In the winter of 1878, a man unnecessarily slaughtered and ate his wife and five children, thought to be under influence of the wendigo. A creature with sunken eyes and a skeletal frame, the wendigo has prowled the Great Lakes region with an insatiable need for food, preserved in the stories of First Nations folklore. It is described as a twisted and cannibalistic human, a malevolent spirit of famine, and an inescapable curse.  With sightings and psychosis dating back centuries, can you outrun the wendigo?

On March 17, 1942, unknown to the people at the time, the world gained one of the most monstrous serial killers. In part one of our two part coverage of John Wayne Gacy, we delve into his early life, his first charges and convictions, and his first victims of many. Are you ready to face the Killer Clown?

Welcome back to the killer clown phase of 2016, with the highlight of the year: “Terrifier”. One Halloween night, a monstrous killer, known only as Art the Clown, terrorizes the visitors of a run-down apartment building in gleeful silence. Using his bag of tools and terrible tricks, Art the Clown scalpel-whips, clown-shoes, and saws his way through the night, etching himself into horror history forever. We barely made it through unscathed. Think you can handle it?

On February 2, 1933, in Le Mans, France, two sisters brutally slaughtered their employers wife and daughter in their own home, leaving them almost unrecognizable. Long before this night however, Léa and Christine Papin had lived through horror, growing up in a terrible workforce, an abusive home, and a strange connection between the two of them that everyone around them found unsettling. But what caused them to kill, and then to immediately confess? Sometimes, the help can hurt.

Welcome to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where something's not quite right. A tall dark creature with massive wings has been spotted in the skies and on the dark night of November 15, 1966, two couples had its red eyes burned forever into their memory. But what is this creature? A hoax? A crane? Or a real life Mothman? Come on, follow the light.

March 19th, 1919. The day jazz rocked through the city of New Orleans from dawn until dusk. From 1918-1919, residents lived in fear of a serial killer known only as "The Axeman". Exclusively attacking at night, he only struck while his victims were asleep in their beds. Never using his own tools, only those on hand in the victim's household, the murder weapon was usually an axe, which he left behind. Despite attempts from the police, he was never caught.

For the start of the miniseries, we're bringing you back to 1920's Scotland, where street gangs popularized a brutal attack called the Glasgow smile. Known mostly through pop culture in characters like the Joker or in the famous case of the Black Dahlia, let’s put a smile on that face.

On the morning of January 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short's body was found mutilated, bisected, and abandoned in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. Unsolved to this day, the brutal murder of the Black Dahlia became one of the most popularized and intensified killings of the 20th century. What happened to Elizabeth Short?