Curious Archive

The ‘2006 Volleyball Incident’ or, the Mysterious School Shooting that Never Happened

Published date 26 April 2023 Categories Digital Mythology

Is it possible for a school shooting to be so underreported that there’s no record of it ever occurring? Are there so many school shootings every year that a particularly brutal one somehow managed to slip through the cracks? Let’s take a deep dive into a very niche and bizarre internet conspiracy referred to as the ‘2006 Volleyball Incident’ or, the school shooting that never happened.

The Bizarre Death of Garry Hoy, the Lawyer that Accidentally Threw Himself Out a Window

Published date 23 April 2023 Categories Weird History

Ever do something incredibly reckless and think to yourself “it would be pretty embarrassing if this was how I died”? This quick but incredibly weird story of the death of a Canadian lawyer is one of those tragic but completely avoidable incidents that sound completely made up. But it isn’t, this really happened. And it unfortunately happened in front of...

What does Bigfoot Sound Like?

Published date 31 March 2023 Categories Paranormal Encounters

Throughout the years you’ve likely seen tons of physical ‘evidence’ that Bigfoot exists – photos, footprints, fur samples – but what about sound? What does Bigfoot sound like?

Émilie Sagée and the Curse of Unintentional Bilocation

Published date 20 March 2023 Categories Paranormal Encounters / Weird History

Born in Dijon, France on 3 January 1813, Mademoiselle Émilie Sagée was a thirty-two-year-old French teacher who worked at a Latvian boarding school between 1845 and 1846. She was described as blonde and blue-eyed with a mild temper and a quiet but anxious disposition. The boarding school Pensionnat of Neuwelcke had a total of forty-two students, all young girls from...

Biblically Accurate Angels: Christianity’s Undisputed Horror Icons

Published date 24 February 2023 Categories Weird History

Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones. Christianity’s highest ranking angels and the closest beings in proximity to God. But instead of beautiful heavenly creatures, The Bible describes them as their own brand of terrifying Lovecraftian abominations.

‘Something Wicked this Way Comes’: Witchcraft in Scotland and the Curse of Macbeth

Published date 10 February 2023 Categories Paranormal Encounters / Weird History

The theatre world is filled with superstitions: always turn the ghost light on before leaving an empty theatre, never whistle backstage, tell an actor to ‘break a leg’ instead of ‘good luck’, keep peacock feathers off the stage, and never — under any circumstance — utter the name ‘Macbeth’ inside a theatre.

Death in Apartment 85: The Kramatorsk Radiological Accident

Published date 1 February 2023 Categories Weird History

After the recent fiasco in Western Australia involving a missing -and now found- eight millimetre radioactive capsule containing Caesium-137, I couldn’t help but wonder if something like this has happened before. Because history does enjoy repeating itself and we often don’t learn from our mistakes. And lo’ and behold, it has happened before… more times than I’m personally comfortable with...

My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade at LA’s Haunted Paramour Estate

Published date 27 January 2023 Categories Paranormal Encounters

In 1918 oil heiress Daisy Canfield commissioned an estate, known today as The Paramour, in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of LA. A tragic car accident on Mulholland Drive during a foggy night sent her to an early grave in 1933. Eighty years later, rock bands My Chemical Romance and Papa Roach experience distressing paranormal activity while recording in Daisy’s former home.

The Murky Truth About the Meowing French Nuns

Published date 16 January 2023 Categories Weird History

The idea of an outbreak of nuns trading their hymns for the sounds of wailing felines – especially in a medieval French convent – is not only creepy but it also feels like the premise of a film in the Conjuring universe. But where did this story come from? Do we have any proof that it actually happened?

Akhenaten’s Purgatory: Dissecting the Legend of the Mad Pharaoh’s Cursed Soul

Published date 9 January 2023 Categories Paranormal Encounters / Weird History

According to legend, the angered priests of Egypt put a curse on Akhenaten upon his death to wander the great expanse of The White Desert of Farafra for all of eternity as punishment for abolishing their jobs, their gods, and the destruction of their temples.