The Berryville Mountain Incident
(Trigger Warning: Nothing graphic, but does elude to themes of sexual assault, and child abuse.)
The following account is cited from the Knoxville Daily Report, online edition, Dec 3rd. 2014.
A near-legendary, mystery may have finally been solved after eluding police and other investigators for nearly…
Stage 1: Denial (90–91)
The 90s were not very kind to the 80s. Never before or since have I personally witnessed a pop culture shift happen so quickly, and brutally, than that of the Nirvana-pocalypse, of 1991. …
It’s not about politics. Its about what’s real, and what’s not.
By Mike Moran of the Confessional Podcast.
For as long as I can remember, I have always been given the impression that the Democratic Party, was the one devoted to economic inequality, and fighting racial injustice, most specifically in…
Frankenstein Cliches that came from the Movies, not the Book.
By Mike Moran of the Confessional Podcast.
It takes a really strong motion picture to overtake the book it’s based on in pop culture, but it happens occasionally. When we think of The Shawshank Redemption, we picture Morgan Freeman as…
Why There has Never Been a Great Slasher Film (Part 2).
(Read part 1 here):
Reason #3:
They became Monster Movies Instead of Horror Movies.
The Most Brutal Assaults of Suge Knight.
The boogeyman of hip-hop, and the victims who got it the worst.
By Mike Moran of the Confessional Podcast.
Trigger warning: contains graphic depictions of violence, including violence against women.
In what may be the most inappropriate nicknaming of all time, Marion Knight…
Actress Adrianne King’s Life became a real life Horror Movie.
By Mike Moran of the Confessional Podcast.
Audiences in 1980 couldn’t get enough of a grind-house, slasher-film called Friday the 13th. Before the franchise generated endless sequels, multi-media spin-offs, and a horror icon in a hockey mask named Jason, Friday…
When a True Crime Writer was Outed as a Famous Murderer as a Child: Times True Crime got way too Meta, Part 1.
By Mike Moran of the Confessional Podcast:
Starting in the late 70s, author Anne Perry published prolifically her macabre mystery tales, chock full of murder and conspiracy.
D.B. Cooper: The Greatest Highjacking, or the Greatest Hoax?
By Mike Moran of The Confessional Podcast:
The story of DB Cooper is almost too perfect to believe.
On a frigid Thanksgiving Eve in 1971, a soft-spoken, well-dressed man, with minimal words or action, convinced the FBI to hand him over…
Why There has Never Been a Great Slasher Film (Part 1).
By Mike Moran of the Confessional Podcast:
The Slasher Film.
It’s a simple formula:
Prologue:
We are introduced to an urban legend of some kind: a cursed camp, a neighborhood boy who killed a family member, a group of…
