Morbid Curiousities – Mellified Mummy

The ancient art of marinating yourself in honey for the good of mankind, naturally.

Honey has long been celebrated for its preservative powers, jars of the stuff have been found intact in Egyptian tombs, still perfectly edible after three thousand years. But somewhere along the way, certain medieval minds decided that simply eating honey wasn’t ambitious enough. Why not become the honey? Why not dissolve, entirely and posthumously, into a golden elixir of healing? And so, dear reader, the mellified mummy was born.

NZGeekChicJuly 14, 2026July 13, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Haunted, NZGeekChic

When the Set Became a Killing Ground

The Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) A night shoot in the canyons above Los Angeles ended with three dead and Hollywood changed forever.

Before the first reel of Twilight Zone: The Movie ever reached a theatre, the production had already claimed three lives. The night of July 23, 1982, began like any other night shoot, generators humming, walkie-talkies crackling, the smell of smoke machines threading through the Santa Clarita scrubland. It ended in blood, wreckage, and decades of unanswered questions about who was truly responsible for the most catastrophic on-set accident in Hollywood history.

NZGeekChicJuly 7, 2026July 5, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic

Space’s Creepiest Mystery

On a muggy August night in 1977, a strip of computer printout rolled out of a machine at Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope, and astronomer Jerry Ehman did something almost no scientist ever gets to do.

He grabbed a red pen, circled six characters on the page, and wrote a single word in the margin that would echo across decades: Wow!

“1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 6 E Q U J 5 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 Wow!” — J. Ehman Aug 1977

Those six alphanumeric characters 6EQUJ5 represented a 72-second blast of radio energy arriving at exactly 1420.405 megahertz, the so-called hydrogen line. This is the frequency that scientists had long theorised an intelligent civilisation might use to broadcast across the cosmos, because hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and any space faring species would know it. The signal was precisely what the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence had dreamed of finding. It arrived. It dazzled. Then it was gone.

NZGeekChicJune 30, 2026June 30, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic

Weird and Wacky – The Toynbee Tiles

Somewhere beneath the feet of commuters crossing Philadelphia’s busy intersections, a secret is buried in the asphalt.

You might walk over it every single day without knowing. But if you stop, look down, and catch it at just the right angle, you’ll find a linoleum tile, roughly the size of a doormat pressed into the road’s surface and bearing one of the strangest phrases ever embedded in urban infrastructure: TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER. Welcome to the mystery of the Toynbee Tiles.

NZGeekChicJune 23, 2026June 22, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Psychology

Creepy Towns of America – Behind the Tulip Curtain

Every spring, the town of Pella, Iowa erupts in a riot of tulips, tens of thousands of blooms in cheerful red, yellow, and white, drawing tourists from across the Midwest to its Tulip Time Festival. Windmills creak pleasantly in the breeze. Church spires pierce a wide, flat sky. On the surface, Pella looks like a Hallmark movie set, scrubbed clean and picture-perfect.

But linger past the festival weekend, and a different kind of atmosphere settles in one that feels less like small-town charm and more like the opening act of something you can’t quite name.

NZGeekChicJune 16, 2026June 15, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Serial Killers & Murders

The Truck, the Scream, the Telephone ( The Night Angela went Missing)

Picture it: a spring night in small-town Missouri, April 1991.

Angela Hammond, twenty years old, four months along, ring on her finger, whole life ahead of her like a long country road with the porch light on at the end. She drops her fiancé Rob at his folks’ place, swings by a payphone because that’s how you stayed in love before the internet, eh and rings him up just to keep talking a little longer.

NZGeekChicJune 9, 2026June 8, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Vampires

Richmond Vampire In Virginia

An ancient predator, a collapsed tunnel, and the mausoleum that refuses to give up its secrets

Right, so picture this: it’s a perfectly ordinary Tuesday in Richmond, Virginia – autumn light doing that amber thing through the oak trees and underneath the Church Hill neighbourhood, the earth simply decides it has had enough. Workers boring through the old railway tunnel in 1925 hear a groan so deep it belongs to the geological record, not any sound a human throat should make. Then the tunnel collapses, and the world above swallows three men whole. If you grew up reading Lovecraft under the duvet with a torch, you already know where this is going.

NZGeekChicJune 2, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Serial Killers & Murders

The Murder of Reet Jurvetson

Kia ora, my beautifully morbid lot, pull your black wool cape a little tighter, because tonight we’re headed somewhere dark. Not Rotorua-at-midnight dark. Not Wellington-in-winter dark. We’re talking Mulholland Drive in November 1969 dark. the kind of dark that swallows a nineteen-year-old girl whole and spits out only silence.

NZGeekChicMay 26, 2026May 25, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Middle Ages, NZGeekChic

The Devil’s Handshake

Picture this: it’s the middle of winter in New Zealand. You’re rugged up on the couch in your best black hoodie, doom-scrolling TikTok while the rain hammers the windows. And there, between a satisfying slime video and a Tauranga café review, an absolute unit of a medieval torture device appears on your screen. Welcome, my ghoulishly curious friends, to the very strange second life of the thumbscrew or as history’s more dramatic corners prefer to call it, the Devil’s Handshake.

NZGeekChicMay 13, 2026May 12, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Medicality, NZGeekChic

The Hungriest Man in History: The Bizarre Case of Charles Domery

Some people eat to live. Charles Domery lived to eat and then ate some more.

If you thought your mate who demolishes an entire pizza after a night out had an impressive appetite, allow us to introduce you to Charles Domery: an 18th-century Polish-born soldier whose stomach appeared to operate by entirely different rules than the rest of humanity.

NZGeekChicMay 5, 2026May 4, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Paranormal

Where The Wilderness Swallows Souls: The Alaska Triangle

There are places on this earth where the veil between the known and the unknowable grows thin where civilisation frays at its edges and something older, darker, and profoundly indifferent waits just beyond the treeline. The Alaska Triangle is one such place.

Stretching its skeletal fingers between the port city of Anchorage, the fog-draped capital of Juneau, and the remote, wind-scoured settlement of Utqiagvik once known as Barrow, a name that itself conjures images of burial mounds and cold earth, this vast and brooding region has been consuming human lives for decades. Since the 1970s, more than 20,000 souls have vanished within its borders. Not merely lost. Vanished. As though the land itself reached up and simply… took them.

NZGeekChicApril 28, 2026April 27, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Serial Killers & Murders

Sharon Tate: The Night Hollywood Lost Its Innocence

Eight months pregnant and full of promise, Sharon Tate’s life was stolen in a crime that shocked the world. More than fifty years later, the horror of Cielo Drive still refuses to fade.

She was one of Hollywood’s brightest rising stars, a breathtaking actress, a devoted wife, and a mother-to-be just weeks away from welcoming her first child. But on the night of August 8–9, 1969, Sharon Tate’s life was stolen from her in one of the most shocking and brutal crimes America has ever seen.

NZGeekChicApril 21, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, History of Torture, NZGeekChic

The Breast Ripper: Medieval Torture’s Most Disturbing Myth?

Was the Breast Ripper a real instrument of medieval punishment, or a myth born from our obsession with cruelty? The truth may be less certain, and far more disturbing, than the legend itself.

When it comes to the darker corners of medieval history, few alleged devices are as unsettling or as hotly debated as the Breast Ripper. Whether it was a genuine instrument of punishment or a gruesome piece of historical mythology, it tells us something deeply uncomfortable about how women were treated (or at least, how they were threatened) throughout the medieval and early modern periods.

NZGeekChicApril 13, 2026April 12, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Serial Killers & Murders

The Twitter Killer: Takahiro Shiraishi and the Predator Who Hunted the Vulnerable

He offered help to those who wanted to die—but behind the screen was something far darker. This is the story of the man who turned compassion into a weapon.

We’ve all been there : scrolling through social media late at night, feeling vulnerable, perhaps a bit lost. In 2017, nine people in Japan reached out into the digital void looking for understanding. What they found instead was Takahiro Shiraishi, a predator who weaponized compassion.

NZGeekChicApril 6, 2026April 5, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Medicality, NZGeekChic

Mary Toft and the Medical Hoax That Fooled Georgian England

In 1726, an English woman stunned some of the most respected physicians of her time with a series of claims that quickly captivated and divided Georgian society. What followed was a scandalous unraveling of deception, ambition, and exploitation that left both the public and the medical world humiliated.

Grab your cuppa and settle in, lovely readers, because today we’re diving into one of history’s most bizarre medical hoaxes and trust me, you’ll want to hear this one over the garden fence.

NZGeekChicMarch 30, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Serial Killers & Murders

The Murder Of Tara Calico

Pull up a chair, grab your tea (or something stronger), and let me tell you about a case that’s haunted amateur sleuths and investigators for over three decades.

NZGeekChicMarch 23, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Serial Killers & Murders

The Story Behind The Movie Badlands

Serial killers are a fascinating subject but let’s not forget about the victims they leave behind and the lesson that sometimes we must learn. Here is the story of what inspired the movie Badlands.

The American Midwest in the 1950s was supposed to be safe. White picket fences, malt shops, and the promise of prosperity defined the era’s mythology. But in the winter of 1957-58, two young people shattered that illusion in the most brutal way imaginable.

NZGeekChicMarch 16, 2026March 16, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Serial Killers & Murders

The Tragedy of Brandon Teena

The darkest history has to offer sometimes isn’t in war but in neighbours or people that share the same town. So, what truly happened behind the movie Boys Don’t Cry? Let NZGeekChic tell you the story.

In the quiet rural landscape of Falls City, Nebraska, the final days of 1993 unfolded with a horror that would expose the deadly consequences of hatred and institutional failure. Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old transgender man, was living his truth in a small town that would ultimately prove fatal.

NZGeekChicMarch 9, 2026March 6, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, Medicality, NZGeekChic

Alien Hand Syndrome: When Your Body Betrays You

For the most part, we trust our bodies. But what would happen if it turned against us? Like a possession but there is no ritual to free yourself from it? Let NZGeekChic talk to you about Alien Hand Syndrome!

Picture this: You’re sitting there, minding your own business, maybe scrolling through your phone or reaching for a Tim Tam, when suddenly your hand has other plans. Not the fun kind of plans, like spontaneously high-fiving strangers or doing jazz hands. No, we’re talking full-blown mutiny. Welcome to Alien Hand Syndrome, where your appendage goes rogue, and you get to watch the horror show unfold.

NZGeekChicMarch 2, 2026Leave a comment

Experts, NZGeekChic, Serial Killers & Murders

The Hello Kitty Murder: When Innocence Became Horror

What happens when a kid’s toy is used in the most gruesome way, and a murder turns into a cautionary tale? Come find out with us.

Hong Kong, 1999

Some crimes burrow beneath your skin and refuse to leave. The Hello Kitty murder is one of them, not because of its macabre nickname, but because of what it reveals about the human capacity for cruelty.

NZGeekChicFebruary 24, 2026February 20, 2026Leave a comment

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Morbid Curiousities – Mellified Mummy

The ancient art of marinating yourself in honey for the good of mankind, naturally.

When the Set Became a Killing Ground

The Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) A night shoot in the canyons above Los Angeles ended with three dead and Hollywood changed forever.

Space’s Creepiest Mystery

On a muggy August night in 1977, a strip of computer printout rolled out of a machine at Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope, and astronomer Jerry Ehman did something almost no scientist ever gets to do.

Weird and Wacky – The Toynbee Tiles

Somewhere beneath the feet of commuters crossing Philadelphia’s busy intersections, a secret is buried in the asphalt.

Creepy Towns of America – Behind the Tulip Curtain

The Truck, the Scream, the Telephone ( The Night Angela went Missing)

Picture it: a spring night in small-town Missouri, April 1991.

Richmond Vampire In Virginia

An ancient predator, a collapsed tunnel, and the mausoleum that refuses to give up its secrets

The Murder of Reet Jurvetson

The Devil’s Handshake

The Hungriest Man in History: The Bizarre Case of Charles Domery

Some people eat to live. Charles Domery lived to eat and then ate some more.

Where The Wilderness Swallows Souls: The Alaska Triangle

There are places on this earth where the veil between the known and the unknowable grows thin where civilisation frays at its edges and something older, darker, and profoundly indifferent waits just beyond the treeline. The Alaska Triangle is one such place.

Sharon Tate: The Night Hollywood Lost Its Innocence

Eight months pregnant and full of promise, Sharon Tate’s life was stolen in a crime that shocked the world. More than fifty years later, the horror of Cielo Drive still refuses to fade.

The Breast Ripper: Medieval Torture’s Most Disturbing Myth?

Was the Breast Ripper a real instrument of medieval punishment, or a myth born from our obsession with cruelty? The truth may be less certain, and far more disturbing, than the legend itself.

Mary Toft and the Medical Hoax That Fooled Georgian England

The Murder Of Tara Calico

Pull up a chair, grab your tea (or something stronger), and let me tell you about a case that’s haunted amateur sleuths and investigators for over three decades.

The Story Behind The Movie Badlands

Serial killers are a fascinating subject but let’s not forget about the victims they leave behind and the lesson that sometimes we must learn. Here is the story of what inspired the movie Badlands.

The Tragedy of Brandon Teena

The darkest history has to offer sometimes isn’t in war but in neighbours or people that share the same town. So, what truly happened behind the movie Boys Don’t Cry? Let NZGeekChic tell you the story.

Alien Hand Syndrome: When Your Body Betrays You

For the most part, we trust our bodies. But what would happen if it turned against us? Like a possession but there is no ritual to free yourself from it? Let NZGeekChic talk to you about Alien Hand Syndrome!

The Hello Kitty Murder: When Innocence Became Horror

What happens when a kid’s toy is used in the most gruesome way, and a murder turns into a cautionary tale? Come find out with us.

The ancient art of marinating yourself in honey for the good of mankind, naturally.

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On a muggy August night in 1977, a strip of computer printout rolled out of a machine at Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope, and astronomer Jerry Ehman did something almost no scientist ever gets to do.

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Somewhere beneath the feet of commuters crossing Philadelphia’s busy intersections, a secret is buried in the asphalt.

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An ancient predator, a collapsed tunnel, and the mausoleum that refuses to give up its secrets

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Some people eat to live. Charles Domery lived to eat and then ate some more.

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There are places on this earth where the veil between the known and the unknowable grows thin where civilisation frays at its edges and something older, darker, and profoundly indifferent waits just beyond the treeline. The Alaska Triangle is one such place.

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Eight months pregnant and full of promise, Sharon Tate’s life was stolen in a crime that shocked the world. More than fifty years later, the horror of Cielo Drive still refuses to fade.

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Was the Breast Ripper a real instrument of medieval punishment, or a myth born from our obsession with cruelty? The truth may be less certain, and far more disturbing, than the legend itself.

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He offered help to those who wanted to die—but behind the screen was something far darker. This is the story of the man who turned compassion into a weapon.

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Pull up a chair, grab your tea (or something stronger), and let me tell you about a case that’s haunted amateur sleuths and investigators for over three decades.

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Serial killers are a fascinating subject but let’s not forget about the victims they leave behind and the lesson that sometimes we must learn. Here is the story of what inspired the movie Badlands.

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The darkest history has to offer sometimes isn’t in war but in neighbours or people that share the same town. So, what truly happened behind the movie Boys Don’t Cry? Let NZGeekChic tell you the story.

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For the most part, we trust our bodies. But what would happen if it turned against us? Like a possession but there is no ritual to free yourself from it? Let NZGeekChic talk to you about Alien Hand Syndrome!

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