Weird Tourism
Jeremy Bentham’s Bones are Visiting New York… Nearly 200 Years After His Death
by Maledicta | Jun 3, 2018 | Categories: Interesting People, Oddities and Curiosities, and Weird Tourism. Tags: auto-icon, Jeremy Bentham, philosopher, stuffed skeleton, and utilitarianism. | 0 Comments
One day toward the beginning of March, an unusual object arrived at a New York City airport. Carefully encased in a foam-padded, specially built wooden chair and strapped in with a bright-blue sash, it was the stuffed skeleton of one of Britain’s most...
Death Can Be Beautiful: 10 Iconic Rural Cemeteries
by Maledicta | Jun 3, 2018 | Categories: Weird Tourism. Tags: green-wood, highgate, mount auburn, pere lachaise, and rural cemetery. | 0 Comments
Bring a blanket and picnic among the tombstones… Victorian Style! By the 19th century, church graveyards had a worse reputation than you might expect. In addition to their general doom and gloom, they were rife with body snatching, gambling, and...
La Corriveau’s Cage – A Barbaric Relic Returns Home
by Maledicta | May 28, 2018 | Categories: Oddities and Curiosities and Weird Tourism. Tags: cage, gibbet, hanging, La Corriveau, museum, Quebec, and skeleton. | 0 Comments
For centuries, the ghost of Marie-Josephte Corriveau has been haunting the cultural consciousness of Quebec, Canada. To many, the legend of “La Corriveau” is a ghost story, of a woman hanged for murder, her corpse put on display as a gruesome warning. But the...
Is This England’s Most Haunted Home?
by Maledicta | May 28, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Weird Tourism. Tags: Black Monk of Pontefract, England, ghost hunters, poltergeist, and Yorkshire. | 0 Comments
An unassuming three-bedroom home where a little girl was allegedly dragged upstairs and almost strangled by curtains has been named as England’s most haunted home. Ghost hunters claim 30 East Drive in Yorkshire is home to one of the world’s most...
Don’t Die Before Seeing These Amazing Cemeteries
by Maledicta | Apr 23, 2018 | Categories: Books, Macabre Amusements, and Weird Tourism. Tags: 199 Cemeteries, cemetery, Loren Rhoads, mausoleum, and monument. | 0 Comments
Cemeteries are, by their nature, full of stories, which is what author Loren Rhoads wanted to tap into when creating the book, 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die. “Our relationships with the places we visit can be deepened and enriched by learning the stories...
Nevada’s Haunted Clown Motel – “America’s Creepiest!”
by Maledicta | Apr 23, 2018 | Categories: Oddities and Curiosities and Weird Tourism. Tags: cemetery, clown motel, clowns, creepy, nevada, and tonopah. | 0 Comments
The Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada, has been dubbed America’s scariest, creepiest, most paranormal-friendly motel. It’s haunted; it’s on a long stretch of lonely deserted highway; it’s next door to a cemetery filled with the graves of people who died under...
Planning a Spring Road Trip? Visit Haunted Pennsylvania
by Maledicta | Apr 8, 2018 | Categories: Oddities and Curiosities and Weird Tourism. Tags: asylum, cemetery, Centralia, Coultersville, Gettysburg, haunted, and road trip. | 1 Comment
My home state of Pennsylvania is full of places with a connection to the supernatural. Places like creepy abandoned prisons and mental hospitals, haunted hotels, and lonely country roads with a dark history. Then there’s the town of Gettysburg, home to one of...
Salem, Massachusetts – Home of Witch Kitsch
by Maledicta | Mar 18, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Weird Tourism. Tags: massachusetts, salem, tourism, trials, witch, and witchcraft. | 1 Comment
How Salem went from executing witches to marketing them In 1692, 185 people were accused of witchcraft in Salem. Over the course of nine paranoid months, 19 of them were executed. Today, especially during Halloween season, Salem is filled once again with...
Meet Robert the Haunted Doll – Making Florida Creepier Since 1904
by Maledicta | Mar 18, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Weird Tourism. Tags: haunted, key west, museum, robert, robert eugene otto, and robert the doll. | 1 Comment
When it comes to demonic dolls, Chucky and Annabelle may have more film credits to their names, but there’s another famous haunted doll out there with many more years of experience. His name is Robert, and he currently resides at the Fort East Martello Museum...
“Jewish Halloween” – Purim in Tel Aviv
by Maledicta | Mar 12, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Weird Tourism. Tags: jewish halloween, party, purim, and tel aviv. | 0 Comments
The global party circuit is, for those in the know, full of underrated events. The fire of Valencia’s Las Fallas over the bulls of Pamplona’s San Fermin; Trinidad’s Carnival over Rio’s Carnival; Jazzfest over Mardi Gras in New Orleans; and so on. Arguably the...