The Pathology of Obedience
Obedience: the essential ingredient in our social contract, without which the civilized world would devolve [...]
Project Artichoke
When choosing my topics for Dark Distractions, I often find myself desensitized to my research [...]
Serge Voronoff, the Monkey Gland Man
Everyone wants to live forever and science has long endeavored to deliver that immortality, staying [...]
Death by Clutter: The Collyer Brothers
We all have that one house in our neighborhood, a dwelling so strange and mysterious [...]
The Little Albert Experiment
The human mind is an incalculably complex structure that is at once resilient and indominable [...]
Tamam Shud Part Two
If you missed part one, catch up here. It’s December 1948, the dawn of the [...]
3X, The Man Behind the Gun
Long before the Zodiac and the Son of Sam, there was 3X, The Man Behind the Gun. [...]
Who Killed Zigmund Adamski?
On June 6, 1980, 56-year-old Zigmund (Ziggy) Adamski, left his house in Tingly, Yorkshire, for a short [...]
The Shark Arm Murders
On April 25, 1935, visitors to Sydney, Australia’s Coogee Aquarium got more than their admission’s worth when [...]
The Vengeful Ghost of Teresita Basa
Did Teresita Basa solve her own murder from beyond the grave? On February 21, 1977, [...]