Horror Articles, Reviews & Stories

One of the most unsettling details in Mummy Brown  is not fiction at all. For several centuries, artists in Europe used a pigment known as “Mummy Brown.”  The name was not poetic exaggeration—it was literal. The pigment was originally made from ground-up Egyptian mummies , mixed with oils or resins to create a rich, translucent brown paint. The practice began as early as the 16th century. At the time, powdered mummy was already traded in Europe as a supposed medicinal substan

This is one of the paperbacks I remember being scared of the cover of, when I was a kid.

The story goes: Russian scientists drilled a 14 km hole in Siberia, and when they lowered a microphone into the hole (why?) they captured 17 seconds of hellish screaming and moaning, before the mic melted. HELLSOUND FROM SIBERIA DIGGINGS - YouTube Oh, I love this story! It’s so disturbing. The sound clip is scary, the idea that scientists would unwittingly open a portal to hell is brilliant. The fact that it was a hoax perpetrated by Evangelical Christians … even better! The

First of all, the factual part. In the 16th Century, the calendar changed to bring it in line with the solar year. Read the details here . This resulted in Christmas being celebrated on the 25th December, instead of the date it used to be celebrated, which is now 6th January in the new, Gregorian calendar. Some people still recognise and even celebrate the original date, calling it Little Christmas, Women’s Christmas, Green Christmas .. and my favourite … Old Christmas. Now f