In the sweltering summer of 1518, something bizarre unfolded on the cobbled streets of Strasbourg. A woman stepped into the town square and started to dance. Not a joyful jig or drunken twirl. No, this was compulsive, relentless movement. There was no music, no festival or celebration. She just danced. Then, another person joined. Then…
Welcome back to another edition of Monique Snyman’s Hall of Horror! This week, we’re covering the Hinterkaifeck Murders from 1922, and I have a theory about what may have happened … The Hinterkaifeck Murders Deep in the Bavarian countryside, in late March of 1922, something terrible happened. It was something so brutal, so inexplicable, it…
There’s something deeply unsettling about the black-eyed children, and it has less to do with what they are and more to do with what they almost are. They’re polite. Well-mannered. Soft-spoken. They usually appear in pairs, somewhere around the ages of six to sixteen, and they always seem to be in need of help. One…
