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On September 2, 2010, 24-year-old Michelle O’Connell was found dead at Jeremy Banks’ home in St. Augustine, Florida. Authorities initially concluded it was a suicide, but O’Connell’s loved ones thought otherwise. FacebookMichelle O’Connell, who died in her boyfriend’s Florida home on September 2, 2010. When 24-year-old Michelle O’Connell died on the floor of her boyfriend’s St. Augustine, Florida home from a gunshot wound to her mouth, it was her boyfriend, a police officer named Jeremy Banks, who reported the shooting....

A botfly maggot’s entire purpose is to mate, procreate, and infest mammals with its larvae. If your worst nightmare is having your body taken over by another life form, then read no further. The botfly has a short albeit gruesome life cycle that involves infesting a host to grow its larva until it matures and pops out of the host’s flesh. Most alarmingly, these maggot-like larvae end up inside human hosts, too....

“I think we have just arrested the world’s unluckiest burglars.” PixabayThe thieves were a couple of Gen Xers at 49 and 42 years old. On Wednesday evening, Staffordshire police in England received an astonishing call. On the other end of the line were two men audibly discussing the robbery that they were in the middle of committing. The two criminals were unaware that one of them had butt-dialed the cops and were wholly surprised when the authorities arrived a short while later....

These surprising John Lennon facts reveal the ugly, funny, and bizarre side of the Beatles frontman you thought you knew. The life of John Lennon was marked not only by genius and fame, but contradictions. The patron saint of peace and love sometimes engaged in acts of shocking violence and cruelty. The singer beloved for his vocals just happened to despise his own voice. The songwriter responsible for “all you need is love” and “imagine no possessions” had an extravagant taste for the finer things....

Rarely-seen photos reveal a 30-foot-long black streak on the hull of the Titanic — days before the doomed ship set sail in 1912. Wikimedia CommonsThe black streak can be seen just above the waterline, supposedly supporting the Titanic fire theory. Circa April 1912. It’s a story we all know. On one fateful evening in 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg, split in two, and sank into the depths of the biting waters of the North Atlantic, taking some 1,500 people with it....

This heroin vaccine could save countless lives–and federal dollars. Learn more about it with us. Kim Janda. Source: Robert Benson You’d think it would be a big deal if a scientist created a vaccine that could do away with addiction. So what if I told you that we already had one? Kim Janda has a vaccine for heroin addiction. And for meth. And for cocaine, too. Janda, an American chemist and the Ely R....

Annie Besant started out married to a clergyman, but became an anti-religious activist. Her arrest for publishing a book that dealt with birth control only catapulted her fame. Wikimedia CommonsAnnie Besant. 1905 Annie Besant once said: It’s quotes like this that show why she left her typical nineteenth-century British life for one of radical activism. Annie Besant was born as Annie Wood in London in 1847. When she was 20, she married Frank Besant and took his last name....

Known for being a fearsome crime boss, Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson ruled the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the mid-20th century. For more than 30 years, Bumpy Johnson was famous for being one of New York City’s most revered — and feared — crime bosses. His wife called him the “Harlem Godfather,” and for good reason. Known for ruling Harlem with an iron fist, he dealt with anyone who dared challenge him in a brutal fashion....

Catherine Parr was the last of King Henry VIII’s six wives and the only one to neither be cast aside nor killed by the volatile English monarch. Master John/National TrustCatherine Parr became England’s queen in her early 30s and ruled for almost four years as Henry VIII’s spouse. King Henry VIII’s last wife, Catherine Parr, began her marriage knowing that her husband had sent two of his former wives to the chopping block....

The discovery is “an unprecedented opportunity to delve into more than 30,000 years of history.” INAH via APThe 30,000-year-old remains included adults and their offspring. The remains of 60 mammoths were discovered at the construction site of a new airport outside Mexico City. Astoundingly, the discovery also suggests that these mammoths could have been hunted by prehistoric man. According to a statement released by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, the fossils were found during the construction of the new General Felipe Ángeles International Airport located north of Mexico City....

Luftwaffe fighter pilot Hans-Joachim Marseille may have racked up 100 aerial victories during World War II, but that didn’t stop him from mocking his Nazi overlords. Wikimedia CommonsHans-Joachim Marseille During World War II, the Luftwaffe was one of the German Army’s most valuable assets. While all of the Luftwaffe pilots were potentially deadly, one stood head and shoulders above the rest: Hans-Joachim Marseille. Marseille was a quiet boy who joined the Luftwaffe as a means to curb his reckless personality and channel it into something useful....

After the only recorded case of a compassionate release during WWI, Captain Robert Campbell returned back to his POW camp. In 1914, British Army Captain Robert Campbell was captured by German forces just outside of France. Injured in the attack, he was taken to a military hospital in Cologne and treated before being taken to a German prisoner-of-war camp in Magdeburg, Germany. After living in the POW camp for two years, Captain Campbell received word that his mother had cancer, and didn’t have much longer to live....

In 1928, Henry Ford broke ground on Fordlândia, a rubber-producing town in Brazil that he hoped would supply his car factories and serve as a model industrial society. Instead, it devolved into a dystopia. Henry Ford CollectionAerial view of Ford’s rubber town in 1934. Henry Ford was a man of many contradictions. At once progressive in his treatment of workers and regressive in his racial ideology, this singular man revolutionized the automobile industry and invented the 40-hour workweek — while also railing against the Jews in his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent....

Among the dead were weapons, tools, a pocket watch, and a medal of honor for fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Facebook/POMOSTThe skeletons were found side by side with various artifacts of war. Archaeologists in Poland have discovered a mass grave containing the remains of 18 Nazi paratroopers from World War II. The discovery also yielded numerous weapons, medals, and tools. The grave was found by locals in the southwestern village of Kożlice, who then notified the Pracownia Badań Historical and Archaeological Research Laboratory (POMOST)....

Born in 1966, Michael Gacy is one of two children fathered by John Wayne Gacy and has remained an elusive figure ever since his father’s 1978 arrest for killing 33 young men and boys. YouTubeMarlynn Myers, with either Michael Gacy or Christine Gacy (accounts vary), and John Wayne Gacy in the late 1960s. One of John Wayne Gacy’s children, Michael Gacy was just two years old when his father was first arrested for sexually assaulting a minor and sentenced to 10 years in prison....

The painting was an untitled piece by 20th-century French artist Yves Tanguy, whose artworks were compared to the likes of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Courtesy of Düsseldorf PolicePolice in Düsseldorf, Germany, recovered a 20th-century surrealist painting from an airport dumpster. In what is probably the best case of lost and found this year, German authorities successfully tracked down and recovered a missing $340,000 surrealist painting from an airport’s recycling dumpster....

Nobody knew what happened to Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada when he disappeared in 2009. Authorities searched far and wide, only for contractors to find his body at his place of work a decade later. Iowa Department of Public SafetyLarry Ely Murillo-Moncada was 25 years old when a tragic mishap pinned him between heavy coolers and a supermarket wall. He was found dead 10 years later. Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada ran away from his parents’ Iowa home in November 2009 and mysteriously disappeared — or so they thought....

Stevie Ray Vaughan is often credited with reviving blues guitar in his heyday, but his spectacular musical career was cut short by a tragic helicopter accident when he was just 35. Wikimedia Commons Stevie Ray Vaughan, center and with his distinctive hat, with his band Double Trouble in 1983. Stevie Ray Vaughan was a celebrated blues guitarist and was largely seen as a talent that could revitalize the genre. Critics compared his style to that of Jimi Hendrix, Otis Rush, and Muddy Waters....

A side-by-side comparison of the most terrifying serial killer movies of all time — and the even grislier real-life murderers who inspired them. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The 25 Best Horror Movies Of All Time — And The Chilling True Stories Behind Them 13 Terrifying True Stories Behind Hollywood’s Scariest Horror Movies The 20 Best Serial Killer Documentaries That Will Chill You To The Bone...

The massive coelacanth was thought to have died off over 60-million-years ago, but its 1938 discovery in South Africa shocked the scientific world. Scientists have long known that coelacanths once swam Earth’s seas. Fossilized remains helped experts date the supposedly extinct fish species back 66 million years, to the Late Cretaceous period. But on a dewy morning in December 1938, a South African museum curator shockingly rediscovered them — alive....