Dead Children’s Playground

Creepy climber. Video and CGI effects created by mbg_core

Francisco Goitia

The Witch, 1916

Oil on canvas

39x33 cm

creepy vibes

Waverly Hills Sanatorium is thought to be one of America’s most haunted buildings, and due to it’s imposing appearance, it isn’t hard to see why. Officially opening it’s doors to the public in 1910, it was originally built to house “40 to 50″ tuberculous patients after Jefferson county suffered a severe outbreak. At the time, the swampland surrounding Louisville made the perfect breeding ground for TB bacteria, and the disease quickly spread amongst the population. Sure enough, Waverly Hills was inundated with sick, dying, patients so the government had to intervene.

An expansion was ordered to hold an extra 400 patients, however the doctors didn’t have sufficient training and were swamped with the dead and dying. Reportedly, many patients suffered from depression and committed suicide before the disease could take them, whilst others simply succumbed to the gathering fluid in their lungs.To make things even more horrific, the dead were stripped from their dignity and transported via the infamous death chute (an underground tunnel in complete darkness) as part of their final journey to the grave.

To this day, Waverly Hills Sanatorium remains a terrifying looking building, and has featured on many paranormal shows, hoping to capture the huge building’s long-suffering patients, nurses, and doctors.

St. Joseph Gazette-Herald, Missouri, January 4, 1885

In 1974, the Egyptian authorities issued a passport to an ancient king, Ramesses II, 1279-1213 BCE, in order to be transported to France for restoration and preservation.

Even the dead can travel…

Vigilante justice can often be a very dangerous thing. People can be accused of crimes that they did not commit, leading to unjustified revenge. Furthermore, vigilante mobs often consider bloodthirsty violence as a method of revenge for petty non-violent crimes.

In May of 2016, 42-year-old Venezuelan chef, Robert Bernal, fell victim to unjust vigilantes. An elderly man accused Robert of stealing the equivalent of $5 from his pocket while Robert was on his way to work. Following this accusation, a group of men started to beat a bewildered Robert until he was semi-unconscious. While coming around from the brutal beating, a man poured gasoline over Robert’s head and body and set him on fire.

Robert was a well built man from serving years in the army. He spent much of his free time cooking for his friends and family - it was his passion, they would say. He was a deeply religious man; just the night before his death, he sent his loved ones text messages hoping that God filled their day with blessings.

“These guys I work with every day had turned into demons. I could hear the man’s flesh crackling and popping. When I put the fire out, they threw bottles at my head,” said Alejandro Delgado, the only passerby that attempted to help Robert as he was up in flames. Robert was eventually taken to hospital where he perished from his severe burns. Disturbing footage of the event was uploaded online, where people praised the ruthless and cowardly act. 

Before he passed away, he told his wife and children that he was innocent of the crime he was killed for. But even if he was guilty, the punishment certainly doesn’t fit the crime. His brutal murder highlights the growing problem of vigilante and mob justice in Venezuela.

*SLEEP PARALYSIS*

Worst. Sensation. Ever.

Have you ever felt pins and needles all over your body along with the sensation of falling from the last floor of a skyscraper, then realize you can’t move any part of your body? Welcome, this is sleep paralysis.

Scientifically it’s a sleep disorder consisting in the paralysis of all your muscles, no one excluded, while you’re conscious. In fact it usually happens before falling asleep or during awakening. It’s caused by a disconnection between body and mind: your body is sleeping while your mind is awake. Troubles come if it happens in your R.E.M phase, that’s when you start having nightmares while lucid dreaming.

This event has been frequent all around the globe since the dawn of time. That’s why every culture has its legend and all of them talk about a common cause: spirits, goblins and demons, like Incubus, Succubus, Lamia, Mara, Lidérc, Vrachnas, Gui ya shen and so on. Their main purpose is to haunt our dreams to absorb our energies. They are with us, sitting on our chest. 🙂