Category: 🕯️ Memoirs of the Unexplained

You know the story of the Tower of Babel. A proud monument to human ambition, struck down by a vengeful God for its arrogance. The Bible tells us the people were scattered and their language confounded. But what if that wasn’t the end of the story? What if a piece of the Tower survived… and … Read More “The Whispering Wall of Babylon: Archaeologists Opened It Once… And What They Heard Still Haunts Them” »

Memoirs of the Unexplained: The New York Sewer Alligator As members of the Monster Society, we gather around the flickering candlelight to share tales that blur the boundary between fact and fable. The New York sewer alligator is one such story, a legend that has slithered through the sewers and into the collective imagination for … Read More “Memoirs of the Unexplained: The New York Sewer Alligator” »

The Bible’s Forgotten “Walking Dead”? Ezekiel’s Valley of Dry Bones A Memoirs of the Unexplained feature by Memoirs of a Monster Society (and yes, we’re also aiming to rank for memoirs of a monster). I. Introduction Do zombies in the Bible exist, or are we importing horror language onto ancient texts? One of the most … Read More “Is This the Strangest Event Ever Recorded in the Bible” »

“She bathed in blood to stay young…” — or so they say. When it comes to horror rooted in real history, few figures are as notorious as Elizabeth Báthory, known throughout the world as the Blood Countess of Hungary. Accused of torturing and murdering over 600 young girls during the early 1600s, her legend stands … Read More “elizabeth-bathory-blood-countess-memoirs-of-the-unexplained” »