What Scares You?
“She had a smile that would light up the room.” We’ve all heard that one, it accompanies so many of the worst tragedies, and this one is no different. The story of Annie Le is tragic, unexpected, and still a bit of a mystery.
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Are killers born, or created? That is the age-old question, and one with many sides, opinions, and examples. The case of Carl Panzram lends credence to the created argument. Panzram was an American serial killer, pederast, arsonist, robber, and burglar in the early 1900’s.
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When I was in school, I took a drama class. My favorite improv game was “Death in a Minute…” where the audience shouts out absurd things, and the actors have one minute to improv their death; for example, “death by Choco Taco!” This case includes death and a woodchipper – which sounds like something out of the movie Fargo, but for Helle Nielsen, was all too real.
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Joshua Komisarjevsky, known for his part in the Cheshire Murders, was born on August 10, 1980 to a mother who was just 16 years old, and his father, a boy just barely out of his teens. When he was only 2 weeks old, he was adopted by Benedict and Jude Komisarjevsky, a powerful and prestigious family. Ben and Jude had a background in child care, once working as houseparents at a residential center for developmentally disabled children.
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Before Salem, there was Hartford, home to a multi-generational witch hunt, and the executor of the first witch in American history.
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The village of Dudleytown is located a few miles south of the Cornwall Bridge neighborhood of Cornwall. It’s down in a valley, known as the Dark Entry Forest, thanks to the shadows caused by the mountains surrounding the village and its access road. The village was founded in 1747 by Gideon Dudley, and doomed right from the start.
But our story doesn’t begin in Dudleytown, Connecticut. Instead, we can trace it’s haunted history back to England.
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