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…