Category: Historical

Crossroad Demons & Robert Johnson

The Man Who Sold His Soul To The Devil At The Cross Roads

Birth Name | Robert Leroy Johnson
Born |  May 8, 1911
Hazlehurst, Mississippi, U.S.
Died | August 16, 1938 (aged 27)
Greenwood, Mississippi

Journey into the life of Robert Johnson, the enigmatic bluesman whose haunting melodies and profound lyrics shaped the face of music.

Titanic

History

RMS Titanic.  RMS stands for Royal Mail Ship.  While it was a luxurious passenger carrier, it was also specifically designed to carry mail from place to place – that was kinda the purpose of it, otherwise it wouldn’t have been named RMS

Sister Ships

HMHS Brittanic

  • 1915-1916
    • HMHS | Her/His Majest’s Hospital Ship
    • It was sunk by a german submarine off the coast of Greece in 1916. 

Insane Asylums

History

The very first known insane asylums, or psychiatric hospitals, was established in the Arab world, specifically in Baghdad (918 CE) and Cairo. Before these institutions, individuals with mental illness were often cared for by their families.

Treatments

Bleeding and Purging #1

Mental illness was viewed as a disease of the body rather than the brain, and patients were often prescribed weeks of forced bleeding, vomiting and diarrhoea in order to purge the body of its ‘melancholic humours’.

Halloween & Haunted Houses

Haunted Hydro

Located in a former 1910 hydroelectric power plant, it is known for being a one-of-a-kind haunted house.

The attraction is housed within an old hydro plant in Fremont, Ohio. In 2019, the original owners of 30 years put the 6.5-acre property up for sale before it was taken over by new management.