This month’s mystery is a bit of a grim entry into the pop culture mythos of the 90s. As a child of the 90s, Pokemon was a big part of my childhood. The first generation of games (Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow) took place in the Kanto Region. One of …
Category: Cultural
The Mysterious: Black Eyed Kids
It’s spooky month, readers! That means it’s time for me to cover topics that are near and dear to my heart. So this month’s mystery is one of the big ones I’ve wanted to cover. Are the Black Eyed Kids aliens? Time travelers? Vampires? Ghosts? Nobody knows! Here’s what we do know - they’re creepy …
The Mysterious: Lewis Carroll the Ripper
For this month’s mystery, we are heading into a place where the literary world and the true crime world intersect. This is by far one of the most absurd and baffling theories concerning one of the biggest mysteries in the history of true crime. Many have come to terms with the fact that we may …
The Mysterious: The Pollock Sisters
This month’s mystery is something we haven’t touched on yet here at the Morbid Library - reincarnation. The case of the Pollock Twins has been hailed as the most compelling case of reincarnation - but questions swirl around the two young girls’ circumstances and the validity of their claims. Let’s explore. The Tale This story …
The Mysterious: Agatha Christie’s Disappearance
This month’s mystery is another literary one. Agatha Christie is one of the best mystery writers to have ever lived, creating beloved characters that live on in pop culture today. However, despite the number of mysteries Christie penned, one she lived through has lived on as the most confounding and complex enigmas in the literary …
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The Mysterious: Lake Michigan Triangle
Happy Halloween month! I hope everyone has some spooky shenanigans planned despite all the fuckery COVID has wreaked on typical October activities. To celebrate here at the Morbid Library, we’re going to cover one of Michigan’s most interesting and lesser-known mysteries. If you haven’t realized (or didn’t read the author page) - I’m from Michigan …
The Mysterious: Georgia Guidestones
There are a lot of things in the United States that are referred to as “America’s Stonehenge.” In fact, we’ve already taken a look at one of them: Mystery Hill in New Hampshire. For most of these things, the designation as something even in the ballpark of Stonehenge makes me roll my eyes. Stonehenge is …
The Mysterious: Sylvia Plath Effect
This month’s cultural mystery is the strange and disquieting Sylvia Plath Effect. Sylvia is perhaps my favorite author of all time, and I myself deal with mental health issues, so this topic is very close to my heart. Let’s explore. Major TW for suicide ahead. Who Was Sylvia? In order to understand why this phenomena …