Burial Day Books brings you a weekly supernatural horror blog by The Gravedigger that explores the world of superstition. Scary relics of the past and some new superstitions that haunt today.
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Ronald “Butch” DeFeo is serving 6 consecutive life sentences at Sullivan Correctional Facility in Beekman, New York for murdering his entire family. Butch was the oldest of five children of Ronald Sr. and Louise DeFeo. Ronald Sr. worked at a Brooklyn Buick car dealership through which he was able to afford a middle-class…
In the 1930s in Cleveland there was a serial killer who killed twelve people and was never caught. The final number puts the victims of the Butcher of Kingsbury Run at 12, but there could be more. There are claims that the number could be as high as 20. The victims of what would also…
There is only one person whose death has been attributed to supernatural circumstances in the Unites States and that is John Bell. John Bell was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. He was a farmer who went on to marry Lucy Williams in 1782. For eight years the family prospered, living comfortably on a property…
The Voynich manuscript is a book that no one can decipher. It’s named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who paid for the book in 1912. There are pages that are missing, but 240 of the pages are intact. Almost all of the pages contain text – written from left to right, and…
I have fond memories of watching old horror movies growing up. I enjoy watching them today – especially because of the good memories they bring of hiding under blankets when I was a kid, with a bowl of popcorn nearby as the television flickered with monsters and ghosts. I went ahead and collected a…
It’s presidential election season in the United States – one of the scariest of seasons. Did you know that The White House is one of the most haunted buildings in the United States? 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is not only the home of the president of the United States but it’s also one of the…