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In May, three residents of Cyprus were jailed after they were found guilty of stealing former Pres- ident Tassos Papadopoulos’ body from his grave back in 2009. The men took the corpse as part of an elaborate extortion plot to have a convicted multiple murderer released from prison.
During his 2003 murder trial, Scotsman Allan Menzies testified that the Queen Akasha character from the 2002 Anne Rice adaptation Queen of the Damned had instructed him to kill and eat one of his friends. He had apparently watched the movie around 100 times before committing the crime.
A 76-year-old man was recently exhumed in Tennessee after he was buried with another man’s dentures by accident.
Parts of Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (1942) were shot on sets previously used for Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons.
A pair of Missouri parents were charged with felony child neglect after their pet ferret chewed off seven of their baby’s fingers while they slept.
Following magician Harry Houdini’s death, his wife, Bess, offered a $10,000 reward to any medium or spiritualist who could deliver the coded message that she was waiting for from her husband on the other side.
A Canadian teen who pled insanity during his murder trial in Scotland was found not guilty by ju- rors earlier this year after testifying that voices in his head told him that the man he stabbed was a zombie.
Fragment of Fear (1970) stars David Hemmings and Gayle Hunnicutt, along with several extras, were injured when a subway train derailed in London’s Bank Station, where they were shooting scenes for the film.
This past spring, a 43-year-old Ohio man was found dead in a chair that he had been sitting in constantly for two years. Weighing 348 pounds, his body had become fused to the furniture, which was soaked in his own maggot-infested feces. He originally sat in the chair because his knees hurt, and then just stayed there, taking meals from his girlfriend.
The famous effect of the bending door in 1962’s The Haunting was accomplished by constructing a matching prop door wholly out of rubber.
Two deaf men were recently stabbed at a Florida bar after another patron mistook their sign lan- guage conversation for a series of gang signs.
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) was so named due to a marketing ploy that sought to exploit the film’s adults-only rating in the UK.
More corpses are pulled from New York City waterways in the springtime than at any other point in the year. This is because the cold temperatures slow decomposition, which in turn delays the bodies from surfacing.
Compiled by MONICA S. KUEBLER Got a weird stat or morbid fact? Send it through to:
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vicious villagers
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH GRUE
CANNIBAL FEROX PILLAGERS EATEN BY VILLAGERS
BLACK DEATH HORSE-DRAWN CARNAGE
VINYAN SLAYED BY SMALL SAVAGES
THE WICKER MAN BURNING MAN FESTIVAL
CHILDREN OF THE CORN MALACHAI’S MURDEROUS MINIONS
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