There’s always that moment of dread when you stick one foot out from under your covers; as you envisage a Paranormal Activity style death being dragged down the stairs. You have an instinctive worry with what’s under your bed from a young age, even though nothing has ever been under there. If that’s the case, you’re one of the lucky ones.
Dead bodies have popped up in hotel beds all over America: Florida, California, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, NJ… it seems there isn’t a state that’s gone without a corpse not checking out. One particularly disturbing case was in 2003, when a guest noticed a foul smell in his room at the Capri Motel, Kansas City, and complained to staff. After three nights of opening windows and no doubt gallons of Febreze, the stench would not leave, causing the poor guest to vomit in the room.
When cleaning crew began shifting furniture to clean the puke, they found the decomposing corpse of a man, wearing only a nun’s wimple and fishnet stockings. To repeat, he slept in that bed for THREE NIGHTS. Shudder.
Calls From The Dead
On September 12, 2008, two trains collided in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles, killing 25 people in the crash. One of the passengers onboard was Charles E. Peck, who was travelling from Salt Lake City for a job interview in L.A. His hopes were high on landing the job as his fiancée, Andrea Katz, lived in California and he planned to marry her if he was hired.
During the next eleven hours, Peck’s mobile phone sent numerous calls to his fiancée, son, brother, stepmother and sister. Overall, his loved ones received a total of 35 calls, however each time they answered they only heard static. When they called back, the calls went straight to voicemail. They family could only be optimistic and assume Charles was alive in the wreckage and calling for help.
When the search team finally traced Peck’s phone signal and discovered his body in a lead passenger car, where most major injuries and deaths occurred, they reported that Charles had died on impact, and that he couldn’t have possibly made the calls.
What’s even stranger, is that they never found the phone.
The Doodler
Now this is horror movie material. What makes this tragic unsolved mystery even more terrifying is the fact this guy is still out there… if he hasn’t died already. Only known as “The Doodler”, or the “Black Doodler” ; this unidentified serial killer murdered 14 men in San Francisco between January 1974 and September 1975. We know what you’re thinking: there’s a tonne of serial killers out there, what makes this one so creepy?
His trademark behaviour, before he killed, was to sketch his victims first; all gay men and drag queens that he picked up in bars and sex clubs. Unbeknown to the men, who thought they’d found a rather alluring artist, he then had sex with them before stabbing them to death. Three of his surviving victims were unwilling to go public, which means he has never been caught.
He’s not the only serial killer that’s still roaming the streets right now: Pedro Lopez, who slayed over 300 girls and Issei Sagawa, who shot a student and ate her body, are both living “normal” lives outside of jail. That’s us sleeping with one eye open from now on.
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