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And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 creepiest historic events that are scarier than horror movies.

If there is anything in this world about which I know positively nothing, it is agriculture.

Bad luck plagued her from the beginning on her maiden voyage.

Her master fell fatally ill for this list were including both well known events and relatively unknown reportedly true stories.

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Number 10.

The Stanford Prison experiment Does the situation outside of you the institution come to control your behavior, or does the things inside view your attitude, your values, your morality?

If you need proof that power corrupts, look no further than the highly controversial Stanford Prison experiment.

This social test was conducted from August 14th through the 2019 71 and saw student volunteers playing fake prisoners and prison authorities.

The goal of the experiment, led by Professor Philip Zimbardo, was to study the effects of unchecked power in prison guards.

The negative environment, Zimbardo chose to test his ideas was a prison.

He would convert the basement of the university's psychology department into a subterranean jail.

The experiment quickly flew off the rails, with some of the guards students veering into psychological torture by enacting extreme measures, including psychological abuse and harassment.

That said, the experiments methodology is extremely contentious, as it had repeatedly been compromised by.

Zimbardo is goading.

Some of the prisoners also knew the studies hypothesis and acted accordingly, which is an unwanted variable in psychological experiments called demand characteristics.

At this rate, we're gonna be here.

Oh, goddamn night, and I love it.

Number nine Octavia Hatcher.

The Story of Octavia Hatcher is a popular one around the small town of Pikeville, Kentucky.

The legend states that the young mother fell sick and passed away a few months after she gave birth to a son who died shortly after delivery due to the Southern heat.

They buried her very quickly.

Soon after her death, however, other locals seemingly showed similar symptoms on Lee to recover.

The culprit retrospectively was likely encephalitis.

Locals promptly dug up Hatcher's grave and realized that she didn't die but had fallen into a coma.

They found evidence of her having woken up, including scratches on the coffin and Hatcher's bloody nails.

The veracity of the story has been questioned, but according to a member of Big Sandy Heritage Centre's board of directors quote, most local historians do agree that Hatcher did fall ill and was buried alive.

Number eight Advice to animal owners All right, this one.

Can you imagine killing your own pet?

Unfortunately, that was a reality that many in pre World War Two Britain were forced to face.

Pets were seen as an unwanted nuisance in wartime, as they would either roam the streets following a bombing or eat the already limited and rationed food.

Ah committee was formed to solve the problem, and their solution was unimaginably horrific.

They released a pamphlet advising pet owners toe either release them into the countryside or have them euthanized.

Included in the papers was an ad for a captive bolt pistol said to be quote the standard instrument for the humane destruction of domestic animals.

All told, an estimated 750,000 pets were killed in a week, more than 107,000 per day.

Mhm number seven recycling deceased soldiers.

If there is anything in this world about which I know positively nothing, it is agriculture.

Turns out there is nothing better for farming than human bone.

The Napoleonic wars cost upwards of two million soldiers their lives, and it was common practice for the survivors to loot the dead for supplies.

This included tearing out teeth with pliers for use in dentures.

The battle of Waterloo proved especially fruitful for the denture market, and the resulting products became known as Waterloo.

Teeth.

Battle grounds were also looted for bones after the dead had decomposed and these bones were ground into dust and sold to farmers.

A British paper from 18 22 reported that human bone made for quote substantial manure number six knocking in space.

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E can imagine you're an astronaut and you're all alone floating through the quiet vacuum of space in your cozy little spacecraft.

And then you hear someone or something knocking.

It's enough to make you go mad.

But the thing is, I'm still scared.

Yeah, right.

Really scared.

Yeah, Nobody will mourn for me.

No one will pray for my soul.

Luckily, astronaut and famed knock here Young Leeway didn't go mad, but he was understandably creeped out.

Leeway attempted to replicate the knocking sound after returning to Earth, but nothing proved successful.

Future Chinese astronauts also reported hearing the eerie knocking sound, leading some to believe it was caused by the spacecraft itself.

The source was later attributed to changes in air pressure and temperature morphing the capsules.

Inner wall mundane explanation aside, we couldn't imagine how utterly terrifying that experience would be.

Are you sure there is no sign of it?

I mean, you did there.

It's gotta be around their number five.

The hint.

Irk effect murders.

There are literally countless creepy true crime stories, but there's just something really unsettling about the infamous hunter Kaifeng murders.

Thes took place at a farm in Bavaria, Germany, in 1922.

Prior to the murders, Andreas Gruber found human foot tracks in the snow leading from the nearby.

Forced to his house that night, the family heard footsteps coming from the attic but failed to notify the police.

On March 31st, every member of the household, including their daughter, her grandchildren and their made, were killed.

It would be four days until the bodies were discovered.

The still unknown murderer had long made their escape.

This unsolved case truly has it all.

Gruesome violence, no survivors, an unidentified culprit and an incredibly creepy case of home invasion.

Number four.

The sad but creepy case of Henry Rathbone.

Who, Shakespeare.

How do you do?

It's a great pleasure to meet you.

Everyone knows of Lincoln's assassination, but the role played by Major Henry Rathbone is less common knowledge.

Rathbone and his fiancee were attending the play with Lincoln, and Rathbone tried subduing John Wilkes Booth after he shot the president.

His artery was severed in the process.

Rathbone survived, but he blamed himself for Lincoln's death and spiraled into insanity.

On December 23rd, 18 83 he assaulted his own Children, and when his wife intervened, he took care of her before stabbing himself in a failed attempt at his own life.

Gonna hurt you?

You didn't let me finish my sentence.

I said, I'm not gonna hurt you.

When police arrived, they found a deranged Rathbone and his wife's corpse.

Hello, Number three.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Oh, God.

The ancient Romans experienced hell on Earth and 79 a d.

When Mount Vesuvius famously erupted.

The eruption launched a massive cloud of gas and debris 21 miles into the air, effectively blocking out the sun.

This in turn caused a tsunami in the Bay of Naples, and ash rained down on nearby cities.

The volcano later released pyroclastic flows, which are essentially 18,000 degree Fahrenheit clouds of gas and volcanic matter that can travel upwards of 400 MPH.

This distinct layer of solidified ash is evidence of, ah, high speed current of heated gas and volcanic debris.

Known as a pyroclastic flow.

The flows decimated the nearby cities and killed people, instantly vaporizing their blood and organs.

The eruption buried the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oh, Pontus and Stab EI, killing at least 1500 people based on the human remains uncovered, but likely many more.

The exact nature of the pyroclastic density card.

In some instances, it's very, very light and fluffy, but you can have temperatures from 200 C up to maybe 700 degrees centigrade.

That's not unheard off.

Number two, the Mary Celeste Bad luck plagued her from the beginning.

On her maiden voyage, her master fell fatally ill.

Ghost ship stories are a dime a dozen, but none is as arguably popular is the Mary Celeste.

This was a sailing vessel built in Canada and named the Amazon before it was wrecked and sold to American buyers who renamed her the Mary Celeste.

On December 4th, 18 72 the ghost ship was found floating off the Azores Islands.

It was not leaking.

Sales were damaged.

Those that were up and had not been furled or damaged.

Aside from that, there was no riel structural damage to the boat.

The ship was in good condition.

There was nothing recent in her captain's log.

Her provisions were undisturbed and the cruise belongings were still on board.

However, the lifeboat was missing, leading many to wonder why the crew had abandoned ship.

Naturally, conspiracy theories abound to this day, and while numerous sound theories have been put forth over the years, the mystery remains unsolved.

But the riddle of that ill fated voyage in 18 72 will haunt us forever.

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Number one.

Plague Riots and Refugees Three horrifying years between 13 48 13 50 Black Death pushed medieval man to the brink of an apocalypse.

The black death wasn't just the deadliest epidemic of infectious disease in human history.

It killed an estimated 30 to 60% of Europe's entire population.

Seriously, the entry could just end here, for the Almighty has said, I shall wipe Man whom I created off the face of the Earth.

But it also turned into what's probably the closest thing we've ever had to a real life zombie movie.

London Quarantined plague victims inside their homes and armed guards were reportedly stationed nearby to prevent escape.

This didn't sit well with the quarantined, and they often fought back by attacking and in some cases, murdering the guards.

Law and order broke down.

Tight knit communities broke apart.

This lead entire neighborhoods to be quarantined, which only instigated riding and more death.

If some plague victims happen to escape, they wandered the countryside pretty much like zombies as no towns or villages would permit them entry.

In some cases, they were even attacked on the road by the healthy.

In 16 week period, 11 0 people are buried in a single graveyard.

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