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Known as “The Pig” due to his thirst for blood, Giovanni Brusca killed between 100 and 200 people for the Sicilian Mafia in the late 20th century. YouTubeAuthorities arrest Giovanni Brusca near Agrigento, Sicily on May 20, 1996. Sicilian Mafia hitman Giovanni Brusca murdered so many people that he actually lost count. From the 1970s to the 1990s, Brusca would kill whoever the Mafia wanted dead — from government officials to innocent children....

These haunting photos of the largely abandoned Baltimore ghetto provide a harrowing glimpse of one of the most beleaguered cities in all of America. Abandoned row houses off Eastern Ave., a major thoroughfare that traverses the entire eastern half of the city.Zorah Olivia/Flickr The U.S. Census Bureau has counted an astonishing 46,800 vacant properties in Baltimore — a whopping 16 percent of its housing.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images According to a 2016 report in The Baltimore Sun, approximately 500 of those vacant houses are so decrepit that city inspectors must check their stability, for fear of the houses collapsing, every ten days....

These stark, heart-wrenching Dust Bowl pictures reveal both the vast scope and intimate despair of this tragic time. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 29 Haunting Pictures Of River Country And Discovery Island, Disney’s Mysteriously Abandoned Theme Parks The Story Of Marcy Borders, The ‘Dust Lady’ Of 9/11 9/11 Pictures That Reveal The Tragedy Of America’s Darkest Day...

From Charlie Chaplin to Judy Garland, these old Hollywood scandals uncover the darkest depths of the movie industry’s supposed golden age. Today, the world is well aware of Hollywood’s dark side. Enough disturbing and salacious Hollywood scandals have come to light to prove that the glitz and the glamor conceals a seedy underbelly. But though Hollywood scandals are splashed across the internet on a near-daily basis in the modern era, there was once a time when many of Tinseltown’s darkest episodes were successfully swept under the rug – at least for a while....

In one recent case, a father who raped his underage daughter was allowed to walk free even though the sex was proven to be non-consensual because prosecutors couldn’t prove that she sufficiently fought back. KYODOProtestors have selected flowers as their symbol during these public demonstrations against rape acquittals. When Japan amended its century-old rape law in 2017, it included more stringent penalties for perpetrators. Unfortunately, the revisions retained confounding requirements for prosecutors that demand they prove violence or intimidation was used before the act....

Wikimedia Commons/Facebook/ATI Composite As neo-Nazism rises in popularity across Europe, the Austrian government is taking steps to squash one of its symbolic sources: the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. Recently, the government moved to seize a three-story building located in the 17,000-person town of Braunau am Inn. Hitler lived in the northern Austrian town for approximately three years following his April 1889 birth, before he and his family moved to Passau, Germany....

The 125-pound Mastiff earned the title this past weekend. This year’s World’s Ugliest Dog Competition has just taken place, and the winner — a three-year-old Mastiff named Martha — is simply not that hideous. With disturbingly bloodshot eyes and flappy, slobber-oozing, whisker-pocked cheeks drooping almost past her knobby knees, Martha is definitely no Boo (the Internet’s most adorable creature). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Mmfv33LlU Still, when you see her floppy face spread across the floor, it’s hard to deny that this giant creature is kind of adorable....

Those working for the Ahnenerbe project set out to prove that the Aryan race was descended from Nordic gods by spending millions of dollars on finding irrefutable, archaeological proof. Wikimedia CommonsDr. Bruno Beger and Dr. Ernst Schäfer, Ahnenerbe officers, being received by Tibetan dignitaries at Lhasa. 1938. Indiana Jones’ race to find the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail before the Nazis may be the realm of fiction, but in reality, there was a Nazi organization tasked with finding relics....

Just days after her 24th birthday in August 2015, Alison Parker and 27-year-old cameraman Adam Ward were murdered in the middle of an on-air morning interview which was broadcast in real time. On August 26, 2015, reporter Alison Parker and Adam Ward, her cameraman, arrived at work ready to go on air. Parker worked for WDBJ7, a local news station in Roanoke, Virginia. That day, Parker and Ward were on location in Moneta for an interview with Vicki Gardner, the executive director of the local Chamber of Commerce....

This huge mysterious tomb hasn’t been opened since it was sealed around 2,000 years ago. Egypt Ministry of AntiquitiesThe unopened sarcophagus. For millennia, archaeologists have found extraordinary finds from the trove of ancient tombs, burials, and artifacts in Egypt. And still, people continue to be captivated by new discoveries. The latest is a black granite sarcophagus, uncovered in the Sidi Gaber district of Alexandria. This particular sarcophagus stands out for two reasons....

The palace was razed by the Spaniards for materials and used to create a new home for Cortés nearby. INAHArchaeologists believe they found the floor of the palace’s main courtyard. The historic Nacional Monte de Piedad building in Mexico City appears to cover much more than low-interest pawn loans to those in need. As it turns out, the building actually stands on the remains of an Aztec palace. According to USA Today, the discovery occurred during an inspection by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)....

Scientists believe that this is the best-preserved juvenile woolly rhino specimen they have ever found. Russian Academy of SciencesThe specimen was excavated in August 2020, and has yet to be transported for thorough analysis. Russian researchers have just announced the discovery of a remarkably well-preserved woolly rhinoceros that was excavated in August of 2020. According to The Siberian Times, the specimen is between 20,000 and 50,000 years old, and was found in such pristine condition that much of its internal organs were still intact....

From Boston’s Great Molasses Flood to Los Angeles’ alligator picnics, these bizarre photos make history much more interesting. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Fun History Facts That Prove The Past Is Even More Fascinating Than You Realized 27 Bizarre Vintage Photos From The Annals Of New York City History 23 Creepy Photos From History’s Most Bizarre Beauty Pageants...

First devised at the University of Tennessee, body farms have become invaluable research facilities for everyone from scientists to law enforcement officials. David Howells/Corbis via Getty ImagesCorpses decay at the body farms at the University of Tennessee. What do you think happens to your body after you die? You probably have a vague idea, but not a thoroughly realistic conception of the changes your body will undergo after the chilly grip of death has taken hold....

This is their incredible yet often-overlooked story. Archibad Dalzel/New York Public LibraryA 1793 image titled “Armed Women with the King at their head going to war.” From the 17th century until 1904, the West African Kingdom of Dahomey ruled over an expansive area of what is now known as the Republic of Benin. The kingdom featured a bustling economy built on war triumphs, slavery, and international trade with Europeans. It was also organized around a centralized monarchy, had a complex taxation system, and a massive military....

After being hanged in 1841 for throwing 70 people off of an aqueduct in Lisbon, Diogo Alves’ preserved head has been in a jar in a university lab. Ripley’s Believe It Or NotThe eerily well preserved head of serial killer Diogo Alves. For years, Diogo Alves terrorized the people of Lisbon, Portugal as a thief and a cold-blooded murderer. Indeed, he’s considered the city’s first real serial killer. But although he was executed for these crimes in 1841, his legacy has persisted — because his head was preserved in a glass jar at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine....

A new geological study challenges an old theory that scientists have previously used to account for these gaps. PixabayGeologists are trying to figure out why there are layers of time missing from Earth’s geological record. For some time, scientists have puzzled over layers of rock missing from Earth’s geological record. Over Earth’s evolution, layers of rock sediment formed one on top of the other and each layer represents a different time period in Earth’s history....

How pirate queen Grace O’Malley ruled the high seas, bent the English crown to her will, and rose to the top of a world with little place for women. YouTubeGrace O’Malley While Mary, Queen of Scots succumbed to Queen Elizabeth I — and the executioner’s axe — Grace O’Malley was another “queen” who defied the English monarch for almost 40 years by plundering English ships and fiercely repelling the forces that tried to take her family’s land....

At one of the darkest points of the Cultural Revolution, political strife devolved into extreme brutality in China’s southern region of Guangxi, where hundreds were cannibalized. Bettmann/Getty ImagesDuring China’s Cultural Revolution, petty political rivalries turned brutal during the Guangxi massacre when civilians began murdering and cannibalizing their opposers. Modern Wuxuan County, in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a relatively quiet corner of the country, marked by wide green farm fields and bustling small towns....

Scientists analyzed samples of fossil pollen from across Europe to estimate the death toll of the Black Plague and found evidence of a dramatic population decline in only seven of the 21 regions studied. Wikimedia CommonsThough previous estimates said 50 million, new research says the experts have been very wrong about how many people died from the Black Plague. We often imagine the Black Death as a terrible tidal wave that consumed Europe, killing an estimated 50 million people....