Halloween, where did it come from?

The legend of Halloween

Since we are about to put on our customes and go out trick or treating, I figured we should look into the meaning of halloween. What does it mean? why is the united states the biggest idealist when it comes to it? do other cultures celebrate and how?

The first thing I discovered was that halloween is actually "All Hallows eve" which during the years has become shorter to make halloween. All hallows eve has been observed for centuries by many eastern europen countries. October 31st has been the date of many harvest festival and days of the dead in many different countries.

But where did such a ritual come from, well perhaps you wont be surprised that the now commercialised custome party actually came from the Samhain ritual. cool, huh?

samhein is a Gaelic festival, it celebrates the end of harvest season and the beginning of winter or the darker part of the year. this was the time when the cattle was brought in from the green warm pastures and retired to their warmer abodes. it was also when the sheep where slaughter, creating a big feast. this usually involved a large bonfire, where the meat was cooked and the people would gather around the fire to sing songs and dance (it sounds like a witches movie does it not?)
Part of the ritual involved the people walking through two bonfires as part of a ritual cleansing and the bones of the slaightered life stock where thrown into the fire. This was done partly becouse the celtic people believed that it was on oct 31st the beggining of the winter, when a door would open and the dead where allowed to walk among us. A feast was ritualistic offered to the dead and they where invited to partake in the festivities. this is where the custome of disguising oneself began. for they would put on customes to invite their dead relatives to come into our world.

Historically, this is also the best day for divination, since divination has been said to be actually a communication with the dead who will whisper in the ear of the receiver to tell them what is to happen on the rest of the year.

some believed that other beings could be seen on this day, since the mystic veil was lifted. such beings as feiries in the woods and eveil spirits. part of the ritual of dressing up began here, people thought that if you looked like the evil spirits they would leave you alone.

So how did the whole tradition of trick or treating come about?

The beggining makes a lot of sense, children where the one who walked from house to house collecting food for the feast. later, in the 18th centurie is was the job of young boys to walk from house to house asking for fuel for the bomfire, but in the 19th centurie a man dressed in a white mare (or horse) would would door to door with destitute children, they would all carrie sacks, and they would ask for food for the winter. it was believed to be good luck and a sing of a good person if where to share a little bit of food store with these kids. As I said before, they believed evil spirits where out on such a date, so they would dress up to confuse the spirits. sounds a lot like todays day and age does it not?

here is when it gets interesting, All saints day, a christian holyday, was on the same day, cristians also believed that it was during this day that they should pray to their saints, and pray for the recently deceased that had yet to arrive to heaven. (Cristians, as you know, believe in purgatory, which means the waiting period while you are being judged.) But here is what is really interesting. all saints day was originally celebrated on may 13 but in the year 835 it was changed by a pope to Oct 31st. some say it was because the chritian influenced had reached the celtic people, and the pope wanted them to switch their rituals from paganism to christianity, I dare say such tactic worked. by the end of the 12th centurie All hallows eve had been changed to all souls day, chritian people where expected to ring bells and pray for the souls that where in purgotory, and sweet cakes where baked and given to the poor children who would walk from door to door asking for them..

Prince sorie conteh of Italy wrote that if did not want to be discovered by a lost soul looking for revange you should where a custome.

Another ritual involved children placing candles inside of skulls in the graveyards, this was to remind the lost souls where they belonged, and how to find their rightful place. later this was replaced by jack o lanterns. I wonder if the people who place them on their door step knew the true meaning of it, if they would continue to place them there?

So why is the United States the most popular place in halloween. well, until th e19th centurie halloween was non existant in the US. but with the mass migration of the 19th century in which the irish began to populate the streets of such places like New york, halloween became more and more popular. It turned from a festival that only the irish would celebrate to a great party where veryone could join. slowly the true meaning was lost. although we all get a sense of the real reason when you walk alone in thedark on halloween.



*The information from this article was found in wikipidea.com as where the pictures.

Other humans???

We have this idea that it was only us in the beggining, but scientist have found that there are several types of humans, that although related to us by ancestry they have split and become a completley new kind of human, one that only has certain markers in teh DNA that are same of us, but would have looked completely different.
So where did they go?
not to be redundant but could these be the human that split off into the oceans (see my previous post)

There are so many possibilities....

The proof is in us. DNA evidence has proved that modernday humans actually breed with Neanderthal. which means that there are a little bit of Neanderthal in all of us, and they are not quite exists. 

Why is this significant? 

if you remember we are suppose to come from teh more evolved species cromagnum man. what this means that 4% percent of us are actually a cross species. 

This means that they where wrong for years. we where not the only ones to survive, and the Neanderthals did not become extinct as they had once claimed but where simply absorbed into our gene pool. 

Could this not mean that for a while there where other specieas of humanoids walking around? 

what about the Giant bones found in greece, India, the united states and more...

mermaids

Where do the mermaids myth come from, there are so many myths that claim sailors have seen and heard mermaids. how can so many eyewitness accounts have been wrong. and why do we not have any current records of eyewitness accounts.

The funny thing is that we do, we just don't believe. here are just a few videos that I found in regards to mermaids. 

In the video above, you will see that before they drop the catch a webbed hand reaches out and tries to free itself. 

In this next video the dead mumified body is found after a hurricane...

the next one is abit harder to believe, but what if.....

Animal planet actually did a documentary a few years ago, which I found most interesting. the following are some of the information that I took from the documentary, and then a link to the documentary itself. 

It all stared with a sound that could not be identified by the Oceanic recording device NOAA

A mass whaling was discovered, somehow two boys where able to record the scene, the video revealed more than they expected.

They had found a mermaid when NOAA biologist got to the scene they where surprised to find that navy was also on the scene.

Respected marine biologist believed that the many was utilizing a new sonic weapon that was killing the whales.

To prove this they listened to a sonic recording. They found a sonic Boom created by the Navy, but they also found something else. A mysterious sound that they could not identify.

The beaching where now happening all over the world, but whales where not the only things that where being washed ashore, Fish, with bone made spears cought on their sides where also found. Someone was fishing with spears in the open ocean.

The marine biologists began to think that perhaps when we began to evolve, we began to walk upright at the sea, our ancestors would walk into the sea gathering fish for foood.

Perhaps it is here that our intelligence began with the fatty acids that where found in the sea.

During this time some of our ancestors moved deeper into the sea while others moved away from it.

Could it be that the ones that stayed in the water would later evolve into mermaids?

It is not the first time in nature that this would happen, polar bears are now aquatic mammals, but they use to be brown bears, found only on land.

But then they found something strange inside of a great white shark, something that was impossible to determine what it was. They had only 30% of the body, but it was enough to study, this is what they found:

A collapsible ribcage, which is only something that marine mammals have.

Omnivore teeth – something that NO marine mammals have.

They took xrays of the tail flute which revealed bones – there are no marine mammals that have bones in their tail flutes.

They found a large spleen, which is something also found in Marine mammals.

A CT scan revealed that the hips where those of a creature that had once walked upright, in two feet.

Armed with all of these incredible identifiers they could only come up with one conclusion. Not only was this a newly discovered type of marine mammal, it was also once related to us. It came from the same family tree as us.

But how closely is this thing that lives in water….to us?

When they reconstructed the skull they found large eye cavities, which meant that the eyes where large, this is normal in animals that can see in darkness. The skull also reveled a similarity to our skull. Similar to our ancestors. They also found that it would be able to create sonic location, and intricate sounds. Which meant that this was the mystery creature that had made those strange sounds in the recording.

Finally there was only one explanation for what they had found.

Its was a mermaid.

Perhaps there are no scientific records of mermaids, but there hundreds and thousands of stories, told all over the world about this creatures.

Why is it that we can believe in God, but not in fable and myths told for thousands of years by hundreds of different cultures that had never met.

As soon as they dared to say the name out laud the government took all of their findings away “confiscation of a find with historical importance”

This means that they could not prove what they had found.

Why would the government do this? Why can we not find out the truth about such a thing?

What would it really mean for the human race if we discovered that mermaids, the thing of myth, are real?

Could it possibly mean that other creatures of myth and fables are also real?

Could it be that we are not as alone as we feel?

What else could possibly find if we where to allowed to explore deeper into the stuff of legends?

But ofcourse this entire ducumentary has been proclaimed false by the agencies involved. When I did a search of DR Paul Roberton I found another video of him, with another name, and even a small clip of the actor in a movie. So this whole documentary was put together by the great imagination of animal planet producers. That a waste....

But could some of their theories be correct? could it be that mermaids do exist? 

Some believe that sea cows have been mistaken by mermaids in the past ( have you ever seen a sea cow?) 

so why then the elavorate hoax? why an hour of information only to find out that all of the bioligists involved where fake, and only actors? 

can we find something in this world that is real? 

The truth is that we have not discovered all known underwater creatures. here is a video of recently discovered creatures of the sea. 

If so many creatures are yet to be discovered, why not mermaids?

Amelia Dyer: the baby farmer

Amelia Dyer

Unlike many of her generation, Amelia Dyer was not the product of grinding poverty. She was born the youngest of 5 (with 3 brothers, Thomas, James and William, and a sister, Ann) in the small village of Pyle Marsh, just east of Bristol (now part of Bristol's urban sprawl known as Pile Marsh), the daughter of a master shoemaker, Samuel Hobley, and Sarah Hobley née Weymouth. She learned to read and write and developed a love of literature and poetry.However, her somewhat privileged childhood was marred by the mental illness of her mother, caused by typhus.

Amelia witnessed her mother's violent fits and was obliged to care for her until she died raving in 1848. Researchers would later comment on the effect this had on Amelia, and also what it would teach Amelia about the signs exhibited by those who appear to lose their mind through illness.

After her mother's death Amelia lived with an aunt in Bristol for a while, before serving an apprenticeship with a corset maker. Her father died in 1859, her eldest brother Thomas inheriting the family shoe business. In 1861, at the age of 24, Amelia became permanently estranged from at least one of her brothers, James, and moved into lodgings in Trinity Street, Bristol.

 There she married George Thomas. George was 59 and they both lied about their ages on the marriage certificate to reduce the age gap. George deducted 11 years from his age and Amelia added 6 years to her age—many sources later reported this age as fact, causing much confusion.

For a couple of years, after marrying George Thomas, she trained as a nurse, a somewhat gruelling job in Victorian times, but it was seen as a respectable occupation, and it enabled her to acquire useful skills. From contact with a midwife, Ellen Dane, she learnt of an easier way to earn a living—using her own home to provide lodgings for young women who had conceived illegitimately and then farming off the babies for adoption or allowing them to die of neglect and malnutrition (Ellen Dane was forced to decamp to the USA, shortly after meeting Amelia, to escape the attention of the authorities).

Unmarried mothers in Victorian England often struggled to gain an income, since the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act had removed any financial obligation from the fathers of illegitimate children, whilst bringing up their children in a society where single parenthood and illegitimacy were stigmatized. This led to the practice of baby farming in which individuals acted as adoption or fostering agents, in return for regular payments or a single, up-front fee from the babies’ mothers. Many businesses were set up to take in these young women and care for them until they gave birth. The mothers subsequently left their unwanted babies to be looked after as "nurse children".

The predicament of the parents involved was often exploited for financial gain: if a baby had well-off parents who were simply anxious to keep the birth secret, the single fee might be as much as £80. £50 might be negotiated if the father of the child wanted to hush up his involvement. However, it was more common for these expectant young women, whose "immorality" even precluded acceptance, at that time, into workhouses, to be impoverished. Such women would be charged about £5.

Unscrupulous carers resorted to starving the farmed-out babies, to save money and even to hasten death. Noisy or demanding babies could be sedated with easily-available alcohol and/or opiates. Godfrey's Cordial—known colloquially as "Mother's Friend", (a syrup containing opium)—was a popular choice, but there were several other similar preparations.

Many children died as a result of such dubious practices: "Opium killed far more infants through starvation than directly through overdose." Dr. Greenhow, investigating for the Privy Council, noted how children "kept in a state of continued narcotism will be thereby disinclined for food, and be but imperfectly nourished." Death from severe malnutrition would result, but the coroner was likely to record the death as "'debility from birth,' or 'lack of breast milk,' or simply 'starvation.'"

Mothers who chose to reclaim or simply check on the welfare of their children could often encounter difficulties, but some would simply be too frightened or ashamed to tell the police about any suspected wrongdoing. Even the authorities often had problems tracing any children that were reported missing.

This was the world opened up to her by the now-departed Ellen Danes. Amelia had had to leave nursing with the birth of a daughter, Ellen Thomas. In 1869 the elderly George Thomas died and Amelia needed an income.

Amelia was apparently keen to make money from baby farming, and alongside taking in expectant women, she would advertise to nurse and adopt a baby, in return for a substantial one-off payment and adequate clothing for the child. In her advertisements and meetings with clients, she assured them that she was respectable, married, and that she would provide a safe and loving home for the child.

At some point in her baby farming career, Amelia was prepared to forego the expense and inconvenience of letting the children die through neglect and starvation; soon after the receipt of each child, she murdered them, thus allowing her to pocket most or all of the entire fee.

For some time, Dyer eluded the resulting interest of police. She was eventually caught in 1879 after a doctor was suspicious about the number of child deaths he had been called to certify in Dyer's care. However, instead of being convicted of murder or manslaughter, she was sentenced to six months' hard labour for neglect. The experience allegedly almost destroyed her mentally,though others have expressed incredulity at the leniency of the sentence when compared to those handed out for lesser crimes at that time.

Upon release, she attempted to resume her nursing career. She had spells in mental hospitals due to her alleged mental instability and suicidal tendencies;these always coincided with times when it was convenient for her to "disappear". Being a former asylum nurse Amelia knew how to behave to ensure a relatively comfortable existence as an asylum inmate. Dyer appears to have begun abusing alcohol and opium-based products early in her killing career; her mental instability could have been related to her substance abuse. In 1890, Dyer cared for the illegitimate baby of a governess. When she returned to visit the child, the governess was immediately suspicious and stripped the baby to see if a birthmark was present on one of its hips. It wasn't, and prolonged suspicions by the authorities led to Dyer having, or feigning, a breakdown. Dyer at one point drank two bottles of laudanum in a serious suicide attempt, but her long-term abuse had built up her tolerance to opium products, so she survived.

Inevitably, she returned to baby farming, and murder. Dyer realized the folly of involving doctors to issue death certificates and began disposing of the bodies herself. The precarious nature and extent of her activities again prompted undesirable attention; she was alert to the attentions of police—and of parents seeking to reclaim their children. She and her family frequently relocated to different towns and cities to escape suspicion, regain anonymity—and to acquire new business. Over the years, Dyer used a succession of aliases.

In 1893, Dyer was discharged from her final committal at Wells mental asylum. Unlike previous "breakdowns" this had been a most disagreeable experience and she never entered another asylum.Two years later, Dyer moved to Caversham, Berkshire, accompanied by an unsuspecting associate, Jane "Granny" Smith, whom Amelia had recruited from a brief spell in a workhouse and Amelia's daughter and son-in-law, Mary Ann (known as Polly) and Arthur Palmer. This was followed by a move to Kensington Road, Reading, Berkshire later the same year. Smith was persuaded by Amelia to be referred to as 'mother' in front of innocent women handing over their children. This was an effort to present a caring mother-daughter image.

Case study: the murder of Doris Marmon

In January 1896, Evelina Marmon, a popular 25-year-old barmaid, gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Doris, in a boarding house in Cheltenham. She quickly sought offers of adoption, and placed an advertisement in the "Miscellaneous" section of the Bristol Times & Mirror newspaper. It simply read: "Wanted, respectable woman to take young child." Marmon intended to go back to work and hoped to eventually reclaim her child.

Coincidentally, next to her own, was an advertisement reading: "Married couple with no family would adopt healthy child, nice country home. Terms, £10". Marmon responded, to a "Mrs. Harding", and a few days later she received a reply from Dyer. From Oxford Road in Reading, "Mrs Harding" wrote that "I should be glad to have a dear little baby girl, one I could bring up and call my own." She continued: "We are plain, homely people, in fairly good circumstances. I don't want a child for money's sake, but for company and home comfort. ... Myself and my husband are dearly fond of children. I have no child of my own. A child with me will have a good home and a mother's love".

Evelina Marmon wanted to pay a more affordable, weekly fee for the care of her daughter, but "Mrs Harding" insisted on being given the one-off payment in advance. Marmon was in desperate straits, so she reluctantly agreed to pay the £10, and a week later "Mrs Harding" arrived in Cheltenham.

Marmon was apparently surprised by Dyer's advanced age and stocky appearance, but Dyer seemed affectionate towards Doris. Evelina handed over her daughter, a cardboard box of clothes and the £10. Still distressed at having to give up care for her daughter, Evelina accompanied Dyer to Cheltenham station, and then on to Gloucester. She returned to her lodgings "a broken woman". A few days later, she received a letter from "Mrs Harding" saying all was well; Marmon wrote back, but received no reply.

Dyer did not travel to Reading, as she had told Marmon. She went instead to 76 Mayo Road, Willesden, London where her 23-year-old daughter Polly was staying. There, Dyer quickly found some white edging tape used in dressmaking, wound it twice around the baby's neck and tied a knot. Death would not have been immediate. (Amelia later said "I used to like to watch them with the tape around their neck, but it was soon all over with them"

Both women allegedly helped to wrap the body in a napkin. They kept some of the clothes Marmon had packed; the rest was destined for the pawnbroker. Dyer paid the rent to the unwitting landlady, and gave her a pair of child's boots as a present for her little girl. The following day, Wednesday 1 April 1896, another child, named Harry Simmons, was taken to Mayo Road. However, with no spare white edging tape available, the length around Doris' corpse was removed and used to strangle the 13 month-old boy.

On April 2, both bodies were stacked into a carpet bag, along with bricks for added weight. Dyer then headed for Reading. At a secluded spot she knew well near a weir at Caversham Lock, she forced the carpet bag through railings into the River Thames.

Discovery of corpses

Unknown to Dyer, on 30 March 1896, a package was retrieved from the Thames at Reading by a bargeman. It contained the body of a baby girl, later identified as Helena Fry. In the small detective force available to Reading Borough Police headed by Chief Constable George Tewsley, a Detective Constable Anderson made a crucial breakthrough. As well as finding a label from Temple Meads station, Bristol, he used microscopic analysis of the wrapping paper, and deciphered a faintly-legible name—Mrs Thomas—and an address.

This evidence was enough to lead police to Dyer, but they still had no strong evidence to connect her directly with a serious crime. Additional evidence they gleaned from witnesses, and information obtained from Bristol police, only served to increase their concerns, and D.C. Anderson, with Sgt. James, placed Dyer's home under surveillance. Subsequent intelligence suggested that Dyer would abscond if she became at all suspicious. The officers decided to use a young woman as a decoy, hoping she would be able to secure a meeting with Dyer to discuss her services. This may have been designed to help the detectives to positively link Dyer to her business activities, or it may have simply given them a reliable opportunity to arrest her.

It transpired that Dyer was expecting her new client (the decoy) to call, but instead she found detectives waiting on her doorstep. On April 3 (Good Friday), police raided her home. They were apparently struck by the stench of human decomposition, although no human remains were found. There was however, plenty of other related evidence, including white edging tape, telegrams regarding adoption arrangements, pawn tickets for children's clothing, receipts for advertisements and letters from mothers inquiring about the well-being of their children.

The police calculated that in the previous few months alone, at least twenty children had been placed in the care of a "Mrs. Thomas", now revealed to be Amelia Dyer. It also appeared that she was about to move home again, this time to Somerset.This rate of murder has led to some estimates that Mrs Dyer may, over the course of decades, have killed over 400 babies and children, making her one of the most prolific murderers ever, as well as the most prolific murderess ever.

Helena Fry, the baby removed from the River Thames on March 30, had been handed over to Dyer at Temple Meads station on March 5. That same evening, she arrived home carrying only a brown paper parcel. She hid the package in the house but, after three weeks, the odor of decomposition prompted her to dump the dead baby in the river. As it was not weighted adequately, it had been easily spotted.

Amelia Dyer was arrested on April 4 and charged with murder. Her son-in-law Arthur Palmer was charged as an accessory. During April, the Thames was dragged and six more bodies were discovered, including Doris Marmon and Harry Simmons—Dyer's last victims. Each baby had been strangled with white tape, which as she later told the police "was how you could tell it was one of mine".Eleven days after handing her daughter to Dyer, Evelina Marmon, whose name had emerged in items kept by Dyer, identified her daughter's remains.

inquest and trial

Police photo of Amelia Dyer after being arrested in 1896

At the inquest into the deaths in early May, no evidence was found that Mary Ann or Arthur Palmer had acted as Dyer’s accomplices. Arthur Palmer was discharged as the result of a confession written by Amelia Dyer. In Reading gaol she wrote (with her own spelling and punctuation preserved):

Sir will you kindly grant me the favour of presenting this to the magistrates on Saturday the 18th instant I have made this statement out, for I may not have the opportunity then I must relieve my mind I do know and I feel my days are numbered on this earth but I do feel it is an awful thing drawing innocent people into trouble I do know I shal have to answer before my Maker in Heaven for the awful crimes I have committed but as God Almighty is my judge in Heaven a on Hearth neither my daughter Mary Ann Palmer nor her husband Alfred Ernest Palmer I do most solemnly declare neither of them had any thing at all to do with it, they never knew I contemplated doing such a wicked thing until it was to late I am speaking the truth and nothing but the truth as I hope to be forgiven, I myself and I alone must stand before my Maker in Heaven to give an answer for it all witnes my hand Amelia Dyer.

—April 16, 1896

On 22 May 1896, Amelia Dyer appeared at the Old Bailey and pleaded guilty to one murder, that of Doris Marmon. Her family and associates testified at her trial that they had been growing suspicious and uneasy about her activities, and it emerged that Dyer had narrowly escaped discovery on several occasions.Evidence from a man who had seen and spoken to Dyer when she had disposed of the two bodies at Caversham Lock also proved significant. Her daughter had given graphic evidence that ensured Amelia Dyer's conviction.

The only defence Dyer offered was insanity: she had been twice committed to asylums in Bristol. However, the prosecution argued successfully that her exhibitions of mental instability had been a ploy to avoid suspicion; both committals were said to have coincided with times when Dyer was concerned her crimes might have been exposed.

It took the jury only four and a half minutes to find her guilty. In her 3 weeks in the condemned cell, she filled five exercise books with her "last true and only confession". Visited the night before her execution by the chaplain and asked if she had anything to confess, she offered him her exercise books, saying, "isn't this enough?"[1] Curiously she was subpoenaed to appear as a witness in Polly's trial for murder, set for a week after her own execution date. However it was ruled that Amelia was already legally dead once sentenced and that therefore her evidence would be inadmissible. Thus her execution was not delayed. On the eve of her execution Amelia heard that the charges against Polly had been dropped. She was hanged by James Billington at Newgate Prison on Wednesday, 10 June 1896. Asked on the scaffold if she had anything to say, she said "I have nothing to say", just before being dropped at 9am precisely.

Later developments

It is uncertain how many more children Amelia Dyer murdered. However, inquiries from mothers, evidence of other witnesses, and material found in Dyer’s homes, including letters and many babies' clothes, pointed to many more.

The Dyer case caused a scandal. She became known as the "Ogress of Reading", and she inspired a popular ballad:

The old baby farmer, the wretched Miss Dyer

At the Old Bailey her wages is paid.

In times long ago, we'd 'a' made a big fy-er

And roasted so nicely that wicked old jade.

Subsequently, adoption laws were made stricter, giving local authorities the power to police baby farms in the hope of stamping out abuse. Despite this and the scrutinizing of newspaper personal ads, the trafficking and abuse of infants did not stop. Two years after Dyer's execution, railway workers inspecting carriages at Newton Abbot, Devon found a parcel. Inside was a three-week-old girl, but though cold and wet, she was alive. The daughter of a widow, Jane Hill, the baby had been given to a Mrs. Stewart, for £12. She had picked up the baby at Plymouth—and apparently dumped her on the next train. It has been claimed that "Mrs. Stewart" was Polly, the daughter of Amelia Dyer.

Identified victims

Doris Marmon, 4 months old

Harry Simmons, 13 months old

Helena Fry, Age unknown, 1 year old or less

Jack the Ripper Speculation

Because she was a murderer alive at the time of the Jack the Ripper killings, some have suggested that Amelia Dyer was Jack the Ripper, who killed the prostitutes through botched abortions. This suggestion was put forward by author William Stewart, although he preferred Mary Pearcey as his chosen suspect. There is, however, no evidence to connect Dyer to the Jack the Ripper murders.

The Black Widow

Mary Ann Cotton: The Black widow

Mary Ann Cotton was born 1832, she was accused and convicted of over 23 murders. She was called the black widow

She was attractive, man found her very attractive, which explains why she killed four of her husbands. And several of her children and step children.

But lets begining at the beginning. Mary Ann Robson was born to a coal mining family in Low moorsley, England. When she was ten her father died in a mining accident. When her step father moves in after she turns 16, she moves out.

At age sixteen she goes to work as a domestic woman in a small house. Where she would clean and cooked and took care of the 12 children. Perhaps it is here when she begins to hate children so.

Finally she marries and is taken away to cornwell where her husband works in a railway shanty town. She has five or six children, but none survived….is this the beginning of her life as a serial killer or is the moment when she turns cold due to life being so cruel to her.

Her husband moves her to another town, where she finds herself as a mining’s workers wife.  She then begins to have children, one after another. Two of them die right away.

She knows how dangerous the mining business is. So she makes her husband take out an insurance on himself. 6 months later, she becomes a widow when her husband dies in a mining accident. And she collects 35 dollars.

She moves away, but then her last son dies, and so she cannot deal with her last daughter and sends her away to live with her grandmother.

She then marries another man, but he dies only 14 months later he also dies.

She takes a job helping a widower care for his sickly child, but only a week after she has the job the child dies.

Days later she is called to help her mother who is very sick, only two days later she is burying her mother.

But she doesn't stop there. Her daughter who had been safe until the grandmother dies, is found to be sick, and later dies only a month after coming into contact with Mary Ann. As well as two of the remaining step children from her third husband. She then get pregnant again, and only three months after giving birth to her 8^th child, the child also dies.

George Robinson, the last of the children she would have as the wife of James Robison (her third husband) is born only months later.It is then that James Robinson finds out that Mary ann had been altering his business books and had stolen 50 pounds (A year's wage at the time) and had placed him into debt for over 70 ponds. His business is ruined, and so the marriage was over.

So how is she killing all of these people?

Arsenic, a tasteless poison is readily available to kill vermin and other common pests. By giving her children and family small doses the poison, the eleven members of her family had no chance. The poison would have eaten them from the inside out, making the illusion of the children simply having a sickness and not being poisoned slowly.

Once she had gotten rid of her third husband, she decides to start again in a new town, this time she chooses Durham.

Margaret cotton had been a friend there, and so Mary Ann moved in her for three weeks, but then Margaret she dies after telling Mary ann that she had saved 70 pounds. Soon after Mary ann begins to sleep with Fredrick cotton (Margaret widow) and soon becomes pregnant. Fredrick does the Honourable thing, and marries her. Of course Mary ann does not tell him that the child could also be Joseph Natras, a family friend. She also forgets to mention that she is still married to George Robinson.

After their child is born, the cotton family has three children, only one is Mary ann’s child by blood. The other two are from her friend (whom she killed) Margaret.

A year and two days after his marriage to Mary Ann, Joseph cotton does of typhoid fever.

After three months of waiting, Mary Ann moves in her lover Joseph. But soon she gets bored of the situation.  She gets a job in a local hospital where she meets Quick manning, who is a vary eligible bachelor.

Within one month the cotton children die and then Joseph Natrass also dies from typhoid fever. Only boy Charles cotton is left from the cotton family. She offers the boy to the work house, but is denied. However when she tells the workhouse local named Riley that he is sickly and will go the same way as the rest of the family, he becomes suspicious. And he looks into all of the deaths that have happened around her.

A week later the boy Charles cotton dies of typhoid fever. He would be the last to die by her hands.  When she asks for the death certificate she finds that Riley has given his suspicious to the police, and so an enquiry is made. It is then that the doctor realises that arsenic is present and she is sent to jail.

Mary Ann was one of the first know serial killers, making her total of 16 or 22 murders of her own, mother, husband and even children.

When she was awaiting trial she was discovered to be pregnant and so the trial had to wait, and it was in this wait where she told almost all of her story to the press.

On the seventh of January the last of her children where born, two weeks later she is executed. 

Mary Ann Cotton,

Dead and forgotten

She lies in her bed,

With her eyes wide open

Sing, sing, oh, what can I sing,

Mary Ann Cotton is tied up with string

Where, where? Up in the air

Sellin' black puddens a penny a pair.

Elizabeth Bathory: Female serial killer

Elizabeth Bathory: Blood countess

Elizabeth Bathory was born in Hungary to a powerful family in 1560. The country was involved in a bloody war with the Turks.

She has been accused of killing over 600 of her  servants.

She was a mother and a wife, as well as one of the first recorded female serial killers.  Like many landowners she brought in the local girls as slaves or servants.

But with so much power she was able to get away with torturing and killing them. She enjoyed torturing them by burning their pubic hairs with candles, biting them and there is the legend of her bathing in their blood.

So could she have gotten away with it. To begin with she was directly related to royalty in Transylvania and polish. Her family was one of the richest family in the country. And so no one would have ever questioned her… and if you did you would probably end up dead.

She was married at 15, an arrangement that had been arranged by her parents. He was not a bad pick however, he was rich, handsome and they both loved to torture their servants together. Elizabeth was just a pupil in the beginning, he would make her join and watch.

He once bathe a servant girl in honey and made her stand outside naked for a day while she was stung by her bees.

But then her husband needed to go away to war. Leaving her as lord of the manner. She needed to take care of her seven castles and overlook all the work of her servants, she continues to torture her servants, but her sadistic ways does not truly progress until she is 24 years old and her husband dies.

She did not do it alone, she had two woman helpers and one deformed dwarf to help her sadistic experiments.

There are insane tales of keeping her slaves naked in the freezing winter, and threw cold water over them until they literally froze to the ground.

But suddenly the peasants women began not to be enough, so she then began to kill the daughters of lower gentry people.

It is then that a official enquiry is made. When the right hand of the law arrives at the castle where he finds dying women , and discarded corpses as soon as he opens the door.

270 people where interviewed, but she was never convicted, instead her helpers where tortured and then killed.

In regards to Elizabeth, they locked her in her castle and no one was allowed to talk about her for a hundred years.

But how did a woman of wealth and royal position become like this?

Some say that it all stared when she was six, when her father tortured a gypsy in his court, and then open the belly of a horse, and place the gypsy inside. They then left the gypsy and the horse to die slowly. This might have been the beginning of her sadistic career.

But why girls?

Some say it is because she was a closet homosexual, and she would kill them when they would sexually aroused her with out meaning to. She would then sexually and sadistically tortured them until they would die. This type of torture is called sexual sadism.    

The entity

The Entity:

You’re asleep, when all of the sudden you feel like there is someone in the room. You wake up, but you can’t move, you can’t scream. Your eyes are open and you can see someone but its dark and you can’t turn your head to get a clear view.

You know you are awake, but the entity that is shrouded in darkeness walking towards you makes you wish this was a nightmare. He is getting closer, and closer, he is touching you now, choking you and as you try to struggle you notice there’s an old woman in the corner of the room. Watching you.

The shadow man is choking you, you can’t breath. The old woman glides closer and closer until her old hagged face is inches away from your face. Her eyeliner is running down her cheeks and you feel her weight as she sits on your chest.

You try to scream, the fear is so intense that your hands are bleeding from your fingernails digging into your skin.

YOU HAVE JUST EXPERIENCED THE ENTITY

The entity has been reported by thousands of people all over the world. The western world claims that this only a condition called sleep paralysis. A manifestation of a dream during the waking world. Basically you are in the middle of a dream and awake.

Some claim that this is a product of bad upbringing or something traumatic that happened to you as a child trying to come out during the dream cycle.

unfortunatly no one can come up with a clear explination of why this happens, or how to stop it. 

How ever those who believe in the more paranormal explications believe that the entity are demons. But what are they doing? How do they choose their victims?

To be able to tell the difference you should record the experiences, try EVP and ask the entity who they are, why they are there. You might just encounter that the entity will respond to you.  

Have you ever experienced something like this? 

let us know by commenting on this post. 

The origins of Satan

Satan;

An exorcist is a person who can cast out demons. We all know that. We have seen the movies. What most people don’t know is how the demons get in the first place.

Most movies start by a simple girl (why is it always girls?) who all of the sudden begin to see weird and unexplainable things. But why?

Frather Gary Thomas is a catehlic priest in California, he is one of the priests who has gone through the roman catholic training of exercism, his training is somewhat recorded in the book “the Rite” by Matt baglio, which is now a movie. Father Thomas explains that for an demon to take hold of your body, a dorr way must be opened. And you are the only one that can open it.

The origins of satan are unknown, there are no facts to dictate when or where he emerged. One story is that he once was the god’s favorite angel. And as time progressed greed and ego took over his heart and so he asked God to give him his own kingdom to rule over. God Granted him his wish, and Satan was cast out of heaven forever. The story continues to say that Satan did not fall alone, as he fell he grabbed as many angels as he could and they fell with satan to his new kingdom, hell. Once in hell they where his slaves, and became his new demon army. The once angelic beings where condemned to follow all of his order in the new formed Inferno.

His sefishness and ego did not end there, he realized that even though he had a kingdom, he did not have subjects. So he sent out his new form army onto the world to temp the humans to sin, if they sinned enough he knew they would move away from God and closer to him, allowing him to take their souls once they passed into the realm of the dead.