Serial Killers, Madmen (And Women Too)

A ''Dark Tour'' into The World's Worst ''Humans''

The Knife of Jack The Ripper

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-knife-of-jack-the-ripper 4th Jan 2023 - Much has been written of The ''Fiend of Whitechapel'' and ''Saucy Jack''. We know him better as ''Jack The Ripper''. Although not the most prolific of …

Jack The Ripper's Diary

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/jack-the-rippers-diary 3rd Jan 2023 -  One of the most hotly debates ''Arcane Artifacts'' of the late 20th Century The Diary of Jack The Ripper was a supposed hand written journal bel …

''The Blackout Ripper'' (Gordon Cummings)

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-blackout-ripper-gordon-cummings 25th Dec 2022 -  We've all heard of the infamous Serial Killer ''Jack The Ripper'' who terrorized London in the late 19th Century. And while with the end of His …

Elizabeth Bathory

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/elizabeth-bathory 21st Dec 2022 -  A "real" Monster or perhaps slandered "Heroine", The Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary is remembered to History as one of the worst female s …

Giles De Rais

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/giles-de-rais 21st Dec 2022 -  Born in 1405, The Baron Gilles de Rais, one time Marshall of France became the second most prolific serial killers of the Medieval World. Gilles …

''The Cropsey Killer'' (Andre Rand)

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-cropsey-killer-andre-rand 17th Dec 2022 -  A very disturbing view and Case of a very ''Human'' Monster, Andre Rand will forever go down in the annals of Crime as quite a bizarre, and perh …

The Burke and Hare Case

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-burke-and-hare-case 16th Dec 2022 -  Messers William Burke and William Hare, are known to Criminal History as ''Body Snatchers'' of some renown. During the year of 1828, in Edinburg …

The '''Bloody Benders''

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-bloody-benders 16th Dec 2022 -  The Bender Family of Kansas (US) will forever be linked to a rather ''bloody'' segment of American Criminal History. Known (thanks to Newspapers …

''The Vampire of Dusseldorf'' (Peter Kurten)

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-vampire-of-dusseldorf-peter-kurten 9th Dec 2022 - This real Monster terrorized The City of Dusseldorf, Germany for almost 1 year in 1929. His real name was Peter Kurten. Born poor, he witnesses the co …

''The French Ripper'' (Joseph Vacher)

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-french-ripper-joseph-vacher 6th Dec 2022 - Or more appropriately, one Joseph Vacher – is often compared to Great Britian’s infamous Serial Killer, Jack The Ripper. In Vacher’s …

''The Brooklyn Vampire'' (Albert Fish)

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-brooklyn-vampire-albert-fish 6th Dec 2022 - Criminal History seldom forgets those truly ‘’memorable’’ Fiends, identified as Serial Killers. And perhaps, it never will for …

''The Butcher of Planfield'' (Edward Gein)

https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/the-butcher-of-planfield-edward-gein 5th Dec 2022 - The ‘’Butcher of Plainfield’’ was better known as Edward Gein. His gruesome activities would immortalize the 1950s Serial Kill …