Tyler MacDonald
School
University Of Guelph
Expertise
Weird History, Horror Movies, Metal & Punk Music
- Tyler has a book collection spanning everything from horror and fantasy to mythology.
- While studying psychology, Tyler took electives that focused on everything from crime to biology.
- Tyler is always looking for the next local show or horror movie.
Experience
Tyler has been writing professionally for almost a decade, and throughout his life, he has written fiction and non-fiction of all kinds. He started his professional writing career while completing his psychology degree and has written for publications like New Atlas, ZME Science, and COGconnected. Over the years, he has written on topics ranging from true crime and entertainment to video games.
Education
Tyler has a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Guelph.
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Stories By Tyler MacDonald
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The competitive nature of athletics has pushed many to turn anabolic steroids, which lead to adverse behavioral effects -- more commonly known as "roid rage."
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One of the tragic incidents was the Paxton Boys massacre, when Pennsylvania rebels slaughtered an unarmed Indian settlement amid the heightened tensions of war.
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The life of Daniel LaPlante is both disturbing and tragic, leading to three murders, but he had other victims that were not killed.
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Drug lord Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, portrayed in Netflix's Narcos: Mexico, capitalized on the burgeoning cocaine trade in the 1980s.
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Puddle of Mudd singer Wes Scantlin revealed that Durst helped him navigate the byzantine music industry and make connections, the foundation of his career.
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Before she was killed in a public hit in her hometown, Medellín Cartel drug lord Griselda Blanco was profiting from the booming '70s and '80s cocaine trade.
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Danny Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper for killing college students in Florida, was the inspiration for the famous Scream movies.
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Notorious Medellín Cartel drug lord Griselda Blanco shaped her legacy with the vicious approach she exerted over the cocaine trade in the 1970s and 1980s.
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H.P. Lovecraft overcame his apparent aversion to physical affection and kissed just one woman: Sonia Greene, a fellow fiction writer and Jewish immigrant.
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In February of 1911, one of the last clashes between Native Americans and United States forces -- "the Last Massacre" -- occurred in Humboldt County, Nevada.
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Riding the nu-metal wave, the band Mudvayne offered their own take on this darkness when they explored the humanity of killer Ed Gein in "Nothing To Gein."
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For a span of four years in the early 1990s, serial killer Joel Rifkin left a string of terror across New York City.
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Before Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer picked up his instrument of choice, an unfortunate accident took part of his finger.
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The conman and murderer Charles Sobhraj eluded authorities for years as his wave of crime and murder swept across Southeast Asia's infamous Hippie Trail.
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The young United States drew inspiration from knowledge gleaned from the past, including the Great Law of Peace that created the Iroquois Confederacy.
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While his slew of murders defined his life before he was executed in 1989, a lesser known fact is that Ted Bundy first practiced his sick craft on pet mice.
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Shipman was allegedly his mother's favorite child. Due to her domineering nature, he is believed to have developed a sense of superiority over others.
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Like his fellow martial artists-turned-actors, Steven Seagal uses his real-world fighting skills in the fictional stories that define his lengthy career.
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But in addition to facing criticism for co-opting the sound of Nirvana, the band also found themselves growingly increasingly defined by singer Wes Scantlin.
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Perhaps it's no surprise that punk veterans NOFX — who have been around for nearly 40 years — think their early work is terrible.
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Eventually, the stream of corporate chaos ended in tragedy when Maurizio Gucci was shot dead in the foyer of his office in 20 Via Palestro, Milan, in 1995.
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For over a decade, the elusive conman and murderer Charles Sobhraj left a trail of dead along Southeast Asia's Hippie Trail before he was caught and imprisoned.
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The story that defines Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci has it all: a marriage on a downward spiral, the hiring of hitman who then murdered Gucci.
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Those only familiar with the Gucci brand in recent decades might be surprised to hear that there's a more unsettling word it is inextricably linked to: murder.
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Although she continues to deny her crime, Reggiani was imprisoned for organizing the murder of her ex-husband after the evidence pointed to her as the culprit.
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In 2009, the Beatrice Six were released after DNA evidence cleared them, following the years-long efforts of Joseph White, who maintained his innocence.
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The kidnappings committed by Ariel Castro were part of a uniquely unsettling crime. The school bus driver used his home as a prison for his three abductees.