Horror Report

Day: August 2, 2015

  • The waning days of summer

    The waning days of summer

    fireflyIt happens this time of year. Every year.. the moment when you’re staring at a beautiful summer sunset only to realize how early it’s leaving us.. how short the days are becoming.

    Sure, there’s plenty of heat coming.. Scorching conditions of August, dog days of the month. They will undoubtedly occur.. and when the first burst of cold air comes in it will make us feel alive.

    But we’re also be saying goodbye to the summer season.. the months of the year where the great ball of light in the sky makes us feel alive. Amazingly alive.

    I have come to love the sun.
    When I was younger and less skilled in the game of life, the summer was a dreadful time. I hated the heat, the storms.. the sultry conditions of the night. As I grew older, I began to realize how important this time of year was.. how amazing and life giving the heat can be, even when you’re sweating through T shirts and wiping your brow..

    So here it is again.. back to school purchases being made. End of summer clothing sales on racks.. And yes, even Halloween candy slowly starting to rear its head at convenient store counters. Signs of the season..
    Signs of the dying season.

    Fireflies are still littering the air at dusk in a beautiful serenade to the night. But the lights are dimming. There are less of them now, more darkness .. More crickets .. Sounds of late summer mating.

    It will all go by very fast now. Enjoy it.
    Enjoy all of it.. every bead of sweat.. every ray of sun.. Every last minute of light before darkness sets in..
    Before the cold..
    Before the summer ends.

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  • Head in saucepan ‘granny killer’

    Head in saucepan ‘granny killer’

    Russia was shocked this week by the arrest of a 68-year-old woman being dubbed the babushka serial killer..

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    Tamara Samsonova murdered a 79-year-old companion for not washing tea cups. It gets worse.. she then cut up the body and dumped parts around town..

    And worse: There is video of her dragging body parts from closed circuit TV–something police have enthusiastically embraced as the best evidence that the old woman did the crime.

    And not just that crime.

    RT followed the story and has an extensive report about the babushka wearing murderer.. This from the report:

    The search there produced evidence suggesting that this was not the first violent crime committed by Samsonova. Further investigation led to a discovery straight out of a horror movie.
    The investigators found a detailed diary she had kept for some years in three languages, the report said, in which Samsonova accounted for a dozen murders since the late 1990s.

    And more:

    Neighbors have described Samsonova as an “misfit.” It was revealed that she had previously been treated by a mental health clinic on more than occasion, and been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
    Once detained for Valentina’s murder, she initially said that the victim set her up and that another neighbor, a health worker by trade, assisted her in the killing, which was proved to be a lie.
    Samsonova also told police that she graduated from St. Petersburg ballet school, but in reality she used to be a bellhop in a hotel.
    Police say that before killing her victims she used to sedate them with powerful drugs to immobilize them.

    Various other names are being used to describe the the killer–the media enjoys dubbing someone something, in this instance creativity is taking hold. Like this: The ‘Granny Ripper.’ The Babushka Yaga. Or this.. Granny the Ripper. And countless more.

    While some may be having obvious fun with the age of the criminal, the murders seem as horrific as anything conducted by a killer less her age. Brutal and inescapable.

    And now with a diary, police  believe it’s proove enough that she committed countless other crimes beyond the pale.

    One neighbor told RT reporters that this entire scenario was even worse than a horror movie.
    Funny she said that. The first thing I thought was that some creative movie maker out there was going to make a horror film based on this.

    Which in itself seems tragic and gross just as much as the crime that may inspire it..