Real-Life Killers
This man, known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, murdered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.
Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?
This novel by Mary Shelley about a reanimated monster is one of the most popular Gothic works.
What is Frankenstein?
This 13th century ruler killed so many peasants that he actually reduced the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This city, including it's black-and-white striped lighthouse, is one of the most haunted in the United States.
What is St. Augustine?
La Llorona, or the Weeping Woman, supposedly kidnaps children and drowns them in rivers (like she did to her own children) in this country
What is Mexico?
This real-life Killer Clown killed at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978.
Who is John Wayne Gacy?
The word "Gothic" comes from the name of a Germanic tribe that often came in contact with what other ancient society?
Who are the Romans?
The legend of Dracula was based on this real-life Transylvanian ruler who killed people in a similarly vicious manner.
Who is Vlad the Impaler?
This British landmark was the site of many executions and mysterious disappearances, including that of Anne Boleyn.
What is the Tower of London?
Krampus is the antithesis of Santa who snatches naughty children in this European country.
What is Germany?
This British serial killer has gone unidentified for 138 years, and counting.
Who is Jack the Ripper?
This Gothic poet and author wrote the poem "The Raven" and the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart", among other famous works.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A novel describing this disaster was published in 1898, 14 years before it actually occurred.
What is the sinking of the Titanic?
The ghosts inside the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, were supposedly the victims of what family-named and produced product?
What is a rifle?
The Chupacabra was first sighted on this Caribbean island, where it was blamed for draining the blood from a variety of farm animals.
What is Puerto Rico?
This female serial killer robbed, shot, and killed seven men while engaging in prostitution.
Who is Aileen Wournos?
Who is the author of The Vampyre, the first vampire novel ever published?
Who is John Polidori?
The dancing plague of 1518 affected what French city?
What is Strasbourg?
This woman was accused of killing her father and stepmother in their Fall River, Massachusetts home in 1892, but was later acquitted.
Who is Lizzie Borden?
The Kuchisake-Onna, or the Slit-Mouthed Woman, wanders the streets of this country asking if people find her pretty.
What is Japan?
This "Devil in the White City" committed his most notorious crimes during the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Who is H. H. Holmes?
What is the name of the mysterious woman in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's unfinished epic poem Christabel?
Who is Geraldine?
The group of women who commonly ingested radioactive paint as part of their assembly line jobs are known as this
Who are the Radium Girls?
This estate, located in Rochester Hills, Michigan, has purported many a haunting, including the sound of children playing.
What is Meadow Brook Hall?
This Human-Eating Tree was sensationalized by an 1874 account by Carl Liche, where he visited the Mdoko tribe on this island.
What is Madagascar?