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History is full of unbelievable moments—but some stories are so insane they feel straight out of Hollywood. In this video, we explore 10 Craziest Stories In History That Deserve A Movie, featuring real-life events, legendary figures, shocking survival stories, and unbelievable twists that actually happened.
From forgotten heroes to unbelievable disasters, these true stories prove that reality is often crazier than fiction.
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From forgotten heroes to unbelievable disasters, these true stories prove that reality is often crazier than fiction.
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00:00Some of the wolves were killed in the struggle, but the rest vanished into alleys of the city.
00:05Leaving Paris in a state of fear.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our-
00:10...picks for the wildest historical events that would make great movies.
00:14To be clear-
00:15...while some of these may be referenced on the silver screen or appeared in documentaries-
00:20...none have received the full film treatment.
00:22What's for the hell?
00:25It sucks to me, Dice.
00:30the battle of castle itter in the small village of
00:35itter austria lies a medieval castle named schloss itter the castle
00:40was seized by ss lieutenant general oswald paul under orders from heinrich him
00:45la on february 7 1943. this world war ii battle saw a small
00:50group of strange allies hold an austrian castle turned pow camp against an
00:55approaching german panzer division the defenders included troops from an american
00:59tank
01:00italian and french prisoners whose members included two former french prime minister
01:05multiple french military commanders and charles de gaulle's sister even more
01:10bizarre is that they were aided by german soldiers and an ss commander who had defected
01:15the group held off the nazi attack until john barotra a tennis star
01:20could return with reinforcements after vaulting the fortress wall oh and the
01:25xss guy died taking a bullet for one of the x french prime ministers
01:30and how is this not a movie yet olga of kiev's revenge
01:35everyone loves a good revenge story and this one has all the makings of a bloody r a
01:40olga's husband igor was murdered by the drevlians who then had
01:45the audacity to propose that she marry his killer prince maul to get back at the
01:50of kiev's revenge for them olga at first pretended to accept their offer however she actually had their messenger
01:55burned or buried alive olga then pretended to want to throw a wake for her late husband
02:00in the city where he died number however she had her men massacre the drunken drink
02:05at the party, before laying siege to the city and burning it down.
02:10Her revenge, recorded in the Primary Chronicle,
02:15has since become the stuff of legend.
02:18Since she was later named a saint,
02:20maybe they could call it Saint of Vengeance.
02:23Mansa Musa's Pilgrim...
02:25Ruling the Mali Empire in the 14th century CE,
02:29Mansa Musa...
02:30or the King of Kings,
02:32amassed a fortune that possibly made him...
02:35one of the wealthiest people who ever lived.
02:37Often considered one of the wealthiest men to ever...
02:40live.
02:41Mansa Musa ruled Mali in the 14th century.
02:44Between 13...
02:451424 and 1325, Musa made a Hajj, or a pilgrimage, to Mecca.
02:49Musa...
02:50Gave generously on his way there.
02:52Maybe too much.
02:53In 1375...
02:55the Catalan Atlas map added the Mali Empire,
02:58with a drawing of an African king...
03:00sitting on the Golden Throne in Timbuk 2,
03:02with a piece of gold in his hand.
03:04Although...
03:05he reportedly built many mosques,
03:07Musa also gave away so much gold that he may...
03:10have destabilized the economies of multiple countries.
03:13He also ran out of money.
03:15to the point where he had to borrow some of what he gave away on the return trip.
03:19Even going into...
03:20debt.
03:21Musa's absurd journey would make a crazy historical road movie.
03:25Plus, we need more movies about Africa.
03:28The disappearing village at Angic...
03:30Cooney Lake.
03:30There were records showing that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
03:34had investigated the...
03:35the case again in 1931.
03:37These Mounties stated that they discovered...
03:40an uninhabited settlement but they deemed it to be either a seasonal or permanent...
03:45abandonment of the site with no mysterious overtones and closed the case.
03:50In 1930, in what is now known as the Nunavut Territory in Canada...
03:55fur trapper Joe LaBelle discovered that an Inuit village near Lake Angicuni had apparent...
04:00immediately disappeared.
04:01The villagers were nowhere to be seen with their food and belongings...
04:05still laying where they left them, suggesting they'd left suddenly.
04:08A grave had also been under...
04:10unearthed and a team of sled dogs had starved to death.
04:13The incident is often connected with alien...
04:15production theories or supernatural native legends...
04:18while many have questioned the veracity of the...
04:20story.
04:21Even if it is a fabrication, it would still make for a great sci-fi or horror...
04:25movie.
04:26The Cadaver Synod.
04:28Ecclesiastical gatherings and...
04:30religious trials are all the rage these days...
04:32and yet one of history's most bizarre religious trials has been...
04:35yet to make it to the big screen.
04:36Pope Formosus, you stand accused...
04:40of heresy...
04:41lying...
04:42and conspiring...
04:43to be Pope.
04:44What say you...
04:45to those charges?
04:46Pope Stephen VI is best remembered for...
04:50initiating a tribunal against one of his predecessors, Pope Formosus...
04:55after Formosus was already dead.
04:57The late Pope's corpse was propped up on...
05:00a throne...
05:01and a deacon was appointed to answer for him to refute the charges against him.
05:05Formosus was found guilty, had three of his fingers cut off, and he was...
05:10buried again in a different grave...
05:12only to be dug up again and thrown into the grave.
05:15Pope Stephen, meanwhile, was overthrown and killed in prison.
05:20Politics, courtroom drama, grave digging...
05:23this has it all.
05:24Pope Formosus?
05:25Pope Formosus was shortly restored of his papacy...
05:27and this demonizing undone...
05:29anti-law was set in...
05:30place that no person after death...
05:32can be trialed and persecuted...
05:34for what they might have done.
05:35The Fake RMS Carmania.
05:37The Cunard Liner RMS Carmania.
05:40Newly converted to an armed merchant cruiser...
05:42was patrolling the South Atlantic Ocean...
05:45when she encountered a baffling sight...
05:47near the tiny island of Trindade.
05:50In 1914, Germany lacked warships...
05:53so they decided to arm...
05:55one of their ocean liners with guns.
05:57The SMS Cap Trafalgar...
05:59was...
06:00retrofitted to resemble the RMS Carmania...
06:03a British luxury liner.
06:05Its mission was to use its disguised appearance...
06:08to harass and sink British merchant vets...
06:10vessels...
06:11who would be none the wiser...
06:12until it was too late.
06:13It was a brilliant plan...
06:14however...
06:15after a fruitless first voyage...
06:17the Cap Trafalgar finally encountered...
06:19a British...
06:20a British ship...
06:21the only problem...
06:22it was the real RMS Carmania...
06:24which had all...
06:25also...
06:26been given armaments.
06:27The ship they had just come face to face with...
06:29the first ship...
06:30of the Cap Trafalgar's...
06:32top secret cubicle mission...
06:34was the Carmanian...
06:35the ship they were disguised as...
06:37disguised as them...
06:39the...
06:40the Cap Trafalgar...
06:41was promptly sunk...
06:42after a battle against the ship...
06:44it intended to...
06:45imitate.
06:46The world deserves this comedic historical...
06:48naval action movie.
06:50Toronto Circus Riot.
06:52How does a fight...
06:53between a clown and a fireman...
06:55end up reshaping Toronto's reputation...
06:57alongside its police force?
06:58A fireman and a clown...
07:00walking into a brothel...
07:01sounds like a good setup for a joke...
07:03and we'd argue...
07:04for a...
07:05movie.
07:06In July 1855...
07:07a group of circus clowns...
07:09and...
07:10a group of volunteer firefighters...
07:12got into a fight...
07:13at a bordello...
07:14in Toronto...
07:15Canada.
07:16The clowns won the day...
07:18but that wasn't the end...
07:19the...
07:20firefighters came to the circus...
07:22the next day...
07:23and burned some of the circus's wagons...
07:25people were throwing stones...
07:27setting tents on fire...
07:28and when the hook and ladder firefighting...
07:30company showed up...
07:31not to put out the fires...
07:32but to join the fight...
07:33all hell broke loose...
07:35more firefighters arrived...
07:37but instead of doing their jobs...
07:39they helped their...
07:40comrades in their mayhem...
07:41the mayor had to call in a militia...
07:43to stop the violence...
07:44oh...
07:45and because the police...
07:46failed to prosecute...
07:47most of the police force...
07:48was fired...
07:49the...
07:50the real circus...
07:51was Toronto...
07:52all along...
07:53The Wolves of Paris...
07:55While the exact year...
07:56is somewhat debated...
07:57several accounts agree...
07:58that during the early 15th...
08:00century...
08:01Paris was attacked...
08:02by a marauding pack...
08:03of man-eating wolves...
08:04during a harsh...
08:05winter...
08:06the pack's leader was nicknamed...
08:07Cortu...
08:08or Bobtail...
08:09and they killed several...
08:10a dozen people...
08:11throughout that winter...
08:12leaving many in fear...
08:13of leaving their homes...
08:14Cortu...
08:15the other grey wolf packs...
08:16that roamed the forests...
08:17outside of Paris...
08:18instilled an overwhelming...
08:20amount of fear...
08:21in Parisians...
08:22and foreigners...
08:23According to the stories...
08:24a group of Parisians...
08:25banded together...
08:26to ambush the wolves...
08:27driving them into...
08:28Notre Dame...
08:29and killing them all...
08:30rocks and weapons...
08:31this has all the makings...
08:32of a great horror...
08:33or thriller film...
08:34with the...
08:35ravenous beasts...
08:36and winter setting...
08:37giving it plenty...
08:38of scare potential.
08:39The man...
08:40who rode the thunder.
08:42Survival stories have proven to be successful movies in the past...
08:45and this...
08:46is a contender...
08:47for the most incredible.
08:48At 6pm...
08:49on a summer night...
08:501959...
08:51Pilot Lieutenant Colonel...
08:52William Rankins...
08:53F-8...
08:54suffered an...
08:55engine failure...
08:56while flying at...
08:5747,000 feet...
08:58at 500 knots...
09:00the failure...
09:01was followed by...
09:02a fire warning...
09:03then a system failure...
09:04Rankin was...
09:05about to have...
09:06a very bad day...
09:07William Rankin...
09:08was a marine pilot...
09:09while flying...
09:10a jet...
09:11over a cumulonimbus cloud...
09:12his engine failed...
09:13and he was forced to eject...
09:15and...
09:16Rankin's parachute...
09:17opened early...
09:18and he spent...
09:1940 minutes...
09:20after ejection...
09:20being pelted by...
09:21hailstones...
09:22and thrown about...
09:23by the storm...
09:24he suffered...
09:25fraud...
09:25cost-bite...
09:26extreme decompression...
09:27and bruising...
09:28he even nearly drowned...
09:30in mid-air...
09:31he tried to hold his breath...
09:33but it was a very dangerous...
09:34thing to do...
09:35falling at...
09:36breakneck speed...
09:37but he still made it...
09:38safely to the ground...
09:39Rankin wrote a book...
09:40about the experience...
09:41but a movie...
09:42could take his...
09:43incredible story...
09:44to amazing heights...
09:45with the right director...
09:46and effects...
09:47Hitching a ride...
09:48turned out to be...
09:49a tough task...
09:50imagine a man standing...
09:51on the side of the road...
09:52covered in blood...
09:53and dressed in a soaked...
09:54ripped-up flight...
09:55suit...
09:56no wonder...
09:57there weren't...
09:58many volunteers...
09:59to give him a lift...
10:00but eventually...
10:01someone picked him up...
10:02and drove to a payphone...
10:03where Rankin managed...
10:04to call for an ambulance...
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10:22disastrous...
10:23Olympic marathon...
10:24the...
10:251904 St. Louis...
10:26Olympic marathon...
10:27was a disaster...
10:28it was a story...
10:29of fraud...
10:30thievery...
10:31raw eggs...
10:32rat poison...
10:33food poisoning...
10:34liquor...
10:35feral dogs...
10:35and at least...
10:36three separate...
10:37incidents...
10:38of near death...
10:39it was the stupid...
10:40sporting event...
10:41of all time...
10:42the Olympic games...
10:43are usually...
10:44a spectacle...
10:45but the men's marathon...
10:46at the 1904 Olympics...
10:47in St. Louis...
10:48was a cavalcade...
10:49of...
10:50insane...
10:51events...
10:52firstly...
10:53the organizer...
10:54James Edward Sullivan...
10:55only one water station...
10:56along the dusty...
10:57hot roads...
10:58the competitors were running...
10:59on purpose...
11:00this led to only 14...
11:02out of the 32...
11:03of them finishing...
11:04the initial first...
11:05place winner...
11:06was disqualified...
11:07after the discovery...
11:08he'd hitchhiked...
11:09part of the way...
11:10the actual winner...
11:11had taken...
11:12performance enhancing...
11:13drugs...
11:14which were basically...
11:15rat poison...
11:15the fourth to arrive...
11:16took a nap...
11:17after eating rotten fruit...
11:18which he stole...
11:19and that's...
11:20just scratching the surface...
11:21give this story...
11:22to someone like...
11:23the Coen brothers...
11:24and let them...
11:25bring this comedy of errors...
11:26to life again.
11:28Is there a bizarre historical story...
11:30we're nuts...
11:31for forgetting...
11:32tell us your favorites...
11:33in the comments...
11:34a war...
11:35the war was over...
11:36but the submarine...
11:37developed in peacetime...
11:38took its place...
11:39with the airplane...
11:40with a major destructive force...
11:45squid...
11:47... which 140 efforts are...
11:48actually...
11:49with the oil...
11:49afteratuinen...
11:50what's earlier?
11:50I have twice a question...
11:51while I'm apparently took...
11:53what's there...
11:55when I try to be...
11:56I miss a question...
11:57thank you very much...
11:59how many...
12:00my plan...
12:04I actually should do...
12:05one...
12:06not something in...
12:07the inocять...
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