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History's dark shadows reveal terror beyond fiction! Join us as we count down the most disturbing historical events that make even the scariest horror films seem tame. From vanished colonies to deadly plagues, these real-life nightmares will chill your blood with their macabre details and haunting mysteries that continue to perplex experts today.
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00:00A lot of you requested I go over the Hello Kitty case. Now I've heard of this here and there,
00:07I hadn't heard all the details and my lord is it grim. Welcome to WatchMojo and today we're
00:14looking at the most disturbing historical mysteries that leave us shaken long after
00:18the dust has settled. Whether they're archaeological, forensic or uncovered through
00:22chilling testimony, these events force us to confront a terrifying side of history scarier
00:27than horror movies. This is the last photo taken by a group of experienced Russian hikers
00:33the night they disappeared in February 1959. Number 50, the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In 1587,
00:43Governor John White led a group of around 100 hopeful English settlers to establish a settlement
00:47in Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina. From an early age, we've all been told about the
00:53Pilgrim's Landing on Plymouth Rock and the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, two of America's
00:59most famous founding colonies. But what do you know about the one that came before? Chances are
01:07not much. When White returned to England for a supply trip, he was delayed by the advent of war
01:13against the Spanish Armada. Three years later, when he returned to Roanoke, he would find the
01:17settlement deserted. The only clue? The single word Croatoan was carved into a post. He steps foot on
01:24shore. He talks about walking up a sandy embankment, something like this right here. He walks up to the
01:30top and he describes seeing a tree that the bark has been peeled off of and the letters CRO have
01:35been carved upon it. No cross, no bodies, no sign of struggle. Recently, archaeologists have discovered
01:42artifacts on site that suggest possible assimilation of the settlers with the indigenous Croatoan tribe,
01:47but the evidence remains inconclusive. All that remains of the Roanoke colony is silence
01:53and a riddle stretching across centuries. It's the oldest missing persons case in America.
01:59And yet today, there are more people dedicated to solving it than ever before.
02:04Number 49, the Mountain Meadows Massacre. An ambush is never good news, but this one cranks it up a notch.
02:10The events leading up to the massacre at Mountain Meadows are extremely complicated.
02:17The roots are so deep, it's almost impossible to identify all of them.
02:23In September 1857, a seemingly friendly militia offered safe passage to a weary wagon train of
02:29emigrants traveling in Utah territory. Unfortunately, the emigrants' trust was misplaced and resulted in a
02:35massacre. Most accounts agree that it happened very quickly. Disguising themselves as Paiute Native
02:42Americans to mask their identities, the Mormon-led Nauvoo Legion brutally slaughtered the emigrants.
02:48120 men, women, and older children were murdered. 17 young children survived and were sent to live
02:54with Mormon families. The horror of the betrayal and the immediate aftermath has made the Mountain
02:59Meadows Massacre a dark moment in American frontier history.
03:03Number 48, the Horrors of Vlad Tepes. If turning entire battlegrounds into macabre gardens of agony
03:09wasn't enough, Vlad III of Wallachia relished in the horror he invoked upon his victims.
03:14In 1456, the throne of the Romanian princeton of Wallachia was seized by Vlad Dracula,
03:21the man who gave his name to the world's most famous vampire.
03:25So much so that when he defended his realm in the 15th century, he impaled tens of thousands of
03:30invading enemies on long stakes. This act earned him the moniker Vlad the Impaler. Turning a real-life
03:36battlefield into a fever dream, Vlad's terrifying campaigns invoked physical and psychological
03:41torture upon his enemies.
03:42As the Turks advance, Vlad uses every conceivable tactic to break their morale.
03:50He attacks by night, he poisons their wells, he burns their crops. He even pays diseased men to
03:57infiltrate the Turkish ranks and pass on infections.
04:01By weaponizing fear, the Impaler's notoriety grew in enemy circles.
04:06Today, his legend has fueled the myths of vampires via Bram Stoker's Dracula.
04:11These myths were grounded in Vlad's real-world penchant for grisly violence and extreme cruelty.
04:17Vlad's death is shrouded in mystery. He was almost certainly killed in battle,
04:22although whether that was in a fair fight in the heat of the moment or whether it was murder,
04:28we don't know.
04:28Number 47. Green Man
04:30Imagine losing your eyes, nose, mouth, and even part of your ear. Interacting with the world may
04:36seem an impossibility. But this did not stop Raymond Green Man Robinson.
04:41There's a legend that goes back almost 70 years here in western Pennsylvania
04:45of a faceless, glowing green man that's said to roam the roads and tunnels of our region in the
04:51dead of night, chasing away all who dare to gaze upon him. But it turns out the green man
04:57wasn't a monster, and he was as real as you or I.
05:00As a boy, an electrical accident forever changed Raymond's face. He hid from the world by day and
05:06instead roamed the world at night. His hulking, masked silhouette stomping through the darkness
05:11turned him into a local legend. His moniker Green Man came from his skin, which was purported to be
05:17green from the electrical shocks in the accident. Raymond's walks led to encounters both friendly
05:21and cruel. In some cases, he was even struck by cars.
05:25There's always a few mean people that do mean things to him. But if you gave him an unopened can of
05:30fear or, you know, unopened cigarettes or something, he would take them and he'd tell stories.
05:34This did not deter Raymond from living a life of resilience, which is now intertwined with urban
05:39legend. I think his legacy really should be that he was kind to everybody. He did not not like
05:47anybody. He always tried to be friendly to everybody. He was always caring.
05:51Number 46. The Massacre of Kalavrita. The Nazis committed several atrocities against the Jewish
05:57community. But the Jews were not the only ones who were caught in their crosshairs.
06:01I went alone without my mother. I saw everything.
06:05In December 1943, Nazis descended on Kalavrita, Greece, rounding up the men and older boys on a
06:12slope above their town. The Nazis machine-gunned them down. The women and children were herded into
06:17a school, which was then set ablaze.
06:19My father came to Kalavrita to fetch his son, but the Germans seized him. And then they killed
06:26both of them.
06:28Some freed themselves from the flames and survived, but almost 700 civilians were killed.
06:33Nearly 1,000 houses were looted and burned. Today, a memorial stands at the site. On its surface
06:39are listed the names of all the civilians who perished in the massacre in a chilling reminder
06:44of war's grotesque cruelty.
06:46Number 45. Tarard. 18th century France had its fair share of celebrities, but there is one whose
06:52name lives in infamy. Meet Tarard, France's most unforgettable glutton. Born in Lyon circa 1772,
07:00Tarard could eat an amount of food equal to his body weight every day. The kicker? He experienced
07:06zero weight gain.
07:07Boy, you never stop eating and you don't gain a pound.
07:10It's my metabolism.
07:11That doesn't sound too bad at the outset, but Tarard ate everything from corks to stones to live
07:17animals and enough beef to feed small armies. His appetite also spiraled into the grotesque,
07:22including hospital corpses and guzzling blood. At one point, he was suspected of having consumed
07:27a missing baby. His hunger is a baffling medical mystery and a tragic window into horror in human
07:33form.
07:34So next time you eat a bit too much, take a moment to be grateful that your hunger can
07:38be satisfied. And think about Portarare, the man who couldn't stop eating.
07:43Number 44. The MV Doña Pas incident. When a Filipino passenger ferry collided with an oil tanker,
07:50it ignited a raging inferno aboard, resulting in the loss of over 4,300 lives.
07:55Just five days before Christmas, the Doña Pas crashed into the record books as a disaster
08:02even greater than the sinking of the Titanic.
08:06Fires at sea are already a nightmare, but the collision with the oil tanker made an already
08:11precarious situation worse. Those who jumped into the water found themselves drowning in oil-slicked
08:16water and flaming seas. There was nowhere to go. Trapping terrified passengers in its inferno,
08:21the MV Doña Pas incident only had 25 survivors. While they were fortunate enough to live to tell
08:31the tale, many of the survivors sustained severe burns in their escape from the flaming waters.
08:36Considered the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster, the MV Doña Pas incident of 1987
08:41is an unimaginable tragedy.
08:43I don't want to ride a ship again. I won't, even if it's for free.
08:48Number 43. Jamestown cannibalism. Survival at any cost. This was the motto for many colonial
08:55settlers in the early 1600s in the New World. For the residents of Jamestown, it was a nightmare.
09:01If you can imagine, winter was coming, and supplies from England that were supposed to
09:05bring food and other materials never made it there. Arriving in 1607, the settlers had never
09:11planned to grow their own food. Instead, they depended on trade with the local Powhatan.
09:16A lack of clean water, severe drought, and a delayed supply line led to dreary conditions.
09:21Between winter 1609 and 1610, the starving population turned to the most primal taboo
09:27for survival, human flesh. By the time spring came along, only 61 of the 500 settlers were alive.
09:34A real-world survival horror, the starving time at Jamestown is a grim reminder of what
09:39desperation can drive human beings to do.
09:41It's a tragic story with the terrible conditions here at Jamestown during the starving time.
09:48And it's a story of perseverance and endurance. And that story lives on.
09:53Number 42. The Lake Neos Disaster. Volcanic eruptions are a sight to behold.
09:59Despite their explosive nature, volcanoes can also be silent killers.
10:03This is what happened to the residents in the villages of Neos, Cam, Cha, and Subum in northwestern Cameroon.
10:09It was at night. I was asleep with my children. I heard an explosion, but didn't make much of it.
10:14One morning, the villagers woke up to watch a harmless fog roll in down the hills,
10:19only to never breathe again. A small volcanic eruption on the bed of Lake Neos released a
10:24massive cloud of CO2 gas.
10:26It was completely invisible. We could only know there was danger when you saw birds falling down
10:31and dying, the animals dying around. You couldn't see clearly.
10:35Heavier than air, the gas descended onto nearby villages, suffocating more than 1,700 people
10:42and countless livestock. Scientists called it a limnic eruption. A rare but lethal geological
10:48phenomenon, the Lake Neos Disaster is an example of horror hidden beneath natural beauty.
10:53Number 41. The Bifur Dolphin. There's a reason industrial accidents rank among the most chilling.
11:00They are often the most unexpected.
11:01Four divers were victims of such a fate in 1983 aboard the Bifur Dolphin drilling rig.
11:07While drilling in the North Sea, the divers were caught unawares when the drilling rig's diving
11:12bell prematurely detached from its chamber. An explosive decompression followed, instantly
11:17killing the four divers.
11:18The diving bell disconnected before the chamber doors fully closed, releasing an explosive depressurization.
11:25Three of the divers were boiled from the inside out when nitrogen in their blood erupted into gas
11:30bubbles. The fourth diver's body was completely torn open, with internal organs ejected onto the deck.
11:36One of the dive tenders was also killed by the bell following the explosion.
11:40Death was instantaneous in an industrial horror rendered with scientific brutality.
11:45Number 40. Nazinsky Island.
11:48Gulags are already horrifying for starters,
11:50But wait until you hear about Stalin's experiment gone wrong on Nazinsky Island.
11:54In the middle of the Ob River in Siberia lies a forgotten island.
11:58Never officially named, it's known after the nearest village, the hamlet of Nazino.
12:03But people who live in this desolate region know the island has another secret name,
12:08a name you will never find on Google Maps.
12:10In 1933, thousands of prisoners arrested for petty crimes were dumped on the Siberian island
12:16in what was promised as a, quote, special settlement.
12:19The island had no shelters, no tools, and most importantly, no food.
12:24Instead, they simply handed each prisoner 200 grams of flour as sustenance,
12:28less food than even prisoners in Auschwitz or Cambodia's killing fields got to live on.
12:33Soon, starvation set in, and the prisoners resorted to eating grass,
12:37bark, and at some point, each other.
12:40Survivors of Cannibal Island described corpses with carved-out flesh
12:43and guards too horrified to intervene.
12:46Nearly 7,000 had arrived, but only a few hundred, also of ill health,
12:51were left to tell the tale of a hill on Earth.
12:53Cannibal Islands may be gruesome, but it's worth remembering
12:56that it's just one chapter in two decades of suffering unleashed by Stalin,
13:02a suffering still not dealt with properly even today.
13:05Number 39, the Battle of Bunker Hill
13:08They say that history is written by the victors.
13:11That is also true of one of the earliest clashes
13:14between British troops and colonial militia.
13:16After the Lexington Alarm of April 19, 1775,
13:2020,000 militiamen and minutemen groups from across all of New England
13:25converged on Massachusetts and Boston in particular.
13:28Fought in June 1775, the Battle of Bunker Hill was a proud moment in the American Revolutionary War.
13:34The British successfully took the hill,
13:37but their romanticized success warped the grisly reality of a close-range battle.
13:41Allegedly, Colonel William Prescott, one of the defenders inside the fort,
13:45ordered his men to not fire until they saw the whites of their eyes.
13:49Soldiers charged with bayonets while musket balls ripped through ranks.
13:53Clashing hand-to-hand and with burning earthworks lighting up the ground around them,
13:57the British suffered losses with over 1,000 dead or wounded
14:00compared to about 450 for the colonial militia.
14:04The battle was a shocking introduction to both sides
14:06on how independence would be written in blood as much as in ideals.
14:10Benjamin Franklin wrote a friend in England,
14:12We were once friends, we are now enemies.
14:15War had taken a fateful turn.
14:17Number 38, the Dancing Plague of 1518
14:20Sometimes history's scariest events don't involve war or crime,
14:25but our own minds.
14:26July 1518, a normal day in the beautiful Riverside City.
14:30This was the case for the people of Strasbourg,
14:32who were struck by an unnerving affliction.
14:35They couldn't stop dancing.
14:37It started with one woman named Frau Trofia.
14:40She began dancing and continued to dance in the streets for days.
14:43The laughter soon stopped, though,
14:45when Frau Trofia continued to dance without resting,
14:48morning, afternoon, and night for six whole days.
14:52Soon, dozens joined her in a collective that moved non-stop.
14:56It was as if they were possessed.
14:58For weeks, hundreds danced to exhaustion, strokes, and even death.
15:03To this day, the Dancing Plague of 1518 remains a mystery.
15:07Was it food poisoning or maybe stress-induced mass hysteria?
15:10Nobody knows.
15:11But the disturbing image of ordinary citizens
15:13unable to control their own bodies and convulsing until they collapsed
15:17is one to remember.
15:19Most evidence shows that the Dancing Plague
15:21was a kind of cultural contagion.
15:24A mass hysteria triggered when life got too tough
15:27and the people just wanted to dance and lose their minds a bit.
15:31Number 37.
15:32Josef Mengele's Experiments
15:33Combine medicine with torture
15:35and you get the horrors of a man known as the Angel of Death.
15:39Josef Mengele was a Nazi officer and physician at Auschwitz.
15:42He was a notorious Nazi doctor
15:44who conducted inhumane medical experiments
15:47on prisoners during the Holocaust.
15:49Using science as an excuse,
15:51Mengele committed various atrocities on his prisoners.
15:54Without administering anesthesia,
15:55Mengele injected chemicals into prisoners' eyes
15:58to change their colors.
15:59He was particularly interested in twins
16:01whom he would sew together in gruesome procedures.
16:04Mengele came around
16:05and asked for twins to my mother first
16:08and didn't know what to say.
16:10From exposing people to freezing temperatures,
16:12infectious diseases,
16:14and conducting live vivisections,
16:15Mengele was sadism realized in human form.
16:19What makes Mengele's actions chilling
16:20is not the cruelty,
16:22but the clinical means by which they were carried out,
16:24warping medicine into its darkest form.
16:27Number 36.
16:28The Potato Famine
16:29A blight enters the land.
16:32In its wake, the potato,
16:33the staple crop of the Irish people, dies,
16:36and so do more than a million people.
16:38This was the Irish Potato Famine,
16:40which struck Ireland in the mid-1800s.
16:43In the hundred or so years before the famine,
16:45the thing that struck most visitors to Ireland
16:47was the poverty of the people.
16:49The famine was a period of unimaginable suffering.
16:52British government policies worsened the people's suffering
16:54as they continued to export food from Ireland
16:56even as people starved.
16:57It is starvation,
16:59because it is the fact that
17:00although there is an abundance of provisions in the country
17:02of a superior kind,
17:04and at a cheaper rate than the same can be bought
17:06in any other part of His Majesty's Dominions,
17:09those who want in the midst of plenty cannot get,
17:12because they do not possess
17:13even the small sum of money necessary
17:15to buy a supply of food.
17:17Millions fled overseas,
17:18and families were evicted from their homes
17:20in one of the largest migrations in modern history.
17:23The famine was not just a natural disaster,
17:26but a ghastly packaging of negligence,
17:28colonial depravity,
17:29and tragedy all in one.
17:30Number 35,
17:32The Hello Kitty Doll Case
17:33Hello Kitty is an iconic children's toy,
17:36but in 1999,
17:38it made headlines worldwide
17:39for its infamous juxtaposition
17:41with a gruesome murder.
17:42The incident occurred in Hong Kong,
17:44where 23-year-old Fen Man-Yi
17:46was kidnapped by three men after a dispute.
17:48The victim would endure sadistic torture
17:50for several weeks.
17:52She would be burned with wax,
17:53beaten with metal rods,
17:55and humiliated in unimaginable ways.
17:57There is a special dark place in hell
18:00for the people that did this to her.
18:02Man-Yi eventually died from her injuries,
18:04but what happened next
18:05has haunted the public for many years.
18:08Man-Yi's head was stuffed inside a Hello Kitty doll,
18:11while her remains were discarded.
18:12The culprits were eventually arrested
18:14and sentenced to life in prison.
18:16To this day,
18:17the case remains a testament
18:18to the corruption of innocence into pure horror.
18:21This case broke me pretty good.
18:25Just the brutality
18:26and inhuman people involved.
18:32I just, it's hard to wrap my head around.
18:35Number 34.
18:36The Bhopal Disaster.
18:37Occurring in India in December 1984,
18:40this is another story
18:42where industrial negligence
18:43met horror story.
18:44Thousands of people in Bhopal, India
18:46choked to death on invisible poison
18:48when a leak from a nearby pesticide plant
18:50released 40 tons
18:51of toxic methyl isocyanate gas into the air.
18:54During the gas leak,
18:55it felt like our eyes were burning
18:57and we could not speak.
18:59It hurt badly.
19:00It felt like somebody poured chilies in our eyes
19:02and as if somebody choked our throats.
19:04In the weeks to follow,
19:06the death toll rose to thousands,
19:08with nearly half a million
19:09suffering from chronic effects,
19:10including blindness,
19:12lung damage, and birth defects.
19:13Our eldest daughter had issues with her vision,
19:16so she needed glasses.
19:17Our youngest daughter developed
19:19really severe health issues after the leak.
19:21We all got sick
19:23and it has not improved since then.
19:25The Bhopal Disaster is terrifying
19:27not only for the loss of life it incurred,
19:29but also because it was preventable.
19:31Poor safety standards,
19:32corporate greed,
19:33and government indifference
19:34created a modern industrial hell
19:36and turned a city into a gas chamber.
19:39Number 33.
19:40Unit 731.
19:42Behind the better-known horrors
19:43of Nazi death camps
19:44and the Holocaust of World War II
19:46are other crimes
19:47that were being carried out across the globe.
19:48Japan's Unit 731 is one such story.
19:52Look, I'm only telling the truth.
19:55It's what happened.
19:57Operated by Imperial Japan,
19:59this covert biological warfare program
20:01turned human beings into lab rats.
20:04I thought it was research
20:06meant to keep people from getting sick,
20:08but it was the exact opposite.
20:11Their victims included Chinese civilians,
20:13Russian captives,
20:14pregnant women,
20:15and even newborns.
20:16From being frozen alive
20:17to being dissected without anesthesia,
20:19Unit 731 inflicted unimaginable horrors
20:22on its victims.
20:23Estimates of deaths
20:24range in the hundreds of thousands.
20:26A genocidal program hidden in lab coats.
20:29The creepiest aspect of Unit 731
20:31is that many of its scientists
20:33were pardoned
20:34by trading their research
20:35to the United States.
20:36What was done was done.
20:38I know.
20:39But even though I didn't handle
20:41the prisoners,
20:42I still feel guilty.
20:44Just because I was a part of it at all.
20:47Number 32.
20:48The Dyatlov Pass Incident.
20:50There were nine
20:50until there were none.
20:52Some mysteries are creepy
20:53because they're unsolved,
20:55and this is one of them.
20:56They were on an advanced
20:57winter hiking trip,
20:58trekking hundreds of kilometers
21:00through frozen wilderness.
21:01In 1959,
21:03nine experienced Soviet hikers
21:05embarked on a journey
21:06into the Ural Mountains.
21:07Several weeks later,
21:09their camp would be found abandoned.
21:11The camp tent was ripped open
21:12from the inside,
21:13and the hikers' bodies
21:14lay scattered across the snow.
21:16Crushed skulls,
21:17broken ribs,
21:18and even missing eyes
21:19and a tongue
21:20were observed in the autopsy.
21:21But there were no signs
21:22of external trauma.
21:24In spite of many unanswered questions,
21:26the lead Soviet investigator,
21:28Lev Ivanov,
21:29closed the case
21:29on May 28, 1959.
21:32The hikers' footprints indicated
21:33that they had walked away
21:34from the tent
21:35rather than fleeing in panic.
21:36To this day,
21:37there has been
21:38no sensible explanation
21:39for the Dyatlov Pass incident,
21:41making it one of history's
21:42most unsettling mysteries.
21:44The behavior of the hikers
21:46after the incident,
21:48after what happened
21:49during this night,
21:50is probably the thing
21:51that will never be explained.
21:53Number 31,
21:54Tuskegee syphilis.
21:56Sometimes real horror
21:57comes not from violence
21:58or disaster,
21:59but betrayal.
22:00That is exactly
22:01what the U.S. Public Health Service
22:03was found culpable of in 1972.
22:05Researchers told the men
22:06they were being treated
22:07for bad blood,
22:09a local term used
22:10to describe several ailments,
22:11including syphilis.
22:13For 40 years,
22:14hundreds of black men
22:15infected with syphilis
22:16were recruited
22:17with the promise
22:17of free health care.
22:19In reality,
22:20researchers wished to observe
22:21the natural progression
22:22of the disease.
22:23The men were guinea pigs.
22:25Despite penicillin
22:26becoming a recognized cure
22:27in the 1940s,
22:28the men died slow,
22:30painful deaths.
22:31Then my daddy-in-law
22:32was in it.
22:34I'm trying to think
22:35of the year he died.
22:36The men's wives
22:37were also infected,
22:39and children were born
22:40with congenital syphilis.
22:41The horror is realized
22:42in the truth
22:43that the study
22:43was actually sanctioned.
22:45Today,
22:46the study is a lasting reminder
22:47of racism in health care,
22:49and the importance
22:50of ethical protections
22:51in medical research.
22:53They appreciate me
22:55cooperating with it
22:56for 25 years.
23:01Number 30.
23:06The Flannan Isles
23:07Lighthouse Mystery.
23:08As the ship approached
23:09the rocky island,
23:11Moore felt a deep sense
23:12of foreboding.
23:15Could something terrible
23:16have happened
23:17to the three keepers?
23:19Disappearances occur every day,
23:21and sometimes
23:22are never solved.
23:23In 1900,
23:24a relief keeper
23:25arrived at Flannan Isles
23:26Lighthouse,
23:27only to discover
23:27no trace
23:28of the three men
23:29who had been manning it.
23:30He was met with proof
23:31of recent life,
23:32such as unmade beds
23:33and a set of abandoned oil skins.
23:35Even after the area
23:36was searched,
23:37no sign of the trio
23:38was found,
23:39dead or alive.
23:41I have a feeling
23:42on this island
23:43of tension
23:46even just walking about.
23:47There was no definitive
23:49explanation for their vanishing,
23:50although one investigator
23:52suspected they may have
23:53been swept into the water
23:54during rough weather.
23:55Some even believe
23:56that paranormal forces
23:57are behind the losses.
23:58Whether their fates
23:59were natural or not,
24:01it remains one of the
24:02creepiest cold cases
24:03in modern history.
24:04You can come up
24:07with all sorts of ideas
24:08of what could have happened,
24:11but I think one thing
24:14true,
24:16nobody will come up
24:18with a definite answer now.
24:20Number 29,
24:21Radium Girls.
24:22It's no secret
24:23that workplace conditions
24:24in the United States
24:25used to be incredibly dangerous.
24:27The Radium Girls,
24:28female laborers
24:29that painted dials,
24:31are a grim reminder
24:32of that fact.
24:33They had been told
24:34their materials were harmless
24:35and had even been told
24:36to use their lips
24:37to get a smaller point
24:38on their brushes.
24:39This led to them
24:40ingesting high amounts
24:41of radium
24:42over an extended period.
24:43At first,
24:44the side effects were small,
24:46mostly consisting
24:46of loose teeth.
24:48They soon devolved
24:48into much worse symptoms,
24:50including necrotic jaws
24:52and unwanted sterilization.
24:53And I'm sure these people
24:55didn't like to go down there
24:56to Luminous,
24:58you know,
24:58especially if they were thinking
25:01maybe this stuff is bad for us
25:03after some of their friends died.
25:05By 1924,
25:06a dozen women had died.
25:08And were the targets
25:09of smear campaigns
25:10blaming them
25:11rather than the unsafe practices?
25:13It wasn't until
25:14the paint's inventor passed
25:15that they finally saw justice.
25:17Dear sisters,
25:19the New Jersey League
25:20of Women Voters
25:21is working to set
25:22a legal precedent
25:23for radium toxicity
25:24because of you.
25:25Number 28,
25:26the Franklin Expedition.
25:28The last known location
25:30of the ships
25:31was found in this letter
25:32left by Franklin's crew.
25:34The final coordinates
25:35just north
25:37of King William Island.
25:38Some attempts
25:39at exploration
25:40ended in tragedy
25:40before they could
25:41even truly begin.
25:43Sir John Franklin
25:43had good intentions
25:44with hopes of mapping out
25:46an uncharted area
25:47of the Northwest Passage.
25:48They set sail
25:49in May of 1845
25:51and just over a year later,
25:53disaster struck.
25:54Both ships
25:54had gotten stuck
25:55in the ice,
25:56trapping over 100 men.
25:58They were forced
25:58to set up camp there,
26:00which would prove fatal
26:01as two dozen died
26:02from a litany of causes,
26:04ranging from starvation
26:05to lead poisoning.
26:06Further investigations
26:07done on the bones
26:08revealed marks,
26:09indicating that some
26:10may have even turned
26:11to cannibalism
26:12in an attempt to survive.
26:13In 1848,
26:15the survivors
26:15attempted to escape
26:16but were never seen again.
26:18John,
26:20can we sleep?
26:26Yes.
26:28Yes.
26:29Number 27,
26:30Gyorgy Dozsa's Execution.
26:32Unsuccessful revolutions
26:33could end in terrible tragedy
26:35for those who mounted them.
26:36In the 1510s,
26:37Gyorgy Dozsa
26:38attempted to lead a revolt
26:39against the noble family
26:40ruling Hungary
26:41at the time.
26:42He was initially successful,
26:43even gaining control
26:44of multiple fortresses.
26:46When he was finally caught,
26:47he was swiftly reminded
26:49of his place.
26:50Dozsa was forced
26:50to sit on a burning throne
26:52and wear an equally hot crown,
26:54simultaneously torturing
26:55and mocking him.
26:56Pliers were then
26:57shoved into his skin,
26:59and members of his revolt
27:00were forced to eat his skin
27:01or risk being punished themselves.
27:03And 70,000 commoners
27:06were tortured,
27:06fracturing the country
27:07even further.
27:09Number 26,
27:10Uruguayan Air Force
27:11Flight 571.
27:12What do you remember
27:13about the crash?
27:15About the crash,
27:16I thought I was going to die.
27:17Cannibalism is considered
27:19beyond the pale,
27:20and yet in some situations,
27:21it becomes
27:22an unfortunate reality.
27:23It soon became
27:24the only option
27:25for the survivors
27:26on the Uruguayan Air Force
27:27Flight 571
27:28after they crashed
27:29into the Andes Mountains
27:30in 1972,
27:32killing a dozen on impact.
27:34After a rescue aircraft
27:35failed to notice them,
27:36the search was called off,
27:38leaving them
27:38to fend for themselves.
27:39Another 13 passed
27:41from a combination
27:41of an avalanche
27:42and the constant exposure,
27:44and when they ran out of food,
27:45they turned to their fallen
27:47in order to survive.
27:59After months
28:00of enduring
28:00the awful conditions,
28:02they were finally
28:02able to find rescue,
28:04with only 16
28:05of the 45 occupants
28:07surviving to the end.
28:08To some of the boys,
28:09the Andes can be
28:10a spiritual experience.
28:12To another boy,
28:13it can be the avalanche.
28:15To another one,
28:16it can be the cold.
28:17To another one,
28:18it can be the anger.
28:19Number 25.
28:20Haj Mohamed Misfewi's execution.
28:22The death penalty
28:23has been used
28:24since the beginning
28:25of human civilization,
28:26with countless methods
28:27being employed
28:28to bring people
28:28to justice permanently.
28:30Some executions
28:31have been so intense
28:32that they've been
28:33the cause of scrutiny
28:34and horror.
28:34One of the most
28:35punitive killings
28:36in history
28:36was inflicted
28:37upon Haj Mohamed Misfewi,
28:39a man convicted
28:40of murdering
28:40at least three dozen women.
28:42At first,
28:43officials were opting
28:44for either crucifying
28:45or beheading him,
28:46making sure
28:46to whip him daily
28:48while they made
28:48their decision.
28:49Eventually,
28:50they decided
28:50on something
28:51even more torturous,
28:52sealing him alive
28:53behind a wall.
28:55Help!
28:56Help me!
28:57Help!
28:58Help me!
29:00Help!
29:01Help!
29:01He begged
29:03for mercy
29:03throughout
29:04and was heard
29:05screaming for two days
29:06afterwards
29:06until he finally
29:07fell silent
29:08forever.
29:20Number 24,
29:22Attack of the Dead Men.
29:23It sounds like
29:24something you would
29:24come across
29:25in a scary movie
29:26or video game,
29:27but to hundreds
29:28of German soldiers,
29:29it was all too real.
29:30World War I
29:31was known
29:31for its high death toll
29:32and the popularization
29:34of chemical warfare,
29:35with the latter
29:36leading to one
29:36of its most horrifying battles.
29:38On August 6, 1915,
29:40the German military
29:41attacked Russian fighters
29:42with a combination
29:43of poisonous gas,
29:44bromine,
29:45and chlorine,
29:45a noxious mix
29:46that would kill
29:47most instantly.
29:56The assailants
29:57thought the same
29:58until they attempted
29:59to storm the area
30:00and were met
30:01by the still-standing
30:02oppositional forces.
30:03Even as they
30:04coughed up pieces
30:05of their own organs
30:06and bodily fluids,
30:07they stood their ground,
30:09even forcing their enemy
30:10to retreat.
30:11Number 23,
30:12The Murder of Junko Furuta.
30:14Sometimes,
30:15the punishment
30:16doesn't seem
30:17to fit the crime.
30:18One example of this
30:19occurred following
30:20the capture,
30:20torture,
30:21and eventual murder
30:22of 17-year-old
30:23Junko Furuta.
30:24In 1989,
30:25four teenage boys
30:26kidnapped her
30:27and put her
30:27through 44 days
30:29of pure hell.
30:30She was repeatedly
30:31burned,
30:32beaten,
30:32and sexually assaulted,
30:33to the point
30:34where she begged
30:35for death.
30:35After one last
30:36brutal assault,
30:37she finally succumbed
30:38to her injuries
30:39and passed.
30:40The indignities
30:41she suffered
30:41are worse
30:42than in many horror movies.
30:43Even after her corpse
30:45was found
30:45and her murderers
30:46arrested,
30:47many feel she did not
30:48receive appropriate justice.
30:50Her assailants' identities
30:51were initially hidden
30:52due to their age
30:53and the sentences imposed
30:54were considered
30:55by many
30:56to be too lenient.
30:57Number 22.
30:58Renaissance zombies.
31:00They may not be
31:01the creatures
31:01you've come to recognize
31:02in modern media,
31:03but they were just
31:04as terrifying
31:05at the time.
31:06The first major
31:06outbreak of syphilis
31:07hit Naples
31:08around 1495
31:09following France's
31:11invasion of the city.
31:12As a result,
31:13hundreds were afflicted,
31:14resulting in horrific
31:15physical side effects.
31:17Most patients' bodies
31:18were covered
31:18in painful blisters
31:19and in some cases,
31:21their skin
31:21would fall right off
31:22their faces.
31:23Many died
31:24just a few months
31:25after contracting it,
31:26but before that,
31:27their disease-ridden
31:28appearances led to them
31:29inadvertently emulating
31:30the living dead.
31:31The strain
31:32they had been
31:32afflicted with
31:33was far more lethal
31:34than its modern counterpart,
31:35and hopefully,
31:36modern medicine
31:37will keep it
31:38from rearing its ugly head
31:39once more.
31:40Number 21.
31:41Heir to Jameson Whiskey
31:42Buying Child for Cannibals.
31:44It may be difficult
31:45not to think of this
31:46the next time
31:46you're perusing
31:47the liquor store.
31:48While the actual
31:49founder of Jameson Whiskey
31:50is innocent of this horror,
31:51one of his heirs
31:52can't say the same.
31:53In order to stand out,
31:54he knew he needed
31:55the highest quality ingredients
31:56money could buy.
31:58Now,
31:58it's been more than 200 years
31:59since John filled
32:00his first order,
32:01and we care more than ever
32:02about the quality
32:03of our barley and water.
32:05During a visit to Africa
32:06in the 19th century,
32:08James Sligo Jameson
32:09was informed
32:10that the tribe
32:10completed some celebrations
32:11by partaking in cannibalism.
32:13He allegedly
32:14ended up trading
32:15six handkerchiefs
32:16for the chance
32:17to see the act
32:17for himself.
32:18He soon got
32:19what he asked for
32:20and more
32:20as a group of men
32:21brutally murdered
32:22and ate a young slave girl
32:23who reportedly
32:25didn't scream once.
32:26To make things
32:27more disturbing,
32:28Jameson sketched out
32:29the entire act,
32:30documenting it
32:31and his wretched curiosities
32:32all at once.
32:34Number 20.
32:35The Funeral Procession
32:36of Pope Pius XII.
32:38Pope Pius XII
32:39served as the Vatican sovereign
32:40from 1939
32:41until his death
32:43in 1958
32:44at the age of 82.
32:45Due to the Pope's insistence
32:47on keeping his deceased body
32:49the way God created it,
32:50his personal physician,
32:52Riccardo Galeazzi Lisi,
32:53decided on an
32:54unconventional
32:55embalming method.
32:56I told you
32:57he didn't want
32:57to be embalmed
32:58or made up.
33:01But people need a viewing.
33:02Galeazzi Lisi
33:03refused to drain
33:04the corpse
33:05of its fluids,
33:06instead relying
33:07on an experimental
33:07series of oils
33:08and resins
33:09and wrapping the body
33:10in plastic afterwards.
33:12The intense heat
33:13in the area,
33:14combined with
33:15the lack
33:15of air circulation
33:16caused the cadaver
33:17to decompose.
33:19During the funeral procession,
33:20the chest
33:21of the corpse
33:21imploded.
33:23The body
33:23ended up
33:24turning a bright green.
33:25None of us
33:26could breathe.
33:28Somewhere under
33:28those bushes
33:29was the rest
33:30of Ray Brower.
33:30Number 19.
33:32The Essex
33:32Inspires Moby Dick
33:34On August 12,
33:351819,
33:36the whaling ship
33:37Essex left Nantucket
33:38for a trip
33:39to South America.
33:40The voyage
33:40lasted a little
33:41over a year
33:42before tragedy
33:43struck in November
33:441820.
33:44A massive sperm
33:46whale attacked
33:47the ship
33:47and essentially
33:48sank it,
33:48causing the survivors
33:49to enter
33:50small whale boats.
33:51They floundered
33:52in these little
33:53vessels for over
33:53three months
33:54on the open ocean,
33:55with barely enough
33:56food and supplies
33:57to survive.
33:58Hey,
33:58what are y'all
33:58looking at?
33:59I'm fine.
34:00You haven't parted?
34:01It's a fiddle.
34:03It's a goddamn
34:04fiddle.
34:04You hear me?
34:05Slowly,
34:06the men began dying
34:07and the others
34:08had to resort
34:08to consuming
34:09their companions.
34:10At some point,
34:11they even drew
34:12lots to determine
34:13who would be killed
34:14to feed the group.
34:15Only eight
34:16of the 21 men
34:17survived,
34:18and the story
34:18inspired Herman Melville
34:20to write his
34:20great American novel.
34:22The great shroud
34:23of the sea
34:24rolls over
34:25the Pequod,
34:26her crew,
34:28and Moby Dick.
34:29Number 18.
34:30The Nutty Putty Cave
34:31Incident
34:32John Edwards Jones
34:33suffered an
34:34absolutely horrific
34:35death that is
34:35quite literally
34:36the stuff of
34:37nightmares.
34:38On the evening
34:39of November 24,
34:402009,
34:41Jones was exploring
34:42Utah's Nutty Putty Cave
34:44with his brother
34:44when he became trapped.
34:46The 26-year-old
34:47had mistaken
34:47a tight passageway
34:48for the infamous
34:49birth canal
34:50and found himself
34:51stuck upside down.
34:52Stuck in that position
34:53for going on
34:5423 hours now
34:55makes it very difficult
34:57for him.
34:59His body remained
35:00compressed and
35:00inverted for 28
35:02hours.
35:03Rescue workers
35:03attempted to free
35:04Jones using a rope
35:05and pulley system
35:06but their efforts
35:07failed.
35:08Due to his
35:08precarious position,
35:10his heart went
35:11into cardiac arrest
35:12and he eventually
35:13passed away.
35:14It was decided
35:14that Jones' corpse
35:15would remain in place
35:16and that he would
35:17be entombed
35:18within the now
35:19sealed cave.
35:19Did you promise
35:21to tell Emily
35:21that no matter what
35:24I'll be there
35:25when the baby is born?
35:27Number 17.
35:28Minnie Dean
35:29New Zealand
35:30established capital
35:31punishment
35:31in 1840
35:32and it was
35:33completely abolished
35:34by 1989.
35:36In that time,
35:3785 inmates
35:38were executed.
35:39Minnie Dean
35:40was the only woman
35:41to receive that fate.
35:42Dean worked
35:43as a baby farmer.
35:44Basically,
35:45she was paid
35:46to adopt
35:46other people's children.
35:48Look,
35:48I don't have time
35:49for all these legalities.
35:50One second,
35:50Dad,
35:51I have the adoption papers.
35:52She took in
35:53numerous kids
35:54and many started
35:55dying or disappearing.
35:57While infant mortality
35:58was high at the time,
35:59the deaths
36:00were exceeding the norm
36:01and Dean
36:02started attracting attention.
36:04She was eventually
36:05arrested for homicide.
36:07Due to lax record keeping,
36:08it's hard to determine
36:09how many people
36:10died under Dean's care.
36:12However,
36:13three bodies
36:13were unearthed
36:14in her garden
36:15following her arrest.
36:16She was hanged
36:17on September 2nd,
36:181844.
36:19French lawyer
36:24Maximilien Robespierre
36:26is one of the defining
36:27and most divisive
36:28names of the French Revolution.
36:30Although initially beloved,
36:31Robespierre's ambitions
36:32grew too great,
36:34which eventually corroded
36:35his public reputation.
36:42Upon his arrest
36:43on July 27th, 1794,
36:45Robespierre reportedly
36:47attempted to take
36:47his own life
36:48with a pistol but failed.
36:50The incident left him
36:50with a damaged jaw
36:52which was kept together
36:53with a bandage.
36:54He was then taken
36:55to the Place de la Révolution
36:56to be executed.
36:57The officer in charge,
36:59Charles-Henri Sanson,
37:00removed the bandage,
37:02leaving Robespierre's jaw
37:03to hang loose.
37:04He was reportedly in pain
37:06until he was beheaded.
37:07Number 15.
37:18The Donner Party
37:19Composed of multiple
37:20pioneer families,
37:21the Donner Party
37:22sought to move
37:23from the Midwest
37:24to California
37:24in the mid-1840s.
37:26Halfway into the trip,
37:28the group decided
37:28to take a new shortcut
37:29called the Hastings Cut-Off,
37:31which was a much more
37:32difficult terrain to cross.
37:34As they traveled further,
37:35they became snowbound
37:36in the Sierra Nevada,
37:37and the wagon train
37:38was unable
37:39to penetrate the snow.
37:40We have to leave
37:41the wagons
37:42to keep them moving.
37:44They can go no further.
37:46Unhitch the animals.
37:47To survive
37:48the harsh winter,
37:49the party was forced
37:50to camp
37:50at the nearby
37:51Truckee Lake.
37:52The cold in this region
37:53soon became unbearable,
37:55leading to the deaths
37:56of multiple people.
37:57With very little supplies,
37:59the survivors had to resort
38:00to consuming
38:01their deceased companions.
38:02In all of the party's 87 members,
38:05only 48 lived
38:06to tell the tale.
38:07They had to resort
38:08to cannibalism
38:09in order to stay alive.
38:11Number 14.
38:12The Experiments
38:13of Nikolai Krasnogorski
38:14Soviet neurologist
38:16Ivan Pavlov
38:17is famous
38:17for his conditioning
38:18experiments on dogs,
38:20resulting in the widely used term
38:22Pavlovian response.
38:23See, Pavlov was
38:24this science guy,
38:25and every time his dog
38:26would ring a bell,
38:27Pavlov would eat.
38:28But what many do not know
38:29is that his tinkerings
38:30led to a devastating outcome.
38:32Pavlov had an assistant
38:34named Nikolai Krasnogorski,
38:35who continued
38:36with his mentor's experiments.
38:38However,
38:38this assistant
38:39conducted his test
38:40on young subjects
38:41he acquired
38:42through orphanages.
38:43The subjects
38:44were outfitted
38:44with a device
38:45that measured
38:46the amount of saliva
38:46emanating directly
38:47from their glands
38:48when they were given food.
38:50Unfortunately,
38:51the method
38:51of installing these devices
38:53was frankly atrocious.
38:55Krasnogorski
38:55experimented
38:56on these test subjects,
38:58presumably in a bid
38:59to prove
38:59that humans
39:00can be easily conditioned
39:01just like dogs.
39:02Stop it!
39:03Stop it!
39:03Please!
39:04I beg you!
39:06This is sin!
39:06Number 13.
39:08Jonestown.
39:09American preacher
39:10Jim Jones
39:10created a doomsday cult
39:12called the People's Temple.
39:13In the 1970s,
39:15Jones moved
39:15his congregation
39:16to an isolated area
39:17in Guyana,
39:18where they established
39:19a remote settlement
39:20called Jonestown.
39:21That became the site
39:22of one of the most
39:23infamous crimes
39:24involving American lives.
39:26It started as an effort
39:27by a charismatic preacher
39:28to build a new society,
39:29but it ended,
39:30of course,
39:30with the tragic deaths
39:31of more than 900 people.
39:33After disturbing details
39:35from the settlement
39:35came to light,
39:36U.S. Congressman
39:37Leo Ryan
39:38traveled to Guyana
39:39with some concerned relatives
39:40of the Jonestown members.
39:42Concluding that
39:42his cult had failed,
39:43Jones reportedly
39:44ordered the killing
39:45of Ryan,
39:46who was later shot
39:47at a nearby airstrip.
39:48Jones then led
39:49his entire congregation
39:50to ingest a drink
39:52poisoned with cyanide.
39:53This resulted in the deaths
39:54of 909 people,
39:57becoming one of the worst
39:58massacres in American history.
40:00You've had as much
40:00of this world
40:01as you're going to get.
40:02Let's just be done with it.
40:03Let's be done
40:04with the agony of it.
40:05Number 12,
40:06the Stanford Prison Experiment.
40:08Does the situation
40:09outside of you,
40:10the institution,
40:12come to control
40:12your behavior?
40:13Or does the things
40:15inside of you,
40:16your attitude,
40:16your values,
40:17your morality...
40:17If you need proof
40:19that power corrupts,
40:20look no further
40:21than the highly controversial
40:22Stanford Prison Experiment.
40:24This social test
40:25was conducted
40:26from August 14th
40:27through the 20th, 1971,
40:29and saw student volunteers
40:30playing fake prisoners
40:31and prison authorities.
40:33The goal of the experiment,
40:34led by Professor Philip Zimbardo,
40:36was to study the effects
40:37of unchecked power
40:38in prison guards.
40:39The negative environment
40:40Zimbardo chose
40:41to test his ideas
40:42was a prison.
40:43He would convert
40:44the basement
40:45of the university's
40:46psychology department
40:47into a subterranean jail.
40:49The experiment
40:50quickly flew off the rails,
40:51with some of the
40:52guard students
40:53veering into
40:54psychological torture
40:55by enacting
40:56extreme measures,
40:57including psychological
40:58abuse and harassment.
41:00That said,
41:01the experiment's methodology
41:02is extremely contentious,
41:04as it had repeatedly
41:05been compromised
41:06by Zimbardo's goading.
41:07Some of the prisoners
41:08also knew the study's
41:10hypothesis
41:10and acted accordingly,
41:11which is an unwanted
41:13variable in psychological
41:14experiments
41:15called
41:15demand characteristics.
41:16At this rate,
41:23we're going to be here
41:23all goddamn night.
41:28And I'll love it.
41:29Number 11.
41:30Octavia Hatcher
41:31The story of Octavia Hatcher
41:45is a popular one
41:46around the small town
41:47of Pikeville, Kentucky.
41:49The legend states
41:49that the young mother
41:50fell sick and passed away
41:52a few months after
41:53she gave birth to a son,
41:54who died shortly
41:55after delivery.
41:56Due to the southern heat,
41:57they buried her
41:57very quickly.
41:58Soon after her death,
41:59however,
41:59other locals seemingly
42:01showed similar symptoms,
42:02only to recover.
42:03The culprit,
42:04retrospectively,
42:05was likely encephalitis.
42:07Locals promptly
42:07dug up Hatcher's grave
42:09and realized
42:09that she didn't die,
42:11but had fallen
42:11into a coma.
42:12They found evidence
42:13of her having woken up,
42:15including scratches
42:16on the coffin
42:16and Hatcher's bloody nails.
42:19The veracity
42:20of the story
42:21has been questioned,
42:22but according to a member
42:23of Big Sandy Heritage
42:24Center's board of directors,
42:26quote,
42:26Most local historians
42:27do agree that Hatcher
42:29did fall ill
42:29and was buried alive.
42:36Number 10.
42:37The Curse of King Tut.
42:39Even if you don't believe
42:40in curses,
42:41there's no denying
42:42that there's something
42:43spooky about this story.
42:44I believe if I can see it
42:45and I can touch it,
42:46then it's real.
42:47That's what I believe.
42:48I believe in being prepared.
42:51Egyptologist Howard Carter
42:52found the tomb
42:53of King Tutankhamen
42:54in 1922,
42:55and various members
42:56of his team
42:57were immediately struck
42:58with health issues.
42:59The first to die
43:00was financier Lord Carnarvon,
43:02who passed away
43:03from blood poisoning
43:04after a mosquito bite
43:05became infected.
43:06Within a dozen years,
43:07more people involved
43:08in the excavation
43:09were dead,
43:10including Carter's
43:11personal secretary,
43:12Richard Bethel.
43:13Carter himself died
43:14in 1939,
43:16nearly 20 years
43:17after opening the tomb.
43:18But his death
43:19is still attributed
43:20to the curse.
43:21The story even attracted
43:22the attention
43:23of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
43:24who linked Carnarvon's death
43:26to mythical beings
43:27called Elementals.
43:28I don't think I'm a nut.
43:30Don't want no fancy funeral.
43:32Just one like old King Tut.
43:34King Tut.
43:35Number 9.
43:36Advice to Animal Owners.
43:38It's okay.
43:42Okay.
43:46Can you imagine
43:47killing your own pet?
43:48Unfortunately,
43:49that was a reality
43:50that many in pre-World War II
43:52Britain were forced to face.
43:54Pets were seen
43:54as an unwanted nuisance
43:56in wartime,
43:57as they would either
43:57roam the streets
43:58following a bombing
43:58or eat the already limited
44:00and rationed food.
44:01A committee was formed
44:02to solve the problem
44:03and their solution
44:04was unimaginably horrific.
44:06They released a pamphlet
44:07advising pet owners
44:08to either release them
44:09into the countryside
44:10or have them euthanized.
44:12Included in the papers
44:13was an ad
44:13for a captive bolt pistol
44:15said to be,
44:16the standard instrument
44:17for the humane destruction
44:18of domestic animals.
44:20All told,
44:20an estimated 750,000 pets
44:23were killed in a week.
44:25More than 107,000 per day.
44:36Number 8.
44:37Recycling Deceased Soldiers
44:39If there is anything
44:40in this world
44:41about which I know
44:42positively nothing,
44:43it is agriculture.
44:45Turns out,
44:46there's nothing better
44:46for farming
44:47than human bone.
44:48The Napoleonic Wars
44:49cost upwards of
44:50two million soldiers
44:52their lives
44:52and it was common practice
44:54for the survivors
44:54to loot the dead
44:55for supplies.
45:02This included tearing out
45:04teeth with pliers
45:05for use in dentures.
45:06The Battle of Waterloo
45:07proved especially fruitful
45:09for the denture market
45:10and the resulting products
45:11became known
45:12as Waterloo Teeth.
45:13Battlegrounds
45:14were also looted
45:15for bones
45:15after the dead
45:16had decomposed
45:17and these bones
45:19were ground into dust
45:20and sold to farmers.
45:21A British paper
45:22from 1822
45:23reported that human bone
45:25made for
45:25quote,
45:26substantial manure.
45:32Number 7.
45:33Knocking in Space
45:34Imagine you're an astronaut
45:43and you're all alone
45:44floating through
45:45the quiet vacuum of space
45:46in your cozy little spacecraft
45:48and then
45:49you hear someone
45:50or something
45:51knocking.
45:52It's enough
45:53to make you go mad.
45:54But the thing is
45:55it's that I'm still scared.
45:58I'm really scared.
46:03Nobody will mourn for me.
46:04No one will pray for my soul.
46:06Luckily,
46:07astronaut
46:07and famed
46:08knock hearer
46:09Yang Liwei
46:10didn't go mad
46:11but he was
46:12understandably creeped out.
46:13Liwei attempted
46:14to replicate
46:15the knocking sound
46:16after returning to Earth
46:17but nothing proved successful.
46:19Future Chinese astronauts
46:20also reported hearing
46:21the eerie knocking sound
46:22leading some to believe
46:23it was caused
46:24by the spacecraft itself.
46:25The source was later
46:26attributed to
46:27changes in air pressure
46:28and temperature
46:29morphing the capsule's
46:30inner wall.
46:31Mundane explanation aside,
46:32we couldn't imagine
46:33how utterly terrifying
46:35that experience would be.
46:37Are you sure
46:37there's no sign of it?
46:38I mean it is there.
46:41It's gotta be around there.
46:43Number 6
46:44Hinterkaifeck murders
46:45There are literally
46:47countless creepy
46:48true crime stories
46:49but there's just something
46:50really unsettling
46:51about the infamous
46:52Hinterkaifeck murders.
46:53These took place
46:54at a farm
46:54in Bavaria, Germany
46:55in 1922.
46:57Prior to the murders,
46:58Andreas Gruber
46:58found human foot tracks
47:00in the snow
47:00leading from the nearby forest
47:02to his house.
47:02That night,
47:03the family heard footsteps
47:04coming from the attic
47:05but failed to notify
47:07the police.
47:07On March 31st,
47:17every member
47:17of the household
47:18including their daughter,
47:20her grandchildren
47:20and their maid
47:21were killed.
47:22It would be four days
47:24until the bodies
47:24were discovered.
47:25The still unknown murderer
47:27had long made their escape.
47:29This unsolved case
47:30truly has it all.
47:31Gruesome violence,
47:32no survivors,
47:33an unidentified culprit
47:35and an incredibly
47:36creepy case
47:37of home invasion.
47:39Number 5.
47:40The sad but creepy case
47:41of Henry Rathbone.
47:43Shakespeare,
47:44how do you do?
47:45It's a great pleasure
47:46to meet you.
47:48Everyone knows
47:49of Lincoln's assassination
47:50but the role played
47:51by Major Henry Rathbone
47:52is less common knowledge.
47:54Rathbone and his fiance
47:55were attending
47:56the play with Lincoln
47:56and Rathbone tried
47:58subduing John Wilkes Booth
47:59after he shot the president.
48:00His artery was severed
48:02in the process.
48:03Rathbone survived
48:04but he blamed himself
48:05for Lincoln's death
48:06and spiraled into insanity.
48:08On December 23rd, 1883,
48:10he assaulted his own children
48:11and when his wife intervened,
48:13he took care of her
48:15before stabbing himself
48:16in a failed attempt
48:17at his own life.
48:18I'm not gonna hurt you.
48:20You didn't let me
48:20finish my sentence.
48:22I said,
48:23I'm not gonna hurt you.
48:24When police arrived,
48:25they found a deranged Rathbone
48:27and his wife's corpse.
48:29You wouldn't get it.
48:30Number 4.
48:32Chernobyl.
48:32The world held its breath
48:34throughout the spring of 1986,
48:36desperately hoping
48:37that their respective areas
48:38wouldn't be inundated
48:39with radiation.
48:40On April 26th,
48:42a reactor at the
48:43Chernobyl nuclear power plant
48:44exploded,
48:45sending enormous plumes
48:46of radiation
48:47into the atmosphere.
48:48This radiation was then
48:49carried far and wide
48:51by the wind.
48:51Who's the next closest?
48:53It's Chernobyl,
48:54but that's not possible.
48:55They're 400 kilometers away.
48:56That's too far
48:57for eight mini-ronken
48:58and they'd have to be split open.
48:59It was given
49:00the maximum severity
49:01on the International
49:02Nuclear Events Scale
49:03and it resulted
49:04in an extensive cleanup effort
49:06that took years
49:07and billions of dollars
49:08to complete.
49:09Nearby cities
49:10were completely evacuated
49:11and are now
49:12eerie ghost towns.
49:14Many people
49:15also suffered
49:16unimaginably horrible deaths
49:17from acute radiation syndrome
49:19as their bodies
49:20shut down.
49:21Chernobyl was a living nightmare
49:23that struck the fear
49:24of radiation
49:25into millions.
49:26What happened there?
49:27What happened after?
49:28Even the good we did.
49:30All of it.
49:33All of it.
49:36Madness.
49:37Number three,
49:37the eruption
49:38of Mount Vesuvius.
49:45The ancient Romans
49:46experienced hell
49:47on Earth
49:47in 79 AD
49:48when Mount Vesuvius
49:50famously erupted.
49:51The eruption
49:51launched a massive cloud
49:53of gas and debris
49:5321 miles into the air,
49:56effectively blocking out the sun.
49:58This in turn
49:58caused a tsunami
49:59in the Bay of Naples
50:00and ash rained down
50:02on nearby cities.
50:03The volcano
50:04later released pyroclastic flows,
50:06which are essentially
50:0718,000 degree Fahrenheit
50:09clouds of gas
50:09and volcanic matter
50:10that can travel
50:11upwards of 400 miles per hour.
50:13This distinct layer
50:15of solidified ash
50:16is evidence
50:17of a high-speed current
50:19of heated gas
50:20and volcanic debris
50:21known as a pyroclastic flow.
50:25The flows decimated
50:27the nearby cities
50:27and killed people instantly,
50:29vaporizing their blood
50:30and organs.
50:31The eruption
50:32buried the cities
50:33of Pompeii,
50:34Herculaneum,
50:35Oplantis,
50:35and Stabii,
50:36killing at least
50:371,500 people
50:38based on the human
50:39remains uncovered,
50:40but likely
50:41many more.
50:42The exact nature
50:43of the pyroclastic
50:44density current
50:45in some instances
50:46is very, very light
50:47and fluffy,
50:48but you can have
50:49temperatures from
50:50200 degrees centigrade
50:51up to maybe
50:51700 degrees centigrade.
50:53That's not unheard of.
50:54Number 2.
50:55The Mary Celeste
50:56Bad luck plagued her
50:58from the beginning.
50:59On her maiden voyage,
51:01her master
51:01fell fatally ill.
51:03Ghost ship stories
51:03are a dime a dozen,
51:05but none is as arguably
51:06popular as the Mary Celeste.
51:08This was a sailing vessel
51:09built in Canada
51:10and named the Amazon
51:11before it was wrecked
51:13and sold to American buyers,
51:14who renamed her
51:15the Mary Celeste.
51:16On December 4th, 1872,
51:18the ghost ship
51:19was found floating
51:20off the Azores Islands.
51:21It was not leaking.
51:24The sails were damaged.
51:26Those that were up
51:27and had not been furled
51:29were damaged.
51:29Aside from that,
51:30there was no real
51:31structural damage
51:32to the boat.
51:33The ship was in good condition.
51:34There was nothing recent
51:35in her captain's log,
51:36her provisions were undisturbed,
51:38and the crew's belongings
51:39were still on board.
51:41However,
51:41the lifeboat was missing,
51:43leading many to wonder
51:44why the crew
51:44had abandoned ship.
51:45Naturally,
51:46conspiracy theories
51:47abound to this day.
51:49And,
51:49while numerous sound theories
51:51have been put forth
51:52over the years,
51:52the mystery remains unsolved.
51:54But the riddle
51:55of that ill-fated voyage
51:57in 1872
51:58will haunt us forever.
52:00The mystery
52:01of the Mary Celeste
52:02will live on.
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52:18For three horrifying years
52:26between 1348
52:27and 1350,
52:29the Black Death
52:30pushed medieval man
52:31to the brink
52:32of an apocalypse.
52:33The Black Death
52:34wasn't just
52:35the deadliest epidemic
52:36of infectious disease
52:37in human history.
52:38It killed
52:39an estimated
52:3930 to 60 percent
52:41of Europe's
52:42entire population.
52:43Seriously,
52:44the entry
52:44can just end here.
52:45But it also turned
52:53into what's probably
52:54the closest thing
52:55we've ever had
52:56to a real-life zombie movie.
52:58London quarantined
52:59plague victims
53:00inside their homes
53:01and armed guards
53:02were reportedly
53:03stationed nearby
53:04to prevent escape.
53:05This didn't sit well
53:06with the quarantined
53:07and they often fought back
53:09by attacking
53:09and in some cases
53:10murdering the guards.
53:12Law and order broke down.
53:15Tight-knit community
53:15and communities
53:16broke apart.
53:17This led entire
53:18neighborhoods to be
53:19quarantined,
53:19which only instigated
53:20rioting and more death.
53:22If some plague victims
53:23happened to escape,
53:24they wandered the countryside
53:25pretty much like zombies,
53:27as no towns
53:28or villages
53:28would permit them entry.
53:30In some cases,
53:31they were even attacked
53:32on the road
53:33by the healthy.
53:34In one six-week period,
53:3711,000 people
53:38are buried
53:39in a single graveyard.
53:41What historical event
53:43do you think
53:43is horror movie material?
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53:45in the comments.
53:46Let us know
53:46in the comments.
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53:49in the comments.
53:51This is the story
53:52I think
53:53can't stand
53:53in the comments.
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