The Murder of James Bulger - Two 10-year-old boys abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger. They led him away while he and his mother were shopping. ( en.wikipedia.org )
I really don't recommend reading the details of what they did to James
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Kuru or laughing sickness - a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy which was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via cannibalism ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Body in the cylinder ( en.wikipedia.org )
Sawney Bean - a 16th century Scottish legendary figure, said to be have been the head of a 45-member (incestuous) clan that murdered and cannibalised over 1,000 people in 25 years ( en.wikipedia.org )
Also, they lived in a cave.
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Traumatic insemination - the mating practice in some species of invertebrates in which the male pierces the female's abdomen and injects his sperm through the wound into her abdominal cavity ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Portal - Australian avant-garde death metal band known for their complete anonymity, executioner costumes, and a chaotic sound that unsettles even fans of the genre ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Great Sheep Panic of 1888. The day tens of thousands sheep across Oxfordshire broke from their enclosures and scattered in terror. Nobody knows what scared them. ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Bunny Man ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Crypt of Civilization ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Gong farmer: The people whose job it was to remove human effluent from privies and cesspits in Tudor England. Operating at night to avoid the public, they were generally shunned. ( en.wikipedia.org )
One notable incident occurred in 1326, when a gong-farmer named Richard the Raker fell into a cesspit whose ceiling had rotted, and drowned while collecting feces....
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Elizabeth Sugrue ( en.wikipedia.org )
Holy Innocents' Cemetery - A medieval cemetery so overfilled, buildings were constructed around it, which were then filled with exhumed bones up to the rafters to make room for more bodies. ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Tarrare - Wikipedia ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
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Tasaday - 1971 discovery by the Associated Press of a Stone Age clan in the Philippines that was later revealed to be a hoax perpetrated by the Marcos regime ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Sleep and His Half-Brother Death ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Tiger parenting - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
Read it....
Carnac stones ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Peter Stumpp - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Florida School for Boys ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Anencephaly - Absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp that occurs during embryonic development ( en.wikipedia.org )
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The Hexham Heads were a pair of small stone heads, which became associated with alleged paranormal phenomena, and their exact origin is a point of controversy. ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Demon Cat (Washington, DC) ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Sednaya Prison - Nicknamed the "Human Slaughterhouse" is a military prison near Damascus in Syria operated by the Syrian government ( en.wikipedia.org )
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Norwegian rocket incident - Rocket launch by Norwegian and American scientists carrying equipment to study the aurora borealis that put Russian nuclear forces on high alert ( en.wikipedia.org )
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