Devil’s Den, Gettysburg National Battlefield                                  

 With 51,000 casualties, was the site of the Civil War’s bloodiest battle. Reports of ghostly soldiers are common here, especially at Devil’s Den, a boulder-strewn hill that was used by artillery and infantry. The most common sighting is that of a barefoot ghost wearing a floppy hat who is known as “The Hippie” and is thought to be a member of the 1st Texas Infantry. Those who have met the spirit report that he always says the same thing while pointing toward Plum Rum: “What you’re looking for is over there.” Those who claim to have photographed the ghost say that his image doesn’t appear in pictures, and Devil’s Den is known for causing cameras and other electronic equipment to malfunction. (Source)

Hinterkaifeck Murders

An article (click on the title to get to the article) about the unsolved murder of an entire German family and their maid with an axe. Again, completely unsolved and completely terrifying. Via BuzzFeed

This GIF is floating around the internet but its something that creeped me out the first time I saw it. (Source)

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That thumb is a USB drive. 

Kilian Schönberger is a photographer from Germany, but his childhood was full of those misty landscapes which later inspired him to make a Brothers Grimm’s Homeland series. In this series, he captures all the spooky ambient of the time. 

Moreover, his capturing of Grimm fairytale-landscapes brings to life the general spooky, sinister, dark ambient of the time, showing that not just children, but the adults too experience shivers and goosebumps when seeing the homeland of the Brothers. So, it’s not really surprising that they wrote such terrifying tales. (Source)

Reddit user Hyoscine posted this and saying “Took a walk in the woods yesterday, didn’t see a soul. Look in the tree hollow…”

The fun-house mummy is not an urban legend. In spooky houses there is always the allure of the mummies or scary corpses. Elmer McCurdy, an outlaw was allegedly mummified by a malicious person whom he owed a debt, and promptly sold to a fun-house. The actual details of his death are fuzzy because no one wants to admit to killing him. However, they have said that he was shot. He was discovered decades later by the “six million dollar man” set crew. (Source)

The Hills Have Eyes & the Texas Chainsaw Massacre have loose historical similarities in the United Kingdom. There are two different families that lived in caves in the hills of the U.K. One is the more famous Sawney Beane who bore 8 sons and 6 daughters, with a great number of grandchildren. The documents say that the family killed more than 1,000 people. The people were killed and used for food. The other family was run by a man called Christie Cleek. In times of hardship, he took to the hills and would survive off of passersby. (Source)

It took about a year to get the iconic shot in where blood pours out of the elevator in The Shining right, but only three days to film.

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Shrunken heads was rare until 19^th century tourists started paying good money for the heads. That’s right, not until the rest of the world interfered did the amazon jungle decide they should start making shrunken heads regularly. And, in a “clever” trade, the European tourists would offer guns in trade for a head, ensuring a constant flow of the shrunken heads. Even today, people will pay obscene amounts of money for the shrunken heads made by Amazonian tribes. (Source)