Hh holmes

If the building could be the home to a super villain or evil corporation, it belongs here or really just any creepy looking building or maybe...

The Oak Cliff College for Young Ladies, which only lasted [...]

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H.H. Holmes, widely considered to be the nation’s first serial killer, was apprehended after being tracked to the West End in 1894.

Could history's two most notorious killers actually be the same man? Jeff Mudgett, great-great-grandson of America's first serial killer and expert con man, H....

This is a hand-drawn cutaway of H.H. Holmes’ Murder Castle. I compiled blueprints, case notes, and other references in an effort to render the building as accurately as possible. It’s drawn with Micron liner pens and colored in Photoshop. Scroll down to see detail shots, the process, and references.

The Devil's City - In the latter half of the 19th century Chicago grew from a town of a few thousand farmers to a sprawling metropolis of

Torture Chambers. Acid Vats. Secret Passageways. At the height of this criminal career, the infamous Dr. H.H. Holmes designed his castle of horrors in

The first known & convicted Serial Killer in the United States H.H. Holmes

In 1873, Mark Twain coined the term “The Gilded Age” to describe a superficially prosperous America undergirded with massive social problems, corruption, even deep wells of horror. On…

But [Holmes’] castle, it now seems, as its labyrinths are explored, was his principal place of operation, and there it was that he planned and schemed and where many beautiful women are belie…

The great-grandchildren of Dr. H. H. Holmes, America's first serial killer, have requested to have his body exhumed, hoping thereby to put an end to the

HH HOLMES burned, poisoned, gassed and tortured up to 200 people. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the sadistic monster in Martin Scorcese's new film The Devil in the White City as new controversy surrounds his next film The Revenant.

A Clue Room original.

In April of 2018, we traveled to Chicago to attend an event that was at the Congress Plaza Hotel. Part of that event was a bus tour down to the Englewood Post Office, which happens to be the former location of H.H. Holmes Murder Castle.There have been many books, YouTube videos, documentaries, and TV Shows talking about the Murder Castle, but the location of the post office is 611 W 63rd St, Chicago, IL 60621.For those who don't know, Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896)…

For years, Herman Webster Mudgett (H H Holmes) was consiered the most prolific mass murderer in US history - and will live on in infamy as America's first serial killer.

Historically accurate 3D cutaway illustration of serial killer H. H. Holmes' Murder Castle.

These real-life killers inspired some infamous American Horror Story characters, from H.H. Holmes and John Wayne Gacy to Madame Delphine LaLaurie and Ed Gein.