Macabre Crimes That Time Forgot

🌒 Macabre Crimes That Time Forgot: From Iron Boxes to Cult Butchers

When you enter the pages of Macabre: True Crimes & Mysteries, you’re not flipping through cold academic pages—you’re entering rooms where the walls still seem to breathe, where blood dried long ago but the shadows never quite left.

From Bangkok’s haunted canals to California’s delta marshes, these aren’t just stories. Below, we spotlight a few of the most unforgettable cases from Volume 1.

🛢 The Iron Box Killer (Thailand)

The water was supposed to wash away the sins.

Instead, it revealed them—sealed inside rusted iron trunks, floating like cursed relics through the khlongs of early 20th-century Bangkok.

In Thonburi, a “monk” named Boonpeng Buaklee claimed to offer divine blessings. What he actually gave his victims was death—slow, ceremonial, and deliberately grotesque. Upper-class women came seeking fertility and love spells. They left this world folded into iron coffins, doused in herbal ash, and dumped like cargo.

He was the last man beheaded in Thailand. But his real legacy? Fear.

Did You Know? Thai children still whisper about “Heep Lek”—the Iron Box—when telling ghost stories. He became shorthand for spiritual betrayal in a land where monks are meant to be sacred.

It wasn’t just the murders. It was where they happened—in temples, in shrines, under the guise of holy ritual. When faith wears the face of the killer, the entire culture flinches.

And some wounds never heal.

🎭 The Children of Thunder (USA)

California’s sunshine doesn’t bleach out madness. It hides it in plain sight.

In 2000, Glen Taylor Helzer—once a clean-cut Mormon missionary—decided God had spoken to him. Told him he...Read More