Gregory Burkart
The “Medieval Death Bot” is Creeping the Hell out of Twitter
We’ve previously visited some of the gruesome, macabre and morbidly fascinating aspects of the European Middle Ages in some of our historical features [like this delightful list of witch-hunt torture methods], so if you’ve read those — or similar historical accounts of brief life and messy death in that era — you might not think […]
Gregory Burkart
Is “Username:666” the Most Dangerous Video on the Web?
While many web-based urban legends are fictional constructs, this one actually has roots in fact… and while the true nature of the YouTube video known alternately as sm666 or Username:666 remains undetermined, the history of this viral video phenomenon is truly terrifying. In most cases, the clip in question is believed to originate with a […]
Gregory Burkart
Angela Had a Bad Dream… and So Will You
Sometimes the shortest tales are also the scariest — and the fact that today’s creepypasta is still being heavily shared across multiple social media, after more than eight years online, is a testament to that notion. This story is claimed to be derived from the actual testimony of an unnamed male patient currently residing in […]
Gregory Burkart
Why is This Twitter Account Randomly Summoning Demons?
Regular Twitter users are already quite familiar with the universal presence of twitterbots — user accounts whose tweets are entirely driven by an algorithm, instead of by a real person — and the for the most part, the experience ranges from hilariously classic to just plain annoying. But every once in a while, a ‘bot does […]
