by Clarissa Cole | Aug 4, 2016 | culture, media, weird/science |
In the wave of recent events with a Playmate of the Year publicly body-shaming an unsuspecting woman, I’ve been acutely reminded of how quickly bullying, especially cyber bullying, can cross the criminal line – how “innocently” a person can go from an insecure heckler...
by Clarissa Cole | Jul 27, 2016 | art, culture, media, religion and belief, weird/science |
In 2011, Norway faced a mass murder event that was unparalleled in recent history. One man – Anders Breivik – traveled to Utoya Island (just off Norway’s coast), gunned down 77 people and wounded 200 others. The worst part of the tragedy is that the victims were...
by Clarissa Cole | Jul 19, 2016 | culture, weird/science |
Anders Behring Breivik was born in February of 1979 in Oslo, Norway to a nurse and a civil economist who worked as a diplomat in London, and then Paris. This would have been a charmed beginning if it weren’t for the acrimonious divorce that tore his parents apart less...
by Clarissa Cole | Jul 13, 2016 | culture, weird/science |
In the wake of the recent mass murder in Orlando, Florida, it feels important to me to shed some light on how the popular media has handled (and always seems to handle) mass murderers. Orlando, following the shooting [photo by Phelen Ebenhack; Associated Press]Whether...
by The Lineup | Jul 1, 2016 | culture, ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, paranormal, weird/science |
By ORRIN GREY In July 1878, four men met at a hotel in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, and hatched a sinister plot that yielded as many as six ghosts haunting Moonshine Church. They took out several life insurance policies totaling $8,000 on a neighbor named Joseph...
by Clarissa Cole | Jun 28, 2016 | culture, weird/science |
There are many types of murderers out there, but John List broke the mold of what everyone thought they knew. In fact, before List, “Family Annihilator” wasn’t a term that many people had heard of or used, but afterward – after that day in 1971 when his entire family...