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.
We were away for a few days but are back and are trying to get caught up on our 31 Days of Halloween postings. So in order to get caught up we will be posting 7 mini posts today. We hope you enjoy. Haunted dolls are used often in horror fiction and film. There…
On October 4th the New York Post posted disturbing video from James Rankin who was hiking deep in a forest on Long Island. Rankin came upon an unnerving scene. The 1:08 minute long clip begins with him saying “Look what these fucking are.” The camera then zooms in on a black and white missing…
This case is so well known but I just can’t get it out of my head, mostly because of how creepy it is. Elisa Lam’s terrible death has become an obsession for internet sleuths, paranormal investigators and conspiracy theorists. It’s clear from the video footage prior to Lam’s disappearance that something strange was going on.…
You are home alone one night and you hear a knock at the door. You think for a moment if you are waiting on an order from Amazon.com, if it could be anyone of your friends, family, or that annoying ex, but no, it can’t be. You didn’t even order a pizza. So you ignore…
I appreciate classic scary stories. Every single town in every single city has those stories, a haunted house, ghost sightings, a spooky cemetery, a mysterious murder or more. It’s exciting to take a haunted tour of a disturbing event that happened decades ago because you feel just enough detached from the terror that you know…
When The Exorcist (1973) was released there were lines of people outside of movie theaters waiting to purchase tickets. There were also reports of people vomiting and fleeing the theater. Some reports even claim there was an uptick of people rushing to see priests for an exorcism, some even claiming to have become possessed after…
Let’s think of things that terrify us. It is October 1st after all and we are now in the greatest month of the year. To celebrate we are aiming to blog about something that terrifies us each day this month. As a side note, you may have noticed that we have been quiet. This year…