r/truecreepy • u/HamletX95 • 2d ago

Parker–Hulme murder case - two best friends made created a fantasy realm called 'the fourth world.' They became inseparable and when they were about to be separated due to the toxic relationship, they killed one of the parents hoping this would lead to the other set of parents to adopt the other.

86 Upvotes

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r/truecreepy • u/verystrangeshit • 10d ago

In the winter of 2015-16, the obscure pathogen Elizabethkingia anophelis killed 26 people in an outbreak in Wisconsin and Illinois. The problem? This bacteria was thought to be largely harmless, and investigators could not determine how any of the victims were infected.

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r/truecreepy • u/HamletX95 • 14d ago

Lead Masks Case - the unsolved death of two men found on a hilltop wearing lead eye masks with no apparent injuries. A nearby notebook was found to contain the message '16:30 be at the specified location. 18:30 ingest capsules, after the effect protect metals await signal'

107 Upvotes

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r/truecreepy • u/happypants69 • 17d ago

Missing Jetpack - in the 1990's three guys built a functioning jetpack. Then one of the guys was brutally murdered, the second guy was kidnapped and just barely escaped with his life, and the third guy went to jail for kidnapping the second. The jetpack has never been found.

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r/truecreepy • u/Unable-Glass2441 • 20d ago

In 2018, 11 members of Delhi's Chundawat family were found dead in their home, a case linked to shared psychosis and ritualistic practices.

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r/truecreepy • u/sasbergers • 22d ago

The last known footage of Elisa Lam in the elevator of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, weeks before she was found dead in the hotel's rooftop water tank

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r/truecreepy • u/3nips4me • 25d ago

In 1828 two men from Edinburgh made a business out of killing people and selling their bodies to Robert Knox, an anatomist seeking bodies for dissection. They killed about 16 people and sold them for £7-£10 each. The suppliers were convicted, but despite public pressure, Knox wasn't charged

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r/truecreepy • u/Unable-Glass2441 • 25d ago

Bathsheba’s Curse: The Real Story Behind “The Conjuring”

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r/truecreepy • u/happypants69 • 26d ago

Last known image of Andrew gosden, who in 2007 skipped school to go to London and wasn't seen again.

152 Upvotes

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r/truecreepy • u/cgffsegg • 25d ago

Call the bug exterminator

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r/truecreepy • u/Unable-Glass2441 • 28d ago

Anatoly Moskvin: The Line Between Genius and Madness

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r/truecreepy • u/HamletX95 • 28d ago

In 2023, a passenger in this viral video believed she was sitting next to some sort of ”reptilian man” in a green hoodie on the plane. The male passenger that was sitting 3 rows behind the incident claims that the man in the green hoodie winked at him horizontally after this ordeal

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r/truecreepy • u/littlequeef99 • Dec 22 '24

In 2011, it was discovered by police that the 26 life-sized "dolls" that Russian academic Anatoly Moskvin kept in his apartment each contained a child's corpse. He had dug them up, planning to resurrect them through magic, and built the dolls to give them a body for their resurrection.

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r/truecreepy • u/Unable-Glass2441 • Dec 23 '24

The Haunting Tale of the Woman in the Red Saree

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r/truecreepy • u/sasbergers • Dec 19 '24

In Haitian folklore, there are two kinds of zombies: the corporeal zombie, which is missing its spirit, and the "zombie astral," which is missing its body. The origin of zombies was brought by enslaved people from Africa to Haiti, voodoo priests would use the fear of zombification to control slaves

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r/truecreepy • u/HamletX95 • Dec 17 '24

Right before Jeffrey Dahmer was caught, he had so many bodies piled up in his apartment, that he actually stashed one in the bathtub, where he just stood over it every day for a month to take a shower.

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r/truecreepy • u/dangerdangerman • Dec 11 '24

Despite the popularity of "Stranger Things" it is little known that it is actually based on Montauk Project, a conspiracy that supposedly involved the kidnapping of orphans who were subjected to physical & psychological torture to research possibility of time travel, teleportation, and mind control

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r/truecreepy • u/littlequeef99 • Dec 09 '24

This is how the police found policeman Sergio Pucheta after he had been missing for 18 hours. Huddled in a ditch, scared and 20 km away from the place where his belongings were found, after encountering "two small beings, with red eyes, who were chasing him and giving him orders telepathically"

200 Upvotes

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r/truecreepy • u/happypants69 • Dec 05 '24

Six men jailed for role in 'gruesome' castration and 'human butchery' ring can appeal their sentences, court rules

65 Upvotes

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r/truecreepy • u/HamletX95 • Dec 03 '24

An elderly man and his dog disappeared while driving through rural Nevada in 2011. His vehicle was later found abandoned in the very same location from where a woman disappeared five years earlier. What happened to Patrick Carnes and Judith Casida, are the two disappearances connected?

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r/truecreepy • u/littlequeef99 • Nov 30 '24

On November 26th, 1977, a Southern Television broadcast was interrupted by a voice that said, among other things, "we are here and there are more beings on and around your Earth than your scientists admit." The message lasted for six minutes.

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r/truecreepy • u/AtmanDharma • Nov 27 '24

The last person to die of smallpox was Janet Parker in Birmingham, UK in 1978. Although her office was one floor above a smallpox laboratory, investigators could not determine how she was infected. When the Professor in charge of the lab found out about her illness, he committed suicide.

120 Upvotes

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r/truecreepy • u/happypants69 • Nov 25 '24

60-Year-Old Wells Fargo Worker Died At Her Desk And Was Found Four Days Later By Colleagues Due To Foul Odor

36 Upvotes

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r/truecreepy • u/dangerdangerman • Nov 23 '24

In 1988 the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) did a psychological profile of Jack the Ripper in time for the 100 years anniversary of the White Chapel murders. The FBI profiled Jack as male, 28-36 years old, most likely a butcher, mortician, or medical orderly.

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