While no coroner has ever been known to have recorded a specter as an official cause of death, there is enough documented evidence out there to suggest that there may be a spark of truth to all of those tall Hollywood tales. Here, we look at the stories of ten people whose death has been linked in some way to the ghostly and supernatural—judge for yourselves just how much truth lies behind them....
Despite this, people persevered. They went through the motions from newborns struggling to survive, to fully-fledged citizens of the Roman Empire. 10Being Welcomed into the Family In ancient Rome, the pater familias was the uncontested head of the household. He was granted complete authority both by Roman law and mos maiorum (the collection of unwritten customs and traditions). He was the only member of the family allowed to own land and was expected to represent the family in legal, business, and religious affairs....
10 historic serial killers: Ancient Roman Poisoning RingItaly, 331 BC After many leading citizens died of a mysterious plague, a slave testified that a group of maids were poisoning their employers. Investigators found 20 maids in the process of brewing the poison. The maids swore that the poison was medicine. To prove it, they drank their own brew and . . . were instantly cured of all sickness! Actually, they fell over dead immediately....
10Johannes Hevelius And The Era Of DIY Astronomy Legendary Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius was the son of a successful brewer. He initially aspired toward a career in politics, but that was quickly derailed by the astronomy craze that swept through secular Europe in the 17th century. Very much the self-made astronomer, Hevelius realized he needed a dedicated observatory to view the heavenly bodies that so enthralled him. Channeling the do-it-yourself scientific sentiments of his day, he built an observatory spanning three rooftops and filled it with instruments of his own creation....
10 Sand Creek Massacre At Sand Creek in the Colorado territory in 1864, the Cheyenne village of around 800 was supposed to be protected territory. Chief Black Kettle had brokered a deal with a nearby US Army fort for his people’s safety, but this proved to be an outright lie. Colonel John Chivington had decided that winning battles against local Native American tribes was the best way to become a territorial delegate to Congress....
10 Pocahontas’s Father Committed Genocide When John Smith first arrived in America, he landed at Chesapeake Bay. However, the Chesapeake tribe, who had given the bay its name, was nowhere to be found. Instead, Smith met Pocahontas’s father, Chief Powhatan. Powhatan led a confederacy of 30 tribes and 15,000 people that spanned across the area of modern Virginia. He was an extremely powerful man who was capable of terrible things. A year before Smith had arrived, Powhatan’s priests had prophesied that a nation would arise from Chesapeake Bay that would “dissolve and give end to his empire....
10 Horrifying Facts About America’s First Serial Killer H. H. Holmes Holmes built a hotel which became the last resting place of many victims. Each room at the ‘Murder Castle’ was a death trap designed to torture and kill. Holmes is considered to be the first serial killer in America. He eventually confessed to 27 murders, yet the actual body count could have been up to 200. He famously stated, “I was born with the devil in me....
These 10 examples of war could well blow up within the next few years. Some are regional, some are global. Some are small, some are big. The only constant is how horrifying these conflicts could potentially be. 10 The China-Russo Siberian War One superpower in its twilight years. One new upstart ready to take on the world. At the moment, China and Russia are the big beasts east of the Ural Mountains....
10Agentes In Rebus This group, whose name is Latin for “those involved in affairs,” was the successor to the utterly despised frumentarii, another ancient Roman police group. Early in their implementation during the third century A.D., they were merely couriers or informants for the emperor who wished to wash away the bad taste left in the public’s mouth by their predecessors. But, as their power grew, the agentes in rebus began to abuse it—under direct orders from the emperor....
Inside every dog, there is still a wild animal that has the potential to attack. For people have cynophobia, or the fear of dogs, these ten stories of dogs killing people will most definitely justify their hesitation when they come face-to-face with someone’s pet. 10 Dog Shoots Owner It was a bitterly cold January 2018 in the remote Saratov region of Russia. A 64-year-old man named Sergei Terekhov was hunting rabbits with his brother and his dog....
10 Alexander MacKenzie’s Transcontinental Trek Alexander MacKenzie is remembered as a great explorer in Canada and his native Scotland, but he doesn’t get the global recognition that he deserves. He is not on the same level as some of his contemporaries, such as Lewis and Clark. In 1804, after the Louisiana Purchase, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark set out on an expedition to explore the new American territories, claim the Pacific Northwest for the US, and reach the Pacific Ocean....
10Okkhoy A father desperately clutching his seven-year-old bleeding boy and riding on a rickshaw to the nearest hospital is not something you see every day. This is exactly what happened to a little boy only known as Okkhoy and his father in Bangladesh in 2010. A group of four men had viciously attacked the boy just a couple of hours earlier. The men, having an obvious lack of regard for life, hit the boy over the head with a large brick after tying his hands and feet up....
The Quote: I’m the King of the World Said By: Leonardo Di Caprio as Jack Dawson Demonstrates: Poor Boy Makes Good Jack wins a voyage on the luxury liner in a card game and boards as a Third Class passenger. He can’t believe his luck and stands proudly at the prow of the ship and throws out his arms, declaring he’s the King of the world. He captures the heart of socialite Rose (Kate Winslet), who prefers the partying on the Third Class deck to the stuffy atmosphere of First Class....
Valentine’s Day is only a few short weeks away, and love is in the air, on everyone’s mind, and hopefully in everyone’s hearts. But have you ever wondered about the nitty-gritty details of what we know as love? Just in time for V-Day, here are ten interesting facts about love from modern science. 10 Limerence It all starts with the initial spark that turns into a massive blaze—the term for this is limerence....
To find out more about these odd enigmas, read on to discover some of America’s more interesting yet less famous mysteries. 10Henry Starr And The Stevens County Treasure Of the many famous outlaws who roamed and terrorized the Wild West, Henry Starr stands out as one of the most interesting, yet few people today remember him. From a young age, Henry was exposed to a life of crime in his native Oklahoma....
10Parasites Were Incredibly Common Rome had impressive sanitation systems compared to other civilizations, but this did little more than help people smell better. Based on 2,000-year-old fecal matter found at several historical sights, it was determined that parasites were even worse in those alive in the Roman period compared to earlier, supposedly less sanitary, periods of history like the Bronze Age or the Iron Age. While most Romans had access to clean food and drink, it was their bath water which was at fault for parasitic infestations: The water was kept lukewarm and rarely changed, which would have been a perfect breeding ground for parasites of all kinds....
10 The Escape Of Theodore Cole And Ralph Roe Plenty of people are familiar with the June 1962 escape of inmates John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris from the infamous prison on Alcatraz Island. The three men are commonly thought to have been the only inmates who ever successfully escaped the prison. However, two earlier inmates might have beaten Morris and the Anglin brothers by 25 years. Theodore Cole (left) and Ralph Roe (right) were a pair of 20-something men who had come to Alcatraz in October 1935....
Erg Chebbi is found in the Moroccan Sahara. It is a stunning display of wind-blown sand dunes that transport you to another world. They stretch for 22 kilometres and some of the dunes are as tall as 150 meters. The sands are believed to heal bodily pains so Moroccans visit each year to bury themselves neck deep in the hot sands. Everyone knows about the Grand Canyon but I will wager that most outside of the US are not familiar with Bryce Canyon – an equally stunning array of natural amphitheatres (not canyons despite its name)....
10A British-Confederate Team-Up Against The Union During the Civil War, the Union very nearly got into an armed confrontation with the British, thanks to one over-eager soldier. Charles Wilkes—a captain of the Union Navy—intercepted and detained two Confederate diplomats aboard the British ship, Trent. The diplomats were on their way to Britain in order to secure an alliance with the British. News of the capture made Wilkes a hero in the Union....
10 They’re Called ‘Drones’ Almost everyone refers to a military Unmanned Aerial Vehicle/System (UAV/S) as a drone, but that is a misnomer which is insulting to their pilots. (Yes, they have pilots.) The word “drone” is most often associated with a low humming sound, which is one of the reasons that male bees are called drones. Using the word “drone” to describe the complex systems put in place on today’s battlefields can be incongruous with military jargon and insulting to the operators....
