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A murderous spirit said to appear in the mirror when her name is chanted, Bloody Mary may be inspired by the infamous Tudor Queen Mary I of England. Wikimedia CommonsFrom Queen Mary I of England (pictured) to the American “witch” Mary Worth, the real origins of the murderous spirit Bloody Mary have long been hotly debated. And to this day, people still wonder who Bloody Mary really is. As the legend goes, Bloody Mary is easy to summon....

In 1994, Michelle von Emster was found dead on a beach with her right leg missing. The coroner ruled that she was a victim of a shark attack — but some experts suspected foul play instead. Public DomainMichelle Von Emster was found with her pelvis forcefully pulled apart, her right leg torn off, and sand in her lungs. On the morning of April 15, 1994, the mutilated body of 25-year-old Michelle von Emster was recovered from the shoreline around San Diego, California....

The rumors state the Holmes somehow escaped his execution and moved to South America or even became Jack the Ripper. Chicago History Museum Two portraits (one a profile) of American pharmacist and convicted serial killer Herman Webster Mudgett (better known by his alias H.H. Holmes, 1861 – 1896), For the past hundred or so years, rumors have surrounded the execution of serial killer Herman Webster Mudgett, better known by his alias H....

New research shows that what was previously thought of simply as dark smudges on 5,000-year-old mummies are actually the world’s oldest tattoos. British Museum/Daily MailSeries of S shapes on female mummy. Have something interesting to say about these mummies? Tell us below! Some see tattoos as a mark of rebellion by young people, but it turns out this form of body modification is even older than we thought. According to research first published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, researchers have discovered tattoos on a male and female pair of Egyptian mummies that are 5,000 years old, from between 3351 and 3017 B....

In 1886, Virginia tobacco manufacturer Allen & Ginter created two unusual series of baseball cards to promote their Virginia Brights brand. Share Flipboard Email Virginia Brights, according to the firm, were “unexceptionably fine” and “unusually mild” cigarettes from the state’s “Bright Districts” that offered “great comfort and satisfaction to those who inhale the smoke of their cigarettes.” To peddle that satisfaction to their predominantly male smokers, Allen & Ginter chose not to include cards featuring hand-painted portraits of star baseball players from the era in their cigarette packs, an increasingly common practice....

From Van Halen to Metallica, these outrageous ’80s metal photos capture rock’s great era of excess in all its garish glory. Def LeppardMichael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Motorhead pose with pistols in London.Estate Of Keith Morris/Redferns/Getty Images Metallica. 1984.Pete Cronin/Redferns/Getty Images Members of Van Halen drink beer and look at porn on their tour bus.Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash poses with his pet snake, Clyde, in Los Angeles. 1984....

When Alice Ball made the discovery that brought leprosy patients back from certain death, she wasn’t just young — she was also a black woman in Jim Crow-era America. In 1915, a young black chemist named Alice Ball revolutionized the treatment for leprosy, a painful and stigmatized disease. Decades before the development of antibiotics, Ball devised a method for treating lepers that allowed them to live without being ostracized or isolated....

These 30 “curse tablets” meant for the dead show what lengths Athenians would go to hex their enemies. Jutta Stroszeck/German Archaeological InstituteTablet curse containing incantation against the newlywed Glykera, focusing on her vulva, by someone jealous of her marital bliss. Have you ever wished ill on those you disliked, like a hex or a curse? You’re obviously not alone, but as it turns out, even the ancient Greeks dabbled in the dark arts....

In 2014, Aiport Reef in American Samoa was a rich, rusty red, signifying its good health. But in October of 2015, NOAA announced that a global coral reef bleaching event had taken place, devastating Airport Reef (see below). Bleaching happens when coral becomes stressed, causing algae — coral’s main source of food — to leave its host. Coral then turns ghostly white. Coral bleaching bleaching events usually take place when water temperatures drastically increase, which is one of the most prevalent effects of climate change....

The last Taurid swarm to impact our planet brought down 80 million trees. While that, fortunately, occurred in the middle of Siberia, scientists are concerned we’re due for another sooner rather than later. Universal History Archive/Getty ImagesAn explosion believed to have been caused by a Taurid meteor shower burned 800 miles of trees in Russia over a century ago. In 1908 a cluster of meteors, known as the Taurid swarm, hurtling through outer space found their way to the Tunguska forest in Siberia....

Genene Jones was only convicted for one murder and one attempted murder of a child, but evidence suggests she may have killed dozens more during her time as a pediatric nurse. Nicknamed the “Angel of Death,” Genene Jones is a convicted serial killer serving time for the murder and attempted murder of several children in Texas. Sentenced to prison for 159 years, the 69-year-old inmate was set to be released in 2018....

When the devout Christian teen allegedly declared her belief in God as she was shot in cold blood at the Columbine High School massacre, she became a sort of angel to the media. Kevin Moloney/Getty ImagesRoger Kovacs and his wife Lesli in front of Rachel Scott’s memorial. Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Littleton, Colorado, April 20, 2007. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s school shooting at Columbine on April 20, 1999, shocked the world....

According to the Canadian philosopher, the newly developed computer could aid the global village, as they could “enhance retrieval, obsolesce mass library organization” and offer “speedily tailored data.” Getty ImagesMarshall McLuhan In the mid-20th century, the scientific community and laypeople alike were buzzing with predictions of the future. Flying cars, neighborhoods on the moon, and lifespans reaching 150 years were all things that people believed would come about in the next few decades....

More than 300 bodies were buried across nine death pits of 15 people each. One contained three generations of one family. Moscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyAn archeologist examines the remains at the Yaroslavl massacre site. When the Mongols invaded the Russian town of Yaroslavl in 1238, almost nobody was spared. Hundreds were slaughtered brutally and dumped into mass graves as the town was completely sacked. Nearly 800 years later, researchers have given us a chilling glimpse of the victims left behind....

Lynette Dawson went missing almost four decades ago. Now, a journalist’s podcast may have finally solved the mystery of her disappearance. YouTubeLynette Dawson and her daughter. In January 1982, a small neighborhood in Sydney, Australia was devastated by the disappearance of doting wife and mother Lynette Dawson. On the surface, the event was puzzling. What could have possibly caused a mother of two to leave her young family behind? However, a deeper look into the disappearance revealed some sinister details....

Matthew Taylor Coleman of Santa Barbara, California claimed that his two-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter had “serpent DNA,” so he allegedly killed them with a spear gun. InstagramMatthew Taylor Coleman has pleaded not guilty to shooting his two young children to death with a spear gun. The QAnon conspiracy theory had bloody, real-world consequences in August when a Santa Barbara man named Matthew Taylor Coleman allegedly murdered his two young children because he believed they “possessed serpent DNA....

French scientists launched Félicette into space in October 1963 in hopes of catching up to the US and the USSR in the Space Race. Wikimedia CommonsThe note “from” Félicette reads: “Thank you for your participation in my success of 18 October 1963.” Félicette didn’t seem like a typical astronaut. She weighed just five and a half pounds. She’d spent most of her life on the streets of Paris. And Félicette was a cat, one of 14 trained by French scientists for space flight....

The deceased, 15-year-old Alexandru Radita, weighed less than 40 pounds the day he died. A Canadian judge has found two parents who refused to take their dying diabetic son to the hospital guilty of first-degree murder. The 15-year-old boy, Alexandru Radita, passed away in 2013 due to the effects of intentionally untreated diabetes. At the time of his death, witnesses said that Radita weighed less than 40 pounds. “Mr. and Mrs....

Known for excluding Black people and other minorities, sundown towns are historically all-white communities in the United States with extremely troubling pasts. ullstein bild/Getty ImagesThe Chicago suburb of Cicero was one of the most infamous sundown towns to ever exist in Illinois. After just one Black family moved into an apartment there in 1951, a mob of 4,000 white people attacked the entire building. For much of the 20th century, thousands of all-white American towns forbade Black people from being within the city limits after nightfall....