The History of beheading. Beheading with a sword or axe goes back a very long way in history, because like hanging, it was a cheap and prac...

gothicteasociety.com Roman-era couple held hands for 1,500 years. The skeletal remains of a Roman-era couple reveal the pair has been ho...

gothcieasociety.com This headstone always gets a second glance. This is from Bohemian National Cemetery in Illinois.  More photos of this ...

gothicteasociety.com Nice new home, in a nice Illinois suburb. Still, I don't think I would have built on this spot. Until a few years...

The Gothic Tea Society www.gothicteasociety.com This 1,800 year old tombstone and epitaph tell a story.   An enigmatic message on a Roman ...

The Gothic Tea Society www.gothicteasociety.com A place so notorious, it's name is synonymous with 'uproar and confusion'. Bed...

The Gothic Tea Society www.gothicteasociety.com 100 Years ago today there was a terrible tragedy. A fire killed 146 workers, mostly female...

I have been following this story for a while, fascinating! Grandfather's ghost story leads to mysterious mass grave By  Meghan Ra...

Many Nursery Rhymes have darker origins. Ring around the Rosy as it is more commonly known here in the USA is a great example. In the versi...

Otranto (IPA: /ˈɔtranto/) is a town and commune in the province of Lecce (Apulia, Italy), in a fertile region once famous for its breed o...

(AP) For Edgar Allan Poe, 2009 has been a better year than 1849. After dozens of events in several cities to mark the 200th anniversary of ...

The Rollright Stones are a complex of megalithic oolitic limestone monuments near the villages of Long Compton, Great Rollright and Little R...

Delphine LaLaurie was a beautiful and wealthy young socialite whose elaborate parties attracted only the most wealthy and elite of the  ear...

The Carousel in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco California, was built in 1914. According to the National Carousel Association it is a Clas...

In the history of the United States, Prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, is the period from 1919 to 1933, during which the sale...

There is also an article on him in wikipedia.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Allison

There are many different theories as to the true origin of the Tarot deck, but the first documented deck was painted in fifteenth century It...