This Serial Rapist Brutalized The ‘Central Park Jogger’

Inside Central Park on April 19, 1989, Matias Reyes beat and raped a jogger named Trisha Meili. A year later, five innocent teenagers…

Meet The ‘Night Caller,’ The Necrophiliac Serial Killer Who Terrorized Australia In The 1960s

In the 1960s, Eric Edgar Cooke murdered at least eight people in Perth and sometimes even dabbled in necrophilia — until he was…

Siberian Serial Killer Is Now Russia’s Deadliest Man With 78 Confirmed Murders

Initially sentenced to the murder of 22 victims, former policeman Mikhail Popkov has been found guilty of an additional 56. RFE/RLMikhail Popkov Former…

Australia’s Notorious Backpacker Murderer Stabbed His Victims So Hard He Severed Their Spines

Caught for breaking and entering as well as attacking animals with a machete when he was just a teenager, Ivan Milat eventually graduated…

The Grisly Crimes Of David Parker Ray, The ‘Toy Box Killer’ Who Built A Torture Chamber In His Trailer

From the mid-1950s to the late 1990s, David Parker Ray kidnapped dozens of women in New Mexico — and brutalized them in his…

The Life and Crimes of Nikolai Dzhumagaliev: The Rostov Ripper

Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, also known as Metal Fang was a notorious Soviet serial killer who terrorized Kazakhstan during the late 20th century. Born on…

‘Transgender’ Serial Rapist Killed Five Women, One Infant as Sexual Fetishes Escalated

On the 24th of October, 1989 in the town of Brandenburg, Wolfgang Schmidt (born October 5th, 1966 in Lehnin) murdered 51 year old,…

The terrifying story of the Highgate vampire hunt where 100 people stormed the cemetery to find the ‘vampires’ lurking in the graves

Telling the story of the Highgate Vampire. As well as growing up in the local area, I have a vested interest in north…

The legend of the Headless Horseman: A ghostly rider who haunts Sleepy Hollow

Program Subject Location Lat/Long Grant Recipient Inscription HEADLESS HORSEMAN TETHERS HIS HORSE NIGHTLY AMONG GRAVES IN THIS CHURCHYARD ACCORDING TO ‘THE…

Who is the Hat Man? The sleep paralysis nightmare shared around the world.

Tales of things that go bump in the night are often met with scepticism but one nightmarish figure keeps cropping up in reports…

163 Million Years Ago, Dinosaurs With Bat Wings Roamed The Skies

The first discovery of a bat-like winged dinosaur was four years ago, but scientists had dismissed the initial finding because it was so…

Exquisite Fossil Reveals Evidence That This Dinosaur Ancestor Had Brightly-Colored Feathers

Researchers studied a partial skull of the pterosaur and determined that the dinosaur cousins were likely covered in fuzz-like hairs and sported a…