The following is a list of today’s well-known, elite celebrities and the mysterious photos unearthed of what seems to be near carbon copies of them from different points in our history. And many of the images are dated well over 100 years. Whether it happens to be a long-lost family member that somehow was knocked out of the family tree or perhaps a more illogical, fantastic reason for the occurrence, we may never know....
10 The Covina Massacre On Christmas Eve 2008, at a Christmas party in Covina, California, nine people were murdered by a man in a Santa costume. The man, Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, was motivated by his recent divorce settlement and spousal support payments. The divorce proceedings, which lasted months and ended only a week earlier, had cost Pardo a lot of money, and he wasn’t having it. He was having serious mental issues, though....
Sometimes, all that remains are mummified pieces. Even these lonesome fragments can reveal bizarre traditions about love, death, and living cocktail drinkers who must kiss amputated toes. 10 The Hun Warrior In 1993, a girl found a grave. Alena Kypchakova, then 12, found a collapsed grotto near the rural Kam-Tytugem settlement in Siberia. Inside were the remains of a Hun warrior and his weapons. Around 1,700 years ago, the man was wrapped in fur and placed on a wooden bed....
Sir Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, planned to execute Adolf Hitler in the electric chair if the Nazi leader fell into Allied hands. Declassified documents reveal that Churchill was opposed to Allied plans for war crimes trials and wanted summarily to execute leading Nazi figures including Hitler who he regarded as “the mainspring of evil” and a “gangster”, and was also content to see Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi starve to death during a hunger strike in 1943....
As of 2011, 29 incidents are classified as never events. They include but are not limited to patients falling off hospital beds, doctors using the wrong procedures for treatment, doctors forgetting surgical equipment in the bodies of patients, and doctors performing surgeries on the wrong patients. Here, we will focus on never events that happened during surgery. 10 17-Year-Old Gets Wrong Heart And Lungs During Transplant In 2003, 17-year-old Jesica Santillan experienced what should be the worst never event incident that has ever happened....
Ghosts, mass graves, alligators, and the spookiest looking trees you have ever seen grace this frightening swamp in Louisiana. The pictures sum up all that is spooky about New Orleans and its surrounding areas. Cane Hill was an insane asylum in Croydon, London in use until 1991 when – by all appearances – everyone just got up and walked out. Some of the inmates were transferred to other secure locations but the hospital, and much of the medical apparatus still remains....
People looking to remove themselves from the grid can do so in several ways. Still, it’s going to require making some serious (and often expensive) changes. This list features the essential items you’ll need should you ever want to remove yourself from Big Brother’s watchful eye. 10 Governments That Secretly Have Kill Lists 10 Land To Call Your Own If you’re looking to get off the grid, you will need a place to stay....
Pedro Lopez, the so-called “Monster of the Andes” began his killing spree in the late 70’s, eventually confessing to the murder of over 350 girls between the ages of 7 and 13 across Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. The Guinness Book of World Records lists him as the most prolific substantiated modern serial killer. Take a look at the history of one of the world’s most remorseless killers you’ve never heard of....
Tourists travel to remote places to witness fantastic events, while icebergs and shelves behave in ways that scientists cannot explain. But the frozen depths can also hold some of the most terrifying discoveries and disappearances in the natural world. 10 Unique Fossil Forests Today the world’s largest desert, Antarctica’s frozen fields kept a piece of important history. When it was still attached to the mega-continent called Gondwana, Antarctica was green and humid....
10 The Adoration Of The MagiLeonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was the embodiment of the statement, “Quality takes time.” He was notoriously slow to finish any work because his vast array of talents kept sidetracking him into other avenues such as engineering, science, and mathematics. By 1481, da Vinci was living in Florence and had been commissioned by Augustinian monks to paint The Adoration of the Magi, depicting the Three Wise Men’s arrival to meet Jesus....
The definition of an anti-hero as a character who performs acts that are generally deemed or thought to be heroic, but he/she will do so with methods, actions, manners, and intentions that are not so. I also tend to add that there is a touch of darkness surrounding anti-heroes, a sense of danger that doesn’t go away. With that definition, who are the ten best to ever grace the cinema screen?...
Here are ten tracks, some well-known, others not so much, to give some insight into what musicians in the antipodean nation have produced. Top 20 Cool Facts About New Zealand 10 Keith Urban “Blue Ain’t Your Color” “Blue looks good on the sky Looks good on that neon buzzin’ on the wall But darling, it don’t match your eyes I’m tellin’ you You don’t need that guy It’s so black and white He’s stealin’ your thunder Baby, blue ain’t your color” Watch this video on YouTube Keith Urban is a New Zealand born country singer who released his self-titled debut album in Australia in in 1991, before moving to the US the following year....
Aside from fire or Buffalo Bill, there’s no escaping it. So it’s best to know everything you can about it. Here are ten facts about your skin to get you started, and like every fact about skin there is—they’re gross. 10 Your Feet are Fungus Heaven At any given time, your body is covered in fungus. And not just one or two (literal) hotspots; it’s almost every inch of you....
10 Toxoplasmosis Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection caused by a microorganism called Toxoplasma gondii, or T. gondii. This parasite exists everywhere—in air, on land, in the sea, and in most warm-blooded animals. However, its primary hosts are house cats. The microorganism sexually reproduces inside the cat’s guts—not a very romantic honeymoon spot. It is sometimes also known as the “mind control” disease since rodents infected with the parasite show abnormal behaviors and become easier prey to cats....
Here are ten Roman emperors who suffered horrific downfalls. Top 10 Little-Known But Fascinating Roman Emperors 10 Vitellius The year 69 AD was an exciting one in Rome. Known as ‘the year of the four emperors’ it saw a number of people gain the imperial throne only to lose their lives soon afterwards. Vitellius was perhaps the most interesting of the figures who donned the imperial purple. In an age where people spent fortunes on banquets Vitellius out ate them all....
The question remains—king or kingmaker? Is it better to be the power figure or the one pulling the strings from the shadows? These next entries have never been household names, but their influence on history is undeniable. 10 Richard Neville, Earl Of Warwick Richard Neville, 16th earl of Warwick, was the first to earn the epithet “Kingmaker” for helping to depose two kings during the Wars of the Roses. During the second half of the 15th century, both the Houses of Lancaster and York had a claim to the throne of England....
So while we absolutely had to include the man synonymous with treason, Benedict Arnold – who singlehandedly almost killed America in its cradle – the remainder of this chronological collection includes lesser-known, yet no less treacherous, turncoats. 10 Notable Traitors in History 10 Benedict Arnold: The Dining Defector Why America’s most infamous traitor switched sides mid-Revolutionary War is less interesting than its nearly devastating impact. Arnold’s defection resulted from a concurrence of run-of-the-mill factors such as mounting personal debt, resentment at being passed over for titles and assignments, and simple greed....
This list is about the characters that we all hate. Characters that bring nothing more than noise and distraction to the movie screen. Characters that try their best to drown out the performances of the other actors on screen, selfishly upstaging the film with their annoying banter and garrulous eccentricities. Characters that, when they appear on the screen, make you want to stuff Sour Patch Kids into your eyes and ears....
I had to put this on the list, not because it’s the most confusing movie ever, but because I fear the backlash did I not. My opinion? No. The reason is because I already knew the big twist of the movie when I came into it. That ruined the experience for me, but Edward Norton made up for that. Still, it is a confusing movie, and far superior to the same director, David Fincher’s Se7en....
10 The Orwigsburg Clowns On the afternoon of July 18, 2014, Robert Gilnitz, age 42, had just returned home from work and was checking his mailbox. Then a clown came out of nowhere and pulled Robert’s pants down. Without thinking, the big man swung a haymaker at his attacker, only to see the clown backflip onto Robert’s truck, gambol across his yard, and vault over his fence and out of sight....
