Seattle native, Christian Pilet, a member of the ABWE, was
doing relief work in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami devastated the Khao Lak
tourist town of Thailand, when he found a damaged digital camera.
He discarded the camera but kept the memory card and
uploaded the files to his computer.
After searching a missing persons website he recognized the
couple as a Canadian couple, John and Jackie Knill, and upon return to the US
drove from Seattle to Vancouver to hand over the memory card to the couples
sons.
The last photo on the camera shows the wave just before it
hits the beach.
Zebb Quinn has been missing since the 2nd of
January 2000. He was 18 years old at the time of his disappearance and resided
in Ashville, North Carolina where he worked at a Wal-Mart.
At 9pm, after what would be Zebb’s final shift, a surveillance
camera recorded Quinn approaching the parking lot, where he met a friend,
Robert Jason Owens.
The two drove off in their separate vehicles with the
intention of going to view a car that he was thinking about purchasing.
Further down the road, fifteen minutes later, a gas station surveillance
camera captured what would be the last living image of Zebb Quinn.
Owens claims that Zebb signaled for him to pull over and
said that he had to respond to an urgent page that he had received, and
proceeded to make a call at a pay phone booth. Acting paranoid, he said he
suddenly had to go and rear-ended Owens vehicle with his own while speeding
away.
Some hours later, Robert Owens was treated at a hospital for
a head injury and fractured ribs. He claimed he had gotten into a second car accident
that night, however failed to file a report about the incident with the police.
The pager call was traced back to Quinn’s aunt, Ina Ustich, which
was registered to her home phone.
Quinn was not close to his aunt and had only began to recently
communicate with her a week before his disappearance. When questioned, his aunt claimed to be at dinner with a
woman named Tamara, who happened to be the mother of Quinn’s love interest, a
girl named Misty.
Misty’s allegedly abusive boyfriend, Wesley, was also claimed
to be present. Ustich contacted the police that same night to report a break
in. She said nothing had been stolen from the house, however she noticed that a
few framed photographs were out of place.
According to Quinn’s parents, he referred to Misty as his
girlfriend, and had done so for a few weeks up until his disappearance. Wesley
had allegedly threatened Quinn but the couple denies any role in the missing
teen’s case.
A couple of days after Zebb Quinn had been reported missing;
a man called the Wal-Mart where he worked, Claiming to be him and called in
sick due to illness. The voice did not match that of Quinn’s and was traced
back the Volvo plant where Owen’s worked. He admitted to being the person who
placed the call and said he was doing it as a favor to his friend.
Two weeks passed before Zebb Quinn’s car showed up parked
outside of the hospital his mother worked at, indicating that it was put there
by someone who knew the family. There was a live mixed Labrador puppy inside
(which was later adopted by an investigator), a jacket that didn’t seem to
belong to Quinn, a hotel key card that investigators could not trace back to the
source, and various drink bottles.
There was a pair of lips drawn on the back window of the car.
Forensic testing of the evidence did not lead anywhere.
Fifteen years later Robert Jason Owens was arrested for the
murder of Cristie Schoen, who was pregnant at the time, as well as the murder
of her husband J.T Codd.
He is still a person of interest in the disappearance of
Zebb Quinn.
“Dale was basically, I don't know if the correct word
is wizard but he was basically the second in command as far as the coven went.
He had actually the firstmost power, but there was one power more stronger than
his. Randy Moore was, like I said, basically first in command. He had the white
magic which was the power to manipulate people.” [ X ]
In 1984, 19 year old self-proclaimed Satanist and black
magic master, Dale Flanagan, murdered his doting grandparents with the help of
5 friends, Roy McDowell, Randy Moore, Johnny Luckett, Tomas Akers and Michael
Walsh, in order to receive their insurance and his inheritance.
Carl and Colleen Gordon were found dead at their home on the
6th of November 1984. Carl was shot times in his head, chest and
back. His wife had been executed by three shots to the head.
Flanagan and Moore, supposedly the two highest ranking
members of the coven, received the death penalty.
Kimberly Goyita was only 13 years old when she murdered her
11 year old sister in front of their family’s apartment on February the 2nd,
1981.
Goyita fired two shots from her Step-father’s .32 caliber
pistol into her younger sister, before calmly walking back into the house and
returning the firearm to the dresser drawer in her parent’s room.
The Californian teen claimed that “The devil made her do it”.
As reported in an issue of the Palm beach post in 1981,
Goyita was said to have watched the 1976 horror cult classic “The Omen” when
she was younger, and had become fanatic with the antagonist, Damien, who in the
film, kills his family members one by one when they discover that he is the anti-Christ.
Kimberly reportedly had numerous copies of “The Omen” books,
as well as copies of the sequels to the movie in her room. She claimed that she
believed she was a boy, often using the name “Damien Thorn” as an alias, and said
that she was the son of the devil.
A star news article published the same year alleged that
Goyita’s mother was believed to have lied on the witness stand; when asked if
it was true that she had told friends and family that Kimberly spent a lot of
time in her room, performing black magic rituals over black candles and barking
and growling like a dog, her mother denied the allegation.
Goyita took a photo of her sister before killing her. She
then took two photos of herself, clad in black, following the murder.
World weekly news quoted an unnamed friend of Kimberly’s
mother, who claimed that Kimberly had once told her mother that if she were to “Do
away” with her and her sister that she’d get away with it, seeing as she was
underage.
She was awarded with an involuntary manslaughter charge for
her crime.
On February 2nd 2012,
at Kukui gardens, Honolulu, six fingers cut off at the knuckles were found in a
dumpster outside of a housing complex.
Examination and DNA testing determined that the fingers
belonged to a female child between the ages of 2 and 4. The ethnicity of the
child could not be determined by examination of the severed fingers alone, and
it is unclear if they were severed from the body of a living child or a
cadaver.
The fingers were discovered by a local woman who had been
rummaging through the dumpster in search of plastic bottles and cans; when she
found them she originally believed them to be ginger root, however on closer
examination she noticed the finger nails, and promptly turned them over to
local police.
The woman is not a suspect in the case.
Despite an anonymous tip off line for members of the public
to call with any information leading to the identity of the child, no one has
come forward.
No other body parts belonging to the same child have been
discovered since the original 2012 report.
If you have any information don’t hesitate to contact: Crime Stoppers at 955-8300.
Michael Thomas Gargiulo, also known as “The chiller killer”
and “The Hollywood killer” is an alleged serial killer suspected in the deaths of over 10 women.
Currently at the LA county jail awaiting a capital murder
trial, Illinois native Gargiulo was allegedly responsible for the 2001 murder
of American actor Ashton Kutcher’s then girlfriend, Ashley Ellerin. She was stabbed
a total of 37 times in her Hollywood home.
He is also allegedly
responsible for the murder of Tricia Pacaccio, an 18 year old neighbor, back in
his Glenville home town in 1993. She had been also been stabbed 17 times at her
home.
Between 2001 and 2008 Gargiulo was accused of three murders,
all of whom were female and neighbors of his, earning him the media given
nickname “The boy next door killer”.
He is suspected to have murdered up to ten women, and a
recent discovery of a series of photos found
on the suspected killers hard drive of him with a mystery woman sparked concern
for her safety. A detective working on the case admitted that the unknown woman
looks similar to some of the previous victims.
In 2012, Surin, Northern Thailand, 28 year old Chadil Deffy
married his deceased girlfriend at a joint wedding / funeral ceremony.
The couple had been together for 10 years and planned to
marry when Deffy completed his studies at university, but fate snatched away
his girlfriend, 29 year old Sarinya Anne Kamsook, when she became involved in a
car crash.
Although with swift medical help Sarinya could have
survived, she died as a result of her injuries following a six hour wait at an
already crowded intensive care unit.
Chadil Deffy documented the wedding and uploaded the photos
to a facebook album titled “Corpse bride” as well as posting a video of the
ceremony to youtube.
On the 18th of October 1997, in Kendal, UK, the
bodies of a father and son were found at the scene of a car crash.
The two were identified as John and Conner Lee, who were on
their way to visit family at the Lake District. The crash was ruled as
accidental with no foul play involved. However, during a post mortem examination of 14 year old
Conner, investigators found a fresh lip-stick kiss at the corner of the boy’s
mouth.
Analysis confirmed that the kiss had been left there a week
and half – two weeks after the boy had died. Further forensic testing revealed
the brand of the lipstick was of a popular drug store brand most popular with
teenage girls at the time, but the person who put it there, was never identified.
The mystery of the lip stick kiss remains unsolved.
On September 15th 2004, at a house in Central
Florida, the hanging, decomposing body of Charlie Brandt was discovered.
Police arrived on the scene to discover the bodies of Brandt’s
wife, Teri, who had been stabbed to death with a knife from the kitchen while lying
on the couch, and the decapitated body of Brandt’s niece, Michelle Jones, in
her bed. Jones had been disemboweled and had her heart and other organs
removed. Her severed head was sitting next to the body.
The house was locked from the inside, so the suspicion fell
on Charlie Brandt, who was proved to have murdered the two before committing
suicide.
A friend of Michelle Jones had spoken with her earlier that
evening and was informed that she shouldn’t come over to the house, as the
Brandt’s were intoxicated, had been arguing and weren’t good company to be in.
Described by all as being mild mannered, a loving husband
and an all-around good guy, nobody could believe what Charlie Brandt had done.
Shockingly, this was not the first time Brandt had murdered.
On the 3rd of January 1971, at the age of just 13
years old, Charlie Brandt had shot both his father in the back while he was
shaving in the bathroom and killed his pregnant mother as she bathed in the
bathtub. He then went to his sister’s room and put the gun to her head, pulling
the trigger. However the gun was out of bullets. His fifteen year old sister
escaped after calming him and telling Charlie that she loved him and wouldn’t
leave him, before fleeing from the house.
Brandt then calmly walked next door to inform a neighbor
that he had shot his parents.
Despite evaluation at the time, he apparently showed no
signs of a diagnosable mental illness and the motive for his crimes was
unknown.
Brandt had showed no previous signs of violence or conflict in
his life and claimed to love his family and spoke highly of them.
Since he was only 13 years old at the time of the murder, he
was too young to be prosecuted in the state of Indiana.
The incident became a grisly family secret, which the kept
for years.
Following the incident in 2004, police looked into
previously unsolved cold cases and linked Brandt to some of the crimes. He was
linked to the murder of a homeless woman, Sherry Perisho, in 1989, who just
like Brandt’s niece, had her head severed and heart removed, as well as Darlene
toler, a woman working as a prostitute in 1995 who was killed with the same modus
operandi.
During a search of Brandt’s home investigators noticed something
on the back of the couples bedroom door; a poster illustrating the female
muscular and skeletal system. Despite not being in the medical profession,
books on human anatomy were sitting on a bookshelf in the home, one of which
contained a newspaper clipping of a labeled illustration of the human heart.
Charley
Brandt had a subscription to “Victorias secret” magazine, and chillingly,
always referred to his niece by a nickname he’d given her, “Victoria’s secret”.
An analysis of his computer turned up erotic websites related to sacrifice,
violence and necrophilia.
Investigators believe that Brandt was obsessed with his own
niece and had premeditated the murders.
26 cold case murders have been linked back to Brandt.
(Images blurred for Gore. Violent content in article)
The lead vocalist and bass player of Thai metal band “Surrender of divinity” was only 36 years old when he was brutally stabbed to death in his own living room while his wife and child were upstairs.
Samong Traisattha, informally known as Avaejee, was murdered by Prakarn Harnphanbusakorn, who dropped by his house in Sai mai, Bangkok, under the pretense of silk screening some T shirts and having a couple of beers.
Samong’s wife left the room to put their child to bed and returned to a bloody murder scene. He had been stabbed a total of 30 times.
Self-proclaimed “Satanist”, Prakarn Harnphanbusakorn, who went by the Facebook username “maleficent.meditation”, posted an update on his page confessing to the crime, along with a gory photo of his handy work.
In a wall of text he confessed that the reasons he committed the murder weren’t relevant, as he was planning to commit suicide. However he did go on to elaborate that the reason for the slaying was because Samong wasn’t a real Satanist. Harnphanbusakorn claimed to have real faith in the Devil and admitted the he was going to kill 30-50 more people, but his plans were foiled by the police check points that had been set up around the city.
He described his actions in detail, commenting on how much better it is to kill with a knife than it is with a gun. Although the media reported that Harnphanbusakorn was a fan, he denied it and along with the comparison to the death of John Lennon, and claimed it was nothing of the sort and that he didn’t even like the band. He finished off the post by thanking those who had read it in its entirety, and said that he hoped to be with Satan soon.
Prakarn Harnphanbusakorn is currently in prison serving a 20 year sentence.
(Photo found at Waverly Hills Historical Society website)
Used to house tuberculosis patients in the 1900’s, the now
derelict Waverly Hills sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, has all of the
hallmarks of a haunted hospital.
Formerly Waverly school, the building was taken over at the
turn of the century by the board of tuberculosis, and expanded over time to accommodate
a rising number of patients due to an epidemic of the disease. It was built as a curved structure on top of a hill to allow
the breeze to sweep through the wings and provide patients with the sunlight
and fresh air they required as part of their recovery. By 1924 the hospital was
able to house up to 400 patients, including the children of those in treatment,
who would often play on the roof as part of their heliotherapy.
Many claim to
hear the sounds of children singing and playing on the roof to this very day.
Due to the lack of actual medicine to treat consumption at
the time, experimental treatments, such as rib removal and the surgical inflation
of lungs by inserting balloons, were practiced on patients in order to find an
effective cure.
Many patients died via these methods; however the actual death
toll is unknown. Legends claim thousands met their demise within the walls of
Waverly hill sanatorium.
In order to keep patient morale at a high, the bodies of
patients that did not survive their stay were clandestinely transported on
gurneys through a tunnel that connected from the hospital to a railway. Often
called “The death shoot”, and the subject of many legends and paranormal
investigations, the tunnel was also used to transport supplies into the building.
With the introduction Streptomycin, the first developed anti-biotic
used to successfully treat tuberculosis, the number of beds occupied decreased,
leading the large, gothic sanatorium to close its doors by the start of the
sixties.
A year later Waverly Hills would be reopened under the name “Woodhaven
medical services” as a mercy home to aid elderly patients suffering declines in
mental ability and problems with general mobility due to age. The building
remained this way for twenty years, eventually being shut down for the neglect
of patients.
Having escaped plans to be turned into a prison and an apartment
block, Waverly Hills is now owned by the Mattinglys, who purchased it in the
early 2000’s. They hold annual Halloween tours and use the proceeds for
restoration.
The location has been the subject of paranormal shows such as the
UK’s “Most haunted” and “Ghost adventures” and many visitors claim to see
spirits wandering the halls.
In 2011 The “Ghost Hunters” team focused on local urban
legends in their episode filmed at Waverly sanatorium. They focused on the
investigation of room 502, the nurses’ station, where they claimed a pregnant
nurse had committed suicide having found out that she was pregnant out of
wedlock.
Some say the nurse
contracted the disease and became a patient.
(Photo found at missouriparanormalresearch.com)
A photograph was found on the hospital grounds of a young woman
signed “Love, Mary Lee” on the reverse. The woman in the picture resembled the
apparition captured in a photograph taken at Waverly, whom many believe is the
spirit of the Mary Lee still wandering the wings.
Mary Lee is not the only soul still making her rounds; many spirits have been seen and heard since Waverly Hill closed for
business.
The owners claim that the ghost of a little boy, who they
named Timmy, is often seen darting through the hallways.
If you don’t have a
chance to experience a tour of the sanatorium for yourself, you can check out some
videos online:
(Image source: frame 352 of the Patterson–Gimlin footage)
On June 1st 1987 43 year old Russell Welch was arrested on charges of child stealing after he returned home alone from a Nevada mountain camping trip without his 16 year old companion, Teresa Bier, claiming that she was abducted by big foot.
The nature of the relationship between the pair is unclear; however Welch had actively been hunting the cryptid at Shut eye peak. The Fresno county court freed Welch just days before his trial, with the intention of convicting the suspect on murder charges at a later date.
On the advice of his public defender, Welch declined to accept the offer of a year long term and acceptance of the child stealing charge which included the option to sign a waiver, stating that he would be eligible for trail if Biers body was to be found at a future date.
Welch was a self-proclaimed Sasquatch expert and appeared to sincerely believe in big-foot. He went as far as to say that he had even been in contact with a group of them.
Tom Savini, aka The Godfather of Gore, is most famously
known for his role as a special effects and make-up artist on the set of George
A. Romero’s early horror films, including titles such as “Dawn of the dead” “Day
of the dead” and “Martin”.
(Savini's special effects from Romero's "Dawn of the dead" and Day of the dead")
He was responsible for the make-up and effects of “Friday
the 13th” as well as in the movie “The Burning”, which was one of
the first of its genre produced by Miramax films. Although often discredited for
being a “Friday the 13th” knock off due to its plot similarities,
The Burning was actually written before “Friday the 13th”,
and was based off the urban legend of “Cropsey” about a New York based
Boogeyman.
Inspired by old monster movies, Savini is a self-taught
make-up artist, who practiced on himself in his bedroom as a kid. He eventually
moved on to practicing on neighborhood children, who would return home to their
unimpressed parents with fake suicide wounds and afflictions.
Savini’s talent didn’t end there; the sultan of splatter went
on to be a director, actor, stuntman and teacher at his special effects course
in Pennsylvania.
He admitted that his time spent in Vietnam heavily inspired
his future work, and went on to say that having witnessed firsthand the dead
and the wounded, that he aimed for his work to be as realistic as possible.
Originally enlisting in the army in the hopes of staying out
of Vietnam, Savini chose to sign up with the intention of choosing the training
of his preference in order to avoid fighting on the front line. Since he was
already studying photography, he signed up to be trained as a combat
photographer.
Despite his intentions, Tom received orders to be dispatched
to Vietnam.
He honored the instructions and went to a training unit where
he was prepared for combat; he was put through war scenarios and shown graphic
videos of combat injuries in the field.
Savini stated in an interview that in order to cope with the
death and destruction that he was ordered to document during his tour, that he
imagined it was all special effects. He continued to practice his art and attempted to mentally detach himself from the horrific reality of the situation.
(Make up on the set of "Day of the dead")
Tom is currently working on a remake of “Nightmare City” as a director,
the title is due to be released in 2016.
In 1997, a year after losing her mother, Leah
Toby Roberts was involved in a car accident that left her hospitalized.
During
her recovery she revealed to her older sister that having survived the
collision, she felt born again.
A year later, her father succumbed to the
lung disease that he had been battling throughout Leah’s childhood and died.
Feeling as though she had been given a
second chance at life, Leah decided to experience the world, and take a break
from her studies at North Carolina State University to travel to Costa Rica.
She would never complete her education and
dropped out with only six months left until graduation.
Instead, she frequented coffee houses,
scribbled philosophy and poetry in her journals, practiced guitar and developed
an interest in photography.
Much like Chris McCandless before her, who walked into
the Alaskan Wilderness in 1992, Roberts found herself mostly conversing with
her room mates and new found friends on the topic of Jack Kerouac inspired road
trips to the west.
Leah was last seen on March 9th
2000.
She was officially reported missing March
12th.
A search of her room found clothes missing
as well as Leah’s kitten, Bea.
There was a note left on her dresser that
said:
“I’m not suicidal. I’m the opposite.”
Along with more mentions of Kerouac, enough
money to cover her rent and utilities for a month and a drawing of a Cheshire cat
smile.
Checking her bank accounts turned up the
following information:
-On the 9th of March, Leah withdrew
several thousand dollars.
-She charged one night’s stay at a hotel in
Tennessee to her debit card along with gas and food, suggesting that she ended
up in California.
The activity on her bank account ended on
the 13th of March in Oregon.
A tip off from one of Leah’s coffee shop
frequenting friends revealed that they had conversed about “The Dharma bums”
and that Leah had mentioned how she’d like to visit Desolation peak, in
Washington, where the friend had previously worked and felt inspired by.
Her sister, feeling that she understood
Leah’s intentions and believing that she would return, took a sigh of relief
and returned to her usual schedule.
Days later, Leah’s white ’93 Jeep Cherokee
was discovered in a remote area in Washington, however without her inside.
Early morning joggers found her clothing
strewn by the side of the road, some garments wrapped around trees. Peering
over the steep embankment they noticed the Jeep with a parting of trees leading
down to it.
The vehicle looked as though it had flipped
and rolled over, however there were no signs of human injury, such as blood.
There was also seemingly no presence of a passenger, leading some to believe
that it looked like a staged crash scene.
Although the Jeep appeared to have been
lived in post-crash, valuable items such as $2,500 in cash, jewelry, documents
such as Leah’s passport and bank book remained behind.
Evidence of her kitten being present on the
journey was also in the vehicle, but the kitten itself was never found.
A box of road trip mementos lead
investigators to a restaurant in a nearby town where two men claimed to
remember Leah and one attested that she’d left with a man named “Barry” and
that she had been telling the men about her plans and situation.
