The Enfield Poltergeist — The Case That Divided Experts
In August of 1977, a police constable in a quiet North London council house watched an armchair slide across the carpet with no one near it — and put her name to a signed statement saying so.Over the ...
16 Loka 15min
The Byford Dolphin Accident — Death in 9 Atmospheres — The Sinister Past
North Sea, November 1983. A catastrophic failure in a diving bell's pressure chamber causes an explosive decompression from 9 atmospheres to 1 in a fraction of a second. Four divers and one tender die...
9 Loka 13min
Spring Heeled Jack — Victorian England's Demon — The Sinister Past
London, 1837-1904. For nearly seventy years, witnesses across England report attacks by a tall, thin figure who breathes blue fire, has clawed hands, and can leap over walls and buildings in a single ...
7 Loka 11min
The Island of the Dolls — Xochimilco — The Sinister Past
Mexico City. A man finds the body of a drowned girl in the canal near his island. Haunted by her presence, he begins hanging dolls from the trees — hundreds of them, over fifty years. He tells visitor...
2 Loka 13min
The Hinterkaifeck Murders — Killed by Someone Already Inside — The Sinister Past
Bavaria, March 1922. A farmer notices footprints in the snow leading to his isolated farmstead — but none leading away. Days later, all six members of the household are found dead, killed one by one w...
30 Syys 12min
Carl Tanzler — The Man Who Loved a Corpse — The Sinister Past
Key West, 1930s. A German radiologic technician becomes fixated on a young tuberculosis patient who never returns his affection. When she dies, he visits her tomb nightly for two years — then steals h...
25 Syys 13min
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 — The Sinister Past
Boston, January 15, 1919. A poorly built, rushed storage tank holding 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapses without warning, sending a wave up to 25 feet high through the streets of the North End ...
23 Syys 12min
