopolamine, a.k.a “The Devil’s Breathe”, will do just that. The highly dangerous substance from a plant found in Columbia allegedly hypnotizes the user (or in most cases, the victim), causing them to…

The Zombie Mall Experience

I often wonder how it’s possible to be both obsessed with things like puppies, french cheese, floral print vintage dresses AND zombies. (Still working on an explanation). So anyway, deep down, we all really want a zombie apocalypse to happen. Just for a day or something. You know, to put our zombie survival skills to…

13 Extremely Worrying Easter Bunnies

How parents let their children near any of these bunnies is beyond me. Sorry for possibly ruining your Easter with this post, but really, what is Easter if not just another holiday that makes you fat? And why are most bunny costumes absolutely terrifying? Down with the sweaty man in the creepy bunny suit. More…