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…