Horror Stories
11 Real-Life Horror Stories That Are Way More Terrifying Than Anything Hollywood Could Dream Up
By Marco Margaritoff
Published October 23, 2019
Updated May 22, 2020
From Alexander the Great being buried alive to one man paying to watch a little girl be cannibalized, these true horror stories go way beyond Rated R.
Anatoly Moskvin was a history buff. He spoke 13 languages and worked as a journalist in Russia’s fifth-largest city, Nizhny Novgorod. His parents believed they had a healthy and successful son on their hands, but it turned out he was a living horror story.
Moskvin’s parents merely thought he had a strange fascination with collecting vintage dolls. The police, however, quickly discovered otherwise — they were the mummified corpses of 29 women and children.
