Original dark fiction and horror stories, authored and illustrated by myself, Timothy J. Whitcher, as well as updates on my creative projects. Also contains my musings on writing, both fiction and non-fiction, movies, comics and the paranormal... and anything else I damn well please.
Another gruesome attack in Hawley, PA with a possible hunger for BRAINS!
A naked, bloody man broke into a home, jumped from a two-story window, tackled a
passerby and chewed on her head while "screaming like an animal."
The
gory scene unfolded Friday night in Hawley, Pa., 40 miles east of Scranton,
where 20-year-old Richard Cimino Jr. allegedly went ballistic on a woman and two
officers, Patch reported.
At about 5 a.m., Cimino reportedly drove his
car off the road behind some houses in the small town. He stripped off his
clothes, then tried and failed to break into a nearby home. He was told to
leave, so he fled up the street and broke into another home. This one was
vacant. He allegedly jumped from a second-story window.
State Trooper
David Aulisio told Patch that Cimino "severely injured his arms and extremities"
from the fall, but kept going.
Bleeding heavily, he found two women on
the street and tackled one of them. Patch reported that he covered her in his
blood. Then he began to "gnaw at [her] head, screaming like an animal," Aulisio
said.
The women escaped and called police, who found Cimino lying on the
road, severely injured and displaying "delusional behavior." Despite the
injuries and a jolt from a Taser, Cimino managed to punch an officer in the face
before he was arrested.
It's yet unclear whether Cimino was on drugs
during the incident, and Pennsylvania police told The Huffington Post today that
he's still in the hospital and has yet to be processed. He'll face plenty of
charges, including two counts each of aggravated assault, simple assault,
indecent exposure and criminal mischief, plus three counts of burglary and one
count each of criminal trespass and defiant trespassing, according to The
Times-Tribune.
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Sep 13 2012 by Daniel Mckenzie, Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News
A SECOND alleged sighting of a red-eyed vigilante has sparked rumours that a ‘superhero’ is fighting crime in Runcorn.
The Weekly News has now received two reports of a masked man dressed all in black with glowing red eyes coming to the rescue of victims of crime.
The latest report claims the mystery man stopped a gang of hooded youths from stealing a motorbike near Town Park on Friday night.
It follows a letter which alleged that a similar looking figure fought off two men who were hassling a woman near the Royal British Legion.
Blurb for the book: Slenderman: From Fiction to Fact, by Rev. Robin Swope:
Has a fictional internet character come to life? Slenderman was created on
June 10th 2009. During a contest on the "Something Awful" forum in which people
were asked to create a fictional paranormal character to fool investigators. A
submission by "Victor Surge" took the forum and soon the Internet by storm. His
creation "Slenderman" is a paranormal entity that lurks in the shadows, stalking
people from their childhood. Once encountered, it is an unrelenting and
unstoppable force of evil that does not rest until you are dead. This shadow
entity is dressed in a black suit and is inhumanly tall with oddly long limbs.
These limbs eerily extend out and multiply to trap you in its terrifying death
embrace. But the oddest thing about this fictional internet character? People
are actually having encounters with a real life Slenderman entity. In this new
book by Robin Swope you will discover the origin and growth of the Slenderman
myth, its historical archetypal imagery and the chilling clues that point to
this modern myth is in fact an actual demonic force that has been hunting humans
for hundreds of years. Join Rev. Robin Swope, a seminary trained exorcist and
minister as he explores the strange story of the malicious child killing entity
known as Slenderman.
Rev. Robin Swope is a Writer and has been a Christian Minister for more
than 20 years in both Mainline and Evangelical Denominations. He holds a B.A. in
Biblical Literature from Nyack College and a Masters of Divinity in Pastoral
Ministry with an emphasis on Pastoral Counseling from Alliance Theological
Seminary. He has served as a Missionary to Burkina Faso, and has ministered to
the homeless in New York City's Hell's Kitchen. He is currently the Pastor of
St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is also a freelance
journalist for Examiner.com, has a column in the Tri-State Senior News and has also written for Fate
Magazine. Rev. Swope also lectures at various conferences and events and we will
also be discussing his newest book released book, Slenderman:
From Fiction to Fact To follow Robin's blog visit The Paranormal Pastor
First picture ever posted on the net.
From WeKnowMemes
From WeKnowMemes
Is this a validation of the "The Philip Aylesford Experiment?"
or might this be a form of noumenon contagion? (example below):
June bug epidemic
The June bug epidemic serves as a classic example of
hysterical contagion. In 1962 a mysterious disease broke out in a dressmaking
department of a US textile factory. The symptoms included numbness,
nausea, dizziness,
and vomiting.
Word of a bug in the factory that would bite its victims and develop the above
symptoms quickly spread. Soon sixty two employees developed this mysterious
illness, some of whom were hospitalized. The news media reported on the case.
After research by company physicians and experts from the US Public Health ServiceCommunicable Disease Center, it was concluded
that the case was one of mass hysteria.
While the researchers believed some workers were bitten
by the bug, anxiety
was likely the cause of the symptoms. No evidence was ever found for a bug
which could cause the above flu-like symptoms, nor did all workers demonstrate
bites.
Workers concluded that the environment was quite stressful;
the plant had recently opened, was quite busy and organization was poor.
Further, most of the victims reported high levels of stress in their lives. Social forces seemed at
work too. Of the 62 employees that reported symptoms, 59 worked on the first
shift, 58 worked in the same area, and 50 of the 62 cases occurred in the two
consecutive days after the media supposedly “sensationalized” the event. Most
of the employees who became sick took days off to recuperate.
Some have questioned whether the incident was a massive
cover-up, but most evidence suggests psychological and social forces were at
work at the clothing factory.
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Here's a poem that I wrote this week. Not really horror or fantasy related, just a bit of observation.
Dawning
We grow used to darkness that chills like ice as long as it is spaced apart from our neighbor's light and their darkness from ours so we may not bear witness
We watch with caloused eye the bleeding deluge of our evening news, telling visions in the dark seeing nothing... nothing but the answers we desire
Gray shadows cast long in the late afternoon of our brains deepening to black, into starless night the full moon rising as a symbol of our shuttered hearts the great god of zero
Good men grope through darkness their fingers raw from scaled walls sometimes finding a vein of light directly in front of them mining the shining truth from where it has always been waiting
Good men realize darkness deceives the heart and bewitches the eye they fight on through the midnights finding life and enlightenment with the coming of each dawn
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