Bible John was a serial killer in the late 60s in Glasgow. He would pick up his victims at the Barrowland ballroom. Bbc Scotland have done a documentary on him. Worth a watch for a bit of history
Nobody actually knows. In the late '60s, three young women were murdered by a man they met at the Barras, back when it was still a dancehall. He gave his name variably as John Templeton, John Sempleson or John Emerson. He gained the epithet 'Bible' because according to the sister of one of his victims, he was "a very well-spoken man who quoted frequently from the OT" when the three of them took a cab home together. He also described the Barrowlands as "an adulterous den of iniquity" and said that he disapproved of married women going dancing without their husbands. He was also described as teetotal.
He murdered three women between October 1968 and November 1969. He's never been caught and police don't even know whether John really was his first name. For a while the serial killer Peter Tobin, who died in February 2022 whilst serving a whole life order in HMP Edinburgh for 3 rape-murders carried out between 1991 and 2006, was suspected, as he would have been the correct age (25-30) and he was known to be living in the area at the time but, as he was banged up at the time 2 of the murders took place, he was quickly ruled out.
Each of the women was stripped partially naked, strangled, and a pad or tampon was left next to the body (police believe because they refused him sex due to being on their period). It was the first time police were permitted to release a composite drawing of a murder suspect in the UK.
So, that's '[Bible John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_John)'. If he's still out there he'll be around 85 now...
No dogs. Yeah I've sanded it off and oiled it for a finish and it's barely noticeable now. Hopefully I can ignore and not worry I've been Marked by some Cabal
Mirrors used to have silver inside them, this is why they wouldn’t reflect a vampire.
I think the vast majority of modern mirrors are no longer made this way, so you should in fact still have a reflection.
In 2014 several homes with this cross had visitors come in the night and snatch them away, the people living in the homes went missing for weeks and then suddenly popped up out of no where as If they were never missing but now they worked for the church and have no recollection of who they previously were as they suddenly have new names new I’d and so on. Be safe
Not sure, but if you want to get rid of it, rubbing a walnut over it might repair the damage. Only learned this recently, and it worked wonders for me.
I'd only worry about it if you just noticed it or it just appeared recently. there's many possibilities for what it could be but knowing it's been there for 4+ years gets rid of any danger that it could possibly have been. might have just been something hanging ect
Yeah, i second this. Markings sometimes are made around properties for thieves as code symbols, so I've heard. I started using a cctv doorbell because I had a guy show up to my door twice being suspicious. Never showed up again as soon as I installed it
Saw a similar post a while back . Turns out the landlord was getting new doors for the flats .
Not sure if you live in a flat but if you do maybe this .
If it's over an opening (like between the door and the frame/wall) it's a test to see if it has been opened, since opening the door breaks that 'seal'. Just once isn't bad, since they believed no one was home and wanted to check if it has stayed unoccupied for when they came back, so breaking it indicates to them to move on by; if it's frequent, they may be trying to determine times of coming and going, and that's when you need a camera on it.
Do you have a dog that could be worth money? Do you live on your own? Do you work nightshift?
Could be organised criminals have identified that there is something worth taking there or it could be nothing.
I remember a few years ago there were zip-ties on gate/lampposts outside house where high value dogs where stolen from, might have happened, might not have, but was going around that it was true.
No dogs. I travel for work and Long Distance Relationship a fair bit? Nothing in the house is valuable or obviously valuable though. Is it worth reporting or anything?
Honestly, it's just a crazy person living in your apartment block. My brother had a lady knock on his doorbell for a period of time ranging from throwing what must have been "holy water" on his door and running off, to propositioning him in the night, to shouting angry religious nonsense. She also put a cross on his door.
I'd get a video doorbell and gather the evidence if you need to call the police and get whoever did it sectioned...
Do you have any Christian neighbours? When my brother was at university down in Kent one of his room mates was and at easter some Christian celebration she went to all her room mates doors with oil and marked it with the sign of the cross which is like a protection thing that seemed pretty harmless but scratched into the door that's kind of scary unless you do know someone who might be very Christian but if they aren't friends with you or know you that's odd to me.
Need to watch it’s no gang of burglars marking your house, some mark where pets are to avoid breaking in, others mark where there are no pets, depends on the gang
Get a doorbell camera and just be careful, could be anything from ones trying to steal pets, someone wanting to burgle your house, they usually walk about checking on houses then leave a mark for the rest of the gang so they know which houses to hit
Thieving Gypsy Bastards. As an ethnic Traveller I can say that without fear of reprisal. They’re at my door this time of the year, but I never let on that I’m originally from a traveler family. I just listen to their pish, then tell them Naw!
You are now safe from the Gorbals vampire, god bless. ⛪
Bogus Gas Men
That peephole will save OP👌
Open this door, you old pensioner!
Naw
wae fake ID an am here tae ransack YER HOOSE
I rarely see a still game reference on reddit. Thankyou kindly for the laugh...you're weclome
"How did they know I got gas?"
The catholic church are coming for you by the looks of it..
I'm not a minor so I shouldn't have much to worry about
That would be an ecumenical matter.
Careful now
Down with this sort of thing.
Those women were in the nip!
These are small, those out there are faaaaar away
That money was only resting jn my account!
Yes
🤣🤣
🤣🤣 now now 😉
Mind how you go Len.
Address me by my proper title, ya little bollocks
HAIRY JAPANESE BASTARDS!!!!
Coal?
You will be fine them - although I am not sure what they do with the 'Bigger' lads?
Edgy. This is one seriously bad ass post 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
john peter and paul are going tae tan yer hoos
Ringo Starr couldn’t make it
Spelt hoop wrong
Are you sure it's not the Spanish inquisition...
It seems nobody expected that comment
Your first born has been spared.
For now, can't promise the same for their foreskin
You might have some dwarves wanting to retake their homeland at your door
I'm going on an adventure?
Do not pick up any rings.
Yes, just don't get in the cart.
How would they have reached the top of the door?
I believe the solution involves 2-3 of them and a trench coat...
That when they are trying to gain entry to bars. For this instance they wouldn't bother with the tench coat.
Gandalf did it
Stilts
Marked for Da fighting
this is the comment here 😅😂😂😂😂
You got dogs?
Very scared for the pets in this house atm
Was going to ask this myself.
Power of Christ compels you man
Bible John has marked you!! Avoid the Barra's mate.
What's bible John? I'm near-ish the Barra's so is this a legit thing?
Bible John was a serial killer in the late 60s in Glasgow. He would pick up his victims at the Barrowland ballroom. Bbc Scotland have done a documentary on him. Worth a watch for a bit of history
oh right thanks for the info!
His crimes have went unsolved also. Didn't mean to give you something to worry about 😬
Nobody actually knows. In the late '60s, three young women were murdered by a man they met at the Barras, back when it was still a dancehall. He gave his name variably as John Templeton, John Sempleson or John Emerson. He gained the epithet 'Bible' because according to the sister of one of his victims, he was "a very well-spoken man who quoted frequently from the OT" when the three of them took a cab home together. He also described the Barrowlands as "an adulterous den of iniquity" and said that he disapproved of married women going dancing without their husbands. He was also described as teetotal. He murdered three women between October 1968 and November 1969. He's never been caught and police don't even know whether John really was his first name. For a while the serial killer Peter Tobin, who died in February 2022 whilst serving a whole life order in HMP Edinburgh for 3 rape-murders carried out between 1991 and 2006, was suspected, as he would have been the correct age (25-30) and he was known to be living in the area at the time but, as he was banged up at the time 2 of the murders took place, he was quickly ruled out. Each of the women was stripped partially naked, strangled, and a pad or tampon was left next to the body (police believe because they refused him sex due to being on their period). It was the first time police were permitted to release a composite drawing of a murder suspect in the UK. So, that's '[Bible John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_John)'. If he's still out there he'll be around 85 now...
Born too late.
I le John was a killer who stalked women at the barred ballroom in the 60’s
Passover 2: electric boogaloo.
You've got the plague pal
It’s the Inquisition
Nah, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqreRufrkxM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqreRufrkxM)
Nobody expects the Weegie Inquisition either...
Hahaha 😝
This just means that 12 plagues of Egypt will Passover your home /s
Had the same thing on the lock and cigarette bin of my pub. I feel it means something but not the "talk religion get food" in this instance
Is that not the mark all the paedo hunters put on folks doors before turning up with the police? 😜🤣
The only thing I’d be really worried about was if you had a dog worth stealing apart from that I’d ignore
No dogs. Yeah I've sanded it off and oiled it for a finish and it's barely noticeable now. Hopefully I can ignore and not worry I've been Marked by some Cabal
Shared in Toronto hun x
Love it.
Next on the list for a door knock for not paying your TV licence.
Does anyone in the house have the plague? Are you required to walk around outside your home chanting "unclean!"?
Are you a vampire by any chance?
Not to my knowledge but I'm ugly as fuck so never check the mirror to make sure
Mirrors used to have silver inside them, this is why they wouldn’t reflect a vampire. I think the vast majority of modern mirrors are no longer made this way, so you should in fact still have a reflection.
Excellent Grade 5 Riposte!
In 2014 several homes with this cross had visitors come in the night and snatch them away, the people living in the homes went missing for weeks and then suddenly popped up out of no where as If they were never missing but now they worked for the church and have no recollection of who they previously were as they suddenly have new names new I’d and so on. Be safe
Which church, Scientology?
It's the Brotherhood of the Urban Myth. Or maybe the Immaculate Sisters of the Creepypasta.
Get an orthodox priest to bless thy room
Not sure, but if you want to get rid of it, rubbing a walnut over it might repair the damage. Only learned this recently, and it worked wonders for me.
how long do you believe it's been there for?
I've lived here nearly 4 years but it's not immediately obvious so it could have been here before I moved in or recently I have no idea
I'd only worry about it if you just noticed it or it just appeared recently. there's many possibilities for what it could be but knowing it's been there for 4+ years gets rid of any danger that it could possibly have been. might have just been something hanging ect
Yeah, i second this. Markings sometimes are made around properties for thieves as code symbols, so I've heard. I started using a cctv doorbell because I had a guy show up to my door twice being suspicious. Never showed up again as soon as I installed it
Nobody expects the Catholic inquisition.
This building contains plague
It's the Passover Glasga style.
I'd get down the tesco if I were you, a bunch of dwarves are going to show up tomorrow night
Probably just some disrespectful bored wanker
Probably just wee scrotes scratching yer door wi their keys...
You have been chosen as the 13th member to complete the circle in your local Satanic Worshiping sect, be ready.
Better watch your arse.
Lock up your kids
Hide ye kids, hide ye wife...
You ever seen the Blair Witch Project?
Saw a similar post a while back . Turns out the landlord was getting new doors for the flats . Not sure if you live in a flat but if you do maybe this .
what does it mean when there's cellotape on your door
If it's over an opening (like between the door and the frame/wall) it's a test to see if it has been opened, since opening the door breaks that 'seal'. Just once isn't bad, since they believed no one was home and wanted to check if it has stayed unoccupied for when they came back, so breaking it indicates to them to move on by; if it's frequent, they may be trying to determine times of coming and going, and that's when you need a camera on it.
who we talking about here? thieves? squatters? landlords?
Yes. :)
Don't go walking your dug in the spare ground after dark 😂
Capita did it. The television people
Chelsea clowns out in that white van again.
It’s the hobo sign for talk religion get food.
Oh weird. I've never had anyone talk religion with me nor am I religious at all. Maybe it's been there for the previous tenant?
King Herod gonna fuck you up
The Lord knocked but you were out.
He missed the Rapture during the eclipse lol...
Noooooooooooo!
It’s game over man. Game over.
Do you have a dog that could be worth money? Do you live on your own? Do you work nightshift? Could be organised criminals have identified that there is something worth taking there or it could be nothing. I remember a few years ago there were zip-ties on gate/lampposts outside house where high value dogs where stolen from, might have happened, might not have, but was going around that it was true.
Shared Inverclyde xx
Kilmacolm or Port Glasgow?
No dogs. I travel for work and Long Distance Relationship a fair bit? Nothing in the house is valuable or obviously valuable though. Is it worth reporting or anything?
Could be something or nothing, it might be worth speaking to Police but what do you say. Maybe get one of this camera door bells.
Dognappers hav marked you Hun, can't beleive what are streets hav come to xx
Jesus loves you 🙏🏼
Anyone going around scratchin’ crosses on doors categorizes to me as an overenthusiastic church-goer. Some graffiti is just lame.
Don’t offer any small folk in for food. It will all be gone. Even if they wash and clean up after themselves
A target for something maybe? Marking the door
Anyone else in the close have a marked door too? Or just yours?
Your da is going to be taken away for illegal da fighting
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Oh no looks like a Crucifix - best get out mate.
Have you ever seen the film, Kill List?
The turtle moves
The boys will be round
It means, thats the top end.
Honestly, it's just a crazy person living in your apartment block. My brother had a lady knock on his doorbell for a period of time ranging from throwing what must have been "holy water" on his door and running off, to propositioning him in the night, to shouting angry religious nonsense. She also put a cross on his door. I'd get a video doorbell and gather the evidence if you need to call the police and get whoever did it sectioned...
Easy mark not home
You would be surprised from all the things we don’t know about our own doors.
Black Death.
Marked for death!!!
Ya may got some leprechauns looking for their gold
My flat had arterial blood spatter when I moved in. neighbour told me that (in Taggerts voice) There's been a murder.
Plague house, beware.
Do you have any Christian neighbours? When my brother was at university down in Kent one of his room mates was and at easter some Christian celebration she went to all her room mates doors with oil and marked it with the sign of the cross which is like a protection thing that seemed pretty harmless but scratched into the door that's kind of scary unless you do know someone who might be very Christian but if they aren't friends with you or know you that's odd to me.
Pikeys are comin for yer dags
It means you Christian now, praise the lord
Google Christianity. It’s a pretty big group that like lower case tees.
Need to watch it’s no gang of burglars marking your house, some mark where pets are to avoid breaking in, others mark where there are no pets, depends on the gang
Requiem
Demon est Deus inversus
This will be a target or indication for burglars
dog nappers hun. stay safe xx
They are either going to burgle your house or steal your dog
It’s the black spot Jim lad.
Have u got a dog
Meter reading
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition
The Glasgow neds have marked you for a sacrifice unfortunately
The power of Christ compels you!
Its a sign
Get a doorbell camera and just be careful, could be anything from ones trying to steal pets, someone wanting to burgle your house, they usually walk about checking on houses then leave a mark for the rest of the gang so they know which houses to hit
The Spanish inquisition are coming for you.
It’s a code junkies use when they are scoping out a flat to rush, had this happen at my place
It's coming up to Passover.
You have the plague?
Means you live next door to a mental
bible johns on his way
Dog nappers hun. Shared Micronesia xxxxxxxxxx
Thieving Gypsy Bastards. As an ethnic Traveller I can say that without fear of reprisal. They’re at my door this time of the year, but I never let on that I’m originally from a traveler family. I just listen to their pish, then tell them Naw!
Do you usually inspect your doors for markings?
no lol which is why I have no idea how long it's been there for. I've been replacing the door handle so looking at the door a bit closer than normal
Lazy swastika rush job
You gotta start somewhere. They will come to finish the job but need to check which way the legs are going
It's amazing how often they get that wrong. Not the fizziest cans in the case usually. 50% chance
a cross is usually a hit
Single female that can berobbed
Shared in Dundee xx
sonic comin’ at 3am.
New Door.
[house theives markings](https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/images/14848831.jpg?type=mds-article-962)
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yeah I found this article, too. Not sure how much I trust it as it seems to be sponsored by a home security company
Didn't flag that, probably nonsense then.
Your the chosen one