Macabre London

Aliens land in Tesco Car park and cause all sorts of problems with car keys.

A village in Bangladesh experiences 500 fires in one year due to birds, children and a ton of other reasons.

2021 was quit…

2021 was quite the year of weird news so I figured what would be fun is if we went back of the year, month by month before the year is through to regale some of the stranger stories from the year.

As …

2021 was quite the year of weird news so I figured what would be fun is if we went back of the year, month by month before the year is through to regale some of the stranger stories from the year.

Now…

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On a dull and overcast morning on Tuesday the 28th of june 1887, a curious situation occured at a lodging house in the east end of London.…

For most people it’s generally believed that your soul leaves your body when you die and that if you believe in reincarnation, that’s the point when a new life may begin.

But what if one night you wen…

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Louis Wain was one of the most popular artists of the Edwardian era.

If you headed back in time and found yourself in an Edwardian drawing room, you’d more than likely be …

If anyone was going to plan the worlds most mysterious disappearance, it was definitely Agatha Christie!

On the 4th of December 1926, a 36 year old woman tucked her daughter into bed, grabbed an attac…

Sabina Nessa was found dead in Cator park In Kidbrooke South East London after being brutally murdered. She wasn't found until 5:30pm the next day. Her body had been covered by leaves. Police have ar…

A little rainstorm in the middle of the night would more than likely go unnoticed by the average joe, fast asleep in their beds.

One such overnight rainstorm in a little town in Washington should’ve b…

The murder of Emily Armstrong was in danger of being lost as a story. Historical true crime is such a good learning tool for attitudes of the past and today, we learn about not one, not two but THREE…

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The Mary Celeste is one of the best unsolved mysteries of all time but is it really unsolved? Or do we love the untrue version of this yarn which makes it far more interesting!

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The ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun was happily resting in the after life when Howard Carter, a down and out archaeologist exacted a plan to discover the lost king.

However, he may have got more tha…

The weird history of the 1904 Olympics is insane. The Louisiana Worlds Fair hosted the 1904 Olympics Games and the marathon event was so poorly organised it nearly caused many of the competitors to l…

Thomas Neill Cream was a real nasty piece of work! He used his position of power as a doctor to manipulate his patients, offering them treatments they couldn't afford for free and then used those med…

Thomas Neill Cream was a real nasty piece of work! He used his position of power as a doctor to manipulate his patients. Even when some of them ended up dead at quite obviously his hands, he still ma…

On the evening of the 30th of October 1938, puffs of green gas were seen erupting at regular intervals by astronomers from the planet Mars and that something was headed on its way toward earth.

The un…

On a drizzly June morning in 1982, the silhouette of a man was seen hanging partly submerged in the river Thames from the underside of Blackfriars Bridge right in the heart of London’s busy financial…

On the 27th of March 1997 a bizarre tragedy occurred. 39 bodies were found inside a San Diego mansion. All laid out the same way and all seemingly departed the world in the exact same manner.

this was…

Strap in and make sure you mind the doors as we disappear down a darkly lit tunnel and discover some of the most disturbing events that have happened on the central line.

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