A Brief History On June 24, 1374, the German city of Aachen experienced a sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance, a bizarre condition where masses of people experience hallucinations, jump and twitch (dance) until they fell from exhaustion! And this fiasco was not the only time or place. Digging Deeper The Aachen incident seems to have spread across Europe that year and into the next two years, affecting many other cities. Italy had their own brand of this disorder that they called “tarantism” where the dancers, presumably bit by a tarantula spider, would dance off the poison by dancing a “tarantella.”…
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A Brief History On June 14, 2016, Central Florida was rocked by its third horrific event within the past few days when an alligator snatched a 2 year old boy wading in shallow water at a Disney resort. Compounding the horror, the boy’s father tried to pull the child from the giant reptile, but the alligator was too strong, and pulled the child underwater where the boy was drowned. Digging Deeper This horror comes on the heels of the shooting death of internet and Voice singing sensation Christina Grimmie on June 11 in Orlando and the Pulse nightclub massacre on…
A Brief History On June 12, 1939, for the first time production began on a horror film filmed in “three strip” Technicolor. At this time, color movies were just beginning to reach the masses and were still quite a novelty, so Dr. Cyclops was expected to make quite a stir. Digging Deeper The plot centers around a mad scientist (Dr. Thorkel) deep in the South American jungle that sends for several other scientists. When they arrive, he has them look at samples under a microscope, is delighted by what they see, and then asks them to leave. Irritated that they traveled so…
A Brief History On June 10, 1990, in an incredible tale of survival and an equally improbable freak accident, a British Airways pilot was sucked out of the windscreen of his jetliner and lived to tell about it. Digging Deeper Flight 5390 from Birmingham had taken off and was heading for Malaga, Spain (a beautiful resort town on the Spanish Costa del Sol) when the unthinkable happened. Without warning, the left panel of the windscreen blew off the plane and the captain was suddenly sucked out through the missing panel. Captain Lancaster had taken the jet to over 17,000 feet…
A Brief History On June 5, 1981, The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reported on 5 cases of a rare form of pneumonia, a form only seen in people with compromised immune systems. These were the first documented cases of AIDS. Many diseases, accidents, and even intentional acts of other people result in horrible deaths. Here we list 10 of those terrible ways to die. 10. Drowning. About 400,000 people a year die from drowning (not even including natural disasters). Like the other causes of death listed here, drowning is a terrifying and uncomfortable way to die. So deeply ingrained…