The Devil's Muse

Category: creepy

  • Haunted Canada: The Screaming Tunnel, Niagara Falls, Canada

    The Screaming Tunnel is a small limestone tunnel, running underneath what once was the Grand Trunk Railway lines (now the Canadian National Railways), located in the northwest corner of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

    A local legend recounts that the tunnel is haunted by the ghost of a young girl, who after escaping a nearby burning farm building with her clothing ablaze, died within its walls. Several variants of the legend exist locally, one version has the girl set on fire by her enraged father after he loses custody of his children after a nasty divorce. Another tells of a young girl being raped inside the tunnel and her body burned to prevent any evidence from being found. All versions of these legends ends with the girl screams filling up the tunnel as she was burning to death.

    Learn more about the Screaming Tunnel and how one version of the legend has become a rite of passage for local youths on Creepy Canada:

    The information above about the Screaming Tunnel is from Wikipedia: Screaming Tunnel.

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  • Top 5 Haunted Dolls Caught On Camera Moving

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  • Washing machine surprise!

    From Higuchinsky, Uzumaki, Omega Micott, 2000.

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  • Haunted USA: Alcatraz Spectral Visitor

    Teaching assistant Sheila Sillery-Walsh from Birmingham took the photo on her iPhone 5c when she visited the former prison in April while on holiday in San Francisco with her partner, Paul Rice.

    The 48-year-old said: “Alcatraz Penitentiary is a must-see for any tourist. However as soon as we entered the prison, everything felt very eerie. I didn’t feel comfortable there.

    “Whilst doing an audio-tour of the place, I casually stopped to take a snap of the empty visitation block window on my iPhone.”

    The couple have tried to find out the identity of the ghostly woman in the photo by contacting staff at the Alcatraz site, but none of the old-timers could recognize the woman in the picture.

    “I am so curious to know who she could be though – perhaps she was a female visitor of a prisoner who kept returning back. I would love to know why she’s shown herself in my photo.

    “Weirdly when we were near that cell, a woman came on the audio tour who used to visit a prisoner. It makes you wonder.”

    From DailyMail.com — The ghost of Alcatraz: Tourists spooked by photograph of young woman waiting in the notorious prison’s visitation block

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  • Death, Famine, War and Plague

    Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer, 1498
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  • Telekinesis

    I have always been intrigued by the power of telekinesis. Although some of the clips in this video are fakes, like 6, 1 and most likely 4, they are still fun to watch. I especially like 7! So cool!

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  • Frankenstein at work in his laboratory

    Etching included in a 1922 edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
    Image: Wikimedia Commons
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  • True Crime: The Candy Man

    “They called him the Candy Man. The always-smiling Dean Corll was known for passing out sweets to kids in the [Houston] Heights, where his family had a candy factory. But that smile was a mask, and behind it was one of the most brutal, calculating serial killers of the 20th century.

    Elmer Wayne Henley and Dean Corll.

    “Between 1970 and 1973, Corll—with two teenaged accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. and David Owen Brooks—lured teen boys and young men into his car with promises of rides, drugs, and partying. Corll then tortured, raped, and killed his victims inside his rent houses and apartments across Houston. The spree ended only after Henley fatally shot 33-year-old Corll during the attempted rape of a victim on August 8, 1973. When police arrived, 17-year-old Henley confessed to his role in at least 28 murders—including six slayings he’d committed—and led investigators to unmarked graves throughout the Houston area.”

    Workers, photographed at the southwest Houston boat shed Henley had directed them to, searching for more bodies in the Houston Mass Murders case on August 9, 1973. The object lying in the wheelbarrow was identified as the skull of the trio’s tenth victim, but it would take years to identify all of the bodies that were discovered at the three sites Henley told police about.

    Read the whole story at Houstonia: The Candy Man Who Wasn’t So Sweet After All

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  • Creepy Short: Jawbreaker

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  • Paranormal TV: The R.I.P. Files

    I just finished watching season 1 of the ghost hunting show The R.I.P. Files on Prime Video and really enjoyed it. It includes many EVPs captured during creepy investigations. I particularly like that the locations they visit are accompanied by historical facts and stories, and they usually have a tour guide with them who shares stories of having encountered ghosts. I also like that, when a location does not have much ghost activity, they do another type of paranormal exercise like a seance. There are two more seasons on Prime that I look forward to watching all at once!

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