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A 69-year-old Russian woman accidently set her home on fire after attempting to resurrect her sister– who’d died the year previous – by jump-starting the woman’s corpse with electrical wires she’d connected to its hand and neck.
In The Return of the Living Dead the flopping body parts effects were created by placing bat- tery-powered sex toys inside the foam limbs.
When a Lincoln Heights, Ohio, woman was recently arrested on charges of arson, she claimed that the fire had been set during a ritual in which she was trying to remove the Devil’s pres- ence from various items in the house.
Actor Brian Cox, who played killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor [sic] in 1986’s Manhunter, drew inspira- tion for his portrayal of the character from real-life Scottish serial killer/sexual predator Peter Manuel, who’d been nicknamed the Beast of Birkenshaw by the press.
Doctors recently traced the only two cases of bubonic plague in the US in 2010 to plague-car- rying fleas that were introduced to the victims’ beds via their pet dogs.
In the 1970s, National Lampoon magazine spoofed vampires with a politically incorrect comic strip titled “Dragula,” which featured a homosexual bloodsucker who could shape-shift into an ankle-biting French poodle.
Parry Romberg syndrome is a rare condition in which a person’s immune system attacks his or her own body, causing, amongst other symptoms, one side of the sufferer’s face to atrophy.
David Cronenberg originally wanted to cast Sissy Spacek as the lead in 1977’s Rabid but the studio felt that she wasn’t an appropriate choice for the role due to her Texan accent.
Last year, the city of Providence, Rhode Island, granted a local funeral home a liquor license to open an Irish pub on the premises.
Nosferatu actor Max Schreck had the right name for the genre biz. In German (his native tongue), the word “schreck” means sudden fear or horror.
A 33-year-old Cincinnati man and his father have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide after the family matriarch was found dead in a filthy bed, covered with maggots that the autopsy determined had begun feeding on her while she was still alive.
October 31, a.k.a. Samhain, was first celebrated by the Celts (800 B.C. - A.D. 500) to mark the end of summer/end of the Celtic year, complete with eerie folklore about mischievous super- natural creatures and the dead returning to life.
Earlier this year, a gang of teenaged robbers hit a Florida residence and stole electronics, jew- ellery and an urn that they thought contained cocaine. However, when they attempted to snort its contents, they quickly discovered their error. The urn actually contained the cremains of a man and his two dogs.
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