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This Group Unearths History’s Most Unsettling Secrets, And Here Are 50 Of Their Best Finds
There is a dark side to humanity that many people would rather not explore. However, there are those on the other side of the spectrum, folks with morbid curiosities.
We’ve collected the following images from this subreddit, which explores the “wildest, weirdest, and most unbelievable moments” in history. Some of them are so disturbing that they may make you curse under your breath in shock. But if you’re into this type of content, these photos may make you want to dig deeper.
Most of these photos were events or snippets of daily life from decades ago. Scroll through and see which ones you’re familiar with and which ones are brand new information.
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#1
On Sept 5, 1942, During WWII, Petty Officer Charles Jackson French Swam 6–8 Hours Off Guadalcanal Island, Towing A Raft Of 15 Wounded Sailors After USS Gregory Was Sunk
He used a rope around his waist and pulled them through shark-infested waters.
Giraffe Sitter 1 day ago
During his lifetime, he was recommended for the Navy Cross but only received a letter of commendation. A real travesty.
Batwench 19 hours ago
Probably because he was a person of colour. Nothing really changes.
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Laszlo Larthlanc 15 hours ago
I do not understand nor will I ever understand how anyone can disrespect another human being simply because of the color of their skin. This man deserved to receive a medal presented to him by the President of the United States at a ceremony attended by the survivors and their families.
Lauren Wilder 12 hours ago
Yet trump wants to remove the contributions of african Americans to the US military from historal markers and books. He never served.
Remi (He/Him) 10 hours ago
I would say swimming for hours with sharks around has got to be unsettling as heck
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#2
In The 1940s And 50s, Canada Ran Secret Nutrition Experiments On 1300 Indigenous People, Including 1000 Children, In Residential Schools
Kids were starved, denied care, forced to eat vomit. Some died, rotting from the inside, as researchers recorded their suffering.
In the 1940s and 50s, Canada secretly ran nutrition experiments on Indigenous people, mostly kids trapped in residential schools. Around 1,300 people, including 1,000 children, were used as human lab rats without consent.
Researchers led by government officials and famous doctors like Frederick Tisdall deliberately kept already starving children malnourished. They withheld dental care and medical treatment just to see how bad things would get. Some kids were given vitamin supplements; others were left to suffer without help.
Survivors later described brutal punishments, including being forced to eat their own vomit. Some children died slowly from hunger and neglect while researchers recorded the results.
These experiments happened in schools like Alberni, Shubenacadie, and St. Mary’s, and in remote Indigenous communities. Most victims never knew they were part of a study. Their suffering was written up in scientific papers.
The Canadian government kept it hidden for decades. It only came to light in 2013 when historian Ian Mosby exposed it. It’s one of the darkest chapters of Canada's history.
Brian Droste 1 day ago
If any of these researchers are still alive, they should be held responsible for their a***e of these children.
Forrest Hobbs 1 day ago (edited)
Brian Droste: here in the UK, the safety of the US-supplied medical blood product Factor VIII was tested on children - because running a trial on unsuspecting kids was cheaper than using chimps (yes, that really was the reason put forward by the man who made the decision). This was in the 1970s and 1980s. From 2018: "4,689 haemophiliacs became infected with hepatitis C and HIV after they were treated with contaminated blood products supplied by the NHS. Of those infected, 2,883 have since died." Link follows (there's been stuff about it much more recently, but for some reason I've failed to find it just now).
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BarBeeGirl 1 day ago
My FIL was in a res school where they tried to “beat the Indian” out of him. Rip Gerry
Rick Murray 22 hours ago
The US has also done tests on children. My mother was involved in something in the 50s in Baltimore involving radium. I only found that out after she died, which might be a good thing really... 😳
tameson 14 hours ago
You can read about it on the internet. "Hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren who were given a nasal radium treatment pioneered at John Hopkins may have an increased risk of ..." This article was behind a paywall at the Baltimore Sun.
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Callum Young 14 hours ago
Humans suck. My father was one of the people the U.S. government experimented on with Canadian government permission.
Laserleader 12 hours ago (edited)
In Oregon they used children in foster care for druug testing. This was as recent as 2000 because my friend was awarded hush money when he found out about all the unessisary and physilogically changing hormones they put him on to test their effects (same ones my SIL fed my Nephew for a few years as a teenager in Oregon to turn him into a girl before nephew realized they were useless and dangerous and instead of a V****a all he got was fat buildup in b***s like my friend). His foster parents got paid to use him for experimentation.
Charlotte 11 hours ago
Decent Canadians are horrified by this and other findings of the National Truth and Reconciliation commission. September 30 is now a national statutory day for Truth and Reconciliation so that we don't forget and let these kinds of things happen again
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Littlemiss 9 hours ago (edited)
In New Zealand small towns were used as a dentistry play ground for practice of procedures and up and coming dentistry. I know of two people who as children under the age of 10, basically had their healthy growing teeth drilled, pulled, filled, and practiced on to the point where as adults they had horrendous teeth filled with fillings. It was done as 'practice', not because of actual need. They were handed over by schools, probably under the guise of 'free health/dental care' through school.
Tyranamar Seuss 12 hours ago
I think we'll find many Christians have a special place in hell. Including those who continue to support Trump.
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In 1887, A Bored New York Reporter Named Nellie Bly Talked Her Way Into A Notorious Asylum To Observe How Women Were Treated After Being Declared Insane
What Bly found was not care or treatment, but a system meant to control people. She described scenes so disturbing that she began to wonder how many women entered sane and were broken long before anyone questioned their confinement.
Littlemiss 9 hours ago
I think and American Horror Story did a series on this case. It was really good watch, explained how the reporter came ti be there.
Many of the grim stories you’re reading are likely a byproduct of the dark triad personality. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, it’s a psychological theory formulated in 2002 by researchers Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin Williams.
The theory suggests three distinct yet overlapping traits that explain specific negative behaviors. These three traits are Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism.
#4
In 1946, A Local Election In Tennessee Was Run By Corrupt Politicians Who Used Deputies To Arrest Voters And Hide The Ballots In The Jail
World War II veterans, newly home and fed up, picked up rifles and surrounded the jail until the officials inside surrendered.
Trillian 21 hours ago
Not trying to be mean but you should have done it years ago. The way things are going there won't be another election.
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BrunoVI 16 hours ago
Not just "a local election." The whole f*****g state of Tennessee. Stolen by an FDR croney. Eastern Tennessee, however, had opposed slavery and secession and supported Lincoln's party every single election since it was founded, and was having none of the b******t. (Like West Virginia, East Tennessee was too mountainous to support plantations, but unlike WV, it was too far from the union to effectively control.)
John Dilligaf 10 hours ago
Edward Hull "Boss" Crump Jr. A "machine politician" who utterly controlled Memphis politics from 1915 until 1954 and was hugely influential in statewide politics between 1928 and 1954. Not really an "FDR croney" though, although, as a Democrat, he did support the president.
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David 12 hours ago
it was a multi-day stand off with gun battles with corrupt police, and even the National Guard was sent in by the corrupt governor. The NRA is the reason why this story went main stream as they glorified the story (and even decades ago funded a movie about it) as the reason why citizens needed to be armed
#5
A Man In 1835 Was Digging A Duck Pond And Accidentally Uncovered A 104-Foot Tunnel Made Entirely Of Seashells
The Shell Grotto in Margate, England, was discovered in 1835 when James Newlove was digging a pond.
It’s a 104-foot passage covered with 4.6 million shells arranged in patterns, and its origin remains a mystery even now. You can still walk through it today.
PandahhBeee 9 hours ago
You can still walk through! I think they've hiked their prices up alot though!
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Tyranamar Seuss 12 hours ago
It seems like we should know where and why these tunnels came to be.
#6
Carlos Montezuma (Born Wassaja) Was Sold For $30 At Age 5
He went on to tour with Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, become the first Native American man to earn an MD, and fought the US government for indigenous rights.
Mel in Georgia 2 hours ago
Looking at his history, he was against slavery but originally fought in American Indian wars and was recognized as a warrior against them. Later, though, he proclaimed his respect for American Indians. He was also pro-women's rights. He led a very interesting life. As an aside - The American football team, the Buffalo Bills, was named after him, but he never lived in Buffalo, New York.
Load More Replies...Narcissism is the most widely known trait on this list. It’s the type of behavior you will notice in the entitled people stories you’ve likely read on this site. By definition, this personality trait involves selfishness, a lack of empathy, and a need for admiration.
As explained by the Cleveland Clinic, anyone can have narcissistic tendencies. However, the behaviors are much worse in some people, warranting experts to diagnose them with a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
The Cleveland Clinic also clarifies that while someone with a dark triad personality may have narcissistic inclinations, they may not necessarily fit an NPD diagnosis.
#7
Anarcha Westcott In The 1840s Was Forced To Undergo About 30 Experimental Surgeries By Dr. J. Marion Sims, Who Wrongly Believed Black People Did Not Feel Pain
Her ordeal led to key advances in gynecology, and she is now remembered as one of the Mothers of Gynecology.
Tyranamar Seuss 12 hours ago
You would think. But no, I've seen people writhing in pain and screaming and medical professionals denying this is what was going on.
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Ange Marsden 8 hours ago
Believing black women don't feel pain is thought to be one of the reasons black American women have much higher death rates in childbirth today
Jane Doe-Doe 1 day ago
It’s the same with babies, it was thought that they didn’t feel pain and that didn’t change until not that many years ago
TonjaLasagne 1 hour ago
To this day, many Black Americans do not trust doctors and it's because of this garbage. And to this day, many doctors in this GREAT country ours (speaking of the USA) still treat Blacks as though we experience pain differently. Look it up if you don't believe me.
#8
This Is A Prisoner Registration Photo Of Krystyna Trześniewska, A Polish Girl Who Was Sent To Auschwitz In December 1942
She [passed away] there on May 18, 1943, at just 13 years old.
Norm Gilmore 1 day ago
Yeah. Passed away makes it sound almost gentle. NEVER forget she was Mùrdéréd.
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Vinnie 4 hours ago (edited)
I hope that venting when someone mentions Nazis and Jews isn't your only response. It may feel good to you, but it doesn't feed kids and it doesn't provide medical help and it doesn't support those who desperately need it.
Load More Replies... Hippopotamuses 1 day ago (edited)
The photo is far more poignant in colour (Presumably it has been colourised).
TonjaLasagne 1 hour ago
Every time I see this picture, I cry, and that's EXACTLY the emotion anyone SHOULD feel. Then I feel anger. And that's the OTHER emotion that anyone should feel.
patricia patricia 1 day ago
We all know many more died in concentration camps. So? What's your point? Every one of those deaths was tragic. Does that mean we cannot feel sorry for this girl?
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In June 2010, North Korean Journalist Kim Dong-Cheul Smuggled Rare Footage Of Rural Life In The Country To The Japanese Media
In it, Cheul interviews a filthy young woman, homeless and reduced to eating grass. She was found [deceased] of starvation four months later.
Sarah 23 hours ago
Still going on and no one is going into topple the Kim’s. But let’s go after Greenland
Franklin Souze 7 hours ago
and the malignant narcissistic moral coward & his willfully ignorant cultists feel Minnesotans are a threat to national security........
Kitty Litter 18 hours ago
Uumm it's called the workers party of korea, yes Korea most certainly is communist and yeah hey guess what communism usually involves a dictator, a real actual dictator not one people label as such.
Forrest Hobbs 1 day ago (edited)
Jeff Hunt: North Korea's not communist. It's a hereditary dictatorship being played as a páwn in global politics - half-hearted support from China, cut off by almost everyone else. Real communism's never been tried (not that I think communism would work - but it might be interesting to find out how it went, just so long as I'm not part of the experiment).
Load More Replies...You’ve likely heard a person refer to someone as a psychopath. But in case you’re unsure of the definition, it’s a trait that points to the lack of empathy. The individual may also be bold and impulsive, and may display antisocial and criminal behavior.
In case you also confuse psychopathy with sociopathy, the main difference is that the former has genetic roots and brain differences, while the latter is often a result of environmental factors like childhood neglect.
#10
In 19th-Century Louisiana, Black Women Were Locked In Prison Cells With White Men
Many gave birth behind bars. Their children were taken by the state, kept in prison until age ten, then sold to fund public schools for white children.
Nikole 6 hours ago
I. Don't. Know. Jesus fúcking christ. I can't read any more.
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TonjaLasagne 1 hour ago
On my Dad's side, we were Louisiana slaves. From Africa to Louisiana. We were owned by a French plantation owner who r***d a few of his slaves, which is where I got my French blood. The GOOD thing about being owned by this guy was he kind of educated his s***e offspring, so my relatives could read, write, & do basic math when the Civil war ended, which enabled us to get real employment. My rels later went to Texas, then to Kansas, then to Missouri. A couple of years ago, my brother, his daughter, my son, & I took Amtrak from Los Angeles to New Orleans: as soon as we crossed into Louisiana it felt WEIRD & this feeling was worse in New Orleans. I had never been to Louisiana prior to this & I'm not sure if I can even return because it was just too surreal.
Ye Olde Dirty Grumpy 1 day ago
+1. There are a few who turn a blind eye to the evils their ancestors caused. The British/English think they own "civilization" and the rest of us live in caves.
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In 1979, Marion Stokes Began Recording TV News During The Nonstop Coverage Of The Iranian Hostage Crisis
She would not stop recording until 2012. Her collection of archived footage, consisting of over 71,000 tapes, represents the most complete record of American television ever made.
Laszlo Larthlanc 14 hours ago
Which can easily be digitized for the sake of preservation.
Load More Replies... Roni Stone 7 hours ago
To preserve the truth, so the "winners" couldn't automatically write history.
#12
Queen Elizabeth II's First Cousins (Left) Katherine Bowes-Lyon And Nerissa Bowes-Lyon (Right)
They were registered as deceased and hidden from the world in the Royal 'Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives' in 1941.
patricia patricia 1 day ago
The European royal families don't play the banjo, but nearly... Their family trees are more entangled than they should.
Lara Verne 11 hours ago
Apparently no one except their closest relatives knew they were alive. Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) learned they were alive in the 1980s and supported them financially. But none of their family attended their funerals.
fly on the wall 7 hours ago
I am old (82) but I remember when I was a kid it was common for families to hid away their "handicapped children: either at home or in institutions if they could afford it. Our Canadian government also ascribed to eugenics and sterilized a number of poor folk who they deemed " mentally deficient ". I am sure Canada wasn't alone in that dark practice.
Leg less In Minneapolis 9 hours ago
Ok, but no matter the social standing of family, this was the norm up through the 1970s for rich and poor
Machiavellianism is a personality trait marked by cynicism, manipualtion and disregard for morality, all for the sake of self-interest, status, and power. It’s a concept stemming from the writings of 16th-century politician Niccolò Machiavelli and his infamous book “The Prince.”
Much like psychopathy, Machiavellianism involves the lack of emotion and empathy. However, it isn’t considered to be a mental disorder.
#13
In 1984, A Cult Carried Out The Largest Biological Attack In U.S. History By Spreading Salmonella On Food And Doorknobs In A Town In Oregon
The goal was to make people too sick to vote so the cult could win a local election and take control of the town.
BarBeeGirl 1 day ago
They were called Rajneeshees. There is a Netflix documentary called Wild Country
TotallyNOTAFox 20 hours ago (edited)
There was also an episode of "Medical Detectives" about them
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Cindy Brick 1 day ago
Did it work????? I hate it when intriguing statements like this have no followup.
Sarah 23 hours ago
Wild wild country is the documentary on Netflix. Would recommend . I think sheela was a psychopath- zero empathy
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 22 hours ago
I remember being love-bombed by Rashneesh members in Seattle trying to get recruits for their cult in Oregon. There's something to be said for being a skeptic at a young age
Laserleader 12 hours ago
Oh look. Ive been talking about Oregon's experiments on foster kids, and here is one on bioterror. This is why people grew up and took control of the state nowadays... they gor tired of people getting away with this garbage.
#14
In The 1970s, June And Jennifer Gibbons Only Spoke To Each Other. They Mirrored Every Move, Wrote Dark Stories, And Shut Out The World
When one died suddenly in 1993, the other finally spoke. She said one had to [go] so the other could live.
They were called the Silent Twins. Doctors, teachers, and even prisons couldn’t break their silence.
Littlemiss 9 hours ago
I've worked with a set of twins with scary traits similar to these girls. They need to be seen by medical professionals, but their mother believes in only 'natural' therapies.
#15
On 23 May 1901, French Police Received An Anonymous Tip That A Woman Was Being Held Against Her Will In A Poitiers Home
Blanche Monnier, aged 52, had been chained in an attic for 25 years, following a disagreement with her mother. Traumatized beyond repair, she [passed away] in an asylum in 1913.
You may have come across someone who displayed signs of a dark triad personality. And according to psychologist Dr. Susan Albers, keeping distance from the person is the best option, even if it is someone you’re close to.
“Create distance between you and that individual. That way, you’re protecting yourself financially, physically, and emotionally,” she said.
#16
From 1869 To 1995, An Insane Asylum Hid 427 Patients’ Suitcases In An Attic, Then Tried To Destroy Them, Until Museum Curator Craig Williams Stopped It
Authorities forcibly committed many people there for life on bogus grounds. More than 5,700 patients lie in graves marked only by numbers.
Multa Nocte 14 hours ago
Willard State Hospital in New York. Hospitals were often like this due to lack of funding and lack of caring from the general population, and not everyone who went there was there on "bogus grounds." There were no treatments for mental illness at the time, and the general public demanded that they were put "somewhere," but didn't want to pay for it, and the majority of "normal" people were repulsed by people with mental illnesses, so that's basically the fault of the general population. I feel bad for the doctors and staff who had hospitals full of people they didn't know what to do with and barely any money from the government or families, so they did what they had to. This is not an excuse but a description.
Load More Replies... Lily bloom 1 day ago
Perhaps expecting the worst after seeing other posts on this list, I first read that as the patients' remains were in the suitcases
#17
There Was A Disease That Left People Awake But Unable To Move Or Speak. Many Were Trapped Inside Their Own Bodies, And It Vanished Without Anyone Ever Understanding Why
Between 1915 and 1926 a strange illness called Encephalitis Lethargica spread across the world. It left people awake but unable to move or speak, and entire families watched their loved ones slip into a state where they could see and hear everything but could not respond.
Some stayed trapped inside their bodies for years while others died within weeks. In all, more than half a million people were affected before the disease vanished as suddenly as it appeared, and no one ever figured out why.
#18
In 1933 In Key West, X-Ray Technician Carl Tanzler Stole The Body Of His Former Patient, 22-Year-Old Tuberculosis Victim Elena De Hoyos
Carl Tanzler removed Elena Milagro's body from her tomb, covered her rotting skin with silk and plaster, held her bones together with wires and coat hangers, replaced her eyes with glass, and slept with her corpse for 7 years.
patricia patricia 1 day ago
Its gross, revolting, sick and every adjective you can think of, but the poor woman was dead, so she didn't suffer.
Megalodon Meg 10 hours ago
W*f? Her family suffered. Her dignity suffered. Her memory suffered.
Load More Replies... TonjaLasagne 1 hour ago
Oh man! I wrote about this guy in my psychology term paper! There's more to it than what BP is reporting. The dude was having, uh, relations with her body. I was failing the class & I knew that I had to turn in a kick a*s term paper so I decided to write one about necrophilia (which covered both psychology AND Criminal Justice, which was my major) . I got an "A", which turned that failing grade to a "C" & I passed the class. My teacher said that in his 20 years of teaching, my paper was his first.
Littlemiss 9 hours ago
I remember watching a documentary on him as a kid, on world of wonder. He inserted glass tubes in her so he could sleep with her. Disgusting deranged mongrel.
Controlled Chaos 22 hours ago
You sound like you’re probably on a list somewhere…
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Howard Carter Opening The Shrines Enclosing The Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s Sarcophagus For The “First” Time In Over 3,000 Years, January 4th 1924
This image is likely a recreation for the camera. In reality, Howard Carter’s excavation of the boy pharaoh’s tomb was unorthodox, to say the least. Carter, his patron Lord Carnarvon, and Carnarvon’s daughter Lady Evelyn secretly entered the burial chamber before resealing the entrance to conceal their actions. Carter dismantled Tutankhamun’s mummy to remove it from the sarcophagus.
That said, the 50-year-old, self-trained Egyptologist was meticulous and, compared to many of his contemporaries, more respectful of ancient remains. Carter resigned from the Egyptian Antiquities Service after siding with Egyptian guards during a dispute with tourists. His careful documentation and methods ultimately preserved a remarkable amount of the tomb’s 3,000-year-old artifacts, many of which might otherwise have been damaged or lost.
TonjaLasagne 1 hour ago (edited)
"Now when he was a young man, He never thought he'd see (King Tut) People stand in line to see the boy king (King Tut). How'd you get so funky? (Funky Tut) Did you do the monkey? Born in Arizona, Moved to Babylonia, King Tut. Now, if I'd known, They'd line up just to see him (King Tut). I'd taken all my money, And bought me a museum (King Tut). Buried with a donkey (Funky Tut). He's my favorite honkey!"
#20
On April 1, 2014 — Dutch Tourists Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon Vanished While Hiking The El Pianista Trail In Panama
It was discovered that Froon’s cell phone had been used until April 11, with her camera full of photos taken in the dark. Their partial skeletons were found a few months later.
Upstaged75 1 day ago
They were using the flash to try and find their way in the dark. Unfortunately they got terribly lost trying to go on a short hike.
Nikole 6 hours ago
Yeah, BP has this on the site a few months ago and I went down a rabbit hole.
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In 1979, 6-Year-Old Etan Patz Vanished On His Way To The Bus Stop In New York City. He Became The First Missing Child To Appear On A Milk Carton
He became the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. The case stayed cold for decades. [Criminal] wasn’t caught until 2012.
He was just two blocks from home. The search went national. It took 33 years to find the man who did it.
primeline31 6 hours ago
I blame this incident as the reason why parents do not permit their children to play unattended in front of their homes now. This also led to the "helicopter parent" approach to child raising.
TonjaLasagne 55 minutes ago (edited)
Poor Etan! I walked to kindergarten when I was 5 (in 1968) & I was warned about strangers. I hate the idea of not letting your kid be a kid: being a helicopter parent is so wrong: kids need to learn how to be independent & that means letting them roam, eat grass, eat dirt, climb trees, explore that abandoned house, BUT warn them about the bad guys (and girls).
#22
Brazil Launched A Campaign Called Blanqueamiento, Meaning To "Whiten" The Country
Between 1880 and 1930, over 4 million Europeans were brought in and interracial marriage was encouraged to reduce Black and Indigenous ancestry over time.
Sian E 1 day ago
And then in 1945 Brazil and other South American countries had a brief resurgence of immigration from Germany as certain people tried to avoid being imprisoned for war crimes...
patricia patricia 1 day ago
The USA also received hundreds of those "certain people" to take advantage of their "research" in different sciences and to spy on the Russians. Then and now, in America money is thicker than ethics.
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Huddo's sister 21 hours ago
They did in Australia too, though it was the white settlers they bred with, and they didn't marry them. The lighter they got, the more likely they were to be able to be adopted by white families. They were desperate to 'breed the black out of them'. This is why so many Aboriginal people have light skin, which confuses many non-indigenous people, who think they are just claiming to be Aboriginal to get special privileges.
TonjaLasagne 1 hour ago
Yeah, and later on most were former nazis escaping justice. Good job, Brazil!
#23
In 1991-1993, Eight People Sealed Themselves Inside A Giant Glass-And-Steel “Closed World” In The Arizona Desert
[They wanted] to test whether humans could live in a self-sustaining habitat, often framed like a prototype for a Moon/Mars-style colony.
Cindy Brick 1 day ago
And?!? I checked -- they made it to two years, but not without having to have oxygen pumped into the Biosphere...their plants weren't producing enough to combat the CO2.
eric p 1 day ago
Yeah I remember that, Pauly Shore and Steven Baldwin save the day with the power of the Safety Dance
Forrest Hobbs 1 day ago
Biosphere 2 - currently "University of Arizona Biosphere 2". The experiment was a success in that it showed the idea didn't work out for lots of different reasons. It's still being operated.
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geezeronthehill 9 hours ago
Turned out that concrete, while it is curing, absorbs oxygen. They needed to supplement for years.
PeepPeep the duck 5 hours ago
If you want a comedy movie that is both cringe and relevant to this - the stoner classic “biodome” was a funny movie
#24
Grigory Zass (1797–1883) Was An Officer In The Imperial Russian Army Who Was A Major Perpetrator Of The Circassian Genocide
He considered circassians to be a "lowly race" and had a collection of Circassian body parts. Zass is portrayed as the Devil or Satan in Circassian folklore.
Kate Johnson 1 day ago
Why is always the stupidest and most b**t ugly AHs who believe they are the master race, when they're really just a failed abortion.
Bartlet for world domination 20 hours ago
Yes we know, Kate, you're all about the evil deeds of white people (on Caucasians, in this case). You may consider him ugly, but he decidedly was not stupid.
Load More Replies... David 12 hours ago
Circassions were a Caucuses minority group, and the survivors fled to the Ottoman Empire, as they were Muslim as well. They were spread out throughout the Ottoman Empire. Their culture was almost destroyed as the ones in Turkey were forcibly Turkicized and the ones in Syria and other Arab countries were forcibly arabicized by local Arab leaders. It was in the Galilee region where the last group to preserve their culture existed by siding with the Gallilean Jews in the 1800s and not the Arabs, choosing a minority group to ally with, over Islamic solidarity. Jews helped them preserve their culture. Today Israel is the only country in the Middle East that the Circassion flag is legal, and while they do exist in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey, the only place the culture is preserved in Israel, where the govt gives them grants to protect it (and its led to a revival in other places, as the original culture still exists in Israel to copy).
shg stewart 6 hours ago
In the 19th century, a large group of the remaining Circassians moved to what is now Israel, where they still live.
#25
John Schneeberger Evaded Three DNA Tests By Surgically Implanting A Plastic Tube Filled With Another Man’s Blood Into His Arm And Directing Technicians To Draw From It
Sally Moen 22 hours ago
Nowadays they do a buccal cheek swab, just inside the mouth, to collect cells to test. Blood tests aren't always needed now
#26
In 1992, 24-Year-Old Christopher McCandless Was Found By Moose Hunters Inside Fairbanks Bus 142, The “Magic Bus,” On Alaska’s Stampede Trail
He had survived alone for 113 days on plants and small animals. When discovered, he weighed only 67 pounds.
Upstaged75 1 day ago
Sorry, but he was an idiot. I don't know why his story was romanticized. It's unfortunately inspired others who have gotten in to trouble themselves, some of whom ended up the same way as he did.
Norm Gilmore 1 day ago
The story as written makes it sound as if he survived. He was found deceased.
BarBeeGirl 1 day ago
I thought he survived based on the above story. Thanks for clarifying
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Laserleader 11 hours ago (edited)
Nope just really stupid. I personally know people in Alaska who walked thousands of miles for decades, living in the woods and came back hale and healthy. Then there are those who die on top of a mountain a quarter mile from the city when getting stuck overnight from drinking too much to walk back down.
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In 1905, A 12-Year-Old Boy Living Outside Of Pittsburgh Intentionally Derailed A Train Because He Had Always Wanted To See What A Real Wreck Looked Like
Hippopotamuses 1 day ago
From memory, that happened again recently. I the US, I think. A Tit Tocker did it for views.
Multa Nocte 14 hours ago
Did they lynch the Tik-Tocker? I would actually watch TikTock to see that.
Load More Replies... Laserleader 11 hours ago
This is why children are supposed to be supervised, they dont understand their actions affect the world in general.
Charlotte 11 hours ago
Although 12 is getting pretty old to not understand that people would be very badly hurt
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#28
From The 10th To The 20th Centuries, China Had A Tradition Of Binding Women's Feet
This practice was painful and limited women's mobility and economic opportunities, leading to its abolition after a campaign by Chinese reformers and Christian missionaries.
patricia patricia 1 day ago
Hey Kate! Where's your racist comment about evil white people? Oh, Silly me... Chinese people are not white.
Littlemiss 9 hours ago
One reply made was about evil people. I guess it doesn't count because she changed the wording
Load More Replies... Hippopotamuses 1 day ago
I can understand the proof of not working thing. But, I'm lost about the attractiveness of it.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 day ago
Was it about attractiveness, or was it about control masquerading as the male sanctioning of attractiveness?
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Lara Verne 11 hours ago (edited)
It was outlawed in 1912, but this practice continued for several more decades. It stopped after World War II.Some victims are still alive.
#29
In 1820s Kentucky, An Isolated Family Began Having Children Born Visibly Blue As A Rare Blood Disorder Spread Through A Tiny Gene Pool
In 1820, Martin Fugate and his wife, Elizabeth Smith, settled near Hazard, Kentucky, along Troublesome Creek. Both carried a rare recessive trait, and several of their children were born with striking blue skin.
The family stayed in an isolated area with a tiny local dating pool, and the gene kept circulating through marriages within the same small community, including between relatives. Over generations, more descendants were born with the same blue tint, and locals began calling them the “Blue People of Kentucky.”.
Forrest Hobbs 1 day ago
Yes, but that's a colourized photo which doesn't give a true impression.
K Ma 13 hours ago (edited)
There's a wonderful book called " The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" by Kim Michele Richardson. It's historical fiction but based on the very real Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project. The librarian in the story is a blue woman. It also show the beginning of the injection program that corrected the blueness. It's a really good read,
Roni Stone 7 hours ago
My parents were from near Hazard and Troublesome. Neither was blue, however.
TonjaLasagne 29 minutes ago
I got attacked on Reddit because two people fell in love, then discovered that they were 1st cousins: I suggested breaking up ..."haven't you heard of the Habsburgs? The Whitakers?" And so many people were FOR the couple staying together because, you know...LOVE.
#30
In 1971, A Plane Disintegrated Mid-Air Above The Amazon Rainforest. Juliane Koepcke, A 17-Year-Old German Girl, Was The Only Survivor
Bananaramamama 11 hours ago
Her parents were zoologists working in the Amazon and the skills she learned growing up in that remote environment likely helped her survive. There were additional survivors of the initial crash but died while awaiting rescue
#31
As Late As 1964, This Was The "Literacy Test" Administered To Black Prospective Voters In Louisiana, With A Ten Minute Time Limit And Perfect Score Requirement
Sally Moen 22 hours ago
The instructions are deliberately misleading. One says Circle the letter..., another says Draw a line around...Like, what does that mean? Draw a circle around a letter, or draw a square, or what? You know they would fail you if they felt you didn't do it right
PeepPeep the duck 4 hours ago (edited)
It’s a worded to deliberately trip you up. It’s asking for a circle technically, it’s being deliberately very vague to back up comprehension skills one may or may not have. As a dyslexic person it’s really not a helpful one . Number 10 is k*****g my head, if someone has that answer, please tell me 😂
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Lily bloom 1 day ago
I very much dislike question 6 particularly. Is it asking for a circle inside a circle inside a circle or a circle inside a circle with a third empty circle?
TotallyNOTAFox 20 hours ago
If this would have been required to run for president the US wouldn't have Trump sitting in the office
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago
''This test is to be given to ANYONE who cannot prove a fifth grade education''.
General Anaesthesia 19 hours ago
So? Maybe a majority of whites got report cards or diplomas from their segregated schools, and others didn't? Racists are pretty inventive, like using ANYONE, knowing the odds.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 1 day ago
Not ridiculous, just racist and nasty: just one of the many methods used to prevent non-whites voting. This test was designed to be impossible to pass - and presumably, it was also nearly impossible for black people to acquire proof of a fifth grade education. "Circle the first, first letter of the alphabet in this line"; "In the first circle below write the last letter of the first word beginning with "L" "? Seriously? I've got two university degrees and I've no idea how to answer either of those questions.
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#32
In 1980, Mark Defriest, An Autistic Savant, Was Sentenced To 4 Years For Taking Tools Left To Him In His Father's Will
That sentence turned into 34 years after 13 escape attempts, 7 successful. DeFriest could memorize key patterns and recreate them from almost anything.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day ago (edited)
What was the crime? Edit: sheesh, because the will had not entered probate, he was convicted of stealing the tools! It seems his stepmother called it in!
Brian Droste 1 day ago
So he took something that belong to him and he was put in prison for it? Another injustice in this world.
#33
In 1848, Railroad Worker Phineas Gage Survived An Accident That Sent An Iron Rod Through His Skull
Hippopotamuses 1 day ago
Apparently his personality changed after his injury. Of course it did. He'd had a frigging spike go through his head.
Kim Kermes 1 day ago
It damaged the part of the brain involving self control, among other things
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 1 day ago (edited)
He had a mild personality before this but some time after the accident. He became a drunk and very violent. Because of this he couldn't keep a job.
patricia patricia 1 day ago (edited)
People like him, who had suffered horrible accidents that damaged their brains, helped to start "mapping" it and finding out what areas control personality, abilities, logic, etc.
#34
Tammy Lynn Leppert, The Actress Who Distracts Manny In Scarface, Vanished At 18 Soon After Filming And Was Never Found
PeepPeep the duck 4 hours ago
This one is something we all want an answer too. But at the same time we probably know why and what happened to an extent
#35
In June 1844, On Eldey Island, Iceland, Two Men Strangled The Last Confirmed Breeding Pair Of Great Auks
Its only egg was then deliberately crushed under a hunter’s boot during the struggle.
Forrest Hobbs 1 day ago
Giraffe Sitter: I've read that the Great Auk was considered a bird of ill omen by many. Once it was down to a last breeding pair, the species didn't have much of a chance. 🤨 However, the main problem was: "By the mid-sixteenth century, the nesting colonies along the European side of the Atlantic were nearly all eliminated by humans k*****g this bird for its down, which was used to make pillows.[20]: 40 In 1553, the great auk received its first official protection. In 1794, Great Britain banned the k*****g of this species for its feathers.[18]: 330 In St. John's, those violating a 1775 law banning hunting the great auk for its feathers or eggs were publicly flogged, though hunting for use as fishing bait was still permitted."
Load More Replies... YakFactory 1 day ago
Were the two men stra***ed as punishment? Why can't people leave things alone that are none of their business?
#36
Kelly Disney, 17, Vanished After Leaving A Party In Oregon. Ten Years Later, Her Skull Was Found In An Abandoned Car
The man who found it even took it home and washed it before realizing it was human.
Laserleader 11 hours ago
How did he not realize it was human? Does Oregon have large apes that hang out in broken cars in the woods?
#37
This Composite Shows Andrew Gosden’s Last Cctv Frame Alongside An Age Progressed Image
The 14 year old, known for his quiet intelligence, bought a one way ticket to London in 2007, stepped into King’s Cross Station and disappeared from view.
Norfolk and good 1 day ago (edited)
King's Cross is not a place for a child to be wandering about alone. According to his dad he was also quite naive. He would have stood out like a sore thumb and he would have been an easy target to any predators.
Tyranamar Seuss 11 hours ago
Doesn't he have red hair? Why is the aged progression with brown hair?
PeepPeep the duck 4 hours ago
That shade of ginger usually darken with age, if he had the super light ginger, he would have started light ginger. My little sister is a darker redhead herself. It’s almost maroon now she’s 30
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#38
In 1978, A Reporter Was Assigned A Routine Obituary For Mary Doefour. Instead Of Closing The File, He Kept Digging And Built A Case She Was Anna Myrle Sizer
Her brother couldn’t accept it. That would mean admitting the family had left her in institutions for the criminally insane for 50 years.
Trillian 21 hours ago
Why even iclude things like that if you aren't going to give the story, BP 'writers'
AtMostAFabulist 4 hours ago
The book was written by Rick Baker, an excellent and very popular columnist for the Peoria Journal Star. The story was tragic. I have a copy of it somewhere.
#39
In 1982, Deborah Scaling Kiley Watched Sharks Eat Two Of Her Crewmates Alive After Their Yacht Sank. She Survived Five Days Adrift At Sea
DaisyBee 15 hours ago
She and another man survived, and told their story on the show “I shouldn’t be alive.” She was an awful person, who had nothing but contempt for those who died, literally speaking about them like they were idiots who existed beneath her. She even almost betrayed the man who survived with her. Awful woman.
#40
Kowloon Walled City Was An Extremely Densely Populated And Largely Lawless Enclave Of Kowloon City Of Hong Kong
Before it was demolished in 1994, it had 50,000 inhabitants on 26,000 m², and therefore a very high population density of 1,923,077/km².
Ace 1 day ago (edited)
That's nearly two people per square yard/metre. EDIT: Yes, somehow I did the sums wrong, corrected now.
Unicorn 20 hours ago (edited)
Strange arithmetic! 50 thousand divided by 26 thousand is nearly 2. But spread over a number of floors.
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#41
The Dancing Plague Of 1518
The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518; German: Straßburger Tanzwut), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for weeks. There are many theories behind the phenomenon, the most popular being stress-induced mass hysteria, suggested by John Waller. Other theories include ergot poisoning.
Brian Droste 1 day ago
For some reason it stopped as sudden as it started. It started with one person another person joined in and before you know it nearly this small community had nearly joined in.
Lara Verne 11 hours ago
I heard that it was caused by some toxins in the water or food. These acted as a powerful stimulant, which forced people to be physically active to the limit of their strength.
#42
On December 24, 1989, After U.S. Forces Invaded Panama, Gen. Manuel Noriega Hid Inside The Vatican Embassy In Panama City
To drive him out, American troops surrounded the building and blasted rock music through loudspeakers day and night.
Tucker Cahooter 1 day ago
If I was seeking refuge and someone wanted to get me out, they would simply have to put on "The Very Best (sic) of Slim Dusty" and I would surrender before the end of the first track
#43
Joshua Maddox’s Mummified Body Was Found In A Fetal Position Inside A Colorado Cabin Chimney Seven Years After He Vanished. Police Ruled It An Accident
Hippopotamuses 1 day ago
There seem to be conspiracy theories about how he wound up in the position which he was found in. Apparently, he could not have fallen into that position from the top. Unfortunately, we'll probably never know for certain.
TotallyNOTAFox 20 hours ago
Muscles contract when they dehydrate, people that die in house fires for example are always found in the fetal position because of that. I don't know the details of this case, so it's more a general explaination
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In 1989, A Man Named Kenneth Lamar Noid Took Two Domino's Pizza Employees Hostage
he was convinced that the Noid character and 'Avoid the Noid' ad campaign used by Domino's had "stolen his name" and was targeting him personally. The Noid character was retired for years after the incident.
#45
On December 23, 1974, Rachel Trlica, Renee Wilson, And 9-Year-Old Julie Moseley Vanished After Christmas Shopping At Fort Worth’s Seminary South Mall
their Oldsmobile was left in Sears’ upper lot and a “we had to get away” letter arrived the next day.
Tyranamar Seuss 11 hours ago
How hard must it be to kidnap 3 people? Abductor must've had a gun. This is where you're better off fighting and getting shot than going to a second location. A second location almost always involves t*****e and m****r. So you're better off fighting like hell in the middle of the parking lot.
otiose 2 hours ago
The person has a gun to the 9 year old's head and says "if you don't do what I say, she's dead. Get in the car and drive". What would you do?
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Harriet Jacobs Escaped In 1842 And Spent 7 Years Hidden In A Cramped Attic Watching Her Children
In 1861 she published her memoir, becoming one of the most powerful voices.
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Load More Replies... Leslie B 17 hours ago
From Wikipedia: Born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, she was s******y harassed by her enslaver. When he threatened to sell her children if she did not submit to his desire, she hid in a tiny crawl space under the roof of her grandmother's house, so low she could not stand up in it. After staying there for seven years, she finally managed to escape to the free North, where she was reunited with her children Joseph and Louisa Matilda and her brother John S. Jacobs. She found work as a nanny and got into contact with abolitionist and feminist reformers. Even in New York City, her freedom was in danger until her employer was able to pay off her legal owner. During and immediately after the American Civil War, she travelled to Union-occupied parts of the Confederate South together with her daughter, organizing help and founding two schools for fugitive and freed slaves.
highwaycrossingfrog 1 day ago
Given that she's guilty of being black in 1842, it's the obvious answer. Escaped slavery.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 day ago
Escaped from what? Became one of the most powerful voices for what? Come on, OP, this is negligence!
Matthew Currie 1 day ago
It's a complicated and harrowing story, involving what we must probably call "harassment"so as to avoid prudish censorship, the sale of children, and so forth, which if you are actually curious you can look up (this is the internet, after all), since Jacobs became a well known voice for abolition. She escaped from slavery, of course.
Load More Replies... Tyranamar Seuss 11 hours ago
Probably stealing from the pantry. Probably went in a bowl like most people of the time. And emptied it at night while everyone was asleep.
Load More Replies... Laura Gillette 4 hours ago
Her brother and other people smuggled food and water in to her and she had a small earthenware pot to relieve herself in, that they would empty for her. Her book is called Incidents in the Life of a S***e Girl. I read it in college.
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In 1495, Christopher Columbus Ruled Hispaniola Through Raids And A Forced Gold Tribute, Punishing Shortfalls With Mutilation And Using Dogs To Hunt People Who Fled
Sally Moen 22 hours ago
There's A LOT of geographical features in North America based on his name.
LinkTheHylian 1 day ago
And yet people in a certain country still take a day off in his name...
Geoffrey Scott 18 hours ago
When I contact my conservative Rep on an issue like ACA cuts, SNAP cuts, Medicaid cuts, and point out these are the WORKING people he's so bent on protecting, I put my name +(enemy of the people) after it. Disagreeing with the current regime and it's acolytes make me do this. So far I am not interred.
#48
Tourists Outside The Newly Discovered Tomb Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun, February 1923
#49
Karolina Olsson “Fell Asleep” As A Teenager On A Tiny Swedish Island And, 32 Years Later, Woke Up Remembering Her Life Before It As If It Were The Same Day
Ace 18 hours ago
Reading up - just wikipedia with her name - about this it does seem like others were and still are suspicious of what really went on. @Unicorn - she was fed, allegedly only with milk, every day.
Load More Replies... Laserleader 11 hours ago
Reportedly, she would move around, and they could feed her and care for her, but she never regained full consciousness until she "woke". Honestly it sounds like a partial coma, probably due to a disease or injury.
#50
Charles "Black Bart" Boles Was A Civil War Veteran And A Wild West Outlaw Who Was Known For His Calmness During Robberies And Two Poems He Left In Crime Scenes
He chose banditry after multiple failed prospecting ventures, and robbed stagecoaches for 8 years. He would only spend few years in prison.
Major Harris 9 hours ago
"I've labored long and hard for bread, for honor, and for riches. But on my corns too long you've tread, you fine-haired sons of b*****s."
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