“Fatal Familial Insomnia”: 50 Creepy True Stories That Might Give You Nightmares (Trigger Warning)

I work at a pizza place in St. Louis called IMO’s. About 10 years ago, there was a guy who was a manager at our store named Michael Devlin. He abducted 2 children in total but quickly got caught a few days after abducting the second child. The terrifying thing is that he had held the first child (who was 11 when abducted) captive for over 4 years and pretended that he was his son. The kid even went by the last name Devlin after the whole charade was over! He abducted the second kid by following a school bus to somewhere in buttfuck Missouri, somewhere where hardly anyone would be able to see him. When he pulled up in his truck, a kid in the back of the bus noticed how it was weird that there was a car in the area other than the usual one’s he saw on most commutes. Next thing he knew, the kid they dropped off went missing, so he gave the police a description of it. A few days later, after reading the paper, my pizza shop owner, Mike, recognized the description and ended up filing a report on his own manager. Devlin is serving like 70 life sentences or some crazy s**t.
Also, I work with some people who worked with him- most I’ve heard them say about him is that he was a d**k 😂.

The k*****g of mobster William "Action" Jackson

>Jackson was impaled through his r****m with a meat hook, hanging a foot in the air, while being questioned by mob enforcers. Jackson kept insisting he was not an informer but his torturers did not believe him. They stripped him naked, smashed his kneecaps with a bat, one of them shot him with a g*n, broke his ribs, stuck him with sharp objects, used a cattle prod on his p***s and a**s making him lose his bowels, burned parts of his body with a blow torch, and told him how they were going to k**l his wife and children if he did not confess. Then they left him for three days until he finally succumbed to his wound

There was a serial k****r known as the Weepy Voiced K****r. He would k**l people then call 911 from a payphone, crying and begging them to catch and stop him. You can find the recordings of his 911 calls on YouTube.

The guy who died in nutty putty cave. He basically crawled into narrower and narrower passageways thinking it would eventually open up. He was trapped for many hours unable to get a full breath. After he died, they decided it would be too difficult to get him out so they closed the cave and left him in there. I can't think of anything worse than dealing with that kind of claustrophobia. Edited to include detail I forgot: he was trapped *upside down*.

Ronald Stoecker picked up an underage teen(Jean Marie Humble) near Peoria, IL. He then drove her several miles out to the country, proceeded to r**e her with a knife in a very old and unused farm shed. She crawled her way at least 500 yards to nearest house and got help. That was my house. She ended up dying a week or so later. Parents never liked talking about it and still don't, really. He fled to Costa Rica and eventually was caught. What a piece of garbage. Happened around '97 or '98

The serial k****r H.H. Holmes is the man that the term psychopath was created for. He would visit the fair and dazzle women with his beautiful eyes. Sometimes he'd k**l them pretty immediately. Sometimes he'd take them as lovers or even marry them and live with them for a while before k*****g them. Of course, psychopaths can't actually feel love, so it was really just to escalate the trauma once he k****d them.


He k****d them merely because he was curious. Sometimes using surgical tools. Sometimes by suffocating them in an airtight room. Sometimes by letting gas into said airtight room. And he'd take notes on his observations as they died. Then he'd dig around in their insides for a bit to further sate his curiosity.


He was jailed and hanged for unrelated crimes (back when capital punishment wasn't just for murderers). Only later did they find the meticulous documentation of everything he'd done.

My great aunt was buried alive when she was only in her 20s. The casket was brought up when the cemetery had to be relocated. The casket had broken, and she was upside down. Claw marks everywhere inside the casket.

Not a photo but there was that video of the guy in Russia that was live streaming in his apartment and he locked his naked girlfriend outside on the balcony. It was the middle of winter so she froze to death and then the sick b*****d drags her dead body back inside and keeps livestreaming like nothing just happened. Do not recommend watching that one.

So, over 3k comments in this thread so I doubt this will get any attention but~~ I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this rather recent case yet - but the security footage inside of Danvers Highschool showing Philip Chism following his math teacher Colleen Ritzer through a hallway and into the womens bathroom only to emerge a few moments later with what appears to be blood on his jeans. He comes back some time later with a large heavy duty trash can, where he then wheels it out of the bathroom and out of school grounds into the woods where he dumps her body and makes off with her wallet. Of which he takes and goes to the movies with.

She was just trying to help the new kid in class adjust to the new school. She cared about her students and he was visibly struggling. He brought a knife to school that day- no idea if this was premeditated for *her* specifically, or if he was just waiting for someone to p**s him off that day and she just happened to be the one to be there. The security footage is… chilling, to say the least.

The toolbox killers. Since one of the k****r accepted a plea deal of a life sentence with parole after 30 years, he gave very detail explanation on what happened during the m*****s. It's a lot to read but man you really get the feel for what those poor girls went through when they got abducted.

Edit: since a lot of people are shocked read at your own risk. Just know that it's a m******r confession, very detailed. Their gruesome actions include inserting foreign objects into the body.

My Aunt's ex-husband was the last victim of the Ohio Craigslist killer (who offered jobs to men through Craigslist to steal their money/credit cards). He only survived because the man's g*n jammed before a fatal headshot. He ran and hid in the woods for hours before finding a house and someone to call 911. Richard Beasley was charged with killing 3 men and the attempted murder of my Aunt's ex. It's the closest a murder has come in my family (and hopefully it stays that way. We have been lucky in this day and age).

A friend of a friend was travelling in the UK and had to hitch-hike. He dropped her off at home. The next day police came knocking and proceeded to take her to the station and demand how she knows this man, what is their relationship etc. She finds out that the man had k****d another female hitch-hiker that same day and had her in the trunk at the same time he was driving her (the friend). For some unknown reason he hadn’t k****d her. She couldn’t sleep and cried for days and her home was placed on watch.

I have posted this before too from a different ID I used to have. This still haunts me to date.

This is from the days when I used to live back home (I used to live in Karachi, Pakistan but now moved to UK).

We used live very close to a CID (Police Investigation Department aka Pakistani FBI) building which we all were unaware of and always thought it was just an ordinary government building till on 11th, Nov 2010. On that day I around evening time coming home from work I thought I better hit the gym (because they had a sauna and after being tired from all day work that sounded like a good idea) which was hardly 0.3 miles away so I decided to walk to the gym. I change quickly and leave for the gym and start walking towards the gym.

This is almost I've hardly walked like 10 minutes and I'm 0.1 miles away roughly and all of a sudden for a nano second I feel that ground is shaking and the next thing I hear is a loudest bang I've ever heard followed by a pressure kick into my chest. Now to let you guys know, my both the ear started bleeding because the bang was so loud and for the reference the kick in the chest was as bad as Big Show wearing military boots and kicking you in the chest straight
with full force.

Next thing? I'm on the ground covering my ears because they are in agony and covered in dirt trying to figure out what's happening. As I am trying to figure out I can see all the cars alarms have gone off. Anything made up of glass has been shattered in roughly 1-2 miles area. I'm still trying to figure out what has happened and I start smelling g*n powder and as if someone is making a BBQ and is being burnt. I will always remember that smell which was something unsettling. Next things rock and dust particle starts landing on me and the surrounding areas which had 1-1.5 inches long of pieces of human skin and flesh. I am not believing that I have another human skin piece stuck to my arm. I brush up my clothes and arms getting up and covering my ear recovering from that pressure kick.

As I move closer to a spot in a street where I am hearing loads of people screaming and crying I see a few 3-5ft cracks between some walls of the building which have been destroyed by the shockwave of the bang. I see the gap between a wall and move into the area where I see these scenes straight from a Hollywood movie where people are crying, cars on fire and dead bodies on the ground. By this time I'm thinking its a b*mb blast and that's what has happened. As I move closer I see a 10ft and 30ft wide crater which has been filled with the water and the building which was a CID building is no longer there. There are hundreds of people lying on the ground crying for help as some of them don't even have legs or limbs or some don't have their complete bottom. I am still in a state of shock looking around and I see a woman crying and hitting herself because she had her husband dead who's legs and torso was missing. I seen that later. I see several people without legs, brains out and no hands. One thing, which haunted me for sure was a 18-20yr old guy who was dead and lying on the floor towards his chest on the floor with his neck turned towards me. I can still remember him looking straight into my eyes. His feet were flipped the other way around. After the police arrived and media arrived I came back home after it got crowded. After I came home after the dusk everyday, I would see that 18-20yr old boy standing and starring into my eyes. I would wake up screaming through out the night and see that guy standing at the door way just staring at me. For two to three weeks I would see this guy regularly during midnight standing in my hallway staring through my soul. I still remember that guy's face and the shockwave and the sound of the blast.

According to BBC it said “Eyewitnesses said the blast left a crater 12 metres (40ft) wide in front of the gutted building in Pakistan's financial and commercial capital.”

Here’s the news article covering the event.

I have two, and they’re both tangentially related.

The first is of the ant-walking alligator people of Hiroshima. Of all the horrifying things that happened in the wake of that nuclear strike, in my opinion, the alligator people are by far the most horrific. They were horribly marred and disfigured by the blast, should much so that they could no longer speak. Apparently, the only sound they made was a scream that sounded like cicadas buzzing.

The other is Hisashi Ouchi. He was a worker on a nuclear plant when an accident occurred, and a tank of radioactive material reached critical mass. He received a fatal dose of radiation, but was kept alive for 83 days. At one point he even told the doctors to “stop treating me like a guinea pig”, but they still kept him alive. They should have let him die after a few weeks, but they used him for experiments.

The Lake Nyos Disaster. There was an earthquake/eruption that released an unbelievable amount of carbon dioxide from a volcanic lake... and CO2 being heavier than air it settled over the nearby village. Over 1,700 people asphyxiated to death in a clear blue sky having no clue what was happening and almost no chance of surviving if they had. I remember horrifying photos of dead livestock covering a field in a h**h school science textbook.

The story of Vladimir Komarov. A cosmonaut who was burned to a crisp on reentry into the atmosphere. This was caused by someone on the job screwing up and he made them promise that he would have an open casket funeral so everyone could see what happens when you screw up on the team of a space crew. The picture is pretty NSFL and they say he screamed bloody murder as he was being burned to death. Pretty sure you can find that recording as well if you are so inclined

Edit: according to reddit he knew it would happen. Also he didn't burn up until he crashed into the ground because allegedly the parachutes didn't go off. Regardless he was screaming and cursing those who put him in what he knew was a botched shuttle from the beginning so it's not much less scary that way anyway.

The murder of Yvonne Pearson, she was targeted by Peter Sutcliffe (A serial killer known as The Yorkshire Ripper) for being a prostitute.

He hit her on the back of her head with a hammer several times, He then noticed that there was a taxi nearby so he dragged her behind an old sofa and to stop her from making noise, he shoved horse hair down her throat while pinching her nose shut. When the taxi left she was still alive, so he kicked her and even jumped on her chest with all his body weight and eventually she died.

She had two young children which makes the story even worse.

A relative of mine (distant, like 5th or 6th cousin i think) was a professional diver for an oil company, he would dive to check things below the surface at depths great enough to require mixed gas air tanks. He had a suit malfunction, and had to be kept in one of those pressure chambers to slowly let the gasses out of his body.

While he was breathing through a sealed face mask, someone changed the tank at the end out, and a safety device meant to keep the air from being pulled back through the (from inside the chamber to the outside) failed and literally pulled his lungs and stomach out through his mouth, k*****g instantly.

My mother has the news article somewhere, this was in the late 8os i think, and happened off the coast of Louisianan in the Gulf of Mexico.

Albert Fish is a pretty terrifying story. He was a very disturbed serial killer and child r*pist/cannibal during the early 20th century. Here is a letter he sent to the mother of one of his victims:

>My dear Mrs Budd,

>In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the steamer Tacoma, Capt John Davis. They sailed from San Francisco to Hong Kong China. On arriving there he and two others went ashore and got drunk. When they returned the boat was gone. At that time there was a famine in China. Meat of any kind was from $1 to 3 Dollars a pound. So great was the suffering among the very poor that all children under 12 were sold to the Butchers to be cut up and sold for food in order to keep others from starving. A boy or girl under 14 was not safe in the street. You could go in any shop and ask for steak – chops – or stew meat. Part of the naked body of a boy or girl would be brought out and just what you wanted cut from it. A boy or girls behind which is the sweetest part of the body and sold as veal cutlet brought the highest price. John staid there so long he acquired a taste for human flesh. On his return to N.Y. he stole two boys one 7 one 11. Took them to his home stripped them naked tied them in a closet then burned everything they had on. Several times every day and night he spanked them – tortured them – to make their meat good and tender. First he killed the 11 yr old boy, because he had the fattest a*s and of course the most meat on it. Every part of his body was cooked and eaten except Head – bones and guts. He was roasted in the oven, (all of his a*s) boiled, broiled, fried, stewed. The little boy was next, went the same way. At that time I was living at 409 E 100 St, rear – right side. He told me so often how good human flesh was I made up my mind to taste it. On Sunday June the 3 – 1928 I called on you at 406 W 15 St. Brought you pot cheese – strawberries. We had lunch. Grace sat in my lap and kissed me. I made up my mind to eat her, on the pretense of taking her to a party. You said Yes she could go. I took her to an empty house in Westchester I had already picked out. When we got there, I told her to remain outside. She picked wild flowers. I went upstairs and stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did not I would get her blood on them. When all was ready I went to the window and called her. Then I hid in a closet until she was in the room. When she saw me all naked she began to cry and tried to run down stairs. I grabbed her and she said she would tell her mama. First I stripped her naked. How she did kick – bite and scratch. I choked her to death then cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms, cook and eat it. How sweet and tender her little a*s was roasted in the oven. It took me 9 days to eat her entire body. I did not f**k her, though, I could of [sic] had I wished. She died a virgin.

That Netflix documentary about the pizza guy in Erie, Pennsylvania who had a b*mb collar put around his neck then was forced to rob a bank. As a former delivery driver I was scared shitless the entire time, but also super intrigued by the investigation and the people involved.

I’m really blanking on the name of the mini series right now, but I’ll try to find it and make an edit if no one comments before.