WEIRD STATS & MORBID FACTS


In November of 1997, famed Italian director Dario Argento made a run for political office in Rome.


In April of this year, Canadian grave robber Lucas Dawe, 20, was caught boiling a human skeleton he stole from All Saints Parish in Newfoundland, and drinking the broth.


Rebecca Toolan, who plays Fox Mulder’s mother in The X-Files is, in reality, only one year older than David Duchovny.


The mouth of the White Worm seen in the tunnel toward the end of Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm was actually a painted-over Volkswagen Beetle hood that bears an uncanny resemblance to the mouth of a snake.


In 2017, Blake Leibel, 36, the son of a wealthy Canadian real estate tycoon, was charged with scalping his girlfriend Iana Kasian and draining her of her blood. Six years prior, Leibel had published a graphic novel called Syndrome, in which a serial killer decapitated women and hung them from the ceiling.


Despite playing the lead character in Bernard Rose’s Paperhouse (1988), Charlotte Burke never appeared in any film again.


Nomophobia refers to fears that arise from being out of a phone’s range of service, not having one’s phone charged, having no credit on one’s phone or misplacing it. It is believed that over 50 percent of cellphone users are affected by this phobia.


As he was dying, Alfred Hitchcock said, “One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.”


The phone number (555-2368) of the house where Jill Johnson is babysitting in 1979’s When a Stranger Calls is the same home phone number used in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).


The original VHS box artwork for Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste (1987) featured an alien flipping the middle finger; tapes distributed in the US were provided with an extra finger that could be glued in place to make it look like it was making a “peace” sign instead.


In 2005, sisters Mildred Bowman, 62, and Alice Wardle, 68, died in Benidorm, Spain, after their fold-up bed collapsed and trapped them for four days.


The distinctive TARDIS sound effect from Doctor Who is officially classified as a piece of music and was created by rubbing the bass strings of a piano with a key and playing it back at 10% speed.


Pan’s Labyrinth director Guiller- mo del Toro once claimed that watching Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre drove him to become a vegetarian for four years.


COMPILED BY BENOIT BLACK GOT A WEIRD STAT OR MORBID FACT? SEND IT TO: INFO@RUE-MORGUE.COM


“YOU VS. THE GUY SHE TOLD YOU NOT TO WORRY ABOUT.”


THIS MONTH’S CAPTION CONTEST WINNER IS @210SABOY, VIA TWITTER


Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for a chance to have your Final Words!


R M 8


ON RUE MORGUE’S SOCIAL MEDIA


Who would play the Devil in a horror movie based on your life?


Keanu Reeves wearing those perfectly tailored John Wick suits. I’m Catholic, so my Satan had best be God’s most beautiful angel. MAGPIE, VIA TWITTER


Bill Moseley, of course, because he is the Devil and he’s here to do the Devil’s work.


JJ ARPASI, VIA TWITTER A bottle of vodka. HENRIK.HONK, VIA INSTAGRAM


Bruce Campbell. The answer to any casting question is always Bruce Campbell!


SEAN BURQUE, VIA FACEBOOK


David Lynch! Nothing would make sense and I’d love every minute of it.


MARCELL FRASER, VIA FACEBOOK John Waters. JOHN STALTER, VIA FACEBOOK Rutger Hauer… ahh shit. HUSKERFAN, VIA TWITTER AS CAPTIONED BY YOU ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA FINAL WORDS


ISSUE # 190


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16