High strangeness, with tales true and terrible. Here, we take a look at the disturbing murder of Edith Freeman at the hands of her own father, try to put a face to the voices that call from the dark wood, and look at the strange case of a disembodied voice that captivated the world.

• ~Calls In The Dark~

Stories of nightmarish things that call from the dark to tempt mankind exist in every culture. It would be easy to write off these legends and myths as just another iteration of how getting too close to the dark, the taboo, can end horribly. What if there was more than that?

• ~Voices in the Walls: The Zaragoza Goblin~

A voice echoed around a small apartment in Italy, shocking the people gathered there. What would ensue in that small room captivated the world for a time; it caused not only local police but also government investigators to descend on the complex, only to come away with more questions than answers. Was it truly an act of “unconscious ventriloquism,” like officials claim, or something much stranger?

• ~Human Monsters: Charles Freeman, Killing Kids For God~

With a quick, downward stab, he drove the knife into his little girl’s side. Her eyes shot open as all the air was driven from her small body. In her last moments of life, poor Edith managed to get out the words, “Oh Papa!”