10 Haunted Asylums With Extremely Dark Pasts

To say that these buildings have witnessed much suffering would be a huge understatement. If suffering and death can lead to a place becoming haunted, you’d think that mental institutions would be prime candidates. Here are 10 asylums and mental institutions where exactly that sort of activity is said to have occurred. 10 Waverly Hills SanatoriumKentucky Widely regarded as one of the most haunted places on Earth, Waverley Hills Sanatorium is said to be home to a mysterious woman in chains, who can be seen running from the now abandoned building, a boy called Timmy who is obsessed with playing ball, a girl with no eyes called Mary, and the notorious Room 502, where the door slams shut if you dare to step inside its four walls....

January 16, 2023 · 13 min · 2616 words · Jonathan Cecil

10 Heartwarming Times Thieves Had Second Thoughts

SEE ALSO: 10 Heartwarming Stories To Restore Your Faith In Humanity That is why it is especially wonderful and heartwarming when the impossible happens and a victim of theft is not only reunited with their stuff but gets an apology, too. As the list below shows, some thieves can have a change of heart. 10 Thief Returns Money With Apology 11 Years After Robbery In the early 2000s, the InterAsian Market and Deli in Nashville, Tennessee was robbed....

January 16, 2023 · 11 min · 2340 words · Deborah Goldade

10 Heroes Who Stood Up To Dictators And Genocide

Awesome as he was, though, Schindler was far from unique. We’ve already told you about John Rabe, the “Oskar Schindler of China.” Throughout the 20th century, others with little to gain and everything to lose stood up to psychotic regimes, saving thousands of lives. 10 The Cardinal Who Stood Up To Torture On September 11, 1973, Augusto Pinochet overthrew Chile’s democratically elected president. An orgy of torture and murder followed, as right-wing death squads stalked the capital, targeting dissidents....

January 16, 2023 · 11 min · 2199 words · Peter Kuttner

10 Heroic Cats Who Could Teach Lassie A Thing Or Two

10 The Cat Who Supplied A Supper When Sir Henry Wyatt was imprisoned—probably in Scotland—in the late 1400s, the accommodations left much to be desired, and the fare was abysmal. Fortunately, according to an account by Wyatt’s great-great-grandson, Thomas Scott, the despondent man began receiving visits from a friendly feline. The motherly cat must have decided that her new pal could use some fattening up because she began bringing him dead pigeons....

January 16, 2023 · 9 min · 1721 words · Anthony Rush

10 Historical Battles Hollywood Got Completely Wrong

10The Battle Of The BulgeBattle Of The Bulge (1965) The Battle of the Bulge saw more American deaths than any other World War II engagement, so you’d expect MGM’s movie of the same name to strive for respectful accuracy. Unfortunately, the filmmakers apparently decided that the real thing wasn’t cinematic enough and just made up a different battle entirely. For starters, the filmmakers were determined to let audiences enjoy the picture in magnificent widescreen Cinerama....

January 16, 2023 · 19 min · 3887 words · Jessica Dickson

10 Historical Myths About Dictators

10 Adolf Schicklgruber It is often claimed that Adolf Hitler was born with the surname Schicklgruber. Hitler’s father, Alois, was born out of wedlock to Maria Anna Schicklgruber, who eventually married Alois’s probable father, Johann Georg Hiedler. Hiedler didn’t legitimize his son in life, but Alois was later legitimized by his uncle. As historian Alan Bullock said, “From the beginning of 1877, 12 years before Adolf was born, his father called himself Hitler, and his son was never known by any other name until his opponents dug up this long-forgotten village scandal and tried, without justification, to label him with his grandmother’s name of Schicklgruber....

January 16, 2023 · 16 min · 3328 words · Michael Lynch

10 Horrifying Facts About Baby Farms

10 London’s Unregulated Baby Farms In 1874, an Australian newspaper ran a report on the problems of baby farms in London. The first major problem cited by the article wasn’t that the baby farms were run like a business or that they were set up to make money rather than provide loving care for infants, but the fact that they were completely unregulated. London supposedly had hundreds of small baby farms, but only three of those farms were genuinely registered as a business....

January 16, 2023 · 12 min · 2418 words · Donna Orlando

10 Horror Movies On Netflix That Don T Suck

This list details ten movies that can all currently be found on Netflix and aren’t cheesy scary! Seriously, some of these films have actually made some of their viewers faint. Don’t worry, though, this article includes a variety of movies with different types of horror within. From blood and guts to demons and ghosts, this last packs a scream! 10 The Conjuring Directed by James Wan, the story of The Conjuring has terrified people since its premiere date back in July 2013....

January 16, 2023 · 9 min · 1748 words · Kenneth Dean

10 Huge And Crazy Ransoms

10J. Paul Getty Having a billionaire for a grandfather sounds pretty awesome at face value, but it didn’t work out too well for J. Paul Getty III. Getty was a rebellious child, and he often joked that he would stage his kidnapping to squeeze some cash out of his frugal grandfather. So when the 16-year-old really was taken in Rome in 1973, no one took it seriously. The kidnappers demanded $17 million, but oil magnate J....

January 16, 2023 · 9 min · 1797 words · Lawrence Forbes

10 Iconic Low Budget Horror Films

Horror films have built a reputation for utilizing lower budgets to great effect. But it’s only once in a while that these films see significant returns on their comparatively modest budgets. The movies on this list are those films. And while their budgets may seem large to the average person, these movies stand as feats of frugal ingenuity that surpassed all expectations in the film world. 10 Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead wasn’t the first zombie film ever made (that distinction most likely goes to Victor Halperin’s White Zombie), but it pretty much created the blueprint for the genre going forward....

January 16, 2023 · 9 min · 1713 words · Therese Johnson

10 Illnesses And Their Effects On History

Typhus is any of several similar diseases caused by Rickettsiae. The name comes from the Greek typhos meaning smoky or hazy,describing the state of mind of those affected with typhus. The first reliable description of the disease appears during the Spanish siege of Moorish Granada in 1489. These accounts include descriptions of fever and red spots over arms, back and chest, progressing to delirium, gangrenous sores, and the stink of rotting flesh....

January 16, 2023 · 6 min · 1072 words · Franklin Hood

10 Images Of Terrifying Weather Events

Weather can also be extremely dangerous. Tornadoes, hurricanes and blizzards, to name but a few, cause havoc around the globe every year leaving death and destruction in their wake. On this list are some of Earth’s most terrifying weather events caught on camera or drawn and painted for posterity, and serving as an ongoing warning to always seek shelter sooner rather than later. 10 Intense Extraterrestrial Storms 10 Rain bomb In 2016, storm chaser Bryan Snyder was busy taking a time-lapse video of a storm over Tucson when he witnessed a rare sight....

January 16, 2023 · 8 min · 1536 words · Brittny Wolff

10 Imposters No One Should Have Believed

10Martin Guerre The Middle Ages were an easy era for identity thieves. When identification documents didn’t exist and very few people could read or write, the very idea of self-identity was fluid at best. This might help to explain the ridiculous exploits of Arnaud du Tilh. On a summer afternoon in 1556, Arnaud waltzed into the Basque town of Hendaye and proclaimed that he was the long-lost Martin Guerre. The real Guerre had disappeared to join the Spanish army eight years earlier, abandoning his young wife Bertrande, and hadn’t been heard from since....

January 16, 2023 · 13 min · 2607 words · Fred Myers

10 Incredible Scientific Facts About The Planet Uranus

Eventually known as the seventh planet from the Sun, this enigmatic, beautiful, gassy, blue-green ice giant is so far away from its home star that one full orbit takes 84 Earth years to complete. The gas and ice giants in our solar system are so far away from Earth that they are extremely hard to observe and study. The Voyager missions have been the sole source of much, if not all, of the real raw data we have on the outer planets....

January 16, 2023 · 12 min · 2453 words · Rebecca Haughney

10 Incredible Survival Stories From The 19Th Century

10 Sergeant James Landon Camp Sumter, commonly known as Andersonville, was a military prison operated by the Confederacy during the US Civil War. Even by the low standards of prisons at the time, Andersonville was notoriously horrible. The prison was overcrowded, and prisoners were forced to sleep in the open in disgusting, unsanitary conditions. During the Civil War, 13,000 prisoners died in Andersonville. Following the war, Captain Henry Wirz, the camp’s commander, was tried and hanged for war crimes....

January 16, 2023 · 11 min · 2187 words · John Hamilton

10 Influential Slaves Who Deserve To Be More Famous

10Ukawsaw Gronniosaw Ukawsaw Gronniosaw began his life in what is today Nigeria. As a young child, Gronniosaw was lured away from his village by slave traders who promised to show him “houses with wings to them (that) walk upon the water.” These “houses” turned out to be slave ships, and Gronniosaw was sent to New York and purchased as a slave there. His master, a minister named Theodore Frelinghuysen, ensured that he received a religious education....

January 16, 2023 · 11 min · 2338 words · Olga Gonzales

10 Insane Ways Companies Profited From Incompetence And Violence

Or do they? Look through the annals of corporate malfeasance, and you’ll find many tales of companies being rewarded for their incompetence. Companies that failed to deliver on any of their promises and still came out on top. Companies like these. 10 Thomas Cook Kills Two Children, Receives Massive Payout In 2006, Neil Shepard and his new girlfriend took Neil’s kids Bobby and Christi on vacation to Corfu. The hotel they chose was part of the gigantic Thomas Cook network, a widely trusted company....

January 16, 2023 · 11 min · 2268 words · John Feldman

10 Kidnapped Children Who Escaped Death

Captivity: 10 days Elizabeth Shoaf, aged 14, was abducted after leaving her school bus on September 6, 2006. Her abductor, Vinson Filyaw, took her through the woods to a hand-dug, 15-foot bunker located near his trailer home. There he restrained her and raped her several times, daily. Filyaw repeatedly told Shoaf she would die and would place explosives around her neck anytime he left her. Despite this, Elizabeth talked to him about his interests and Filyaw began to view her as a person he could trust, not a captive....

January 16, 2023 · 16 min · 3392 words · Lorrie Sampson

10 Killers Who Changed Their Minds

Here are 10 stories of ruthless killers or would-be killers whose humanity unexpectedly triumphed. 10The Bomber Who Surrendered In 2002, Arin Ahmed Shaebat began her long walk toward the Rishon Lezion mall wearing a backpack full of explosives. A few hundred meters away, 16-year-old Issa Badir was hefting his own backpack toward the gaming tables. The plan was for Badir to detonate his pack, with Arin waiting until the survivors flocked for the safety of the mall before exploding her own....

January 16, 2023 · 10 min · 2043 words · Jeannie Beck

10 Legendary Swordsmen From History

Because of its high skill ceiling, the sword has been sparingly used in battle in history, and true mastery of it shows up in only a handful of cultures. Because of that, legendary swordsmen are few and far between, even if the ones we do know of have been some of the most badass melee fighters of all time. 10 Minamoto Yoshitsune Minamoto Yoshitsune is one of the more well-known samurai in Japanese history....

January 16, 2023 · 9 min · 1786 words · William French