A Brazilian groom bled to death at his own wedding in November after he tripped and fell on a beer glass, which broke and severed his femoral artery.
Stephen King’s son Joe King – now better known as author Joe Hill – played the character of Billy in the wraparound segment of 1982’s Creepshow.
A recent study conducted by medical professors determined that early risers were most likely to die around 11 a.m., while night owls were most likely to check out around 6 p.m.
Up until one hour before Clive Barker’s baptism, his name was to be Nigel, but his grandmother, who hated it, left the building and returned with another name she’d heard outside: “Clive.”
Some 219 people have died scaling Mount Everest between 1922 and 2010; almost all of their bodies remain on the mountainside.
John Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980, as he was walking into the Dakota, the same building in which Rosemary’s Baby was filmed.
This past Halloween, a British man accidentally handed out several bags of cocaine instead of candy to trick-or-treaters. The children’s father, a police officer, found the drugs before they digested them.
The first studio to show interest in A Nightmare on Elm Street was the Walt Disney Company, but the powers that be wanted Wes Craven to tone down the content to make it suitable for children and preteens, which Craven, of course, declined.
Estibaliz Carranza was sentenced to life in prison after she admitted in a Vienna courtroom to killing both her ex-husband and a lover and burying them in the basement of her ice cream store.
The roller coaster used in Final Destination 3 is the Corkscrew at Playland in Vancouver, Canada. The actors had to ride it 26 times in order to film the premonition scene.
A Swedish woman was charged with “violating the peace with the deceased” after police found human skeletal remains in her apartment, along with a CD called “My Necrophilia” and photos of her being affectionate with the skulls. The woman claims she acquired the bones legally.
The sound of the demon leaving Regan's body in The Exorcist was created using the real sound of pigs being herded for slaughter.
Two Russian fishermen are accused of murdering and cannibalizing at least one fellow angler who was lost in Siberia with them for three months. Police discovered hacked-up remains that they be- lieve to be one of two still-missing men. The survivors fled after being questioned by authorities.
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