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10 The Case Of The Disappearing Passenger One July evening in 1864, two men stepping into a first-class train compartment in Hackney, England, stumbled upon a scene of carnage. Blood on the seats and on the door but nobody within—more specifically, no body within. Women in the next carriage even reported having been spattered with red droplets through an open window. The eerily empty compartment was replete with clues as well as gore....

Mostly, these “pseudosuicides” are done due to debt, the threat of arrest, or to collect on life insurance policies, but people have “died” for stranger reasons, too. One man even faked his death in order to prove to his grieving girlfriend how much she loved him. He staged a car crash, and while she wept at the scene, he leaped out with balloons and an engagement ring to propose to the “lucky” girl....

See Also: 10 Torture Murders That Will Curdle Your Blood 10The Genocidal Dictator Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada was Bolivia’s answer to Hosni Mubarak: a corrupt, pro-West ruler despised by his people who ordered the army in when the protests began. In 2003, his security forces murdered 67 civilians, including children, and wounded hundreds more with open gunfire on an indigenous Aymara neighborhood. The resulting explosion of anger across Bolivia forced de Lozada to flee into exile, pursued by charges of genocide and crimes against humanity....

William Shakespeare’s idea that those who make the greatest promises are likely to break them is as true today as it was when he wrote Hamlet. We expect men and women with highly publicized moral stances or critical roles in the safety and well-being of others to uphold certain expectations. Not killing people, for example. Something about the human condition, though, occasionally causes people to undermine these expectations, contradict their principles, and lead ironic double lives....

10Skipping Vaccinations The anti-vaccination movement somehow keeps attracting followers. Its advocates try to warn the public about vaccine side effects like seizures (which are extremely rare and have no lasting effects) and about the link between vaccines and autism (which is non-existent and based on a single discredited report). The movement helps no one. Instead, it’s making hundreds of people sick. Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000....

10Seductive Recruitment Process According to an article written for the American Psychological Association by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, there is no “type” of person who joins a cult. In fact, many of these people are well-educated, sensible, and logical. He claims that anyone, under the right conditions, could be convinced to join a cult. So, instead of blaming the victims, he insists that people need to focus on how the founder of the organization managed to be so seductive, that they recruited their followers in the first place....

This means that some gemstones can be quite pricey if you want to get your hands on them. Here are some of the rarest and most expensive rocks you can spend your money on. 10 Musgravite Musgravite is one of the rarest of all the minerals that can be turned into gemstones. It was first discovered in the Musgrave Range of mountains in Australia in 1967. In its raw state, it looks like a shiny grey mineral but not really one worth setting into jewelry....

Nacreous Clouds These rare clouds, sometimes called mother-of-pearl clouds, are 15 – 25km (9 -16 miles) high in the stratosphere and well above tropospheric clouds. They have iridescent colours but are higher and much rarer than ordinary iridescent clouds. They are seen mostly but not exclusively in polar regions and in winter at high latitudes, Scandinavia, Alaska, Northern Canada. Lower level iridescent clouds can be seen anywhere. Nacreous clouds shine brightly in high altitude sunlight up to two hours after ground level sunset or before dawn....

At any given moment, there are people across the world who are locked in kisses. When something happens that often, it’s inevitable that unusual things will occur. Sometimes, these kisses can even turn lethal. 10 Myriam Ducre-Lemay In October 2012, 20-year-old Myriam Ducre-Lemay attended a party in Montreal with her new boyfriend before heading back to his place for the night. The two shared a kiss as they were getting into bed, only for Myriam to suddenly experience a lot of trouble breathing....

He hid the words “Created By Warren Robinett” in a special room that you could only find by following a series of ridiculous steps. Since then, lots of programmers have gotten in on the Easter egg fun. Well, the following ten places just might convince you that there are programmers in real life, playing with the Earth’s coding and leaving satisfying little Easter eggs for us to find, too. Mary Ellis was promised something—that the man she’d fallen for in Rahway, New Jersey, would sail far away, but one day return to marry her....

It is clear that none of us wants a nuclear war to ever happen. But if it is inevitable in the near future, how bad would it be? Incredibly, we can be optimistic even in this situation. Here are 10 reasons why a nuclear war would end up being good for Earth, for life, and for us. 10 The Bombing Will Not Be Enough To Destroy Earth It has been said that available nuclear weapons are enough to decimate humankind, and to some extent, it is true....

As a whole, we’ve forgotten what life was really like long ago. The 1800s, for example, were dangerous times when disease and lack of education could kill the innocent, the vulnerable, and even the strongest among us. Life was fragile, and death was always right around the corner. 10 Mangled By Machinery Working in the mills and factories before the age of safety regulations was deadly. Newspapers reported numerous instances of women, children, and men being mangled by exposed machinery....

10Name Your Baby Turok for Turok: Evolution Many a company has made mistakes when it comes to advertising their latest game, but there is only one company that made ridiculous advertising campaigns an art form. Those of you with long memories may remember Acclaim as being a company that generally made pretty solid games without ever really becoming particularly massive in the industry. What you may not remember is that, toward the end of the company’s existence, their advertising campaigns not only crossed the line of insanity, but dashed past it with reckless abandon....

10 Is The Pope Catholic!?! Advertised as a game of nostalgia for Catholics and non-Catholics who remember Catholicism before Vatican II (1962-1965) reshaped the church, Is the Pope Catholic!?! “takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the church when it was very rigid and contained a lot of do’s and dont’s,” said co-developer Richard Crowley. “We think it contributes to healing some painful memories of those days for Catholics.” Richard – along with his brother John – are Roman Catholic and they spent $50,000 and four years developing this game before its release in the mid-1980’s....

All biology students, at some point, will have to study the Calvin cycle. This is the series of reactions which occur in plants that allow for the fixation of carbon dioxide. These reactions, which occur in chloroplasts, are the source of energy for plants. Understanding this route of carbon dioxide fixation is vital to understanding life on Earth. The Calvin cycle was elucidated by the use of radioactive molecules to allow the steps in the cycle to be understood....

And that’s when it can be really dangerous. Because when they put those powers to the test, it can lead to absolute disaster. 10 The Prophet Who Slit A Man’s Throat And Promised To Bring Him Back To Life In 2014, Muhammad Sabir convinced a whole crowd of followers in Pakistan that he was a prophet of God with miraculous powers. He got them to believe that he had power over death—and he was so persuasive that he even convinced himself....

Contemporary pirates are active in a number of areas, particularly the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, off the coast of Somalia, and the Strait of Malacca. They are often armed with AK-47s and RPGs and typically use high-speed skiffs to capture large merchant ships, yachts, and other vessels, often taking hostages and demanding ransom. The problem of modern piracy is a serious one, with millions of dollars of goods being stolen as well as numerous murders and abductions every year....

10Jason Laperriere On the evening of March 12, 2012, Jason Laperriere, 25, of North Bay, Ontario, cruised around town, picked up a woman, and offered her drugs in exchange for sex. The two had sex and then smoked crack until 3:00 AM. Laperriere became worried that his girlfriend might wonder why he didn’t come home that night. So he came up with a plan that he thought was brilliant: He pretended that he had been kidnapped....

But as we all know, truth can be stranger than fiction—or in cases like these, more horrifying and shocking than anything that could be dreamed up by even the cruelest horror scribe. If you are faint of heart, please consider that your warning. 10 The Victim’s Call Montana schoolteacher Rita Maze called her husband first. She had been hit on the head and kidnapped from a highway rest stop. She was currently in the trunk of a moving car, and she had no idea where she was going or who had taken her....

Idiot Idiot originally comes from the Greek word Idiotes which was used to refer to a person who was a private individual – or more specifically, one who was so preoccupied with their own personal life that they would not take part in the democratic process. In the biblical sense, the word referred to an uneducated person. By the fourteenth century, it could also refer to a clown, a layman (non-religious), or an individual....