Every famous star has fans who take it too far. There are thousands of people who spend their time alone, nursing a mad fantasy over a face they’ve seen on TV. And when the crazy ones leave their homes and decide to meet their favorite stars face-to-face, it can turn into a real-life horror story that’s stranger and more terrifying than anything they’ve acted out on the silver screen....

10 A Bloody Mess In September 2012, 46-year-old Stephan Stolze, a chef at Steamer’s Restaurant in Key Largo, grabbed a knife from the kitchen and walked into the dining area. In front of his coworkers, Stolze raised the knife to the right side of his neck and slashed his throat. Bleeding profusely, Stolze ran to his apartment, which was located above the restaurant. Meanwhile, the restaurant’s employees—frantic and confused—mopped up the bloody scene as guests began to arrive for dinner....

Children often spent their afternoons playing games outdoors, riding bicycles, and letting their imaginations run wild. The most basic toy or game provided hours of endless entertainment. Street lights meant it was time to go home, and some of the best memories were made with our friends on the playground. This list contains 10 childhood games and activities that became competitive (and in some cases professional) sports. 10 Tag The game of tag is based on a simple premise—one player is chosen to be “it,” and their goal is to chase and tag someone else who will then become “it....

Comedians have been killed by criminal gangs and terrorist organizations over their quips. At other times, the humorists were interrogated or threatened with jail time over jokes that the government considered a threat. 10 The Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge Disaster On May 2, 1845, hundreds of people gathered along the banks of River Bure in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, to watch a clown sitting in a barrel as it was drawn by four geese across the river....

For example, there is a meaty secret behind the panda’s strict bamboo diet and a reason why mosquitoes ravish only certain people. Kids do have an advantage over adults when learning a new language, and although rain is odorless, there is a reason why humans can smell a storm even before the first drop falls. 10 Do Bulls Really Hate Red? In 2007, the Discovery Channel tested this “fact” once and for all....

Like many highly classified bases, the reports vary. In the case of Pine Gap, the accounts range from intriguing reports of strange lights to the deadly consequences of intelligence-driven drone strikes. Are any of these accounts true, or are they the province of those who find tin foil fashionable? You decide. 10 Lethal Drone Strikes Connected To Pine Gap Many of us have seen likely seen news footage of drone strikes or, more to the point, the bloody aftermath of them....

After the defeat of the Nazis during World War II, there was a scramble by all the major powers (U.S., U.K. and Russia) to capture the leading Nazi scientists and intelligence agents. The US operation was named operation paperclip. Many Nazi scientists were captured as a result – the most famous of whom were Wenher Von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, who helped the U.S. develop rockets for space exploration and, ultimately, the moon landing....

10Orgiastic Conspiracy: Faked Orgy Photos (And Unsolved Murder) Used To Influence A French Election In 1968, Alain Delon was the most famous actor in France, so it caused a media sensation when the mangled corpse of his bodyguard and close friend, Stevan Markovic, was found dumped in a Paris landfill. Before his death, Markovic had written mysteriously to his brother warning that if he died it would be the “fault” of Delon and a Corsican gangster named François Marcantoni, who had close links to the ruling party of President Charles de Gaulle....

10Maybe He Should Have Led With Dinner Thomas Edward of Seminole County, Florida really knows how to make a girl feel special. He showed up in the middle of the night at a house where his girlfriend said she was staying, knocked on the door, and began taking off his clothes on the patio so that he could propose in the buff. It was pretty clear what he was proposing, but his girlfriend wasn’t there....

Want to plan a meet-up? You would think Instagram. Or, you just have a thing for comparing people’s photos? That would have been Facebook’s turf. How about if you wanted to know if the person you are about to call was available? You would use WhatsApp for that. The first version of WhatsApp did not even have instant messaging capability. However, it appears that while the founders made their plans, fate often had other things in stock for them....

10 The Blind River Rest Stop Murders In 1991, Gord and Jackie McAllister, an elderly couple from Lindsay, Ontario, decided to go on a road trip in their motor home, eventually stopping to spend the night at a remote rest stop near the town of Blind River. Shortly after midnight on June 28, the couple was awakened by a knock on their door by an unidentified man claiming to be with the police....

It’s disturbing to discover all the things that criminals can do with technology as advanced as this. With drones, they can exploit various kinds of privacy laws that aren’t as strict as they should be. This makes it easier for them to commit their devious acts of malevolence and get away with it. 10 Filming A Cashpoint (ATM) Everyone knows that when you go to an ATM to withdraw money, you need to be aware of your surroundings so that nobody sees you entering your personal identification number (PIN)....

10The Lost Squadron Of World War I On July 10, 1918, Major Harry Brown of the US 96th Aero Squadron knew his men were itching for a fight. Though their planes had been fueled and armed, the weather had still not cleared up by late afternoon, so the men busied themselves playing poker or contemplating an excursion to a nearby town. When the clouds lifted briefly, Brown decided it was a good time to conduct a bombing run....

That may actually be part of what makes Hollywood so alluring. People enjoy reading about scandals, and Tinseltown has a nigh-endless supply of them. The seedy stories from the depths of Hollywood’s underbelly could fill multiple lists. 10 Getting Away With Murder Film studios didn’t like scandals involving their stars. In fact, they employed people whose job was to keep such sordid stories out of the papers. They were fixers like Eddie Mannix....

10John White WebsterThe Parkman-Webster Murder Case Owing to the lifestyle he led among the social elite, and the expenses he covered as a professor while lecturing chemistry, Professor John White Webster accumulated massive debts that he had virtually no chance to pay unless he borrowed heavily from his friends. On November 23, 1849, one of these friends, George Parkman, visited him in his lab to collect payment. Webster, in a fit of anger, struck him in the head with a piece of firewood....

But when we think of objects of death, rarely do we stroll into the kitchen, past the knives, and head for the refrigerator or food pantry. But there is actually a long laundry list of regular, run-of-the-mill foods which are absolutely deadly. Here are ten common household foods which can be lethal. 10 Nutmeg While most of us look at nutmeg and think of it as a spice, a nice little dash of flavor for our coffee or any other food which needs its rich, aromatic, nutty flavor, nutmeg is actually a hallucinogen at higher doses....

10 Westboro Baptist Church Song Parodies The hateful Christian sect known as the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is usually noted for its hate speech and bad-taste protests, but it also spreads its message via music. Specifically it parodies pop music songs and videos and spreads the parodies through YouTube as well as a SoundCloud with over 100 songs, which are mostly madness-inflamed variations of pop and traditional music. The parodies are bizarrely faithful to the sound of the original songs, making you feel like you’ve fallen into a parallel universe where Weird Al Yankovic is a virulent homophobe, Katy Perry is predicting the apocalyptic death of sinners, and Lorde is asserting that the members of the WBC will rule in Heaven with Lord Jesus while the rest of the population burns in hell....

The various King adaptations are packed with easter eggs and references to other titles, and it’s no surprise—King constantly does the same in the books themselves. Maybe it’s the oft-shared settings in and around Maine, maybe it’s King’s patchwork attempts at establishing a shared universe, or maybe it’s just self-congratulatory fun. Regardless of why King always references King, the same holds true for his movies and television shows. This list is dedicated to ten of the cheekiest of those self-referential winks, times when King and his adaptors posed the question, “Say, do you remember King and his adaptors?...

The cost of renewable energy is falling, and we may phase fossil fuels out of energy generation entirely over the next decade or two. Yes, it’s an optimistic estimation, but it aligns with the interests of most people, which is to have a reliable and affordable energy source while simultaneously conserving our environment. Here are 10 energy resources that could eventually replace fossil fuels in the not-too-distant future. 10 Solar Energy Solar energy is the most environmentally friendly and prolific renewable energy source today, and the United States possesses some of the world’s most abundant solar resources....

10Robert McLaren Removed His Own Appendix In The Jungle By 1942, Robert “Jock” McLaren had already escaped from a prison camp in Singapore, fought for weeks with local guerrillas, been betrayed to the Japanese by a double-crossing comrade, and been interned in a high-security prison camp in Borneo. Books have been written about less. But McLaren was just getting started. McLaren had been a teenage cavalryman during the First World War, before immigrating to Australia and settling down to a quiet life in Queensland....