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The 10 Most Infamous Cursed Movies of All Time

A list of troubled or "cursed" movies, looking at deaths, illnesses and mysteries surrounding some of the most infamous film productions of all time. A variety of films have been released that are thought to carry with them a "curse," due to the troubles faced by the cast and crew either during or immediately following the film's production. These incidents range from the tragic (as in the accident that cost "Superman" star Christopher Reeve the use of his legs) to the simply unfortunate (such as "Tower Heist" director Brett Ratner's use of a homophobic slur costing him a gig as Oscar producer.)

What are some of the most well known movie curses? Regardless of whether you believe these creepy stories about cursed films truly represent something supernatural - or if they are simply regrettable coincidences - nevertheless the existence of so many such productions is uncanny and fascinating.
The 10 Most Infamous Cursed Movies of All Time,

Poltergeist
How's this for a statistic: Four actors who appeared in "Poltergeist" films died within 6 years of the first movie's release. They include:

Dominique Dunne, who played Dana in the first movie, and died at age 22 after being murdered by her former boyfriend.

Julian Beck, the 60-year-old actor who played Henry Kane in "Poltergeist II: The Other Side," died in 1985 of stomach cancer. He had been diagnosed before he had accepted the role.

Will Sampson, 53 years old, played Taylor the medicine man in "Poltergeist II. He died as a result of post-operative kidney failure in 1987.

But most infamous and wrenching was the loss of young Heather O'Rourke, who starred as Carol Anne Freeling in all three "Poltergeist" films. In early 1987, O'Rourke was misdiagnosed with Crohn's Disease. During the course of being treated for this disease she did not have, O'Rourke became more ill and eventually suffered cardiac arrest. Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente Hospital, which had treated her for Crohn's rather than the actual condition - a bowel obstruction - that in part led to her death. The case was eventually settled out of court.
Rebel Without a Cause
"Rebel Without a Cause" introduced the world to a variety of young actors, many of whom would meet grim fates in the years following the film's release.

Most famously, the film's iconic star, James Dean, was killed while racing his Porsche 550 Spyder before the film’s release, at the age of 24. He would become one of the most recognizable and beloved actors of his generation, despite only ever making 3 films.

Dean’s co-star Natalie Wood, drowned amidst unusual circumstances in November of 1981. She and her husband, actor Robert Wagner, and their friend, the actor Christopher Walken, had gone to Catalina Island for a weekend, and were staying on the Wagners' yacht (The Splendour). Sometime during the night, it's thought that Wood awoke and attempted to get off of the boat, causing her to slip and fall, and eventually drown. (Her body was found floating face down nearby, wearing a jacket, nightgown and socks.) A witness from another yacht later recalled hearing Wood calling for help, only to be ignored by someone else on the boat. The death was deemed an accidental drowning, but suspicions of foul play have always surrounded the case, and Wood's sister Lana has made attempts to get the LA County Sheriff's Department to reopen the investigation.

Another "Rebel" actor, Sal Mineo, died five years before Wood, after being stabbed to death in an alley in West Hollywood, California. He was 37.

Finally, in a last bizarre twist on the "Rebel" curse story, Beverly Hills orthopedic surgeon Troy McHenry fitted his own car with parts from the Porsche Spyder in which James Dean had died. A year later, he too was killed, when his Porsche Spyder hit a tree.
Rosemary's Baby
Director Roman Polanski's deeply unsettling film about a pregnant woman who may be in the thrall of a cult of Satanists carries with it a number of unsettling stories from behind the scenes as well.

Most famously, one year after the movie's release, Polanski’s own wife - actress Sharon Tat - was murdered by the Manson Family. (Tate was eight months pregnant with the couple’s first child at the time.)

Additionally, the film's producer - William Castle - suffered from painful gallstones immediately following the film's production, eventually requiring a series of treatments and surgery. The film's composer, Krzysztof Komeda, was also impacted by the curse - he died suddenly from an accidental fall. Castle later wrote in his memoirs that it felt like the movie "Rosemary's Baby" was coming true in real life, and that the cast and crew were being stalked by witches.
Superman
Christopher Reeve played the titular hero in the '70s and '80s Superman franchise (including "Superman: The Movie" and three sequels.) The actor was paralyzed from the neck down after being thrown from his horse in a cross country riding event in 1995, and subsequently died in 2004 due to heart failure stemming from his medical condition. But Reeve isn't the only person involved in the "Superman" films to face personal struggles. Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane, suffered a bout of mental illness in 1996, and was found dazed and filthy, wandering the streets of Los Angeles. Richard Pryor, who appeared in "Superman III," died of multiple sclerosis only a few years later. Amazingly, this was not the only troubled retelling of the Superman story. George Reeves, who played the Man of Steel in the 1950s television program "Adventures of Superman," died at the age of 45 in 1959. The official finding was suicide, but some believe he was murdered or the victim of an accidental shooting.
The Conqueror
A seemingly surprising number of principals involved in the making of the John Wayne film "The Conqueror" succumbed to cancer in the years following the film's release. Director Dick Powell died of cancer less than 7 years after the movie's 1956 debut. Actor Pedro Armendáriz was diagnosed with terminal cancer in the early 1960s, filmed one last movie (the James Bond thriller "From Russia With Love") to leave his family with some funds, and then took his own life in 1963. Actress Agnes Moorehead died of cancer a decade later in 1974. Thereafter, BOTH principal stars - John Wayne and Susan Hayward - were diagnosed with the disease and died within 4 years of one another.

Combine this with the knowledge that above-ground atomic tests were run at Nevada's Yucca Flats - very near the area where the movie was shot, in Utah's Snow Canyon State Park - and it seems obvious what happened. The cast and crew were exposed to radiation while making the movie (a rather ridiculous take on the Genghis Khan story) and then proceeded to die from the disease. This theory has largely been dismissed as an urban legend in later years, as the deaths could likely be traced to either the unhealthy lifestyles of some of the afflicted or just to the typical proportion of people who eventually contract cancer during the course of their lives.
The Crow
"The Crow" starred Brandon Lee, son of the legendary martial arts star Bruce Lee, as an anti-hero who was murdered by gang members and then rose from the grave to seek revenge. Only 8 days before the film was scheduled to wrap production, Lee was killed after being accidentally shot in the abdomen. A metal tip from a dummy bullet had become lodged in a prop gun that was then fired at Lee, who died from his injury at 28.

The incident takes on creepy overtones when you consider the pedigree of Lee's father, Bruce, who died at the age of 32 from an acute cerebral edema due to a reaction to compounds present in the drug Equagesic. Bruce had also been filming a movie when he died, 1973's "Game of Death."

A variety of supernatural causes have been offered for the early demise of both father and son. Many of these legends are tied to an early recollection of Bruce's, which he describes as seeing a ghost - looking like a black shadow - which held him down and would refuse to release him. It's said that, when Bruce Lee's father died at the age of 64, Bruce himself had a premonition that he would only live to half his dad's age, 32 years. Some have also speculated that Bruce, and possibly even his son, may have been a target of organized crime. (Brandon himself had allegedly believed that there was a "curse" on his family, which may have related to an incident when his grandfather became a target for shady Chinese businessmen.)
The Passion of the Christ
Mel Gibson's retelling of the Biblical story of Christ's death faced numerous challenges while filming, and they weren't even related to the infamous director's run-ins with the law.

Star Jim Caviezel, who starred in the film as Jesus, suffered numerous injuries during the production, including being struck by lightning during filming (witnesses reported seeing actual smoke rising from his head), dislocating his shoulder while carrying the crucifix, and having a portion of his flesh ripped off accidentally while being fake-whipped.

The film's assistant director, Jan Michelini, was also struck by lightning - TWICE - on the movie's set. John Debney, who wrote the score for the film, has referred to the job as the most difficult assignment of his life, and claims that he closely felt the presence of Satan in his studio while working on the film.

The film's release also brought with it a slew of tragedies. On the movie's opening day, actor Carl Anderson - who played Judas in the film "Jesus Christ Superstar" - died following a prolonged fight with leukemia. As well, Kansas advertising sales manager Peggy Scott, died after suffering heart failure during the film's brutal crucifixion scene.
The Wizard of Oz
Actress Judy Garland became a cinematic icon after playing Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz," but her personal life nevertheless proved rocky in the years after the film, including four divorces, a string of infamous insecurities and neurosis, financial instability and addiction struggles. She died of an accidental overdose of barbiturates at age 47.

And problems for the "Wizard" cast didn't stop there. Four months after the movie was released, Frank Morgan, who played The Wizard himself, was involved in a serious car accident. Though he was left largely uninjured, his wife Alma suffered a crippling knee injury that would plague her for the rest of her life, and his chauffeur was killed. Morgan died in 1949, never seeing the film become a staple of television and an all-time childhood favorite.

Finally, both Uncle Henry and Auntie Em met with bad luck following "Oz." Charley Grapewin - who played Henry - died in 1956, just before the film debuted for the first time on television (where it would become a staple.) Clara Blandick, who played Autnie Em, committed suicide at the age of 81 by taking an overdose of sleeping pills and putting a plastic bag over her head.

SO troubled was the production of "Wizard," there were a number of notable accidents on set while the film was being made. Several actors playing flying monkeys would accidentally break the wires holding them up and come crashing down to the set (though thankfully a net had been placed there to prevent grievous injury.) As well, the actress playing the Wicked Witch of the West - Margaret Hamilton - was badly burned while filming a scene in which she explodes into flames. When Hamilton took time off to recover, a stand-in tried to replicate the stunt in her stead... only to be burned in the same fashion while filming the same scene.
The Omen
"The Omen" is a film about a couple raising a child that may in fact be the son of the Devil. (Shades of "Rosemary's Baby"!) So it's only natural that there would be some superstitious rumblings around the production to begin with. But the making of "The Omen" really was surrounded on all sides by tragedy.

Two months before filming was due to begin on the film, star Gregory Peck's son committed suicide. Later that year, when Peck was flying to London to make the movie, his plane was struck by lightening. As if that weren't enough? A few weeks later, executive producer Mace Neufeld was flying to London and his plane was ALSO struck by lightening. (I thought that wasn't supposed to strike twice!)

Neufeld's hotel was later bombed by the IRA, as was a restaurant where a number of the cast and crew were planning to dine. A tiger handler on the site was killed in a freak accident. Another plane hired to do aerial work on the film ended up crashing while working on another production, killing everyone on board.

Even after the film was finished, strange troubles and tragedies seemed to abound. Eight months after working on the film, special effects consultant and designer John Richardson suffered injuries in a head-on car collision in Holland that killed his assistant, Liz Moore. A road sign by the crash read: Ommen, 66.6 km. Richardson was in Holland working on the war film "A Bridge Too Far," along with a colleague from the set of "The Omen," stuntman Alf Joint. While performing a standard stunt on "A Bridge Too Far," jumping off of a rooftop into a large inflatable cushion below, Joint slipped awkwardly and was badly hurt. He later told friends he felt like he had been pushed.

Rumors of the curse of the "Omen" have abounded for years, and director Richard Donner, Neufeld and others associated with the film eventually spoke in interviews about the superstitions. Actor Harvey Stevens - who played young Damien in the movie - and Gregory Peck both refused to speak about the curse for the remainder of their careers.
Tower Heist
"Tower Heist," originally conceived by star Eddie Murphy as an African-American nod to the "Ocean's Eleven" films, opened in November to a disappointing first weekend (especially considering the all-star cast.) But the film's string of disappointments went beyond the financials.

The film's director, Brett Ratner, lost his job as producer of the forthcoming Oscar telecast just days after the film opened. (While promoting "Tower Heist" at a Q&A session, Ratner stated that he felt "rehearsals are for f*gs," and the ensuing controversy over his use of the homophobic slur led to his resignation from the Academy Awards show.)

Far more tragically, rapper Heavy D, who had a cameo in "Tower Heist," was found dead in his driveway only 5 days after the the movie was released.

There are some truly unsettling stories of weird things founds in walls out there. Just try Googling "stuff found in walls" some time, and brace yourself for a rather gnarly trip down the rabbit hole. Or better yet, stick around and read this curated list of some of the creepiest, most horrifying, and downright weird things discovered hidden behind walls.
13 Horrifying Things Found Inside Walls,

A Live Korean Missile
While remodeling his bathroom in April 2011, a St. Francis, Wisconsin, resident discovered a 20-inch-long Korean missile with a 5-inch explosive head inside his wall. He and his wife carried the missile outside and phoned the police. The bomb squad was then brought in to detonate the bomb. Neighbors told the couple the previous owner had served in both World War II and the Korean War, and liked to bring souvenirs home. How the missile ended up inside the bathroom wall, and why it was live, will likely never be known.
A Murder Victim
The body of a woman missing for 28 years was discovered behind a false wall in the basement of a Poughkeepsie, New York, home in July 2013. Her hands were bound and her body was concealed both inside a plastic bag and a plastic container. Her husband had reported her missing back in 1985, but he could not be questioned, as he had died in December of 2013, several months before the discovery of his wife's body. Even so, it is likely the husband, in fact, murdered her.
All the Snakes
An expecting Idaho couple moved into their dream house in September 2009. That dream soon turned to a nightmare when the Sessions realized their house sat on top of a poisonous snake den, which allowed the slithery serpents access to their walls. Amber Sessions described the experience as "living in Satan's Lair."
A Secret Corridor Contaminated with Toxic Black Mold
In November 2011, after moving aside an old bookcase in their new home, the Brown family of Greenville, South Carolina, discovered a secret corridor. Hoping for perhaps buried treasure, the couple instead found a note inside. It read: "You Found It! Hello. If you’re reading this, then you found the secret room. I owned this house for a short while and it was discovered to have a serious mold problem. One that actually made my children very sick to the point that we had to move out..." The note went on to invite the new homeowners to get in touch with the man who wrote the note, which the Browns did. However, history did repeat itself, as the house and its mold problem made them sick as well, forcing them to leave. Fortunately, the family was able to get their money back.

Mummified Babies
Numerous instances of mummified infants turning up inside people's walls have been recorded. In one case from July 2007, while renovating a house, contractor Bob Klinghorn discovered the corpse of a baby wrapped in a local Toronto publication dating back to September 1925. The infant appeared to be roughly four months old.
Mummified Cats
Far more morbid practices than witch's bottles were implemented during the 17th century to protect homes from evil spirits. Namely, some builders would seal a live cat into the walls of a home, perhaps because of the feline's association with witches. One such notable discovery occurred in December 2011, when construction workers came upon the unfortunate kitty while performing routine maintenance on Pendle Hill in Lancashire - a spot, incidentally, notorious for its witchcraft-related happenings.
An Entire Arsenal, Plus Pre-1980s Pennies
Not much detail on where and when this occurred, but a man renovating his new home made a rather shocking discovery: a hidden room behind the stairwell of the basement. What was in the room? Pretty much an entire arsenal of guns, bullets, a dummy grenade, and a safe, which the homeowner could not open. He also found a metal crate full of pre-1980s pennies, meaning the previous homeowner was likely stockpiling for a collapse of the U.S. government. Pennies made before the 1980s are forged from actual copper, meaning they would be a highly-sought-after commodity if the dollar were to lose its value.
Witch's Bottles

It was once a common practice to store witch's bottles within the walls of one's house to ward off a witch's curse. These bottles typically contained the urine, fingernail clippings, and hair of an individual, as well as nails, brimstone, and a scrap of leather or cloth cut into the shape of a heart with a pin punctured through the middle. The bottles were believed to lure negative energy away from the person and into the bottle instead. While numerous witch's bottles have been unearthed, their seals have almost always been broken, leaving their contents eroded over time. However, in June 2004, a 17th century bottle with its contents still intact was unearthed in Greenwich, London. It was the most complete witch's bottle ever discovered, and it gave tremendous insight into superstitions and practices of the era.

Human Bones
While preparing for renovations in the old Holden Chapel at Harvard University, contractors discovered several human bones in July 1999. At first, it was thought a possible murder mystery had been uncovered, but it turned out the bones were likely remains from the chapel's stint as an anatomy and dissection lecture spot. Some of the bones even had metal pieces lodged in their ends, suggesting the bones might have been someone's scrapped medical skeleton project.
Hanging Little Green Army Men
From a redditor whose username has been deleted: "My dad found a bunch of green army men tied up hanging in his wall. They were doing renovations and decided to knock down a wall. Underneath the plaster, in the space between the two plaster pieces, there were dozens, dozens of green army men, tied around their necks with string hanging down. "Bonus: In the backyard they found several buried doll heads. Old ones too, they were porcelain. Not all the dolls, just the heads."

22 Hotel Workers Describe The Creepiest Things They

Just about everyone has a creepy, scary, or horrifying hotel story, but if you ask the average hotel worker (night audit clerks, housekeeping staff, managers, etc.) you'll likely hear stories beyond your wildest imagination. As proof, consider these 22 tales from hotel workers around the world. You won't be the same afterwards.
22 Hotel Workers Describe The Creepiest Things They've Seen,

A Most Strange Guest

"I've come to realize (through my two years as a night auditor) that the things that shake you the most are not the weird noises you hear or the overwhelming feelings of loneliness at 3 AM. The stuff that really gets to you simply being things that your guests do.

"There have been a few good incidents that have shaken me a bit over my tenure. An intoxicated man waving his gun around at 3 AM, a woman having a schizophrenic breakdown in a room and having a violent dispute with herself, and a man wandering the halls talking to himself for hours on end.

"For the sake of the thread though, I can remember one that struck me as extremely odd. One night a few hours after I had arrived for my shift, a guest kept coming down and aimlessly wandering around the lobby and breakfast area. He was doing extremely odd things like talking to himself and sitting down at a breakfast table only to stand up and switch chairs at the same table every 2-3 minutes. Every time I asked him if he needed help, he would jerk a little and mumble that he didn't need anything.

"Well a few hours or so after he finally went to his room, he came back down and said he had turned the heater on and it made him short of breath, and needed me to call an ambulance. So even though I was confused, I obliged. About a minute later, the hotels fire alarms started to go off. The whole time the firemen were going up and down from his room, they kept asking if he had anyone with him or if he was alone, and I kept telling them that he was in fact alone and had no other guests in the room with him.

"After the firemen left and everything was back to 'normal,' I went to look in the man's room. He had rearranged all of the furniture, put the TV in the bathroom, and had put his trashcan in the middle of the room and set it on fire. The thing that troubled me wasnt the fact hat the man intentionally set his room on fire, and could have possibly burned the hotel down, it was the fact that, even though he was alone, he had small children's clothes spread around the room."

Unusual Clean-Up Request

"Worked in a motel when I was 17-18 years-old. I was at the front desk not working when the housekeeping guy called me to check something out in a room that was being cleaned. I go up there and the housekeeping guy is standing in the middle of the room, pointing up to the ceiling.

"There was a set of bare foot prints on the ceiling, which is at least teen feet high. Bare. Not shoes or slippers, and only in the middle and no where else. There's no way he jumped that high upside down and left no prints on the walls either.

"Also he left a single bullet on the bed."

Mr. M

"Excuse me for not being an amazing storyteller, but this is definitely a true story. Not me specifically, but my mother used to work at a hotel in Washington D.C. back in the 90s as a housekeeper/maid. She needed money because she was a refugee from Vietnam. Even though she didn't know much English at the time, she knew enough to get by at her job and all the other staff and hotel guests loved her because of how sweet she was. Because of this, anytime high profile guests (such as the Backstreet Boys) would stay at the hotel, the manager always sent my mom to clean the room since she was good at it.

"Anyway, one day, a guest came. We'll refer to him as Mr. M because I don't know his real name. He checked in to their most expensive suite. As usual, the manager told my mom to take care of his room. As she got there, there was a 'do not disturb' sign, so she told the manager she would come back later. What was weird was that no one was ever allowed in his room. The man stayed there for over a month, and not one time did he let a staff come in to clean. However, he paid a lot and he gave a warm welcome every time he passed a staff member/housekeeper, so no one payed him any attention. Then one day, people didn't see him anymore, so they assumed he checked out, even though the receptionist had no account of this. Since it had been so long since the room was cleaned and the 'Do not disturb' sign wasn't on the door anymore, the manager told my mom to go check it out and try to clean up what she could. As she got to the floor and unlocked the door to the room, a disturbing smell hit her. She couldn't figure out what it was, but she continued to survey the room, which was disgustingly messy. Her words were that, 'it looked like someone had thrown a rave,' even though no other guests seemed to have ever gone into the room besides Mr. M. It had looked like Mr. M had deserted the place without telling anyone. My mom was still shocked by the smell, so she tried to track it down. As she followed the smell, she could tell it was coming from the hotel room closet. When she opened the closet, there was nothing but a cardboard box on the ground from which the smell was resonatin. My mother's first instinct was to open the box to see what it was and clean/throw it out. When she opened the box, what she saw scarred her to this day. It was the rotting/decomposing head of a young woman, chopped off. My mother immediately screamed and got out of there, where she fainted in the elevator. Once she woke up, cops were everywhere and the hotel was like a CSI scene. The manager told her that Mr. M wasn't his real name and he used a fake credit card to check in. The head of the woman was identified to be like a call girl/prostitute-type person. I don't know much more or any nitty gritty details, but i'm sure one can look it up on the internet for more information. Needless to say, my mom quit that day."

Awful Night on the Job

"Hotel bartender here. Started a few months ago at a more upscale place. It was a quiet evening and a distraught-looking guy came to the bar and ordered a shot and a beer. I was catching some fucked-up vibes.

"To lighten the mood, I tried to drum up some light hearted conversation. He tried to talk but couldn't. So I asked him if everything was alright.

"He said no. I asked, 'What's wrong. Anything I can do to help? How about a plate of some food. On the house, buddy.'

"He declines, proceeded to tell me the escort he hired slit her wrists and is dead in his room's bathtub.

"I jumped back and was like, holy shit I'm calling 911. After calling 911, I ran back to the bar to find the man slumped on the bar not moving. I run over to check on him, and his pulse is weak and he is pale and cold.

"After, the police and medics arrive and cleaned up the mess. Dead hooker and dead depressed business man. There was the man's suicide note found in the room by another guest a few days later (yup a few days) that said he wanted to feel a woman's touch one more time before overdosing on something that killed him at my bar.

"Fucked up. I got a week off work to deal with it, and was shocked when I came back to find everything normal, like nothing happened."

Inaction is an Action

"Worked as a chef for a Hilton. Remember speaking with one of the managers of a different downtown hotel, very high end, and he told me this story:

"Manager was on his way out of the hotel after working one evening and saw a homeless guy a ways out sleeping on the lawn. He decided to walk back in and tell the front desk employees to try and get him off property.

"Came back in for work the next morning and saw the same homeless guy still sleeping on the lawn, so he ran in to chew out the front desk manager about how the employees didn't do as he asked. They both walked out to get the bum to leave and they found the bum was wearing a nice suit coat.

"Turns out it was a wealthy business man who had jumped off the 12th story balcony and had just been dead there all night and half the day. Turns out no one saw him fall.

"Sad story actually."

Holiday Inn Ghosts

"I worked at a Holiday Inn years ago and only can recall a few weird cases.

"One was that every now and then we would get complaints that a young girl was screaming in the pool area. When checking it out, you would find that nobody was around. . . . Management reported that a young girl drowned in the pool years earlier.

"One night, I was working the front desk and received a call from a room complaining that the room above them was stomping around and being noisy. Nobody was checked into that room and nobody was there when I checked it out. . . . Guess a wife killed her husband in the room. Also, after the murder the room was turned into storage, and despite it being empty, the front desk would get random calls from that room.

"I'm sure all of it is explainable but shit was weird to me"

The Freezing Bathroom

"I used to work in a hotel in Southern California, doing security. Every night we would get a print out of what rooms were vacant. It was my job to go through all the rooms, ensure all lights are off and all windows are secure. I went into a room and found all the lights on, typical of housekeeping after they clean. I started turning the lights off from the left side of the room, around to the windows and up to the bathroom. The bathroom has French style doors that open outward toward the room. The doors themselves have only hinges and two handles to pull them open, no other devices attached. The doors are also the very light-weight slatted wood.

"Anyway I opened the left door out all the way so I could reach around it and turn the light off in the bathroom. After turning the light off I realized it was freezing in the room, which is not uncommon being housekeeping liked it cold when they worked on a room. I reached up for the thermostat and when my hand was within four inches of it, the left bathroom door I just opened slammed shut. Terrified, I ran out of the room immediately. While pulling the door shut behind me the door deadbolt pushed itself out of the lock and it slammed into the door frame. I was petrified when I had to reach inside the door to disengaged it. I stood there for a minute or two with my eyes watering, wondering WTF just happened. I decided to go back in and look to be sure of what happened. I went in and looked at the door, it was shut. I moved it around to see if it would close on it's own, which it wouldn't. I tried throwing the door to slam it and the door is so light weight it caught a lot of air and wouldn't even shut all the way after throwing it closed. As far as I could see it, there isn't any explanation for what happened. I stopped going into that room."

Shadow Figure

"I used to work in my aunt and uncle's hotel in a Scottish village about twelve years ago, and the freakiest shit that happened to me was one night when I was sleeping in the staff quarters and heard a banging noise from along the corridor. This was about 3 AM after most of the staff had gone to bed. I got up to go and tell whoever was coming in late to shut the fuck up so I could go back to sleep, but the corridor was empty. Well lit I have to add, this is key.

"So I walk down the end of the corridor to see if it's folk coming up the stairs drunk or whatever. I look down to see a figure stomping up the stairs. The only way I can describe it is as though a shadow of a person that was solid. There were no features on the face or clothes on its body. Imagine someone in a black morph suit walking along but you could see things through them.

"I turned and ran back to my room and shut the door. I could still hear the stomping for some time, and I don't think I got a wink of sleep at all that night. I didn't leave my room until the sun was shining through my window. I asked a few of the other staff if they heard the banging the night before, but nobody else had, and like fuck was I gonna mention seeing shadow men coming up the stairs at 3 AM."

Packed Lift
"Got into a lift from the top floor to head down. Lift stopped at fourth floor, door opened, saw people outside standing still, making no attempt to come in despite me being alone inside and there was room for them. The automatic lift door then closed and before it was completely shut, I heard someone outside said 'Why is the lift so full of people?'"
Seeing Doubles
"Not my story, but I am involved in a way. Several years ago, my college roommate, let's call her E, worked as the night manager for a newly-built hotel. As was par for the course, I would often bring coffee in around 1 to 2 AM and chat for awhile. One night, I showed up to my find E sitting at the front desk shaking her head looking completely perplexed. Allegedly, she had just checked-in what could only be described as the doppelgänger of our other roommate, M, who was alike down to the same height, hair style, eye color and southern accent (odd as we live in the north). E tried to speak with the new guest and show her a picture of M on her phone, but was rebuffed several times. We both chalked it up to coincidence, as we knew M was visiting her parents, and we went on to enjoy our coffee. Shortly after 2, I decided to head home. It wasn't until a around 2:30 when I pulled into our garage, that I checked my phone to see a series of texts from E to M and me at 2:17 AM. 'Stop...' 'Not funny' 'You guys suck' 'What the hell'. Naturally I was confused and called her back. This is when things got weird, and E sounded hysterical on the phone. Apparently M and I, in the same clothes I wore earlier, had been standing at the end of the main hallway, staring at her. E thought this was a joke and kept calling out to no response. Eventually the front desk phone rang, and in the time it took to answer it, we both had disappeared. I calmed her down over the phone, and the next morning we talked through the possibilities, trying to rationalize what she 'saw.' The guest who looked like M did come back to the front desk later that morning to inquire about some services, and much to E's surprise, looked only vaguely similar to our roommate. The only thing that scares me to this day, and that I never told, her is that when I got into our house, the kitchen clock was stuck on 2:17, and directly next to it sat a photo of M and I smiling that I had only developed that afternoon. Still no explanations and nothing ever weird happened at the hotel again, but it still makes me uneasy to this day."

Real Stories of How Famous Actors Were "Discovered"

Show business is cutthroat. Millions of ingénues work their way out to Hollywood in order make it in the entertainment industry only to suffer rejection after rejection. But some people are lucky and get discovered totally by chance. Maybe they were simply eating a slice of pizza (Natalie Portman) or just getting out of a cab one day (Tippi Hedren). Here are 15 real stories of famous actors and how they were discovered.

These stories of famous actors who got discovered may have happened by sheer chance, but let’s face it, most of the actors on this list have not only been blessed with amazing looks, but they also have that star quality power that draws attention. Who could walk by a young Ashton Kutcher and not think he could have a successful modeling career? Wes Craven took one look at Johnny Depp and asked him to audition for A Nightmare on Elm Street. Alfred Hitchcock saw Tippi Hedren in an ad for diet soda and knew that he had his Grace Kelly replacement.

Of course, it takes a lot of work and dedication to stay at the top. Many of these stars have had long-lasting, award-winning careers in Hollywood. What’s your favorite story of how actors got discovered? Let us know in the comments section below.
Real Stories of How Famous Actors Were "Discovered",

Ashton Kutcher
Iowa-born Ashton Kutcher was studying engineering at the University of Iowa in 1996. While out at a bar one night, he was spotted by a talent agent who talked him into entering the Fresh Faces of Iowa modeling competition. The ever-handsome Kutcher won first place. He then dropped out of college to go to New York to enter the International Modeling and Talent Association competition.

Interestingly, Kutcher lost the big modeling competition to Josh Duhamel. However, Kutcher went on to appear in ads for Calvin Klein and Versace. Kutcher eventually packed his bags and headed to Hollywood to pursue acting. He landed the role as Michael Kelso on That '70s Show in 1998. It was his first audition.
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron moved from South Africa to Hollywood when she was just 18 years old. She was on the verge of running out of cash and living in a sketchy hotel room when she was discovered at a bank. Actually, she was discovered at a bank while yelling at a teller because he wouldn't cash her paycheck. Apparently, it was a do-or-die situation for Theron.

She explained the ordeal during an interview with O Magazine, "I’m like, ‘It’s survival, people.’ If I didn’t cash that check, I wouldn’t have had a place to sleep that night. I said to the teller, ‘You don’t understand—please!’ I was begging and pleading, and a gentleman came over and tried to help. I had to fill out a ton of paperwork and open an account, and I cashed the check.”

Not only did the Oscar-winning actress cash her check, she also got discovered by a talent agent who was also at the bank. Theron scored her first feature film acting gig just a few months later in Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest in 1995.

Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Pompeo was working as a bartender at the SoHo Kitchen Bar & Grille in New York City in the mid-1990s. A casting agent saw her and signed Pompeo to an advertising campaign with L'Oreal. She soon appeared in minor television roles, including Law & Order and Friends. Film parts followed, and Pompeo made a memorable turn as Jake Gyllenhaal's love interest in Moonlight Mile and as Luke Wilson's love interest in the hit comedy Old School. Major breakout success eluded Pompeo until 2005 when she was cast as Meredith Grey, the titular doctor in the long-running ABC drama Grey's Anatomy.

Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford moved out to Hollywood to become an actor but quickly grew frustrated because of his lack of success. He taught himself carpentry in order to earn a living and support his family. Ford landed a small gig in George Lucas's American Graffiti (1973). However, success did not come quickly to Ford, who still had to do carpentry to make ends meet.

Then, Lucas spotted the 35-year-old doing woodwork at a movie studio while the director was conducting auditions for his new movie Star Wars. Lucas remembered Ford from his small role in American Graffiti and asked the actor to audition for the part of Han Solo. Once Ford landed the iconic gig, he no longer had to work in carpentry.

Jennifer Lawrence
Jennifer Lawrence is still years away from being 30, but it seems like the Academy Award-winning actress has been at the top of her game forever. The Kentucky native was vacationing in New York when a talent agent spotted the 12-year-old walking around Union Square. Lawrence quickly got work as a teen model before making her television debut on Monk in 2006. The Hunger Games heroine received her first Oscar nomination for her acclaimed performance in the indie drama Winter's Bone in 2010.

Johnny Depp
Note to Jackie Earle Haley: don't allow someone as hot as Johnny Depp to tag along with you for a movie audition. Haley planned to try out for Wes Craven's original A Nightmare on Elm Street. Depp did not have any plans for the day and accompanied his pal Haley to the set. Haley did not get the part, but Craven spotted Depp hanging around and asked him to audition. The future Jack Sparrow landed the role as Glen and made his feature film debut in 1984. Depp's Glen has one of the most famous kill scenes in horror movie history.

Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson was just being a good pal by giving a friend a ride to an audition. The Australian had been in a bar fight the night before and had bruises and cuts all over his face. His condition caught the eye of director George Miller, who thought that Gibson would be a good fit for one of the "offbeat or villainous" background roles in his post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie Mad Max. When Gibson returned to the set a few weeks later, Miller took one look at the bruise-free, extremely handsome Aussie, and decided to give him the lead role.

Natalie Portman
Neta-Lee Hershlag (Natalie Portman) was just being a normal 11-year-old gal, eating a slice of pizza on Long Island when a rep from Revlon spotted her. Portman told the rep that she didn't want to be a model but did want to get into acting. Portman spent a few summers honing her acting chops by working in theater productions. In 1993, she auditioned for the part of Mathilda Lando in Luc Besson's Léon: The Professional. The actress was turned away at first for being too young for the part. However, after a few more auditions, Besson cast the future Academy Award-winner for the role of a hitman in training.

Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson was working as a fitness instructor in 1989. While living in Vancouver, British Columbia, she attended a B.C. Lions football game wearing a Labatt Blue t-shirt. The sexy Anderson was put up on the stadium's Jumbotron, and the crowd cheered so enthusiastically that she was brought down to the football field for a standing ovation.

The Labatt company heard about the uproar and hired the future Playboy playmate as a "Blue Zone Girl" spokesmodel. After modeling in Playboy, Anderson began focusing on acting and she received small parts on several TV shows. Her big breakthrough came as "Tool Time Girl" Lisa on Home Improvement. Then, in 1992, Anderson got the role that would define her career, beautiful blonde bombshell C.J. Parker on Baywatch.

Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson was hanging out on her front porch with some friends when a photographer and screenwriter were walking by and spotted the 15-year-old. They told Dawson about a film they were working on and told her to come audition. Even with no acting experience, Dawson landed the part of Ruby in the controversial and extremely disturbing indie film Kids (1995). Dawson's Ruby was a promiscuous teenager in the edgy drama about a day in the life of carelessly sexually active, drug-taking teens in New York.

15 Times the World Was Almost Completely Destroyed

These 15 times the world almost ended will shock you to the core, though they thankfully, but narrowly, missed the Earth's core. Armageddon was almost a real-life event both in the olden days of yore and in the 21st century. These near apocalypses, whether due to mechanical failures, miscommunications, natural disasters, and barely avoided cosmic and nuclear events, almost ruined everyone's day at some point in the history of the Earth.

Remember how the Mayan calendar supposedly indicated that the apocalypse was headed for us in 2012? Well, they weren't that far off. As it turns out, a solar superstorm in the summer of 2012 narrowly missed blasting planet Earth. That would've sucked. And that's just one of the many times humanity and all of Earth's creatures have escaped extinction at the last second.

In fact, our planet is no stranger to "the end is near" concerns or real apocalypses, and it wasn't just Y2K. The Black Plague possibly killed as many as 200 million human beings, and you don't even want to hear the numbers when it comes to the Spanish Flu pandemic (that bad boy hit in the early 1900s). From comets, to volcanoes, to accidentally announcing nuclear war and setting off rockets, these are the times that the End of Days was almost just around the corner.
15 Times the World Was Almost Completely Destroyed,

Cuban Missile Crises
The closest we ever came to completely annihilating human existence came during a combination of missteps in 1962. On October 25, an American air base guard activated the wrong alarm, which signaled WWIII from Wisconsin. The next day, America accidentally launched two missile tests in Russia because they had been scheduled before the Crisis began.
Simulation Confused With Reality
The movie War Games is a lot like what actually happened in 1979. The Pentagon thought 1,000 Soviet nukes were headed towards America when an Air Force officer checked out a simulation of exactly that. His computer happened to be hooked up to the mainframe in government control rooms, and the U.S. got ready to launch.
The Black Plague
One of the worst pandemics in the history of civilization, up to 200 million people were killed by the plague. The blame can likely be placed at the feet of Asian rat fleas and black rats that traveled with merchants. Not only was Europe's total population nearly cut in half, but the world population as a whole diminished substantially in the 14th century.
Spanish Flu
The 1918 influenza pandemic infected 500 million people and killed 3-5% of the entire globe's population. One of history's deadliest natural disasters killed 10-40% of those it infected and may have taken the lives of 25 million individuals over just 25 weeks. It topped the charts, killing more humans in one year than the Black Death in 100 years and killed more in 24 weeks than AIDS did in 24 years.
Yeltsin Almost Nukes America
The year was 1995 and the Cold War was over. But when Russia saw what looked exactly like a U.S. ballistic missile on its way, President Boris Yeltsin opened a briefcase with the nuclear codes for the first time. With ten minutes to figure out whether or not to nuke America, Yeltsin ultimately (and fortunately) got word that it was a science experiment he hadn't been warned about.
1950 Broken Arrow
"Broken Arrow" is a code name for a nuclear incident, which is exactly what happened in August of 1950. During the Korean War, a B-29 headed for Guam crashed at a California Air Base. The result? 5,000 pounds of explosives were detonated, 19 people died, and if the bomb had been armed with its fissile capsule, which thankfully it wasn't, potentially 100,000 people could have been killed.
1961 Faded Giant
Idaho Falls almost blew itself up when an SL-1 reactor went off and caused a nuclear disaster. Emergency officials could not go into the control room because of absurdly high radiation levels. When they did, they found three victims, one of whom was pinned to the ceiling and impaled by a control rod due to the explosion.
NORAD Says Armageddon Is Nigh
In the winter of 1971, a teletype operator stuffed the wrong tape into an alert system machine. So, instead of saying "this is only a test," it said that the president of the United States was about to broadcast an emergency alert. 45 terrifying minutes later, NORAD realized their error, but one radio DJ said they were considering billing the agency "for three sets of underwear."
2012 Solar Storm
In the summer of 2012, a massive cloud of hot plasma erupted from the sun and went through our planet's orbit. Had it happened a single week earlier, Earth would have had GPS errors, radio blackouts, and fried satellites. In fact, resulting power blackouts would have been so bad that most of us would have had trouble flushing the toilet.
Comet Hyakutake
The Great Comet of 1996 was great in size but the opposite of great in potential effect. It was the closest approach to Earth of any comet in the previous 200 years. Amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake saw it approaching us, leading astronomers to notice X-rays being emitted from a comet for the first time ever.

The Top 6 Real-Life Versions of Batman Villains

With Christopher Nolan’s hyper-realistic depiction of the Batman Universe, we can’t help but remember that certain villains in the Batman mythos bear a surprising similarity to certain real-life criminals. Below are some examples and they're pretty good. After all, would you ever expect a real-life Mr. Freeze? Not likely. Other villians, like Catwoman, would be a bit more believable, but either way, you wouldn't expect normal, rational people to commit ridiculous crimes, nonetheless replicating a fictional character, right? Well, stranger things have happened.

This list takes a look at all the real-life Batman criminals, or at least the wannabes.
The Top 6 Real-Life Versions of Batman Villains,

Batman Villain: The Riddler (And Cluemaster*)
*Because We're Grown Up Now and Can Stop Pretending Those Are Two Different People

Modus Operandi: Crazy people who obsessively leave riddles (or clues) at the scenes of their crimes. No one can ever figure these clues out except Batman (and anyone reading the comic who’s more than eight years old).

Real Life Villain: Rodney Alcala

What Happened?

Frankly, there’ve been a few serial killers who have adopted the Riddler and Cluemaster’s brilliant strategy – the most famous of which are Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer, who both sent multiple messages to the police daring them to catch them. Unlike their comic book counterparts, Jack and Zodiac were never caught, and they were more refined and brutal rather than silly and campy.

So instead of talking about them, let’s talk about Rodney Alcala: the Dating Game Killer, so named because he won a televised game show in the middle of his murder-spree.

Yes, we’re serious. Check out all the “riddles” and “clues” he leaves over the course of this video:

In case you can’t watch that, the choice quotes are “The best time is at night... because that’s the only time there is,” and, “I’m called the banana, and I look really good. Peel me!”

And in case that wasn’t enough, the guy actually won the competition, but Cheryl Bradshaw (the bachelorette) refused to go on a date with him because he was too “creepy” and “serial-killer-ish” (okay, we made that last one up). Still, you know she was thinking it – the other contestants reported that he freaked people out, and at this point he had already murdered at least one person.

Now, is it unfair for us to pull some quotes out of context from a TV Show that’s basically a sexual innuendo contest? Yes, that’s totally unfair. We’re being unfair to a convicted child murderer. We’ll do our best not to lose any sleep over it.
Batman Villain: Catwoman

Modus Operandi: Springing from creator Bob Kane’s hilariously sexist belief that “cats are as hard to understand as women are.... you have to keep them at arm’s length,” Catwoman is a cat burglar who dresses like a cat. She steals stuff, and she’s sexy enough to where male writers get anxious if they don’t mention how sexy she is every single goddamn time they bring her up.

Real Life Villain: Catwoman, seriously!

What Happened?

After a burglar made off with $86 from a high end shoe store in the East Village in New York City, this composite sketch made her something of an Internet celebrity.

And we don’t want to condone crime here, but if is this is a composite sketch of you, then we're going to say, Bravo! Because you’re Catwoman. And that's kinda awesome.
Batman Villain: The Mad Hatter

Modus Operandi: Jervis Tetch is probably one of the most reasonably crazy Batman villains out there, compared to “Ice to meet you!” and “I’m a murder clown!” thinking that Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland stories are real is pretty straightforward. He also uses a lot of mind-control stuff, since otherwise he’d pretty much just be a short dude in a hat.

Real Life Villain: Some Moldovan Dude!

What Happened?

Vladimir Kozak (fun fact: because comics got popular during the Cold War, every Eastern European name sounds like a comic book villain) was an alleged “hypnotist bank robber,” who managed to rob several banks in Eastern Europe’s poorest country using hypnosis techniques.

We should probably mention that none of his supposed “powers” were ever actually observed, and despite being a veritable God, he only managed to steal about $40,000 (enough for a pretty nice, but not too flashy, German car).

Also... like, really? And this has happened more than once? Well, you know what they say about Russia. (They say that they hypnotize bank tellers.)
Batman Villain: Mr. Freeze

Modus Operandi: “Ice” you might have guessed, Mr. Freeze has a “cool” theme that’s sure not to leave you “cold”: his usual strategy is to “shoot people with a cryogenic freeze ray until they die.” Presumably in utter agony. He also makes a lot cheesy puns.

Before becoming a villain, Mr. Freeze (real name “Victor Fries,” whose last name also sounds similar to the word for “very cold,” in case you didn't notice) was involved in an industrial accident that left him unable to survive outside of his cryo-suit, making him one of the few Batman villains to suffer from a crippling disability.

The Real Life Villain: Richard “Iceman” Kuklinski (Plus a couple of normal people)

What Happened?

As a contract killer working for the Decavalcante Crime family in the 1950’s and 60’s, “Iceman” practices murder by killing homeless people, eventually perfecting a strategy in which he would freeze the corpses of his victims for a length of time before thawing them out and disposing of the body – thereby misleading the authorities as to the time of death. Of course, this didn’t work at all, – but we guess the idea is kinda cool.

Of course, Kuklinski didn’t survive routinely at subzero temperatures like Freeze – but apparently that’s something people do. This Canadian girl was frozen solid for 24 hours when she was 2 years old, pronounced legally dead, and came back fine; and another guy survived being frozen in his car in Sweden for two months. Who'da thunk it?

No word on whether either of them plan on becoming super-villains – which means we’re forced to assume that they are.
Batman Villain: Harvey Two-Face Dent

Modus Operandi: As you can tell, Dent has a pretty noticeable defining trait – and it isn’t his personality. After being scarred by an acid attack in the courtroom (or having his face set on fire in an explosion, or whatever), “Two-Face” earned the horrific scarring that separated his face and personality into two distinct halves: the reasonable Harvey Dent and the psychopathic Two-Face.

Real Life Villain: Juan “Two-Face” Rivera-Velez

What Happened?
This “Two-Face” (yes, that’s his real nickname) was an enforcer for the Morales crime-family in Camden, New Jersey, and in 2009 was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for committing a whole bunch of murders.

Of course, Rivera Velez’s scars came from a car-crash, not a court-room acid attack, and didn’t play a role in his crimes (though it must’ve assisted in the all-important intimidation factor). And he was never a lawyer. So, basically, the guy is nothing like his namesake except for those scars.

But still! Look at those scars! And then remember that at one point he kicked down a door and said “I’m an enforcer!” That must’ve been awesome! Except then he murdered people, which probably wasn’t awesome. Man, it’s almost like the stuff that happens in comic books isn’t cool if you make it too realistic.
Batman Villain: The Penguin

Modus Operandi: Though non-comic-fans may only know Penguin as the sewer-dwelling psychopath from Tim Burton’s second film, the Penguin as originally conceived is a much classier brand of villain. Everything from the monocle to his weaponized umbrella scream I’m-so rich-I-laugh-in-the-face-of-practicality, meaning that Penguin is probably more similar to Batman than he is his fellow criminals. Whether holding up a bank or riding a dinosaur, Penguin is sure to find a way to use his umbrella for pretty much anything.

The Real Life Villain: An Unknown KGB Assassin

What Happened?

In 1978, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated in London by an umbrella specially modified to fire a poisoned dart. Despite the fact that he attempted a similar assassination just a few days later, the assassin was never caught. Several years of speculation and controversy ended when the Iron Curtain fell, and similar devices were discovered in KGB compounds.

After a little bit of thought, it doesn’t actually seem that weird of a weapon to choose. After all, it rains a lot in London, and who wants to carry around both an umbrella and a blowgun full of sarin? A poison-shooting umbrella is pretty much the Smart-Phone of international spy-work.

The biggest difference between the KGB assassin and Penguin is that the real-life version was never caught. After 30 years of investigation, police are still on the case – but since London is a little out of Batman’s jurisdiction, we don’t think it’s likely they’ll make much progress.

25 People Describe the Creepiest Person They Ever Met

Ever met someone that just gave you the absolute creeps? A person who cannot help behaving in ways even the weirdest of us find unsettling? These 25 Reddit users recount creeper stories that are likely familiar to most people - with a few tales that are so outlandish, they have to be true.
25 People Describe the Creepiest Person They Ever Met,

Amateur Photographer
"A guy I briefly dated in high school. At first I thought he was awkward and charming. But then I visited his bedroom and there were pictures of me sleeping attached to his ceiling."
Possibly Van Helsing?

"Not a single person has believed this story, but I swear on my life that it is true.

"A buddy and I were playing a large game of chess and enjoying some brew last fall at Balmer's hostel in Interlaken, Switzerland. About half way through our game, a man dressed in what looked like exquisitely hand-made and heavy black everything (boots, pants, shirt, trench coat, hat) with greasy, wavy, shoulder-length, jet black hair and beard sat down in a chair nearby, facing the board.

"Once in a while he would make a sort of 'hmm... interesting, I am amused' sound under his breath after a move. We attempted introducing ourselves to him several times, but he did not look away from the board and did not say a clearly intelligible word. Before we finished the game, he stood up and quickly left.

"That night, we were in the hostel's bar, which was underground and had a unique vibe. Almost like it had been a dungeon prior, but now had 2-for-1 drink specials of the local brew for several hours every night.

"It was around midnight when we both went out into the courtyard (near where the chess board was) and sat down at a table under an awning. It was raining.

"From the shadows on the far side of the courtyard, the same man walks confidently up to us and sits down. He was completely dry and had an indescribable, but not unpleasant scent about him. He begins regaling his tale in a low tone that was barely audible above the sound of rain falling on the cedar roof above us.

"I do have to paraphrase, as I had a nice buzz going, but remember the gist of his story. He was from a small country, not far from Switzerland, that no longer exists. He and his family had survived for 'millennia' there before being driven out. By Vampires.

"He said he came from a line of infamous slayers who held back the vampire onslaught, but just barely. In the mountains of his home country, his family did battle against the vampires, intentionally provoking their ire to hold their focus, sparing the world at large.

"He went on to say that after the latest battle, their fortress had been over-run. He was in the field, keeping an eye on one vampire in particular that they believed to be top-ranking. After the defenses fell, the vampire he had been watching began to flee. Our new friend had been following him for two months.

"At this point, my buddy and I were moments away from calling his bluff. I started to say, 'Really...' in that condescending, 'you are full of shit' way that people do, when he hushed me and turned his head, obviously in attempt to hear something. We heard only the rain. He then grabbed my arm. His hand was ice cold. He looked into my very soul and said, 'Get up. Get inside. Now.' That moment is still burned into my mind as the single most horrifying of my life. Words cannot describe the intensity and sincerity behind his words and expression. Before I could even think another thought, he stood, pulled a shotgun from beneath his trench coat and ran silently around the building to the locker area, which has only one entrance.

"I sat there frozen, mouth agape, while my friend stood and followed him. But he was already gone."

Horror Movie Lady

"In Miami at about 2 AM, walking back to the hotel, I spot a homeless woman holding a pair of scissors and cutting the hair of a small plastic toy doll (like a Barbie, but bigger). She was singing some kind of lullaby, completely entranced by the doll, when she started laughing and cutting the doll's head off. She had this kind of shrieking laughter mixed with crying, something out of a horror movie.

"Then she looked up and stared me straight in the eyes, her hands still cutting the doll's head and body. I was freaked the fuck out. If it wasn't for the alcohol in me, I probably would have peed myself."

Lobo
"My former roommate (28 year old DJ) had a best friend (male, late 50's) who went by the name 'Lobo'. I thought it odd that his best friend was so much older, but never really thought about why or how he got that name. Unfortunately, I found out when all kinds of creepy stuff started happening around the house. I'm talking real-life creepy here. Shadows and floating orb-like things would appear and disappear; uneasy feelings when walking by a particular bedroom door; my five year-old suddenly started having night-terrors; friends would stop talking and get creeped out whenever Lobo walked in the house, whether we actually saw him or not. Roommate would tell me things like he and Lobo would go out into the woods at night and burn things, like idols, to the one they worshipped. When he asked me one night if I'd ever read this certain book, I said, 'No'. So he got it for me to read when I had time. It was a black Satanic Bible. Those two could do weird things to people. I had a bad burn once from a popcorn popper on my arm. He asked about it, touched it, and within hours it was healed up. No scar. He finally freaked me the fuck out so bad I had to leave. I didn't tell him where I moved to. Four weeks after I'd moved in, I came home from work to find them sitting in my driveway. 'Just visiting,' they said."
Unnerving Co-Worker

"A creepy guy who works at my local Walmart was sitting and talking to me one day (I worked there too, at the time). He felt the need to confide in me that at one point in his youth he went to the house of his crush, crawled in her open window, and hid under her bed before she came home for the night. He stayed there until she came home, changed, and had fallen asleep. He just slipped right back out the window and into the night.

"My box spring has been on the floor ever since."

A Real Twisted Charmer

"I was hanging out with this boy for a bit, but then I realized he was crazy and not all there. (We were friends, before.)

"After a few months of hanging out with him, only slightly romantic, he started talking shit to me about the people I hung out with. So I stopped hanging out with him. I ignore him when he tries to talk to me and he stops. I did give him two more chances, because I did like him as a person, but those didn't last. He talked too much shit and never listened to me. Then I find out he went to rehab for me, because he thought he pushed me away by being an alcoholic.

"He comes back, thinking I'll be with him, now. I explain to him nicely that I'm seeing someone. He seems to understand, but then, one night, starts sending me awful texts about how I'm a cunt and how I ruined him. I'd always only been nice and never led him on.

"He blamed me for making him break his sobriety for the first time in two months. After that, he started calling me and texting me all the time. He'd call me 30 times a day, sometimes ten times in a row. He'd fill up my text inbox every day. He also texted my sister, as well. He'd send me creepy messages trying to show how well he knew me, because I think he thought it was endearing. Like 'Cute ass Violentlyshy mc-toast face with her cute little red shoesies.'(I like toast and wear red shoes?) And 'love you and your cute lil pointy shoes!' And then really awful messages like 'FUCK YOU I HOPE YOU DIE IN A FIRE' and threatening to kick the ass of every boy I knew. And just a lot of weird creepy messages. I asked him so many times to stop bothering me and my sister, but he'd be like, 'I'll never stop until you give me a chance.' I told him that him being insane when I was only ever civil is a HUGE indicator that I'd not be able to be with him.

"I finally had to pretend to delete my number (found a soundclip for disconnected service and recorded it as my voicemail and would just forward it whenever he called.) Then he started harassing my little sister, telling her how perfect I was and when she started being mean to him because he wouldn't leave her alone, *he said he hoped she got raped by 40 men.*

"He also emailed me all the time, and it was just insane how he could not understand how crazy he was. He even had a girlfriend and she knew about me, and tolerated him calling and texting me all the time. He found out I was going to a bar with some friends and showed up with her. They just sat in a corner, necking the whole time. But later texted my sister, 'Violentlyshy looked beautiful tonight.' And I tried telling his girlfriend to warn her, and she said, 'Duh. I was there when he texted that.'"

Predator on the Loose

"I was working retail and was approached by a very creepy customer. He just had this strange look, and wanted to be really close to me when he talked. I guess you could say I was lost in his eyes, but not in a good way.

"Nothing happened. I helped him find what he was looking for, and he was on his way. I just remember the encounter because something felt very off about him.

"That night on the news they did one of those announcements: 'A sexual predator has been release from prison and is in the area. Here is his photograph.' Same guy."

Real-Life Gorton's Fisherman
"When I was 12, my mom took me to San Francisco for a day. We were on some pier, and my mom left me alone as she went to the bathroom. A homeless man who looked exactly like the Gorton's Fisherman walked up to me with a bottle in hand. He gruffly grumbled, 'Eh, you're a little old for me, but you'll do...'"
Shane the Creep, and Bonus Brother Creep

"I was 13, hanging out with my friends all day, every day. At some point, this guy started hanging out with us. I don't know who he was friends with first, or where he came from - one day he was just there. His name was Shane. Shane looked a lot like David Schwimmer...if David Schwimmer had more acne than bare skin... and was the product of generations of inbreeding. Shane said he was 16. Shane started hitting on me pretty heavily. It got to the point where I couldn't hang out with my friends, because he was constantly there, and constantly saying gross things to me (telling dirty jokes about himself or describing himself sexually). What's worse, my friends kept trying to get me to accept his advances, because it wasn't like anyone else was interested in me :("

Then he became friends with my brother, and would come over to our apartment frequently. One night, I came home to find him sitting on our couch next to my mom. She said he'd said he was a friend of mine, and she was showing him baby pictures of me, class projects, etc.

So... it actually just stopped about as suddenly as it started. He just disappeared one day. That is when I found out that when he would be in our apartment with my brother, he would mostly ask my brother about me, and my brother frequently let him into my room. He went through all my papers, looking for some mention of him, apparently. He also broke into a locked book he thought was a diary.

Also, he was not actually 16. He told my brother he was 19. Right before he left, he changed the number again - to 26.

Mike the Coffeehouse Guy

"I knew a guy named Mike who ran a coffeehouse. It was a pretty hip place, kinda beatnik, live music, poetry readings, open mic nights. But something about him was just a little bit off. He stared at you too long when making eye contact, girls all hated him and were completely creeped out by him. He had long hair, a beard, and drove a van. Just kinda generally creepy.

"His favorite jokes were of the 'Whatcha doing later, Mike?' 'Cutting up hookers and shoving them in dumpsters' vein of humor.

"After about a year, he sold the coffeehouse to a friend, and I ended up managing it. Business picked up pretty quick after word got out that Mike wasn't around anymore. The place was really starting to turn a profit, everything was going great. Then he started hanging out every now and then, and being extra creepy. Leering at teenage girls, and just kinda being generally inappropriate. I asked him not to come back, and it got kinda ugly.

"Fast forward about four years, and I'm sitting on my couch, watching TV. The local news comes on, and his face pops up on screen. He had been arrested for raping and torturing three separate women. He was found behind a shopping center with a woman shackled in the back of his van, and he had been driving around all night tazering and raping her. He's currently serving three consecutive life sentences."

21 Insanely Creepy True Stories Most People Don

With internet access as it is today, it's easy to feel like you've heard it all. Scary stories? Know 'em all. The web is a plethora of all things creepy, so if you dig deep enough, you'll never run out of horror stories to haunt your ever-waking hour.

We sought out some of the creepiest, most horrific true stories that you've probably never heard of. Redditors served up some truly insane scary stories, guaranteeing you disrupted sleep for the foreseeable future.
21 Insanely Creepy True Stories Most People Don't Know About,

Edgar Allen Poe piece predicts shipwreck tragedy 50 years before it happened
"Edgar Allan Poe’s 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym' (1838) was about four shipwreck survivors stranded in a boat before they killed and ate a cabin boy - Richard Parker. In 1884, a boat was stranded with only four survivors. Three of the men killed and ate the cabin boy, also named Richard Parker."
Two 10-year-old boys abduct, torture, and murder a toddler
"The Jamie Bulger incident. Two young English boys at 10 years old took a little toddler out of the mall and to a railroad, where they tortured and assaulted him before bludgeoning him to death with rocks."
Russian soldiers during WWII force a German man to watch as his wife is raped by entire platoon
"It is in the German memoir 'Sniper on the Eastern Front'. It is March 1945, and the Germans have been pushed back by the Russians into Germany and Czechoslovakia. He was scouting some German village in the Sudetenland. A Russian platoon drove around, so he hid in a caved out building, so this lone sniper had a front row seat to the horror to what was to follow. The platoon was plundering the village until it ran into this German couple. The Russians then tied up the husband, and forced him to watch as the Russians, in order of ranking personnel, raped the wife. One. By. One. She was screaming in agony, fell in and out of consciousness, and was in so much pain. When the last Russian was finished with her, he shoved a flare gun up the woman's vagina, and fired it. The woman screamed out the most 'animalistic, brutal, and haunting scream' the German has ever heard, as the flare was slowly burning the woman's insides and blood/flare residue/flames were rushing out of her body, and then she slumped over dead. German reinforcements soon arrived, and killed/wounded the platoon. The husband went into his house, grabbed an object (I recall it was a shovel) and hacked the remaining wounded Russians on the ground until they were all dead. Some of the Germans tried stopping him, but the lone sniper held them back."
Couple find lost, soiled, children abandoned in the middle of the road
"I was with my wife and children driving to a local Walgreens, when my wife suddenly stopped the car and pointed into the street. I looked and saw two young children in the middle of the road in diapers, wandering around and looking confused. My wife ran out as I stayed in the car with my kids, picked up the smaller one and took the hand of the older one to walk them into the parking lot of the Walgreens. Up close I could tell that both diapers were horribly soiled (as in not changed in days). They were both dirty and smelled awful. It was a fairly cold and was raining some, so the children were very cold and shivering.

We immediately called the police and waited with the children until they arrived. The younger child was approximately two years old and as my wife comforted him, he just kind of laid there and looked happy to be getting attention. The older child was about four or five, and as I stated, was still in a diaper. He couldn't speak, and looked very frightened of anyone getting near him. He would grunt and whimper, but seemed to have no way to communicate at all. I had to gently keep him in the area as he was trying to run off, but finally got him to calm down by wrapping a warm blanket around him and humming to him.

The cops arrived after about 10-15 minutes, and took our statement of what happened. We told them our story, continuing to comfort the children until a team of paramedics got to the scene to make sure the kids didn't need medical attention for exposure, hypothermia, etc. After a while, maybe an hour after we had first found them, a strung out woman wandered on to the scene and says casually that the children are hers. She is obviously high, and tries claiming to the cops that the children were only gone for 5-10 minutes. The cop called her on her bullshit, and spent the next couple of minutes yelling, asking her how she could let her children wander a fairly busy street, almost naked, in the rain and cold.

A man who identifies himself as their dad arrived, shirtless and filthy, also strung out. The cop asked why the older boy was not speaking, and they said he never did, not elaborating why that was. When asked where they live, they told conflicting stories, obviously trying to lie to the cop to make it seem the children had not wandered far, but from what it seemed, they lived at least several blocks away. The mom tried to take the children but the police stepped in and told her that they were in police care now, and would be assessed by a CPS rep at the police station before they would be able to return home. Not long after this we were told we could go as they had gathered all they needed from us. I never found out what happened to those kids, I hope that they got the help they obviously needed. I am still bothered by the whole event, I wonder what kind of life they had led, to leave them filthy, mute, and alone in the middle of a city street."

HBO documentary exposes homicidal child
"There's an HBO documentary called 'Child of Rage', about a six year old with reactive attachment disorder who repeatedly tortured animals, sexually molested her brother, and attempted to kill her adoptive parents by coming into their bedroom at night with a knife. The doc shows her calmly telling her therapist about the incidents very soon after they happened - really creepy and sad."
Man treats girlfriend's child like a dog, eventually leading to the child's death
"The Baby P story really fucked with my head. In the UK a couple of years ago, the boyfriend of this woman started beating her son. The things he did were horrific: training his dog to bite him, pulling out his fingernails/toenails, smashing his fingers, throwing him in the air and letting him hit the floor, and tossing him around, calling it roughhousing. The boyfriend eventually did this so hard that one night he snapped Baby P's spine in half - killing him. One of the things that stuck with me was when I read that he was trained to be submissive, and when the boyfriend would enter the room, Baby P would automatically put his head to the floor. When I first read about it, I had nightmares for weeks."
Audio recording exists of Jim Jones preaching as the Jonestown commuinity commits mass-suicide
"There is a recording of Jim Jones' speech during the night at Jonestown where the hundreds of people drank cyanide-laden juice and committed suicide. You can hear them dying in the background and his sheer delirium is absolutely chilling."
WWII Doctor who claims to help Jews flee Europe is actually murdering them & dissolving their bodies in acid
"There was a French doctor during WWll, Marcel Petiot, who promised Jewish refugees to help them to leave Europe. When they came to his house on the day of departure, with their most precious belongings, he would give them a special 'vaccine', since they were allegedly going to South America. He killed them all, took their stuff, made them pay some high fee for his help in the first place, and dissolved their corpses in his basement with acid."
WWII plane crashes in Japan, US rescues only one of nine survivors
"During WWII, an American airplane crashed near the Japanese island of Chichijima. There were nine servicemen on board. One was rescued by an American submarine. The other eight were taken in by the Japanese. Don't wanna go into all the details, but through some time and events, the Japanese ended up EATING those servicemen. But that's not the weird part.

The one serviceman who was rescued? That was George H. W. Bush."

Soilders below deck are trapped in sinking ships to starve to death after Pearl Harbor
"After Pearl Harbor, there were soldiers who were trapped below deck as their ships sank. Unfortunately, the ships didn't flood, so they were trapped below deck for days until they died of starvation. The navy knew it was happening, but they had no way to go down and get them, due to limitations (couldn't get the right tools, ship might blow up... I can't remember the actual reason), so they instead reported those men among the initial death toll from the bombings. Men on guard would beg not to be placed near those ships, because they could hear them banging on the hull for help. Eventually, the navy managed to get down to retrieve the bodies, but only after everyone had died. Apparently they had marked the passage of time on the wall, and they had survived at least a week. Most of the families of those men were never made aware that it happened."

12 Amazing Real-Life Resurrection Stories

Real life resurrection stories tell the tale of real people who came back from the dead. These are far more than people who were legally dead on an operating table; these are dead people who rose from the crypt to go on living.

How often are living people declared dead? More often than you'd think (or want to know about)! People brought back from the dead - presumably to deliver the Good Word - have been documented in history and medical books for hundreds of years. These are some of the more spectacular examples of people beating death. Enjoy this bone-chilling list of notable cases of people who were buried alive or brought back to life - true accounts of real-life resurrection stories and incidents of Lazarus syndrome.

12 Amazing Real-Life Resurrection Stories,

Marjorie McCall, Moneybags

In 18th Century Lurgan, Ireland, Dr. John McCall's wife Marjorie fell ill with fever and died shortly thereafter. Since he was a doctor and therefore rich, Marjorie naturally had an expensive gold wedding ring – but at her death, neither John nor any other mourner was able to remove it from her swollen finger. Due to fear that her fever would spread, Marjorie was hastily buried in Shankill Cemetery, and news of the doctor's dead wife spread throughout neighborhood.

Soon, some grave-robbers got busy digging up Marjorie's coffin. When they pried open the lid, they were delighted to find that yes, the valuable ring was still on her finger. Try as they might, they couldn't pull off the ring, so they agreed to saw off the whole finger. As the sharp blade cut into her skin, Marjorie came back to life, sat bolt upright, and shrieked like a tween with Bieber Fever. A miracle if there ever was one!

When the startled corpse-desecrating thieves fled, Marjorie was left alone to climb out of her grave and wander home. Across town, her widower Dr. John was boozing with some relatives, sorrowful at the loss of his wife but also pumped about his new-found bachelorhood. When he heard a gentle rapping, rapping on his chamber door, he opened it to find his dead wife, extra creepy and all wraithlike in her burial robes and bloody from the ol' saw-to-the-finger ordeal. The shock was too much for the doctor. He instantly dropped dead on the floor and was buried in the grave Marjorie had just vacated.

Ng Swee Hock, Brother-Hater
April 2011 - After getting into fisticuffs with his own brother, 65-year-old Ng Swee Hock sustained injuries so bad that not even a ventilator machine could revive him. Doctors at a Penang, Malaysia, hospital did CPR on his body for 45 minutes, but at around 11 AM, they gave up and pronounced him dead.

Two-and-a-half hours later, Ng started to breathe again.
Matthew Wall, Farmer
On October 2, 1571, recently deceased young farmer Matthew Wall was lying in a coffin on the way to his own funeral. Even though the day was cool and damp, the whole village of Braughing in Hertfordshire was out for the event, including Wall's distressed fiancée. As the procession made their way to the church, one of the pallbearers slipped on the wet leaves, dropping the coffin to the ground. The commotion was surprising.

But when the men lifted the coffin again, they were even more shocked by what they heard next: the sound of knocking. Matthew Wall had come back to life and was banging on the walls of his own coffin!

Wall eventually went on to marry his fiancée and live for another 24 years. Since then, Braughing village has commemorated Old Man's Day every year on October 2nd. To celebrate, village children bring brooms to sweep leaves from the lane in front of the church, presumably so no one slips on them. Any more dropped coffins, and they could have a zombie apocalypse on their hands.
Old Polish Lady
June 2009 - A man called an ambulance when his 84-year-old wife fainted. The emergency service doctor declared the woman dead and sent her to the morgue. She lay deceased for several hours in line waiting to be embalmed and whatnot, but then the Holy Spirit hopped into her again. Morticians noticed the woman's body bag moving and unzipped it to find that her vital functions were all working again. Praise Him.
Anne Green, Convicted Child-Killer
In 1650, Anne Green was convicted of murdering her bastard child and hiding its body at her boss's house. Soon, she was sentenced to death by hanging and led to the gallows, where she was fitted with a noose. For her last words, she proclaimed her innocence and begged, "Sweet Jesus, receive my soul." After the hangman kicked the little stool out from under her, Green's body was left to hang for half an hour. During this time, her pals reportedly:
thump[ed] her on the breast’ and hung ‘with all their weight upon her leggs… lifting her up and then pulling her downe againe with a suddain jerke...which seems very rude to me, but apparently they were trying to quicken her death / lessen her suffering. Whatever.

Eventually, Green's lifeless body was cut down from the gallows and put in a coffin, which was taken to a doctor who was going to dissect her. Just as the doctor prepared to slice her open from chest to gut, Anne's corpse groaned. Hallelujah!

There are two versions (maybe more) of what happened next:

In one, doctors immediately began to warm her body, pour hot cordials in her mouth, and (doy) bleed her.

In the other, someone tried to kick her back into the land of the dead by stomping on her chest. The force of the kick was so strong that it completely revived her.

Either way, Green – having been through enough for one day – was granted a reprieve and declared innocent. She lived a long time after her resurrection and bore three more children, none of whom she was convicted of killing.
Saudi Mom
2009 - During a Caesarean section delivery in a Kuwait City hospital, the woman in labor was pronounced dead. Her grief-stricken husband was handed her death certificate – along with their new baby, who was born with birth defects. The would-be mother's body was whisked off to the morgue, where it was locked up with all the hospital's other losses for the day.

Two hours later, the woman was struck with life again, but in a very dark, very cold place. She screamed and banged on the door of the deep freezer until a worker finally heard her. (Why do these things lock from the inside, anyway?) Upon her release, the woman's husband was called back to the hospital to return her death certificate, which he was not allowed to keep as a souvenir.
South African Grandfather

July 2011 - An 80-year-old man in the Eastern Cape died due to complications from an asthma attack. His family called the morgue to come fetch his body, which was then locked in a refrigerated compartment to cool. Twenty-one hours later, while the family were meeting to discuss funeral arrangements, workers at the morgue heard someone yelling for help. Thinking it was a ghost, they called the police for backup. Upon their arrival, the cops released the reanimated corpse of the old man, who was very nearly scared to death – again.

Colombian Woman
February 2010 - After falling ill from a serious condition, a 45-year-old woman in Cali, Colombia, was declared dead. Staff at a medical clinic signed her death certificate, and her body was transferred to a funeral home to be prepared for her burial. Just as a worker went to inject her lifeless limbs with formaldehyde preservative, the woman miraculously began to breathe and move again.
St. Odran, Naysayer

In 548 A.D., Christian folks in Iona, Scotland, wanted to build a chapel near an ancient burial ground. The problem was: no matter what they did, the work they constructed was destroyed each night, so they had to start all over again the next day. Eventually, a guy named Columba got it into his head that if they buried someone alive in the foundation, they would be able to finish building the chapel.

With a promise that his soul would be safe, a monk named Oran or Odran or Odhran – Columba's son or brother – volunteered (or was volunteered) to be buried alive, so he was. When that dirty work was done, the folks above ground finished the chapel. Hi-ho.

After some time, Columba started to miss Odran, so he opened the burial pit again.

- OR -

One day, the dead-and-back-to-life Oran shoved his face up through a wall and began to talk. He said:

There is no such great wonder in death. There is no Hell as you suppose, nor Heaven that people talk about.

When Oran began to try to escape his grave in the foundation, Columba flipped out and shoved him back down again, quickly covering the pit with earth. Or he had Oran's body removed and buried somewhere else on grounds of heresy. His own brother. Or son.

Thomas à Kempis, Faithless
In life, Catholic monk Thomas à Kempis (probably) wrote The Imitation of Christ, which everyone agreed was a pretty good and pious publication. Some time after his death in Zwolle in 1471, Church authorities began to think Thomas would make a good saint. They exhumed his body with plans to go forward with his canonization, but were bummed to find scratch marks inside the coffin lid and splinters embedded beneath Thomas's nails. Despite the holy miracle of his resurrection after death, Thomas was denied canonization and never became a saint. After all, what kind of candidate for sainthood would try to escape his fate of death?

On April 26, 1986, one of the world's worst disasters occurred in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat (then part of the USSR). There was an explosion caused by a flawed reactor design at the Chernobyl power plant, which spewed radiation into the air. Only Chernobyl and Fukushima have been rated as a level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale—that's the highest the scale goes.

The city of Pripyat was evacuated, and a total of 31 people died as an immediate result of the accident itself, while as many as 500,000 were affected. Pripyat became a tourist attraction in 2011, and is today captured by photographers who snap haunting images of abandoned toys and dilapidated buildings, sometimes referred to as "ruin porn."

Lore and legends surround the area, from ghosts and Chernobyl mutants, to a strange ominous black bird that some believe to be the harbinger of disaster.

Creepy Stories From Chernobyl,

The Chernobyl Amusement Park

The Pripyat Amusement Park should have been a fun addition to the town. It was slated to open on May 1, 1986, just days after the disaster. Obviously, the park would never open, and has simply been left to rust.

The amusement park had a Ferris wheel, bumper bars, a paratrooper attraction, and swing boats. High levels of radiation still exist in the mossy areas of the park. It's now a popular backdrop for ruin porn photographers. The park is also used a setting in the game Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

It bears similarity to Six Flags New Orleans, an amusement park which has been eerily abandoned since Hurricane Katrina.

Chernobyl's Ruin Porn Is Fake

Photographer Darmon Richter claims that the abandoned Chernobyl we often see in photos is not real, but rather a facade meant to make money off of people who love "ruin porn." Richter visited Pripyat and said that the city was desolate in many ways and still dangerous. However, he says, a lot of the chilling photos we see online have been manufactured by photographers looking to create the perfect horror.

"I observed countless instances of tourists moving these artifacts around, or repositioning furniture for a better shot. I watched a photographer arrange stuffed bears and little dolls so that they sat in line along the edge of a bare, metal-framed bed," he wrote.

He also alleges that the site purposefully profits off of disaster tourists. Can you blame them?

Chernobyl Was a Cover-Up

The documentary The Russian Woodpecker explores a conspiracy theory as explained by Ukrainian artist Fodor Alexandrovich. The theory indicates that the meltdown was actually orchestrated in order to cover up the failure of the Russian Woodpecker. The Russian Woodpecker was a radar array meant to detect missiles before they'd even been launched, and was so named for the loud tapping sound—similar to a woodpecker pecking on wood—the device made. But it cost $7 billion and it didn't work. The Woodpecker, formally called Duga-3, was located very near Chernobyl.

Alexandrovich's evidence: The Duga-3 probably didn't work because of the Aurora Borealis messing with signals, with the Soviets may not have accounted for—and it would have been very bad for Soviet leaders to admit they screwed up. Furthermore, Chernobyl's instability was already well-known, as they'd had issues with the reactors before, so a meltdown would make a convincing story.

How likely is this to be true? Well, it's a complicated plan that would have had to be perfectly executed to succeed, and that seems pretty unlikely. But some weird stuff did supposedly happen while the crew was making the documentary, including visits from the secret police and the sniper shooting of one of the crew members during the Euromaiden protests.

Seven Survivors Seek Immortality

Here's a weird one. A Russian scientist who managed to survive the disaster moved to a very small Greek island called Gavdos with six other Russian scientists. They easily made a home there, but some conspiracies suggest that the scientists actually went to the island in an attempt to seize control of the earth or to become immortal.

Gavdos has about 50 permanent residents, though it's a popular spot for tourists in the summer. In mythology, the island has been thought of as the real Ogygia, Calypso's mythical island home where the sorceress kept Odysseus captive for seven years.

VICE spoke to a filmmaker making a documentary about the group, who said that the scientists work on various inventions from inside a compound. They have seven acres of land given to them by a priest, and they are kind to other residents of the island, often working on various projects free of charge.

Some think the Russian scientists are spies; others think they've survived due to the island's healing properties; but the scientists themselves seem consumed with the idea of immortality and with Greek philosophy. They're even building a temple they call The Temple of Apollo.

Aliens Saved Us From an Even Worse Fate

There's an alien conspiracy that revolves around Chernobyl. Not that aliens caused the disasters, but that they saved the human race from utter annihilation.

According to the conspiracy, people spotted UFOs around the same time as the Chernobyl explosion. One witness reported seeing an object for about six hours. Those who believe that this object was both real and piloted by aliens suggest that the aliens helped tone down radiation levels, preventing an even larger blast. Though the damage was certainly terrible, it wasn't as apocalyptically bad as believers say it could have been.

A doctor claimed to have seen a similar UFO three years later at a time when a reactor was sending off high radiation levels. Similar conspiracies surround the Fukushima disaster.

The Black Bird of Chernobyl

According to legend, several people began to see a large, winged creature with red eyes in early April before the Chernobyl disaster. The creature became known as the Black Bird of Chernobyl, and many have drawn parallels between this creature and America's Mothman. Both creatures were supposedly seen right before disasters: the Mothman was spotted right before the Silver Bridge collapsed in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, a tragedy that cost 46 people their lives. They're also similar in appearance: large, black, winged figures with glowing scarlet eyes.

Survivors of the Chernobyl disaster reported seeing the creature flying away from the reactor. Reports of the bird stopped immediately after the disaster. Those who believe that the bird was a paranormal entity regard it as a harbinger of terrible things to come, while others believe it was merely a black stork.

The Elephant's Foot

Elephants are cute, so you'd think anything named after their feet would also be cute. You'd be wrong, however, as this particular euphemism refers to a flow of hot lava that will kill you after 300 seconds—that's a mere five minutes—of exposure. And not quickly, either, but you will die within two days.

According to Kyle Hill in an article for Nautilus, this black lava was discovered by emergency responders who entered a steam corridor underneath Reactor 4. The crews' radiation sensors warned them to stay away.

What happened was this: the radioactive particles got so hot, they melted and turned into a flow of lava, which in turn melted through the bottom of the reactor vessel and all the way down until it cooled enough to form the big glop you see above.

Photos of the "elephant's foot" were taken via a camera on wheels. It was determined that the blob consisted mostly of concrete and other materials that the fuel melted on the way down. Still, going near it was a bad idea, and we wouldn't advise going near it even today.

Mutant Zombies Stalk Pripyat

One common story is that the blast mutated humans into flesh-eating zombies that will devour any disaster tourists or researchers that cross their paths.

One piece of "evidence" was a grainy video shot from a helicopter that appeared to show said zombies ripping a man apart limb from limb. In reality, this video was from a 2007 Ukrainian video game called S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl. In the game, the zombies are mutants that are created after a second disaster, 20 years after the first, during repopulation efforts. Someone later posted the video on YouTube trying to pass it off as real. It's not.

The idea of Chernobyl zombies was revisited in a horror flick called Chernobyl Diaries in which a group of young disaster tourists decide to check out Pripyat, only to—spoiler—get attacked by zombies.

The Ghosts of Chernobyl

As with any site where a number of people have lost their lives, Pripyat is rife with ghost stories. Andrei Kharsukov, a nuclear physicist from New York, told one such story after visiting the area in 1997:

Kharsukov said he went to the power station at 7:30 a.m. and went to the Reactor Four sarcophagus, which is where the explosion occurred. He could not go inside due to radiation, but as he took radiation readings, he heard someone screaming for rescue from a fire inside.

"I ran upstairs to tell someone, but they said that when I entered the reactor control room, I was the first person to open that door in three years, and the only way to get inside the old reactor is through the doors I came in through. If someone had gone inside the reactor when I was not looking, they would have tripped an alarm that goes off when the reactor door is opened mechanically.

"The reactor door requires a password and a handprint, yet someone, or something, was inside. Later that evening, as we were eating dinner outside the building by the river next to the plant, a flood light turned on in the room of the installation. There was no way anyone could be inside. As we ate, we figured there was a power surge or something. Then just as my colleague said that, the light turned off."

Chernobyl's Mutant Animals

Many reports of deformed and strange beasts near Chernobyl can be found all over the Internet, indicating that radiation had severe effects on the animal population.

To be sure, some severe mutations were seen right after the accident. The piglet in the photo above suffered from dipygus and is on display at the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum. It was born near the site of the explosion.

Contemporary animals, however, are typically okay, even though their internal radiation levels are higher than most. They do not suffer significant genetic mutations, though some species have issues. For instance, some birds have developed smaller brains and some rodents have decreased litters or do not live as long. In fact, animal populations seem to be doing better now than they were when humans were farming there before. Scientists continue to debate, however, what the long-term effects of exposure will be for the animals that live there.

Hikers Describe The Creepiest Thing They

Where do you think horror movies get their inspiration for the crazy things that happen to hikers and campers in the woods? Straight from real life of course! We’ve compiled a list of some of the creepiest true stories and oddest encounters people have come across while communing with nature. The one thing most of the hikers on our list have in common is unlike their movie counterparts, they don’t stick around to risk being hacked to pieces by Jason and his buddies. Which one of the below real life hiking alone scenarios is your favorite and that you will be sure to add to your repertoire of scary campfire stories? Vote on your favorite and tell us why!

Hikers Describe The Creepiest Thing They've Ever Seen Hiking,

Visitor caught watching campers from the shadows

“I was hiking in southern Virginia and came to a shelter. At this point it was about an hour until sundown and two other hikers had already set up camp and gotten a fire going. I decided to sling my tent up and make some dinner. I'm sitting there munching on my crappy re-hydrated dinner as the sun is going down. As my eyes began to adjust to the darkness, I glanced over towards the shelter and suddenly realize that I can see the whites of a person’s eyes in the shelter. This dude had smeared soot from the firepit all over his face and body, and had been sitting in the shadows watching the other hikers and myself the entire time. I tried to stealthily let the other hikers know what was up and I go the hell out of there.”

Two friends stumble upon serial killer's sacrificial altar

"Bushwalking in NSW (Australia), me and my friend came across this weird platform looking thing made out of rocks. Later that year, the cops arrested some bloke on suspicion of the murders of a series of backpackers who had gone missing over the course of a few years, and at the sites of several of the murders slightly off in the bush were these “altars.” Turns out, it was the altars we found. They were typically no more than 300 yards from the victim's shallow graves. The guy who was arrested and subsequently convicted for the murders is Ivan Milat, Australia's worst serial killer."

Group of friends find very strange, silent, unmoving man

“When I was out exploring an old abandoned quarry with some friends, we found this dude standing, staring at this rock, occasionally twitching, but he never turned around. We were pretty creeped out so didn't investigate, and left pretty soon after. Later on that night, we found out that another friend was driving down the lane that runs parallel to the quarry and found a guy in a black coat standing in the middle of the road who wouldn't move. She was pretty freaked out and had to reverse all the way back up the lane in the dark because he was still there. Pretty sure it was the same guy.”

Australian trailblazers make unexpected discovery

“A mate and I hiked through the bush near Tamborine Mountain, Australia,in 2010. We made our own trail, slashing through vines with machetes. It was a lot of fun and really off the beaten track. A couple of hours into our hike, we started to hear DUM BUM BUM BUM, the beat of jungle drums. Weird as hell, right? These drum beats had absolutely no place in the Australian jungle. Our curiosity piqued, we headed towards the sound. Slashing through a thick wall of vines, we emerged into a clearing and saw the source of the drums. We saw about 25 guys wearing grass skirts and dancing around a fire. They noticed us. The drums stopped. Utter silence. They all stared at us. We were terrified. Then rhe director ran up, yelled, 'Cut,' and asked us what we thought we were doing. We had stumbled onto the film set of a KitKat commercial.”

Kayakers find bizarre campsite and altar

“A few summers ago, I was canoeing in Boundary Waters with some friends. A few days into our trip, we found the creepiest campsite on an island. There was brand-new, abandoned camping equipment everywhere and throughout the campsite, sticks with the ends charred had been stuck in the ground. In the remains of the fire was a heavily charred toothbrush, along with the remains of a wallet, glasses, papers and some clothes. The creepiest part was near the edge where a single petrified moose alter had been wedged between some boulders and surrounded by charred sticks in a circle. We got the hell out of there and as far away as we could before night. It looked like a scene straight out of a horror movie.”

Hikers followed by extremely creepy entity (this one is freaky)

“This past winter I hiked a very high peak with a buddy of mine and camped out overnight. Everything was fine the entire first day we were there. We had a great night’s sleep and woke up early to hike back to the parking area. On the way back down the trail my friend and I noticed that someone else had been hiking as well. About a mile after walking, I stopped and saw that my full name, first and last, was drawn into the snow on the side of the foot path. I didn't do it, neither did my friend. It was snowing a bit throughout the night and if it was drawn the day before, the snow would have covered it up. We got a bit freaked out and decided to hustle back to our car so we could get out of there. We finally get back to the parking area and I went to sign myself out of the registry book. When I turned the page to where I signed in, I see that someone had scribbled out all of my information so you couldn't read it anymore. No one else had signed into the book besides myself for three days. I will NOT be going back there.”

Group of adventurers make grisly discovery

“My two friends and I were hiking in a pretty popular spot with a 150-ft waterfall that takes about 45 minutes of uphill hiking. We decided to go to the bottom of the waterfall where there are various little pools and boulders and the water runs off from the waterfall. This is not on the main trail and not many hikers ever veer off of the main trail. We found a 22-year-old girl face down in the mud, both legs broken with compound fractures. She had no cell phone, no water, no food, and nothing to keep her warm. Her friend was already dead.

We called 9-1-1 and gave her any supplies we had. Eventually a helicopter showed up and they flew her to the nearest hospital. It turns out she was hiking with her friend the NIGHT BEFORE when they both fell off of the waterfall. Her friend must have gone to get help, but unfortunately died less than 100 yards from where we found the girl, so no one knew she was hurt or that she was even there. It's a miracle she was still alive and mind blowing to think what she had gone through when we found her 20 hours later.”

Two brothers come upon hanging man

"Hiking the AT in PA for a week: my brother and I came across a young man who had hung himself. We sprinted up to the bluff where he was strung up. I wrapped my arms around his waist to take weight off his neck while my brother cut him down with his knife. The guy had thrown the rope up over a tall branch and lashed it off with a clove hitch at the trunk like you'd hang a bear-bag. Must have climbed the branches and dropped once laced in. We probably shouldn't have even tried, he was dead for some time before we happened across him. Fortunately no critters had come to tear him apart before we found him, it would have only gotten grislier. We called 9-1-1. This ended our trip pretty damn quick."

Father and his children have extremely unsettling cave experience

"I took my young children to a cave not far from our house. It was a popular spot but we had the place to ourselves. You can walk through it in about 30 minutes without too much difficulty. It has a tiny exit at the opposite end. It was pretty muddy, so we decided to turn around and head back to the entrance. Halfway back, there was a lit candle sitting about eight feet up one side. It was definitely not there on the first trip. I went into full-on protective-dad-mode knowing there was likely someone hiding in the dark while we walked the rest of the way out."

Biology major finds child's bones

“As a biology major who remembered how to identify bones from my anatomy class, I'm pretty sure our dogs found bones from a small human while we were hiking off trail outside Colorado Springs. I told my friends they could belong to a recently kidnapped and murdered girl, Heather Dawn Church.They convinced me I was being dramatic and I forgot about it. A couple years later her body was found in the exact same area.”

The Origins of the 13 Most Common Superstitions

Friday the 13th is not just a movie about a guy in a hockey mask with demonic rage issues . It is a real fear for some people. Common superstitions (and their origins) might not be based in reality, but when people believe in something so powerfully it doesn't seem to matter. Whether it is avoiding walking under ladders or crossing paths with black cats to blessing someone when they sneeze, some of these superstitions are so much a part of our lives we don't even know why we do it.

While some of these superstition origins come from religious thoughts, some come from a practical place. Afterall, it's probably a good idea not to open an umbrella in cramped spaces, whether it's bad luck or not. What are the origins of the most common superstitions?

This list has the top 13 common superstitions and their origins. If you were wondering how these common superstitions grew to be well known, and practiced, this list has the answers.
The Origins of the 13 Most Common Superstitions,

Itchy Palms
This superstition states that if the right hand itches, money is coming in, but if the left hand itches money is going out. Or, more practically, you're having an allergic reaction to medication.

Again the origin for this one is unknown, but the earliest recording of it comes from Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar, Brutus says, "Let me tell you Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm." Oooooo, sick burn, Brutus.
Wishing
Every child knows that once everyone has finished singing "Happy Birthday" they must blow out ALL the candles on their cake in one breath, and make a silent wish. If you don't blow them all out at once, or you tell someone the wish... it won't come true.

The origin of this strange superstition is a mystery. It might be just another "because I said so" moment for parents... as if they were running low on those.

Spilling Salt
Spilling salt may have been more of a manners issue than a bad luck issue... and then the superstition became habit. Long ago, salt was an expensive commodity, and one that had many useful purposes. Wasting salt was frowned upon, and so it is suggested that people just started saying it was bad luck so they would be more careful with it.

So now you have this "throw salt over your shoulder" to undo the bad luck... but not just any shoulder you have to throw it over your left shoulder. Why left? You throw it over the left shoulder because in some Christians believe the Devil hangs about over the left side of the body, looking for an opportunity to invade.

Another thought as to why spilling salt is bad is linked to the last supper. In Da Vinci's painting Judas is seen spilling the salt, so if you spill the salt you might as well just go turn in your best friend so they can be executed.
Knock on Wood
What do you do if you say something out loud that you want to come true? You knock on wood. It's strange, but of all the superstitions on this list, this is one of the ones that is still most commonly done reflexively.

The reason that people knock on wood comes from the pagan belief that good spirits lived in the trees. In order to get something that you want, you were to whisper the wish into the tree and knock two times to ensure the spirit was awake to take on the wish.

On the flip side, some people believed that you knock on wood to ward off bad spirits that would make the wish not come true.
Walking Under Ladders
Even though it's always tempting, everyone knows that walking under a ladder is cause for some ver,y very bad luck. The origin of this practical myth comes from a few different sources depending on who you believe.

When a ladder is placed against a wall it forms a triangle, one of the holiest Egyptian symbols. The thought was that if one walked underneath a ladder they would break the symbol and anger the gods. This concept was taken to later by the Christians, but instead of the triangle, they called it the Holy Trinity. However, the consequences were the same.

People believed this so strongly, that prisoners were forced to walk underneath the ladder that led to the gallows. This scared them more than the actual hanging itself.

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
This wedding chant became a popular mantra and symbol of good luck for marriages during the 1500s. The full verse goes:

"Something old, something new
Something burrowed, something blue
And a silver sixpence in her shoe."

The old is to keep connected with the bride's past and her family. The new means optimism for the marriage. The burrowed thing usually comes from a friend who is in a good marriage as a charm for good luck. The reason for blue was that in Roman times, blue was the color of love which the Christians turned into a meaning fidelity. Finally, the sixpence in the shoe was another good luck charm, this one from the Scots who believe that a coin in the shoe guarantees money.
Broken Mirrors
While we all know that broken mirrors are a pain to clean up, it's the threat of the seven years of bad luck that keeps most of us from carelessly knocking them over.

Some people believe the reason breaking a mirror causes all those years of bad luck comes from an age when mirrors were considered luxury items and the cost of replacing a broken one would be equal to seven years of a peasant's salary. The superstition actually extends back quite a bit further back to the Romans.

In Roman times there was a special form of doctor who was part physician and part mystic. They would use mirrors to divine the health of their patients (kind of like an ancient x-ray). The doctor would fill a mirrored plate and glass with water and look at the reflection of the patient. If for some reason the reflection looked distorted the patient would be deemed ill. If, however, the mirror were to crack during the procedure, it would mean that they would be very sick for seven years, the time the Romans believed it took for the human body to be completely renewed.
Opening Umbrellas Indoors
While some of these superstitions could be considered a little crazy, some are actually quite practical. Really, one should never open an umbrella indoors. Not because of bad luck, but because it could seriously hurt someone.

There is a thought that this is actually where the superstition came from. The introduction of the mechanical umbrella happened in the Victorian Era in England. The first versions of it were made with stiff steel poles that, when opened indoors, could cause major injuries like cuts and possible eye loss.

While that might be the case, the superstition goes all the way back to the ancient Egyptians who also had umbrellas, though back then they were parasols, made for blocking the sun instead of the rain. If you were to open one indoors, where there was no sun, it was considered an offense against the sun god, Ra, who would curse you for it.
Hat On Bed
There are so many different things to do with hats indoors, from removing them as a sign of respect, to where to place them. It is a common thought that if a person places their hat on the bed, something horrible will happen to them.

This comes from the fact that the bed looks like a coffin and when a person or solider died, their clothes and armor were placed on the lid as a sign of respect. Another thought is that a priest will always wear their hat indoors except for when they have to change into their vestments to perform final rites on the dead.

Either way, it's just good manners to place your hat anywhere but the bed.
Black Cat Crossing Your Path
Though cats have been adored for ages by many ancient peoples including the Egyptians, Sumerians, and Aunt Mildred, having a black cat cross your path is supposed to come with horrible consequences.

The thinking behind this started during the witch hunts. Witches were thought to be able to communicate with certain animals and make them do their bidding. The cat was the chief among those "familiars." A black cat was thought to be the worst as it was said to contain the soul of Satan himself. Therefore, seeing a black cat meant that the devil was watching you.

The 13 Sexiest Psycho Girlfriends in Internet History

Nothing puts an expiration date on a relationship quite like invading the personal space and property of a man and then destroying something he holds dear. Here are 13 videos of crazy girlfriends, who also happen to be pretty damn hot, destroying Jaguars, XBoxes, balls, PS3s, fingers, Star Wars collections, and most importantly, dreams. Girls are ranked both by their craziness and hotness... what?

EDIT: Hey, I'm really glad my list is getting out there and that people are reading! BUT... are most of these real or fake? Well, it's the Internet, so you can come to expect a lot of both. Either way, these girls are part of Internet history, no?

These sexy girlfriends, for better or worse, totally lost it... and it's almost too much fun to watch.
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Girlfriend Deletes WOW Characters
While a World of Warcraft addict goes out to get a pack of cigarettes (that he apparently smokes indoors, so his house will end up smelling like the '70s), his girlfriend expresses, on video, her disdain for his favorite pastime.

She goes on to say that she's going to fix this, which at this point in the list is absolutely terrifying. This guy was supposed to be going on a raid that night, and much like cutting off the water supply in the city as soon as firefighters are needed to put out a fire at a five-story orphanage, she makes sure that it's not possible for him to raid.

What does she do? She erases hundreds of hours of work by deleting 5-6 (read: ALL of his) Warcraft characters. People have been killed for doing less. This is like throwing paint on a famous work of modern art, or knocking over an award-winning sandcastle right before the judging.

Understandably, the guy is pissed, but after the initial "I just lost my wallet" feeling he experiences, he flips a lid, and doesn't even suspect his girlfriend. He takes it out on his monitor. It's pretty brutal, and she's pretty insane. Why is she on this list? Well... she sounds kinda hot, but her "psycho" quality is off the freaking charts.

Also, it's more probable than not that she's hot because most of the girls who pull this stuff on the Internet, and are so comfortable (for some reason) talking to cameras (which is literally talking to a machine while you're alone) are attractive and are used to a lot of attention because of that and fight back when they don't get it.

Ugh.
Girlfriend Pranks (Beats?) Boyfriend for Not Picking Her Up From Work
Alright, so this one's actually pretty funny. Click here to view the full video. This girl is pretty insane, and you can definitely tell she's up to something, but she's got some pretty great curves. Let's move on...

So basically, a guy does something careless because he probably has better things to do with his life, and he accidentally forgets to pick up his girlfriend. By the looks of him, he was probably doing something really important to him like playing a pick-up game of basketball or beating up people that look "diffrn't."

So he gets home, his girlfriend plans out a cute little ploy to make sure that she can get this on camera, so she calls out the other guy in the room as having been playing with the camera all day. She tells him a series of knock knock jokes and then finally pulls her trick.

It is actually quite magnificent. She not only splashes water on his face (which is already taking it a tad too far), but slaps him hard across the face immediately following the water. After the water, her coup de gras, she knees him really hard in the balls, sending him falling back against the wall behind him. The most heartbreaking part is that she does all of this right after he apologizes.

Never EVER forget to pick up your psycho girlfriend with way too much time on her hands from her work (most likely as "the cashier that will ruin your day" at the local Rite Aid.)
German Girls Destroy Cheater's Jaguar in Broad Daylight
Click here for the video of three cute French girls destroying a guy's Jaguar .

These adorable German girls publicly play a real-life version of the bonus level from Street Fighter II with a guy's Jaguar.

They start out by scratching it by hand with small tools, and then manage to get everything from shovels to wheel barrows to destroy a pretty nice, dark green Jaguar. They smash the car and kick it and are captured by many different cameras, YouTubers, and camera phones, so much that the person who made the clip linked above cut together all the footage in an almost-too-good-to-be-true display of vengeance.

Apparently, the guy cheated on her... which is definitely grounds for some kind of payment, but this was a little much. What if they got the wrong Jaguar?
Hot Sugar Momma Destroys PS3
This girl is probably dead. This guy sounded pretty pissed.

So as one of the guys who actually kind of seems like he has it coming on this list, this fed-up girlfriend (who goes to school, pays all the bills, and still doesn't even get to sleep with her boyfriend because he's up all night playing video games... instead of looking for a job) decides, at 3 AM, to teach her boyfriend a lesson.

She angrily stomps downstairs and asks her boyfriend if he knows what time it is. He says no because he's too busy playing the really overrated and underwhelming Ghostbusters game that came out in 2009 and then (clearly not detecting that she's as angry as she is), he tells her to get him something to drink.

This is when s**t truly hits the fan.

She goes nuts on his new PS3 (this is when it first came out, too, so they were actually pretty rare at the time... and extremely expensive), smashes it, and then the camera cuts out after he throws her off of the wreckage of his new purchase.
Call of Duty 4 or Girlfriend?
So basically, this insanely hot girl is sick of her boyfriend playing video games with his friends all the time. And much like everyone on this list, she doesn't talk to him about it, she doesn't leave him or try and consider why she IS with him; she decides to go insane.

She tells the guy filming, who obviously wants to bang her, what is going on as this douche prepares to pull a horrible, expensive, and heartless prank on a guy who probably doesn't completely deserve it. She grabs a bat from her HUGE truck and walks in on her boyfriend and all his friends playing video games and smashes the XBox repeatedly with the bat while they're playing games, ostensibly losing them a crucial match that embarrassed them all.

The most annoying part is how hard the douchebag who's taping this is laughing. He's obviously too ugly for her to want to bang him, so he's trying to get in her good graces, so he supports completely dissing someone who he probably pretended to be "bros" with on camera.

So to answer the question posed by this YouTube video "Call of Duty 4 or Girlfriend?" even though she's kind of a Hispanic Kristen Bell, the answer in this case is "Call of Duty 4 IS my girlfriend" (which is probably so true for so many of us...)
Pissed Off Girlfriend Unloads His Stuff in NYC
This crazy/beautiful redhead loads up her SUV with a guy named Stephen's belongings and yells at him on a public street in New York. She unloads his most valuable belongings while smashing them in front of a small crowd.

Luckily, one of them chose to film it with their camera phone. As she's standing there, symbolically breaking all of this cheating bastard's belongings, she smashes his laptop, bends his golf clubs, and almost smashes his flatscreen TV before one of the bystanders begs her not to. She doesn't, and the guy gets a free TV, which must have been one of the coolest moments of his life.

She goes on to yell at the guy and curse him for what he did in a public forum, which goes to show that you should never EVER cheat on your girlfriend because, among other things, you never know what kind of monster you're going to create.
Mousetraps
In another mean-for-no-reason act of psychosis, a girlfriend decides to prank on her boyfriend just because.

The prank? To make sure she never gets treated to an expensive dinner, and that he'll never wait until she finishes first, ever again.

This blonde girl sets up a series of mousetraps in a row, (about 12 or so mousetraps) and decides to make her boyfriend fall down on them, attacking his fingers, legs, chest, face, and anywhere else a trap closed.

The plan is actually kind of funny: to set the mousetraps up at the foot of his bed (along with a whole bunch of marbles, just so that he slips, proving that she watched the Home Alone movies), and then at three o'clock in the morning, she wakes him up to tell him his car is getting towed.

It happens, everything goes to plan, and the guy is in excruciating pain.

Girls like this need to find better hobbies than terrorizing the one dude who will put up with their crap.
Girlfriend Doesn't Realize Boyfriend is on Vacation
Since there are no pictures of this girl in this video, one can only assume she looks kind of like, no, EXACTLY, like the picture to the left.

If you think this is bad, then you won't believe what these crazy exes are doing.

So a guy gets the golden opportunity to backpack through Europe for two weeks. He tells his friends and family, and even tells his girlfriend and calls her to say goodbye the night before he leaves. She ends up forgetting this ever happened because she's a bad listener. The guy has his phone turned off throughout his trip in order to avoid roaming charges, which is why he doesn't answer his phone.

She ends up sending email, after email, after email, having completely forgotten that he was in Europe. The emails go from fun, to worried, to angry, to seething, to vengeful (she ends up sleeping with someone to get back at him for "cutting her off") to apologetic when his mom tells her where he was.

You really just need to watch this. It is golden.

The reason this is both a hot AND psycho girlfriend entry is that the girl is obviously hot. She sends him emails about getting hit on constantly and even letting guys buy her a drink, and as soon as they hand her the drink she says, "you remind me of my boyfriend," which #1: an unattractive girl would not do, because c'mon, and #2: is a standard hot-girl move and a type of robbery that should be punishable by fine.

Check out more sex crazy girls here.
Girl Destroys Her Ex's Starcraft 2 Beta Key
Real or fake, this girl is an absolute either comic genius or complete psychopath. Either way, it's really, really hot for some reason. There's a lot wrong with me. It's probably the glasses.

So this girl basically does what was, at the time, the unthinkable. She didn't go out and bang his best friend or key his car or break anything he owned... except his spirit. People have waited YEARS for Starcraft 2 to come out. Starcraft 2 was one of the most preciously anticipated games of the last 10 years and Beta access to an early version of the game was like having a Willy Wonka Golden Ticket (only much more available.)

So, when "Brad" received his Starcraft 2 Beta key in the mail, which would have allowed him access to the wonders of Starcraft 2 (and freed him from the shackles of "showering"), his email had been hacked... by his ex-girlfriend. The hottie that he dumped for obvious, "I don't want my children to grow up deaf" reasons had not only hacked into his email, but deleted his Starcraft 2 Beta key email. On top of that, she printed it out before doing so just so she could video tape herself shredding it.

The comic timing of where the video ends is priceless. She's also up near the top of the list because she's insanely cute (once again, it's probably just the glasses), despite the fact that she probably collects human flesh.
The Original: Girlfriend Smashes Boyfriend's XBox
An oldie but a goodie (and the one that started the console smashing trend in 2010), this sexy blonde had had it with her boyfriend and in this oversaturated viral video from early 2010. She proceeds to destroy her boyfriend's XBox with a golf club. It was covered in news stories all over the Internet and mainstream media and garnered a new hatred for unsupportive girlfriends, as well as a wave of "alright, maybe we SHOULD spend more quality time together."

Her boyfriend later smashed her laptop in a retort video showing that not only was this one probably fake, but that they prank each other all the time, like that one couple on Break.com whose girl would have made the list if it wasn't for the constant, brutal back-and-forth she has with her boyfriend where she's totally cool with being pranked just as long as she can prank him back.

So before anyone says anything in the comments, they didn't make the list because they're both cool with the pranks and put them on break. This means that not only do they have a great relationship, but that the girl is absolutely, unbelievably cool.

19 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to Be True

While many, if not most, conspiracy theories are completely outlandish, conspiracies themselves are very real. Any group of people plotting to do something against the law (even if the law is unjust) is technically a conspiracy, and there have been many throughout history. Some of these true conspiracy theories were plots to assassinate leaders, others were plots to game the system in business. Most failed eventually, leading to the conspirators facing fines, jail time, or even death.

These real conspiracies proven true come from many different countries and different historical eras. We know all about them, how they were perpetrated and in many cases, the damage they did. Whether it's the plot to kill a leader or a billion-dollar scheme by a multinational corporation, these true conspiracies were all dragged out into the light.

From Watergate to the assassination that jump started World War I, some insane conspiracy theories weren't just theories, they turned out to be just some of the troubling true stories that mark the history of the human race. Which conspiracy theories are true? Read on to find out which ones really happened!
19 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to Be True,

The Black Hand Assassinates Franz Ferdinand
A secret society made up of Serbian nationals seeking to unify various Serbian enclaves, members of this group conspired to assassinate the Austrian Archduke. Their goal was to break off the southern Slavic provinces of Austria-Hungary and create a unified Slavic nation.

Six members traveled to Sarajevo to carry out the deed, having been trained and equipped by additional conspirators in the Serbian military. One of them, Serbian student Gavrilo Princip, succeeded – and his act kicked off the First World War.

The July 20th Plot
Dozens of members of the German military and civilian leadership conspired to kill Adolf Hitler by planting a bomb at his military headquarters. The plot, dramatized in the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie, failed when the bomb was accidentally moved away from Hitler at the last second.

Nearly 5,000 people, many of whom had nothing to do with the conspiracy, were executed in the aftermath.

Prohibition Alcohol Poisioning
The US Department of the Treasury, in its capacity to enforce the Volstead Act, added deadly chemicals to the industrial alcohol that was being used by bootleggers as a substitute for grain alcohol. They hoped to make a few scofflaws sick and discourage others from drinking cheap hooch.

Instead, over 1,000 people died, just in New York alone, before the practice was stopped.

Cigarettes Cause Cancer
Tobacco companies knew as early as the 1950s that smoking was directly linked to lung cancer. Even before then, in the 1920s, a few maverick researchers were publishing studies that theorized that the effects of smoking weren’t beneficial, as the tobacco manufacturers claimed.

But it took until 1998’s Master Settlement Agreement between the US Government and the leading tobacco companies for these links to be acknowledged, and restitution made to victims.

The Trusts of 19th Century America
Up until the trust-busting presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, a small group of powerful and wealthy business owners conspired to monopolize their various interests. This was done through price-fixing, bribery, intimidation, union busting, and running small business into the ground through unfair competition. An enormous amount of wealth was eventually concentrated in a few giant combinations, called trusts, which were almost as powerful as the government.

These trusts were eventually broken up through lawsuits and legislation, but many of their successor companies still corner the market today in oil, mining, manufacturing, and food production.
Lenin Returns to Russia
With the tide of World War I starting to turn against the German Empire, drastic steps needed to be taken to get Russia out of the war and move those troops to the Western Front. In early 1917, German authorities allowed exiled communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin to cross Germany from Switzerland to Sweden in a sealed railway car. German authorities hoped that the return of the anti-war Lenin to Russia would help overthrow the government and undermine the Russian war effort.

Berlin was right, and thanks to the communist revolutionaries led by Lenin, Russia was out of the war less than a year later.
MKULTRA
The infamous MKULTRA experiment ran for 20 years starting in 1953, and involved citizens unknowingly being dosed with mind-altering LSD by CIA doctors to study effective ways to carry out mind control.

While the goal was to advance US intelligence and special operations capabilities, it failed miserably and violated every ethical code in any medical book anywhere. At one point, half a dozen unknowing subjects were given LSD for 77 days straight.

Lincoln's Assassination
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln was not the act of a crazed lone gunman, but an organized conspiracy of four shooters to kill the president, vice-president, and Secretary of State in one massive coup.

Only John Wilkes Booth carried out his role, with the other two planned shootings resulting in Secretary of State William Seward being wounded, and Vice President Johnson being spared by the cowardice of his planned killer.
The Tuskegee Experiment
This shameful and racist conspiracy unfolded over decades, as the CDC knowingly withheld potentially lifesaving treatments from black men with syphilis under the guise of a medical experiment. Once the conspiracy became public, hearings were held and a $10 million settlement was reached for its victims – along with lifetime medical care for their families and no-cost burials.
The GM Trolley Car Conspiracy
The so-called “General Motors streetcar conspiracy” involved a pair of transportation companies buying up and dismantling electric trolley car lines in dozens of American cities. These two companies, which later merged into one trust, were heavily financed by car and truck producers, tire manufacturers, oil companies, and the monolithic Standard Oil.

While the government also had a role in destroying the burgeoning electric train industry, as well as the deep debt the trolley companies were in, it’s clear that there was some kind of conspiracy to knock out GM’s competition and monopolize the transportation industry.

People Who Killed Their Victims to Assume Their Identities

Police estimate that hundreds of thousands of dead people have their Social Security numbers and other aspects of their identities stolen every year, mostly for purposes of fraud. But a few identity thieves take their crime to the ultimate point: killing people just to steal their lives. Murdering someone AND stealing their ID is rare, but when it happens, it often is the result of a long and involved con.

Killers who became their victims include a woman who murdered her sister after pretending her house was firebombed by drug dealers; a career fraudster who sent his victim off to another country, then killed him when he came back; a convicted rapist who killed a homeless man in order to fake his own death; and a lesbian serial killer known as the most wanted woman in America.

Here are some of the stories of people who killed others to assume their identities.

People Who Killed Their Victims to Assume Their Identities,

The Husband and Wife Team Who Killed Three People for Their Identities
Julie and Dimitry Yakovlev were found guilty of a scheme wherein Dimitry murdered three people to obtain their identities, which they then used to pilfer bank accounts and open credit cards. Julie pleaded guilty to a slew of fraud charges, but wasn't a suspect in the murders. Dimitry was the main suspect in the disappearances of Michael Klein, Irina Malezhik and Viktor Alekseyev - two of whom have never been found, and the other was found dead in New Jersey.

All three had had their identities stolen after their death, netting the husband and wife over half a million dollars, which had to be forfeited. Dimitry was given 30 years in prison, while Julie pleaded guilty and got three years.

George Kalomeris, Who Killed Two People to Get Control of Their Million Dollar Estates
Kalomeris resided in multiple states, and therefore had no problem killing people in two different states and assuming their identities to get his hands on their money. The first person Kalomeris killed was Gary Wayne Thomas, a man who lived in his apartment complex and who had a million-dollar trust. The two got high together, whereby Kalomeris shot and killed Thomas, and over the next eight months, assumed the man's identity. He called Thomas's bank and told him he was moving to Maryland - and established an address there.

He blew through most of the money, the zeroed in on another man, Thomas Wayne Jones, a wealthy paraplegic. Kalomeris shot Jones in the neck, buried him, and took control of his estate, including a stash of rare gold coins. However, Jones was actually alive, and eventually able to testify against Kalomeris, who was sent to prison. While in prison, Kalomeris put out a hit on Jones, using money he was continuing to steal from Gary Wayne Thomas's estate. The inmate Kalomeris approached ratted on him, and while he was under investigation, Jones died of his injuries from the shooting. Kalomeris was sentenced to nearly 400 years in prison.

The Freeloader Who Murdered Her Sister and Bombed Her Own House
Stevie Allman became a minor celebrity in Oakland after she was rescued from her house, which had apparently been firebombed by drug dealers out to get revenge on her because of her anti-drug efforts. Money was raised to help treat her injuries, she spoke out against the arsonists, and even the state's governor got in on it, offering a reward for the capture of those who bombed Allman's house.

It sounded like good-old American heroism, except that Stevie Allman had set the fire herself, and wasn't Stevie at all, but her sister Sarah, who had murdered Stevie and stuffed her in a freezer. Sarah and Stevie lived together in the house, and while Stevie was known as an anti-drug crusader, Sarah was an unemployed freeloader who routinely stole from her sister - even forging her name to cash an inheritance check. Police speculated that Sarah killed Stevie and assumed her identity to gain access to the deed to the house, as well as Stevie's finances. Other family members noted that two women lived in the house, and when confronted, Sarah readily admitted what she did.

The Man Who Murdered a Mother and Child So His Girlfriend Could Take Her Identity
The 2010 double murder that gripped Australia, the case of the deaths of 22-year-old Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her two-year-old daughter, took almost five years to finally unravel. Karie's bones were found in October 2010 in a forest in New South Wales, while her daughter's remains were found in a suitcase in July 2015, almost 700 miles away. Both of their identities had been exploited for fraud, theft, and to send fake messages implying Karlie was still alive.

When the infant's remains were linked to Karlie's, police went public, imploring the people of Australia for tips as to the culprits. Within a few days, they had a suspect, Karlie's former lover Daniel Holdom - whose current girlfriend was using Karlie's identity to open bank accounts and defraud credit card companies. Holdom was arrested on double murder charges.

The Evil Twin Who Tried to Become Her Good Twin
A bizarre southern California attempted murder trial involved Jeena and Sunny Han, literally characterized by police as a good twin and an evil twin. In this case, the evil twin was Jeena, who was arrested on a slew of charges, including conspiracy to commit murder, robbery, and false imprisonment. All of them stemmed from an attempt to kill her "good twin" Sunny, and assume her identity.

Jeena was apparently mad at Sunny for assisting police in a prior credit card fraud scheme that she'd been busted for. Jeena hired two guys and went over to Sunny's apartment, planning to kill her and take her identity, including her good credit score and clean arrest record. The plot got botched when Sunny (who didn't realize that her sister was in her apartment) called the police, and Jeena made a run for it. She was eventually arrested at San Diego Airport. Jeena was found guilty and sentenced to 26 years to life in prison.

Albert Johnson Walker, Who Took a TV Repairman's Identity, Then Killed Him
Canadian con artist Albert Johnson Walker had already been part of a number of failed fraud schemes when he met TV repairman Ronald Platt. He was living in England while fleeing over a dozen charges of fraud, money laundering, and theft when he changed his name to "David Davis" and started a business with fellow expat Platt. When Platt wanted to go back to Canada, Walker claimed he needed Platt's birth certificate and ID to hold up his end of the business. After Platt left, Walker assumed his identity.

A few years later, Platt was broke and came back to England. Realizing his fraud was about to be exposed, Walker took Platt fishing, then murdered him with an anchor and dumped the body at sea. However, when the body washed up, it was wearing a Rolex registered to Platt. Walker was arrested soon after, and is serving life in prison.

The Lesbian Serial Killer Who Seduced Women and Took Their Names
A 12-year manhunt for "Chameleon Killer" Elaine Parent came to a head in 2002 in Florida, after police in two countries tracked her down. Parent was accused of stalking single women, taking them as lovers, then killing them and stealing their identities. The first killing attributed to Parent was a woman who washed up on a Florida canal having been hacked apart, but with a tattoo that police identified and tracked back to Parent, the victim's roommate. Parent had used a false ID to trick the victim into handing over her Social Security number, driver's license number, and credit card number for a "numerology analysis," then killing her.

Over the next decade plus, Parent took authorities in the US and UK (where she'd lived for a long time) on a chase involving dozens of identities, several other murders, multiple countries, and countless leads. Parent was finally tracked back to Florida, and shot herself while waiting to be arrested.

William Morse, Who Killed a Contractor, Spent His Money, and Became Him
Simple greed appeared to be the motive behind the murder of Richard Bellittieri, a contractor hired by William Morse to do some work on the duplex he was building. According to Maine prosecutors, Morse shot the man, dragged him into a nearby woods, buried him, and chopped a tree down on him. He then pilfered his finances to the tune of $175,000, and even introduced himself to people as Bellitteri.

He kept the ruse up for a year, before being pulled over for DUI with Beillitteri's ID and credit cards. Maine put him on trial for murder and identity theft, and he was found guilty. Morse will spend a minimum of 60 years in prison.

The Rapist Who Killed a Homeless Man and Stole His Identity to Fake His Own Death
Michael Henderson was already a serial sexual offender, who had served a multi-year prison sentence for child sexual abuse. After being accused again of sexually assaulting a minor, in this case, a 16-year-old relative, Henderson decided it was time to create a new life for himself. To do that, he shot and killed homeless man Gary Ali, then put Ali's body in a car with his own ID, and set it on fire.

The burned car was traced back to Henderson, who was arrested in 2011 for both the murder and the rape. It took a jury just 20 minutes to find him guilty, and he was given life in prison.

8 TV Actors Who Turned Out Just Like Their Characters

It's an ancient Zen koan as old as time itself: Which came first, the character or the actor? Sometimes, actors have trouble breaking character – or they simply take the "method" method a bit too far. When the line between fiction and reality blurs, it can be hard to tell where the part ends and the performer begins. There are a bunch of TV stars who turned into their characters, or is it the other way around?

Either way, be it a strange coincidence or amazing casting, you wonder, who are TV actors who are like their characters? This list answers that question. Here are seven TV actors who ended up sharing a fate with the characters they played on television.
8 TV Actors Who Turned Out Just Like Their Characters,

Lisa Robin Kelly / Laurie Forman
Remember the '70s? Me neither. Remember "That '70s Show"? Remember when Eric Forman had that b*tchy, slutty older sister, Laurie that was always getting into trouble? She was a mess.

At the end of Season 1, she flunked out of college. (Remember "flunking"?) In Season 2, she tricked oafish Kelso into cheating on his girlfriend and blackmailed him into continuing the relationship via PG-13 sexual favors. In Season 3, she broke his heart. Then she disappeared from the show and really wasn't missed all that much. Laurie Forman was a manipulative and self-absorbed liar. She didn't appear to have any friends of her own, and everyone kind of hated her – even (especially?) her parents.

The Real Lisa Robin Kelly

Since her last appearance on "That '70s Show" in 2003, Kelly, now 42, has not been staying out of trouble. In August 2010, she pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while intoxicated. Yawn.

Then on March 31, 2012, at damn near 1:00 in the morning, her male roommate / possible boyfriend / hopefully ex-boyfriend told the police that Kelly had attacked him in his home. She was arrested on a felony charge of corporal injury, though she claims she has been framed. She released the statement:

"He must have scratched himself or done something to himself. ... I am clean and sober and I have made a lot of progress. I am completely innocent. I weigh 105 pounds. ... I just want to start working again."

And you know she means business, because she's already gone out and gotten a new headshot taken.

On August 15th, 2013, the troubled actress died in a rehab facility after a long battle with drugs and alcohol.

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David Duchovny / Hank Moody
Try as he might, the main character of the hit show "Californication," novelist Hank Moody, just can't keep it in his pants, which is no problem for "X-Files" fans still clinging to fantasies of nekkid Mulder. For five seasons of "Californication," Hank's unquenchable lust has been the one thing that's kept him from achieving his creative potential – and from keeping his family together. It also got him into a pretty sticky situation at the end of the Season 5 finale.

The Real David Duchovny

It certainly made for a good headline: "Duchovny: Sex Addict Onscreen and Off." In 2008, the actor released a statement that he checked into a treatment center to battle a longstanding sex addiction. Rumors for the trigger ranged from a history of alcoholism to an extramarital fling with a tennis instructor. After rehab, Duchovny returned to wife Téa Leoni and the couple's two kids, though they've reportedly been separated since June 2011.

This probably means that Duchovny's addiction, much like Hank Moody's, is a lot of what's standing in between him and ultimate happiness. The part could not have been cast better.

Charlie Sheen / Charlie Harper
Has there ever been a badder boy than Charlie Sheen? Trick question! Yes, but only one: His own alter ego, Charlie Harper.

According to my dad, who is the only person I know in real life to have ever actually watched "Two and a Half Men," Harper is was "a man child who lacked touch with reality. He was into younger women, like a male cougar. But he was cool! ...Did I already say sexual predator?" A playboy millionaire with too much of everything (money, time, self-esteem), Harper partied hard up until his final moments, when he fell in front of a train in Paris – or was pushed by a woman he had toyed with for years. It was only a matter of time.

The Real Charlie Sheen

What is there to say about Charlie Sheen that he hasn't already said about himself? He has tiger blood and Adonis DNA, and he's an F-16. It's Charlie Sheen's world, we all just live in it. He has snorted blow off the solid gold hoof of a unicorn. A real live unicorn. This is all true.

Much like his character Harper, though, Sheen gets into all kinds of trouble. The thing is: without the safety of a sitcom and a live studio audience, his actions actually come with little things called "consequences."

Sheen has been arrested and sent in to rehab more times than Wikipedia even bothers to list. He has five children, three ex-wives, and two porn "star" ex-girlfriends (yes, they are now exes) who appeared with him in that 2011 interview when everyone found out that, yes, Emilio Estevez is the sane one.

Sheen's loud mouth and ultra-ego eventually got him fired from the role that had once made him the highest-paid actor on television – but they allowed him to live with porn stars and be as much of a ladies' guy as the character he played. And he didn't even have to wear those trendy bowler shirts to do it in real life.

The only real difference between Sheen and his character – for now – is that Charlie Harper is dead.

Jon Stewart / Fictional Jon Stewart
In 1997, Jon Stewart guest hosted "The Larry Sanders Show," the show-within-a-show on The Larry Sanders Show, normally hosted by Larry Sanders (Garry Shandling). The ambitious young comedian was a network favorite on the fictional "Larry Sanders Show," and at the end of the series (the real one), he replaced Sanders as the host of his own talk show. No flipping.

Fictional Jon Stewart wanted to turn the program into a more edgy, social commentary-driven late night talk show, and that's just what he ended up doing.

The Real Jon Stewart

It can be hard to believe how long our modern-day comedic heroes have been around (see also: Jeffrey Tambor, above).

For two years in the '80s, Jon Stewart held the 2 a.m. drunk audience slot at Manhattan's Comedy Cellar, and he spent most of the '90s popping up on MTV and Comedy Central shows like "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist" when I was supposed to be doing homework. Though the official version of history says that Craig Kilborn left "The Daily Show" in 1998 to host "The Late Late Show," insiders say that friction between Kilborn and some of his staff (particularly the ladies) was a major factor in his departure.

Enter Stewart in 1999, and the modern version of "The Daily Show" was born. Now it's what you watch when you're supposed to be doing homework.

Just like the guy he played on "Larry Sanders" years back, Stewart replaced a host who was getting tired of the job and brought a younger, more commentary-filled voice to a show that ultimately appealed to a younger audience.

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Taryn Manning / Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett

Just like her Orange Is the New Black character, Taryn Manning (aka Pennsatucky) has a tendency toward violence that's gotten her in some trouble with the law. Though maybe not as intense as her season one brawl with Chapman, Manning has been accused of abusing her makeup artist more than once.

In 2016, makeup artist Holly Hartman accused Manning of attacking her on several occasions, including an earlier incident in 2012. Hartman claims that Manning headbutted her, sprayed Windex in her eyes and mouth, and whipped her with a wet towel. In the same outburst, Manning dared Hartman to stab her, yelling, "Pick a knife. I’m wearing a white shirt — there will be a lot of blood. You will be famous for killing Taryn Manning.”

Ultimately, the restraining order was not granted on a technicality - Hartman filed it in California even though the attacks took place in NYC. Manning's legal team said the accusations were false, and that Hartman was actually under investigation for stalking Manning.

Christopher Reeve / Dempsey Cain
Do you recall what you were doing May 25, 1995? Probably not watching the steamy HBO TV special and suspense-thriller Above Suspicion, written by one William H. Macy.

Christopher Reeve starred as a paralyzed cop plotting to murder his cheating wife (like ya do), played by Kim Cattrall. Reeve reportedly spent time at a rehabilitation hospital to research the role, learning how to use a wheelchair to get in and out of cars, mastering his craft and adding another notch to his belt of skills at the time (like pretending to fly faster than a speeding bullet without wincing).

The Real Christopher Reeve

The film was overshadowed by a miserable coincidence on May 27,1995 – just two days after the TV movie aired – when Reeve was thrown from a stubborn horse. He fell headfirst and shattered his first and second vertebrae, which paralyzed him from the neck down. And then rude stuff like this happened:

The most unfortunate and tragic coincidence on this list, Reeve's paralysis exacerbated, and created, a series of conditions which eventually led to his death in October 2004.
Tracy Morgan / Tracy Jordan
Full disclosure: I have a Who Dat Ninja? magnet on my refrigerator. It's a testament to how much I love Tracy Jordan, 30 Rock's eccentric, ego-centric (male) diva and the "TGS" production staff's worst nightmare. They work overtime doing damage control to clean up after his antics. When Jordan isn't trying to stab talk show hosts or accidentally voting for Ralph Nader, he's wasting time, blowing money, and embarrassing the people who are forced to work with him.

He was originally supposed to be a satirical character that would poke fun at the overblown egos of the Martin Lawrences of the world, but then life began to imitate art.

The Real Tracy Morgan

2011 was a rough year for Tracy Morgan (publicity-wise; he was probably doing just fine money-wise).

In January, during live pre-NBA game coverage on TNT, he said Sarah Palin was "good masturbation material," much like the time when Tracy Jordan (his alter-ego on the show) set off panics in the streets of New York with random false declarations he spouted on "Larry King Live."

In June of the same year, he came under fire after he did a comedy show in Nashville and said that he would "pull out a knife and stab" his son if he ever spoke in "a gay voice." After he issued an apology, the incident was parodied on an episode of 30 Rock. Speaking on Morgan's character's behalf, Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) said: "He's not capable of hate. He's just an idiot who doesn't know what he's saying."So not only is the real Tracy Morgan an embarrassment to the show that turned his career around, but he also tends to say the dumbest things his mind grapes can think up – and gets into just as much trouble for them on the show as he does off. The main difference being, of course, that when Tracy acts up on the show, it's actually kind of endearing.

Dustin Diamond / Screech Powers
Before Sheldon Cooper – before Carlton, Milhouse, and even Urkel – there was Screech Powers, "Saved by the Bell"'s teenage nerd; a guy who was so horribly repellent, only Tori Spelling would date him.

From 1989-2000, for four incarnations of "Saved by the Bell" (including a few memorable specials, like the one in Hawaii with Staci Carosi and the Battle of the Sexes on the beach), Screech tucked his Zubaz into high-top Converse and was systematically rejected by token black hottie, Lisa Turtle. When the cool kids who allowed him to hang out with them finally moved on with their lives, Screech returned to Bayside High to work as an assistant to his best friend, school principal Mr. Belding. In the end, none of his friends seemed to really help him succeed, and people continued to laugh at him for the rest of the character's life (as far as we loyal fans know).

The Real Dustin Diamond

When "Saved by the Bell: The New Class" was finally (finally) canceled in 2000, Dustin Diamond rested on the dregs of his laurels, appearing as "Himself" in shows you never saw, like "Star Dates."

In 2006, he directed and released his own sex tape, Screeched - Saved by the Smell, which I also hope you never saw.

Some time after that, my friends ran into him in a bar in Boston, where he was selling t-shirts with his own face on them, trying to raise money so he wouldn't lose his house to foreclosure. If any of them gave him one cent, they never admitted it.

With nobody helping him in the end, his career has fallen to just about where Screech's did, being a walking punchline and, sadly, ending up on a depressing amount of VH1 shows.

The 13 Most Historically Important Perverts of All Time

These are some of the most influential, famous and historically important human beings of all time (who also happened to be huge, shameless perverts and/or sexual deviants.) Sure they were all a little predatory, but we wouldn't be where we are without these forward-thinking men who, in modern day, would have red dot above their house in a government database.
The 13 Most Historically Important Perverts of All Time,

Caligula
WHO WAS HE?
I just lost a bet, he's not a vampire. Caligula was once a Roman Emperor, his name being a nickname that means "little soldier’s boot." And that’s not the only booty associated with him. See what I did there? You're welcome.

WHY IS HE FAMOUS?
Being Roman Emperor near the beginning of time, from 37 to 41 AD. That’s right, no four digits. This guy is old school. He succeeded Tiberius as Emperor, immediately making him loved. Because he wasn’t Tiberius, who reportedly was a gloomy, sad man who ended his reign in complete terror [insert Bush joke]. So for the first seven months, his empire was joyous. Because he wasn’t Tiberius.

SO WHY IS HE A PERVERT?
Because he was friggin’ Caligula.

Apparently bored all the time as presiding Emperor, he killed on a mere whim since video games hadn't been invented yet and once ordered a crowd to be tossed to the lion’s pit because he was bored.

And when not satisfying his thirst for killing, he slept around, made fun of people below his stature and indulged in countless accounts of sex.

He converted a palace into a brothel, a brothel (eat THAT Gandhi, sex castle? Sex PALACE) staffed by the wives of Senators, which is what I would do if I were Obama.

It’s no surprise that he died after only four years of rule via assassination by, you guessed it, The Senate.

He also, apparently, looked like Joshua Jackson.
John Whiteside Parsons
WHO WAS HE?
An engineer. A famous one. Why, you ask? Oh not yet?...

WHY IS HE FAMOUS?
His work helped usher in space travel and the rocket age. He might be considered the very first rocket scientist. A mathematical genius, he perfected the power of thrust in MULTIPLE areas of his life.

SO WHY IS HE A PERVERT?
To put it shortly, he became involved in a cult initiated by Aleister Crowley.

As head of the so-called Agape Lodge, he pioneered not only rocketeering, but the Babalon Working: a ritual meant to produce an incarnation of the goddess Babalon. The rituals involved a heavy use of sex magick and Parsons must have gone through a lot of women to find his goddess. It was presided over by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology who acted as a scribe before his prophet days.

Soon he met Marjorie Cameron and deemed her the product of previous rituals. They even tried to produce a Moonchild together though sex magick, or as most people call it "had sex".

Reports say the child is pale, has a round face and a horrible, horrible complexion.
James Joyce
WHO WAS HE?
James Joyce was an author responsible for seminal works like a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. He's one of the greatest English writers of all time. He's one of those authors that screamo bands name themselves after because they just learned about him in AP English class. He's that good.

WHY IS HE FAMOUS?
He is one of the most remembered figures of the Modernist movement and helped usher in a new way of writing language. His writings experimented with structure in ways that have never done before and changed the way people read words. He had a chapter with five letters in it. Nobody'd done that before.

He is responsible for some of literature's greatest moments and has taken people to new places and emotions they've never felt before. He proves that words never die.

SO WHY IS HE A PERVERT?
Well, for one thing, he liked to fart on people's faces while having sex (and no, he wasn't Canadian). He even wrote really passionate letters about it. Check it out right here.

A few favorite fart quotes:
" if a gave you a bigger stronger f**k than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an asse full of farts that night, darling, and I f**ked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole."

We are not kidding. These are real quotes from one of literature's greatest voices.

"It is wonderful to f**k a farting woman when every f**k drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also."

Needless to say, to all high school undergrads, you finally have English essay material. And now I say, "Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little f**kbird!" You don't see that quoted on Barnes & Noble billboards.

EDIT MADE: Thanks to everyone in the comments for your help. I can't believe I did that!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
WHO WAS HE?
An 18th century philosopher who helped form the modern political, sociological, and educational thought.

WHY IS HE FAMOUS?
He's responsible for a lot of stuff you learn in college and then forget all about until you're trying to retroactively figure out philosophical themes on Lost. Here are some teachings of his you probably won't forget...

SO WHY IS HE A PERVERT?
He wrote an autobiography (without a Snooki-style ghost writer) and revealed his need to be spanked to reach sexual arousal.

"He who loves well, punishes well." Further more, he reveals that this indiscretion started off in childhood when he was spanked hard by his headmistress and he knew then he felt more affection than fear of her hand.

No word yet on whether or not he invented the word "fanny". But it's pretty important, psychologically according to another pervert on this list, to factor in that one of the foremost philosophical thinkers of all time liked to get his paddlin' on.

This excerpt from a book about his life explains in wordier, fancy-written detail. . But all you need to do is look at his portrait and his stare. Even the painter could sense this was a dude that when he laughed to himself, you just didn't ask.
Mahatma Gandhi
WHO WAS HE?
Mahatma Gandhi led the non-violent civil rights movement against British imperialism in India.

WHY WAS HE A PERVERT?
Though he took a vow of celibacy at age 37, Gandhi practiced the art of sleeping next to young naked girls to test himself sexually. His subjects were often young female followers, one of whom was his own 18-year-old grand-niece. And what they did was “non-sexual activity” which included strip teasing, group bathing, and lap-dancing - all for the chaste.
Sigmund Freud
WHO WAS HE?
Freud is the founder of psychiatry and the initiator of the "Talking Cure" (aka, $300/hour for a person who won't chew your head off if you don't shut up about your life). He identified the study of psychoanalysis, bringing forth repressed thoughts and feelings into consciousness. Oh, and he recommended a great antidepressant: cocaine. He also believes we all want to bang our parents and, for some reason, smoke penises.

WHY IS HE FAMOUS?
He broke down the psyche into three components of personality: the Id ("pleasure principle", wants us to bang everything), the Ego ("reality principle"), and the SuperEgo (the aim for perfection, mainly unconscious and contains the person's "ego ideals" aka the conscience).

SO WHY IS HE A PERVERT?
Freud admittedly had sexual feelings for his mother and his following work/research, although extremely useful and revolutionary, was basically one big, long "am I right guys? No? But what if..."

Obviously, this turned into excellent research material, where Freud conceived the "Psychosexual Theory", identifying 5 key stages of libido development.

Yes, the libido begins developing at birth. After all, according to Freud, infants are primitive sexual beings. The stages of development are aptly titled the Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital stages. As part of the Phallic phase, Freud "uncovers" the subconscious sexual attachment children have to the parent of the opposite sex. Naturally, this leads to jealousy and a host of other emotional issues, which then contribute to repressed memories and feelings, ultimately driving up the cost and time of "talking cure" sessions.

Of course, Freud never tested his theory on babies himself, but did use the findings of his adult patients' psychoanalysis to uncover these "truths".

"Hey, so uh, pretty sexy kid ya got there, mind if I ask you a few questions?..."

When asked about sexual perverts, Freud identifies his own father for his sexual perversion and contribution to his brother's hysteria (aka mentally insane).

"I learned it from watching YOU!"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
WHO WAS HE?
Just some Austrian classical composer who wrote A Little Night Music, Symphony no. 40, and the Requiem.

WHY IS HE FAMOUS?
Yeah, good question. Besides being one of the most revered classical composers of all time and one of the most important musical human beings in history, he really didn't do very much.

SO WHY IS HE A PERVERT?
Just take a look at the rest of his sterling repertoire and you’ll find one particular unsung gem, Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber (translation: Lick me in the ass nice and clean). That's right, he wrote a song pre-dating Ludacris that gets this dirty. If this would have been written today it would've been called Lick My Ass (Nice and Clean) featuring 'Lil Wayne.

Really that says it all. Guess the movie Amadeus was right in showing Mozart as an Austrian Bart Simpson with a high off coke laugh. Check the video to your left to hear the classical piece. Lyrics are below. This is actually not a joke.

Lick my ass nicely,
lick it nice and clean,
nice and clean, lick my ass.
That's a greasy desire,
nicely buttered,
like the licking of roast meat, my daily activity.
Three will lick more than two,
come on, just try it,
and lick, lick, lick.
Everybody lick his own ass himself (which 'cmon, maybe this was about a dog...)

Either way, it was a damn perverted song for one of the greatest musical minds in human history and either way, I dare you to play this at your wedding. It’s all in German so no one will know what they’re saying, unless you're German.

Notice how all the voices are male.
Marquis De Sade

WHO WAS HE?
Marquis De Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary, and writer. He's most famous for being a rat bitched and bringing porn/sex to people in a time where showing off your ankles was s**tty.

WHY IS HE FAMOUS?
Marquis de Sade became famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle (ie, a person without moral restraint, free thinkers, like people in the 60s only less happy), but mostly for his erotic and pornographic novels.

He also contributed to the "sex industry", leaving the world with the practice of S&M. That's right, everyone, the man invented S&M. How? Well, first of all, it's NAMED after him.

The term, "Sadism", is based on Marquis de SADe: the idea of developing pleasure as a result of inflicting pain. "Masochism" is first seen in some of De Sade's more Gothic-inclined sexual novels, where, for example, the female character is bound and tormented, but also fondled, and develops a kind of attraction to her tormentors. It's basically torture porn (only not directed by one-trick pony Hollywood directors.)

SO WHY IS HE A PERVERT?
Sade's sexual tales began with an affair with his wife's sister, imprisoning a so-called prostitute for sexual pleasure and abuse (she escaped from the second floor window and ran away ... possible idea for a Disney film? Title: "Rapunzel"...), and poisoning 2 manservants with the Spanish Fly aphrodisiac (even though African Fly is actually stronger, newb. What?)

Being the good wife that she was, Sade's wife then joined as his accomplice in hoarding sexual slaves and staffed the castle with young "employees" of both genders for Sade's pleasure.

That's how this guy rolled and why he's at the top of this list. The guy didn't have a Sex Dungeon, he had a freakin' Sex CASTLE.

During his life, Sade was in prison or the insane asylum for 32 years, though, due to his prolific writing and sexual deviance.

Napoleon Bonaparte (another pervert who used to write to his mistress long poetry about her pubic hair, no foolin') ordered the final arrest of Sade, but the libertine was able to score one more affair with a 13-year old for 4 years before he passed on in 1814. He laughs at Chris Hansen from his grave.

Notably, he was in the insane asylum at the time, which would 100% make him win the "weirdest place you've made whoopie" game at your local baby shower.

Sade's main goal in his writings was to create "the most impure tale that has ever been written since the world exists." Not bad for his time.
If you think his story is interesting, it's got nothing on this.

Henry the 8th
WHO WAS HE?
King of England from 1509 to 1547. Much like most guys that look like Kevin James in King of Queens, he was married 6 times. He separated the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. Dissolved the monasteries. Oversaw the legal union of England and Wales. Banged all kinds of chicks constantly and did it with the blessing and permission of each and every one of them (even if they didn't know it) because he was the king. He was underwhelmed.

WHY IS HE FAMOUS?
Without a very distinctive name (Henry, the 8th), he is quite possibly most famous for his dissatisfaction with marriage (married 6 times). Or, perhaps for the fact that he became grossly obese and developed pus-filled boils all over his body prior to his passing. Or because was known for taking breakups worse than most female leads of romantic comedies.

SO, WHY IS HE A PERVERT?
Quite possibly the most popular historical figure who was constantly dissatisfied sexually, he either had the worst possible dumping method or found the greatest excuse in history to keep sampling women like they were 4 different kinds of sausages at CostCo.

Never satisfied with any of his wives, Henry VIII ordered them to death if they could not produce a male heir.

He went through 6 wives (and countless other women, according to HBO) and was never reprimanded for being such a scoundrel. He's quite possibly the only sex-crazed historical pervert on this list that was revered for his perviness.

Henry died from obesity and pus-filled boils that covered his body. It was not lupus.
Aleister Crowley
WHO WAS HE?
Aleister Crowley was a British writer, prophet and magician, though not quite the bunny-in-a-hat type that most people love. The real kind. The kind that does a lot of drugs, doesn't shower and has sex with people as part of his religion.

WHY IS HE FAMOUS?
He was a well-known occultist. As prophet of his new religion, Crowley developed Thelema, a polytheistic religion that ushered in the belief that its followers should follow their own "True Will" and neglect their ego.

Basically he was a famous almost-real-life-warlock who stirred up a bunch of people at a time when it was relatively easy to stir people up.

Apparently, the faith parallels that idea that the (at the time) new 20th century would usher in a new ethical code that would be followed as the beginning of the Aeon of Horus: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law".

FUN FACT: His magik-"stuff" is the basis of the plot of "Sherlock Holmes" (the Robert Downey Jr. one.)

SO, WHY IS HE A PERVERT?
Crowley not only founded a religion based on magik, he also founded something called "Sexual Magic" (no, this wasn't discovered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers or Sting), which is basically just using orgasms and/or arousal (and sometimes fluids) as parts of a spell. That's the class that Hogwarts doesn't teach until the last year.

Here are some great quotes of his on Sexual Magic, and how best to go about it (take out your pens and pads!):
- In the "New Comment" to The Book of the Law, "the Beast 666 adviseth that all children shall be accustomed from infancy to witness every type of sexual act, as also the process of birth, lest falsehood fog, and mystery stupefy, their minds.

Translation: all kids should see every kind of sexual act as soon as they get control of their motor skills. They also have to witness a birth. Never lie to your kids (so no Santa Claus, I guess).

- "... Politeness has forbidden any direct reference to the subject of sex to secure no happier result than to allow Sigmund Freud and others to prove that our every thought, speech, and gesture, conscious or unconscious, is an indirect reference!"

Everyone have sex whenever you want, do what feels right. Go nuts, kids, and in about 70 years listen to KISS.