Month: November 2019

How could the beloved author of the children’s classic “Alice in Wonderland” possibly be the same mysterious serial killer who murdered prostitutes in London during the late 1800s? Richard Wallace, author of the 1996 book Jack the Ripper: Light-Hearted Friend, claimed the clues can be found in Carroll’s own books.

Several passages in novels like Sylvie and Bruno, written around the same time of the murders, were actually anagrams, Wallace claimed. If you rearranged certain sentences, they would become horrifying confessions, like: “I got a tight hold of her and slit her throat, left ear to right.”

Wallace, however, took a lot of creative license with the anagrams, and often left out words to make his case. His theory is likely not true, but it still makes us shiver just to imagine a children’s author going on the prowl for victims at night.

The Ice Bucket Challenge, a globally popular Internet sensation that raised money for ALS research, was rumored to have its origins in a ritual purification ceremony that, according to at least one conspiracy theorist, was “cleansing America in the name of Antichrist Lucifer Satan for some future thing.” There was also the suspicious death of Corey Griffin, one of the founders of the Ice Bucket Challenge, who mysteriously jumped off a roof and died just after an ALS benefit in 2014. Was it a suicide… or murder?