It’s always daunting to move to another country, particularly as a teenager. In 2009, 15-year-old Phoebe Prince moved from Ireland to South Hadley, Massachusetts, with her mother and four siblings. Within mere months, Phoebe would hang herself to death with a scarf in her bedroom.

Almost as soon as Phoebe arrived at South Hadley High, she received attention from the male students. She was beautiful and would go “to great lengths just to make someone else happy.” As her classmates began to notice the attention she was attracting, they started to call her cruel names, such as “Irish whore” among other petty taunts. This abuse further exacerbated when Phoebe caught the attention of the football captain, Sean Mulveyhill. The couple dated for just a few weeks and when it was all over, Phoebe came to discover that Sean was embedded with the clique of the pretty and popular girls of South Hadley High and they intended to make her life living hell.

The abuse became more disturbing as the weeks passed by. It soon turned to physical violence when Phoebe was shoved into lockers and encouraged on Facebook to commit suicide. Phoebe was so terrified that she refused to walk anywhere alone out of fear she would be attacked. Phoebe couldn’t go one day without something being thrown at her in the hallway or receiving threatening text messages. An investigation uncovered that several teacher had witnessed the abuse perpetrated against Phoebe but didn’t act accordingly. They would “discipline” the bullies but by the following day, they would be back at it again. On the 14th of January, 2010, the persistent taunting and harassment became too much. Three of the accused bullies followed Phoebe home and shouted abuse in her direction before throwing a tin of red bull at her. Phoebe went home and hanged herself; she would be discovered by her 12-year-old sister.

Two male and four female students, including Sean, were indicted as adults on felony charges. Included in the charges was statutory rape, criminal harassment, and stalking. South Hadley High School attempted to deny that they had been aware of the bullying but these claims were contradicted by numerous other students. The six students accepted a plea agreement and pleaded guilty to lesser charges. They were placed on probation and sentenced to community service.

Ironically, months before bullying somebody to suicide, Sean Mulveyhill read an anti-bullying campaign out in front of the entire school.

Located in Tokyo, Japan, Alcatraz ER was a bizarre prison themed restaurant. Waitresses dressed as nurses and armed with handcuffs, would lead the diners to a cell where they then take their order through the cell bars. The restaurant had a myriad of horror related drinks and meals, including cocktails served in syringes out of a severed mannequin head. In addition to the food, the restaurant would also put on obscure shows that weren’t for the faint of heart. Diners are often pulled from their cell by creepy clowns where they are then “experimented” on, often with fake penises or fake syringes.

American Horror Story: Red Tide, Episode 4. Blood Buffet (2021)

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN 3.02 “Boy Parts”

The Michelle Von Emster Case

On April 15, 1994, in San Diego, California around Sunset Cliffs, two surfers found the body of 25-year-old Michelle Von Emster, floating face down in a kelp bed. The body was taken to the lifeguard headquarters. She was found naked, wearing only a brass bracelet and two rings. She had a butterfly tattoo on her shoulder and had long brown hair. Medical examiner Robert Engel also noted she had “large, tearing type wounds with missing tissue” as the body was missing most of its right leg. He believed that Michelle had not been in the water long and marked her death as “unknown.” Nevertheless, there was an overwhelming consensus that her death was caused by a shark attack.

One day later, on April 16, a formal autopsy was conducted by a medical examiner, Brian Blackbourne. In addition to her right leg being missing from the thigh down, Michelle’s neck was broken “as if she had been in a car wreck” and had broken ribs, scrapes, bruises, and contusions on her face. Sand was also found in her mouth, throat, lungs, and stomach. Furthermore, the autopsy revealed that she had been alive when the injuries were inflicted. According to Blackbourne’s timeline, he concluded that she got into the water around midnight and this was indeed a shark attack because lifeguards, harbor police, and marine biologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography told him so.

However, there are things that don’t add up for the cause of death being a shark attack. Blackbourne had never seen a death caused by a shark before and neither had anyone who initially saw the body. The experts at the Scripps Institution had never seen Michelle’s body making their initial inquiries questionable.

Additionally, many experts say today that this death wasn’t caused by a Great White as the autopsy stated including Ralph Collier, the leading expert in Pacific Coast white shark behavior and ecology. After seeing Michelle’s body, Collier said “when a shark bites off part of a limb, the break is clean, almost like you put it on a table saw. What remained of Michelle’s femur was anything but. It looked like what happens when you get a piece of bamboo and whittle it down to a point with a knife. I’ve looked at close to 100 photos of cases that I have reviewed over the years, and I’ve never seen any bones that came to a point.” Plus, it’s important to note, once Michelle’s leg had been severed, she would have bled out quickly from a severed femoral artery. This would have made it extremely difficult to take a large breath, as she would have had to have done to get the sand into her stomach. This makes the theory that a shark forced her to the bottom of the ocean (where she took a breath and swallowed sand) extremely unlikely.

Officially, Michelle’s death is considered the result of a great white shark attack but the true nature and circumstances of her untimely demise remain a mystery.

It’s from Reddit so take it with a grain of salt…and you’d prefer to think it wasn’t true, but this sounds so similar to the stories *all* relatives of qanon people have. Heartbreaking.

The House by the Cemetery (Lucio Fulci, 1981)

Freaky Friday the 13th (2020)

A cadaveric spasm is the instant muscular stiffening that can occur at the very moment of death. This victim grasped at vegetation before falling into water.

Alyssa Bustamante was 15-years-old, when she strangled and stabbed her 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten to death. She Pleaded guilty to second degree murder and armed criminal action on January 10, 2012. Sentenced to life with the possibility of parole on February 8, 2012. She says she killed because “I Wanted To Know What It Felt Like To Kill Someone” and in her diary she wrote  'I just f***ing killed someone. I strangled them and slit their throat and stabbed them now they’re dead. I don’t know how to feel atm [at the moment]. It was ahmazing. As soon as you get over the “ohmygawd I can’t do this” feeling, it’s pretty enjoyable. I’m kinda nervous and shaky though right now. Kay, I gotta go to church now…lol.’

In the mid-1980s, the Villemin family from Lepanges-sur-Vologne in France had been receiving anonymous letters and phone calls. In these letters and calls, a male (and sometimes a female) threatened revenge against Jean-Marie Villemin, who was a supervisor in a car-parts factory. The letter writer and caller became known as “The Crow” and he knew extensive knowledge about the family. They knew that they had a son, Gregory Villemin, who was just 4-years-old. 

On the 16th of October, 1984, an anonymous call was made to Gregory’s uncle. The caller stated that he had abducted Gregory and thrown him into the Vologne river. On the same day, his parents received another letter which read: “I hope you will die of grief, the boss, it’s not your money that will bring back your son. This is my vengeance, asshole.” At around 9:15PM, Gregory’s body was found in the icy waters of the Vologne river. He was wearing a blue anorak. His knitted cap was pulled down over his face and his hands and feet were bound with rope.

For more than three decades, the rumour mill ran wild. Many theorised that somebody in Gregory’s family was responsible but who and why? Gregory’s parents were wealthy while the rest of his family were impoverished and it was theorised that they were jealous. In June of 2017, Gregory’s great-aunt, great-uncle and an aunt were arrested. The aunt was released but the great-aunt and great-uncle, who were now in their 70s, have remained silent. A progress in handwriting analysis enabled investigators to identify the author of the handwritten letters as Jacqueline Jacob, his great-aunt.