The House When You’re Gone, By Stephen Mackey, Via Instagram.

The killing of Elsie Frost is one of the UK’s most violent unsolved murders. On Saturday 9 October 1965, Elsie, 14, set off home on the outskirts of Wakefield from a nearby youth club sailing event. Dressed in a bright red anorak, yellow cardigan and floral skirt, Elsie walked along the canal towpath – so she didn’t get her new leather shoes muddy. But she never made it home.

As she walked through a 30ft tunnel beneath a railway embankment she was attacked. Struck from behind and stabbed – twice in the back, twice in the head and once through the hand. One of the blows pierced her heart. Fatally injured Elsie stumbled through the tunnel to the bottom of a steep flight of stone steps – known as the ABC steps as there are 26 – that led up to the main road.

That’s where she was found, dying by a local dog-walker. Others soon appeared on the scene. An ambulance was called, but Elsie was dead by the time they arrived. The hunt for the killer was national news. Elsie was intelligent, bookish, close to her family – police couldn’t establish any motive.

Officers went door-to-door, interviewed 12,000 men and teenage boys – but her killer was never found. Decades past, her parents, Arthur and Edith, died without seeing justice for their daughter. The case is still one of the UK’s most violent unsolved murders, and Elsie’s family continue to push for justice. Still, over half a century on, the killer, murder weapon and motive remain unknown.

The unnerving sight of an approaching car in the dark: photos by Henri Prestes.

SCOOB! by Zac Retz

Austin Yogurt Shop Murders • December 6, 1991

On December 6, 1991, in Austin, Texas, four teenage girls were murdered inside of I Cant Believe its Yogurt. Jennifer Harbison, 17, and Eliza Thomas, 17, were both employees of the shop working the evening shift. Jennifer’s sister, Sarah Haribson, 15, was visiting her sister after shopping with her close friend Amy Ayers, 13, and waiting to get a ride home together after closing up shop.

Just before midnight, a patrolling officer in the area noticed a fire coming from the shop and called it in. After firefighters arrived and extinguished the fire, 4 nude female bodies were found, each shot execution style in the head with a 22 lead bullet. Each body had been found bound and gagged, except for Amy who was found in a different part of the shop. Amy was found with 2nd and very early 3rd degree burns on almost 30 percent of her body. She had a sock around the neck, and had been shot twice when the first bullet missed her brain. It is believed that the bodies had all been stacked on top of each other, however investigators believe Amy had been able to pull herself up and drag herself to a different part of the store. Accelerant was used in an attempt to destroy evidence.

Oddly enough, over 50 people have confessed to committing this disturbing crime. Included are Kenneth Allen McDuff, a known serial killer who was executed for his crimes, and two Mexican nationals, all of which were ruled out in court.

On Wednesday, October 6, 1999, 4 suspects were arrested in connection to the murder. Robert Burns Springsteen Jr, 24, Michael James Scott, 25, Maurice Pierce, 24, and Forrest Wellborn, 23. Using DNA found at the scene, more than 70 people including these men were all tested and none were a match. The Austin grand jury failed to indict Wellborn, leading to the charges against him being dropped. Later, only Scott and Springsteen were brought to trial, as the charges against Pierce also were dropped. Austin police struggled with internal complications when Detective Hector Polanco was fired for coercing confessions, but was later reinstated for suing the city for discrimination. In 2009, Scott and Springsteen were both released on bond pending the upcoming trials, however on October 28, 2009, all charges against them were dropped and they were all free men.

To this day, no new leads have come of the unfortunate case, and the four main suspects are free men with the exception of Maurice Pierce, who was shot during a routine traffic stop gone bad on December 13, 2010.

Well, look what she can do… if she wanted us dead. When we cut into her. She tried to stop us each time. It’s like there’s something she doesn’t want us to find. 

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

Louis Welden Hawkins - Procession of Souls

In 1974, the Egyptian authorities issued a passport to an ancient king, Ramesses II, 1279-1213 BCE, in order to be transported to France for restoration and preservation.

Even the dead can travel…

Are You Scared of the Voice in the Walls?

Dead Children’s Playground

Located in Huntsville Alabama, this haunted playground is situated behind Maple Hill Cemetery (the state’s largest and oldest cemetery).It is set in a low spot and surrounded by rocks and trees on three sides, making it all the more claustrophobic.

The playground has accumulated a deep catalogue of supernatural associations. Locals have claimed to hear children laughing/screaming in the middle of the night. They have seen swings move on their own and ghostly orbs floating around at night.

Legend says that during the 1960s, the area around Huntsville was gripped by a terrible rash of child abductions that devastated the city. Unfortunately, many of the children didn’t survive the clutches of their captors, and their bodies were discovered around the area where the macabre playground now sits.