The Kara Alongi Kidnapping Hoax On September 30th, 2012 the account @Karaalongi13 sent an ominous- petrifying message into the Twittersphere. It said, "There is someone in my house, call 911." This is the bizarre kidnapping of Kara Alongi, somethin…
The Ross Dress For Less Explosion On March 24th, 1985, an employee was just getting into work at his job in a local department store in Los Angeles, California. He was in a storeroom down in the basement under the Ross Dress For Less clothing store…
The Vanishing of Tammy Lynn Leppert 1983 looked like a promising year for model and actress Tammy Lynn Leppert. She was only seventeen years old at the time, but already by then, she’d won over 280 beauty pageants, started a professional mode…
Al Capone. Zoot Suit Riots. Watts Riots. Bloody Christmas. Nightmare On Elm Street. The Long Goodbye. Caged Heat. LA Confidential. These make up only part of the story of of LA’s dark history... The Abandoned Lincoln Heights Jail…
The Cursed Creole Gucci Yacht A haunted yacht sinks the Gucci dynasty. If you’ve read the incredible book “The House of Gucci,” by Sarah Gay Forden (yes, it’s the one that the 2021 movie starring L…
The Downward Spiral of Sesame Street’s Northern Calloway Actor Northern Calloway had a prolific run on Sesame Street until a series of events led to his unfortunate demise. Northern Calloway was an American actor and singer, best known for h…
The Golden Suicides In 2007, the lives of two promising artists ended in tragedy. Their journey takes us from Los Angeles to New York by way of paranoia and conspiracy. This, is the story of The Golden Suicides. Theresa Duncan and Jeremy B…
The Dark Days of Dryden 15 miles from Ithaca, New York is Dryden: a quiet, cloudy upstate town with a population of less than 2,000 people. In fact, it’s rumored that Frank Capra was inspired by Dryden when scouting locations for “It's …
The Blackburn Cult The Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven also known as the Great Eleven Club or later, the Blackburn Cult was, arguably, one of the strangest religious cults to have operated in Los Angeles. …
The Salomon Family Disappearance On October 13th, 1982, concerned neighbors went to the house of the Salomon family, a well liked, social family on their Northridge, CA street. Noticing that the Salomon’s pool had overflowed and it was spil…
The Tetris Murders In the late 80’s and early 90’s the puzzle based video game Tetris took America, and eventually the rest of the world by storm. However, the history of one of Russias finest exports, has a very dark, complex, and dead…
Exploring the Haunted Los Feliz Murder Mansion What happened on December 6th, 1959 at 2475 Glendower Place in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles aka the Los Feliz Murder Mansion was tragic. What happened after that night, became local lore. …
Tim Burton’s Lost Hansel and Gretel From Edward Scissorhands to Beetlejuice to the Nightmare Before Christmas, the dark and magical world Tim Burton creates is iconic. However, his version of the classic Brothers Grimm tale of Hansel and…
The Rise and Fall of the Futuro Home The three decades 1950's, 1960's and 1970's were remarkable times in history when two nations, the United States and the Soviet Union, were having their race to space. While the world's superpowers were pouring …
The Poughkeepsie Killer (Kendall Francois) The town of Poughkeepsie, NY had a trophy-collecting serial killer by the name of Kendall Francois in it’s midst in the late 90’s: The Poughkeepsie Killer (Kendall Francois). When young w…
MTV’s Pink Houses John Cougar Mellencamp Contest Disaster John Cougar Mellencamp’s MTV Pink Houses contest included a pink house, pink jeep, and a toxic waste dump. MTV was in full swing in 1984, and along with the music videos…
The Man Who Killed Halloween (Ronald Clark O’Bryan) Halloween night on October 31, 1974, in Deer Park, Texas, was cold and misty. It had been raining that day, but 8-year-old Timothy O’Bryan and his 5-year-old sister Elizabeth we…
