by Maledicta | Dec 9, 2018 | Halloween 365
For the last hundred years, Americans have kept ghosts in their place, letting them out only in October, in the run-up to our only real haunted holiday, Halloween. But it wasn’t always this way, and it’s no coincidence that the most famous ghost story is a Christmas...
by Maledicta | Dec 3, 2018 | Halloween 365, Uncategorized
Have you heard about the mysterious Black Angel, the crypt with moving coffins, or Lilly Gray, “Victim of the Beast?” Every grave tells a story… And some are more “strange and unusual” than others. Most of these stories are prosaic enough, often...
by Maledicta | Nov 25, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities
Back in the 1920s, inventor Helene Adelaide Shelby was pretty sure you would. Criminal justice might be a whole different ballgame if law enforcement officials had heeded the advice of one Helene Adelaide Shelby of Oakland, California. Savor the genius of Shelby’s...
by Maledicta | Nov 25, 2018 | Macabre Amusements, Maledicta's Movie Corner, Video
Pick a side! Arguing about the minutiae of pop culture is a proud tradition among nerds the world over, but there are a few subjects that seemingly shouldn’t be up for debate. Yet one of these subjects manages to rear its head every year, tearing the Internet apart....
by Maledicta | Nov 19, 2018 | Books, Macabre Amusements
“A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.” – author Caitlin Doughty What if I told you that you don’t think enough about your own death? Or the deaths of the people you care about? You’d probably be shocked, or maybe even offended. The fact is...
