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A breed of wool dogs existed on the pacific northwest coast. Indigenous people would keep the dogs isolated on small islands to prevent inter breeding with hunting dogs. The wool dogs were cared for and feed a rich diet of seafood to produce strong yarn to make blankets from.
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It was Stalin who invented the phrase ‘American Exceptionalism’. It was originally used as a way to attack Americans and their desire to see themselves as unique. Now most Americans use the term in a positive way.
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In 1911, inmates on death row played baseball for their lives. If they won, execution was delayed. If they lost, their execution went ahead as scheduled.
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A man built the world’s largest treehouse after claiming God told him to do so. It was 97 feet tall. It took 12 years to build and burned down in 15 minutes in 2019.
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In Malcolm in the Middle, Bryan Cranston used to hum improvised tunes. He then joined a songwriters guild so that everything he improvised earned him a royalty check of a few hundred dollars. He used this money to throw parties for the cast and crew. The crew even encouraged his humming.
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“Urban Legend” is defined as “a humorous or horrific story or piece of information circulated as though true, especially one purporting to involve someone vaguely related or known to the teller.”
In other words, it’s a story that gets passed around within a certain community. Maybe it starts with a kernel of truth, maybe it’s just someone making things up for fun, but it’s so compelling that it just spreads and spreads until it’s practically considered fact.
What are the creepiest urban legends from your area? from AskReddit
And listening to some of these submissions from Reddit – it’s easy to see why these stories have staying power.
In a village close by, there is the story that in a specific road through the woods several guys where being slapped when they pass in a bicycle in the latte 70’s. Always at night, one of these guys was my grandfather. He was alone and was slapped and fell of his bicycle. No one was there…several people came home full of bruises and scratches from the bicycle fall after the slap in the face.
Suddenly the slaps stopped for a few years. And in the 80’s the ghost came back. One young guy was slapped in the face in same place. Funny is that the mystery was solved in that day.
It was a fkn branch from a tree. The old guys from the 70’s came home late from the old bar, completely drunk including my grandfather and without any source of light they would get hit by the branch and fall. Then the tree was trimmed and the slaps stopped until it grew again and made this 80’s guy the next victim. Lucky him he was sober and realised what hit him.
– HypressQ
We have a chair that’s been untouched since the 1960s in our schools boiler room.
The janitor swears that a boy got locked down there by these other kids the day before summer break and died from the heat.
He claims that the chair moves and that the door handle moves like he’s still there trying to get out.
– KTsDefacement
It is a university urban legend here in the Philippines. There was a female college student that went to the female’s restroom. In the cubicle, she can hear a female voice. The voice is saying some Latin (I can’t remember the exact words).
Obviously the female student was frightened and hurried to go back to the classroom. She then asked her professor what was the meaning of the word she heard from the restroom.
The professor said “It means ‘look up, look up”. – eat_the_rich_07
We have 3 mysterious men in a car called The Guardians (yes that’s what we call them) along Montana highway 464.
People have told experiences where they have car trouble and three men in a car drive up and help them out. Other people talk about headlights that disappear in places where they shouldn’t disappear.
We also have a Native American in a jean jacket and jeans who materializes in front of cars before they can swerve out of the way. When the driver checks for a victim, no body is found
– ninjasoul534
Not really creepy, but there’s one house in my hometown that is said to be haunted. There’s a tray with a golden teapot on it, and the tray has scratch marks on it. That tray has been sitting in the same location for years, remaining completely untouched, and still, to this day no one has touched it. Some of my friends insist that it’s haunted.
There’s also an urban legend about how an electrician (or someone with a similar job) fell off of a ladder while setting up one of the light in the middle school gym. His ghost is said to haunt the gym at night whenever the lights are turned off.
– FlameSamurai63
We have little people (like 6in tall) that live in our forests.
They stay well hidden unless you’re all by yourself and vulnerable, then they like to mess with you for fun.
– SmallTownMortician
A beggar/homeless man in Barre, VT. I’ve met him, but I can’t remember his name. He was just a rough looking 40 y/o guy that wasn’t all there, and he would dance if you gave him any money. He was usually sort of out of it, but he wasn’t drunk or anything. He may have just been mentally worn out from drugs.
People in town insisted that while he stayed on the local shelter to sleep at night, his family was actually rich. They said he pretended like he was fried, and that he knew Shakespeare and was way smart. I heard he stayed in shelters to spite his family after an argument he had with his dad 20 years before about a mysterious death in the family. I can’t remember the wack name he got, but locals feared and respected him just by his reputation. I want to say it was the dancing daddy, or something similar.
– newest_horizons
There was this colonel who founded the town a couple hours south of my hometown in the 1700s. He had an affair with a young woman, and when she got pregnant he kicked her out of town and she raised their son alone for several years. When she came back and begged him for help raising their kid, he publicly declared her a witch and had her burned to death.
After she was burned and they were taking her body away, her son tried to take her body from them so she could be buried on his property. He tried to pull her corpse from them by the leg, but it snapped off due to how scorched her body was. He took the leg and said it would be buried near his home. Before he left, however, he told the colonel (his biological father) the he hoped the colonel’s memory would always be tainted by what he did to his former mistress.
After the colonel died, a tomb was erected for him, but overnight a leg-shaped stain appeared right of the face of it. People tried to remove the stain, but it wouldn’t go away. Eventually, they just replaced the stone on the tomb entirely… only for a new, identical stain to appear in the exact same spot on the new stone.
The stain is still there to this day, and it’s a big tourist attraction in the area.
– illumi-thotti
This isn’t an urban legend, but it might as well be.
There is this vending machine in Seattle that is filled with rare and valuable soda cans, many of which are out of production.
Nobody knows who stocks the vending machine, and the one time it needed repairs, nobody saw who took it to get repaired.
– alpaca1yps
The Huaka’i Po, also known as the Night Marchers, are the spirits of ancient Hawaiian warriors who have been cursed to march the islands for eternity.
The night marchers are said to march in a single line, often carrying torches and weapons while chanting and playing drums.
To protect yourself, you must lie on the ground face down in respect.
Otherwise, the Night Marchers will kill you.
Or so they say…
– lixtrado
I grew up in southern Utah near the four corners. In other words, skinwalker country. I have lots of creepy stories about them, both from my own experiences and the experiences of others, but chances are a lot of you guys wouldn’t believe and they probably belong to a different subreddit.
However, the creepiest thing about them, is that everyone (and I mean everyone), is scared of them. Most of the people in my town are farmers and overall pretty pragmatic people who aren’t quick to believe or make up ghost stories. And yet, whenever I would ask an adult “what are skinwalkers” growing up, the answer I always got was a very serious “we don’t talk about skinwalkers.”
Whether you believe in them or not, you have to admit that the ubiquity of that attitude in my hometown is pretty weird.
– The_Sad_PlagueDoctor
We have “de rennende rukker”, that’s Dutch for “The jacking jogger”. supposedly there is someone in our area that runs around whilst jerking off.
I think someone did get caught for something similar, but I’ll always keep my ears peaked, just in case something will come fapping towards me.
– kingkongbananakong
At a site in the woods where a people were supposedly lynched, there is an indention beneath the hanging tree where the people’s feet would lightly drag while hanging.
People claim that if you fill the hole in and wait overnight, they say that the swinging feet of those lynched will visibly re-drag marks in the sand.
– shootsickmoon
I live in the Vic alpine area Australia.
Being all cool and mountainous, we have plenty of people heading up into the mountains to camp. Anyways, there have been rumors about this guy known as the button man.
Pretty much people are waking up to find pictures of this man lying next to them in their tent taken with their own phone.
I wouldn’t usually believe rumors like this, considering it can it could be easily faked. But once I was out on an overnight hike with 2 friends. It was relatively late and me and one friend clearly hear human footsteps outside the tent. I call out my other friends name who was sleeping alone in another tent. We hear the footsteps sprint away from our campsite, so I get up and scan the area with my torch, finding nothing.
We then go to check on my friend, who we find sleeping Scared out of our minds, we stay up the rest of the night just incase, but we don’t hear anything else. We didn’t find any new images on our phones in the morning, and there was no evidence that somebody had been to our campsite. But the footsteps sounded so human so It’s hard to say it was an animal.
Other than that we have had 2 campers (unrelated to me or each other) gone missing in the night on separate occasions. With their dead bodies found later out in the snow gum forests. Most likely dead from hypothermia, but it’s hard to say whether it was liked to the button man.
– ManyBirbs
There’s an abandoned mental asylum near where I used to live.
People would of course say it is haunted and dare one another to go there at night. But the weird thing is, it draws people in. If you find yourself driving late at night, you might end up driving on the grounds of the asylum out of nowhere.
This happened to me and my mom once. Somehow we got off at the wrong exit, several exits from our normal exit, and wound up on the grounds of the asylum- shouldn’t even be possible (there are gates that are supposed to be closed and locked).
I remember my mom and I were freaked out, and for a second I thought I saw faces looking out from the windows of the asylum, lights flickering on and off.
We managed to find our way out through the main gate again shortly after.
– ImmaPsychoLogist
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go do something cheery as I greatly regret working on this article alone in my apartment at night.
What urban legends do you have to share?
Creep us out in the comments.
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I mean, honestly. There’s all the hiding, the cover-ups, the stories, the staying out of the eye of the ever-present beast that is social media, it’s just a whole thing.
Looking for a way to make it easier? Why not keep things local! Very local. As in, just start hooking up with your next door neighbor. At least you won’t have to go very far to get things going, though if you’re living in attached housing like an apartment you might want to watch how loud you get next to those thin walls.
If it wasn’t clear already, we’re being tongue-in-cheek and not actually advocating for infidelity. But maybe the people who made these posts heard similar pitches, because man did they go for it.
As always, the choice is yours.
Source: Whisper
The Barracuda is a nice little bit of color for the story.
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So close and yet so far.
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Well, that’s rather telling.
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That’s quite a step there.
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He hasn’t found out yet.*
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Hey, I would too.
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It’s a familiar tune.
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That’s not a great sign of things to come.
Source: Whisper
That’s a long time to hold that in.
Source: Whisper
Maybe the convenience doesn’t quite outweigh the rest of it, huh?
Have you ever been involved in a cheating situation?
Tell us about it in the comments.
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One of my favorite podcasts to listen to is The Dollop.
On it, some insane story from (usually American) history is told and riffed on, but the comedy doesn’t always come easy in the face of how purely horrific so much of history really is.
I mean, see for yourself:
Historians of Reddit, what’s a devastating event that no one talks about? from AskReddit
It should be noted that by their own admission many of the people who posted these summaries are not officially historians, and that you should look deeper into the stories mentioned if you want the real scoop.
Still, it’s pretty darkly fascinating stuff. Take it away, history buffs of Reddit.
All because kids were being kids in a death trap:
“The disaster started when about 1,000 children in the audience of a variety show were told they could get free toys.
Kids began pouring down the aisles to get the toys, blocking the exits and piling on top of one another.
In the end, 183 of them were crushed to death.”
– HeyWaitHUHWhat
It is largest mass shooting in Asia since Tianmen Square, with over one thousand killed and even more wounded.
The Uzbek government forcefully “silenced” reform protests by firing into the crowd and then kicked out 90% of westerners in the country when the US gov and UN tried to investigate.
Terrible loss of life that rarely gets remembered because the Uzbek government tried so hard to cover it up.
– -theRedPanda-
It’s not as though nobody talks about it at all but considering how catastrophic it was, it doesn’t get nearly enough attention.
At this time civilisations were still pretty scarce but the eastern Mediterranean was full of them. We can’t pinpoint an exact reason but at some point it all fell apart.
The Myceneans? Gone!
The Hittites? Gone!
The Minoans? Gone!
The Egyptians? Barely clinging on and having serious problems.
There are many things that happened around that time in that general area that could be the culprit: Volcanoes, earthquakes, drought, famine, war and invasions from ‘foreigners that came by boat’ that historians have named the Sea People because we have basically no idea where they came from.
In reality, it was probably a combination of some or even all of them.
– tiffinstorm
His regime killed 25% of its population.
Let that sink in – one in four.
If you were educated, you were first killed.
– Total_D*ck_Move
The deadliest civil engineering disaster on US soil, it killed 2209 people.
After a dam collapsed it swept up rail cars, passengers, trees, an entire town of 10,000, then swirled it around and ejected the debris downriver into a bridge where it all caught fire.
Destruction beyond belief, and all so that some rich steel magnates up the mountain didn’t maintain the dam they used to keep their fishing reservoir.
– Ludendorff
That year marked several natural disasters and social upheaval that devastated multiple societies.
It’s thought that a volcanic eruption blocked out enough sun to cause crop failures across Europe and as far as China.
While this was happening terrible plagues were also afflicting the Middle East. Economies everywhere fell to ruin and stagnation in the years that followed because several other eruptions later made things worse.
– LiteracyIzGrate
Put simply, it was an upsurp Kingdom in 1850’s China that directly and indirectly led to the deaths of millions (maybe ten million+) of people through massacre and famine.
Hong Xiuquan believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ and persuaded enough people to follow along and start a civil war.
Check out God’s Chinese Son by Jonathan Spence.
– oswan
In Canada, from the late 1950s to 1980s, the government removed indigenous children from their homes and families and placed them up for adoption or in foster care.
Most remained in Canada but some were sent to the US or western Europe.
The majority were placed with white middle class families.
A number of them experienced abuse. This even furthered the loss of their culture.
– billyandteddy
US ambassador Henry Lane Wilson conspired with the nephew of the former Mexican president and Mexican army general in the US embassy in Mexico City to assassinate the newly elected president of Mexico.
Absolutely wild and tragic assassination that shook Mexico in 1913.
– SteveRalph
We talk a lot about Columbine and Sandy Hook, but few people nowadays remember the 1927 bombing of the school in Bath, Michigan, or the explosion of a school in New London, Texas in 1937 that in addition to killing almost 300 people, launched the career of a cub reporter named Walter Cronkite.
The Bath Massacre was mostly done with dynamite, wired into the school by a disgruntled janitor who also killed his wife and some of his livestock, and the New London disaster is why natural gas, which is odorless, has an unpleasant-smelling gas added to it. Some people who went to parts of the school in the days preceding the blast complained of headaches and dizziness, but nobody could figure out why.
– notthesedays
Absolutely crazy and literally can’t believe this happened. And nobody f*cking ever talks about it.
Think about this, it’s the Vietnam war, and you are Vietnamese and obviously want nothing to do with it. Many saw their only way out was by sea, due to tensions with neighboring countries. So hordes of people tried to escape the country in little boats.
Now here’s the kicker, it’s estimated that up to 400,000 of them drowned. […] Everything got stolen. People got sick and starved. Pirates kidnapped people.
Absolutely horrible. That wiki page makes me feel bad for ever having complained about anything
– Wooden_Muffin_9880
Was supposed to be a celebration of the crowning of Nicholas II as emperor.
Around 500,000 people gathered in a field where they would receive free food.
Rumors spread that there wouldn’t be enough food for everyone leading to a panic and everyone rushing the field.
1,389 people were trampled to death. Nicholas II responded by going to a party that night.
– CrustyTowel
Asked my history studying friend about this, she said there’s A LOT of events that people don’t talk about. For example, there was a lot of countries involved in the Balkan conflict who knew about the massacre of Srebrenica but still allowed it to happen.
So many historical events are just so grim and depressing when you read about it, we knew bad things were happening but didn’t stop until it was too late for many people.
– ThiccNya
The disease outbreaks that hit the Americas with the arrival of the Europeans.
You hear about a 90% death rate and it sounds made up, but whatever the actual number was, entire civilizations were literally wiped out. Cultures that had existed for thousands of years are just gone, with barely a record left. You have stories of people coming across whole villages of corpses. These people died never even having seen the Europeans, never knowing what was killing them and their loved ones and totally helpless to do anything about it.
– Vic_Hedges
People who were diagnosed with leprosy were forcibly banished to Kalaupapa to live out the rest of their lives – they were dug graves, had to stand in them, while their families and friends basically had a “living funeral” for them where they had the dirt thrown on them; they were then pronounced dead to the world and no longer part of the community.
This continued through 1969 even after Hawaii officially became a state.
– daphne_dysarte
Well that’s all certainly…horrifying.
Have another horrifying historical tale to add?
Tell us in the comments.
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According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the quickest gestation period for any mammal goes to the Virginian opossum, who only goes about 12 days before.
The longest period belong to the Indian elephant, who typically clocks in at about 22 months (for those keeping score at home, that’s nearly two years.)
Humans fall right smack dab in the middle of the spectrum with a tidy 9 month pregnancy in most cases. And while that may seem a short sentence compared to the likes of the elephant, it’s full of enough contortions and bodily surprises to make it feel significantly longer.
But don’t take my word for it – I’m just some dude. Check out what these women had to say.
If it’s not one thing, it’s another.
Source: Whisper
Is it time to go to the hospital or just to clear the room?
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I feel like that alone should be on a motivational poster.
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All that AND no coffee? This is the worst.
Source: Whisper
If you count the ability to create a new human being I’d say you’d got two superpowers.
Source: Whisper
What’s going on in there anyway?
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So do mine and I don’t even have an excuse.
Source: Whisper
Imagine what that would feel like from the inside tho.
Source: Whisper
Yup, that’s next level pregnancy alright.
Source: Whisper
Subsidize TP.
Source: Whisper
God bless you, pregnant ladies. I don’t know how you do it.
Have you ever been pregnant? What was it like?
Tell us in the comments.
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I don’t know if you’ve been made aware of this yet, but history is kind of terrible. In all kinds of ways.
Historians of Reddit, what’s a devastating event that no one talks about? from AskReddit
Many of the people who posted here included disclaimers that they were not full-on historians, and that the information they present should be taken with a grain of salt. Those disclaimers have been removed for the sake of not getting redundant, but the point remains that if any of these tales from Reddit intrigue you – you should definitely look into them further!
The Year of Living Dangerously in Indonesia in 1965-66 saw absolute chaos and still has a marked effect on their society. It is possibly one of the largest mass killings of the last century and I had heard nothing about it ever, living in the West. It’s hard to say how many people actually died, but estimates range from 100k to 300k, and even on up to 500k or a million dead.
Basically, the Communist party in Indonesia was heavily influenced by Maoism and ethnic Chinese civilians. It was the largest Communist party outside of China. President Sukarno, who had helped the country through Japanese occupation and independence from the Dutch/British had kept the house of cards balanced, but was beginning to be swayed by Communist policies. The military, staunchly anti-Communist (and largely supported by the US) would be looking to take power.
One night, 6 high-ranking members of the military were abducted and killed. The army spread the word that the Communists were to blame and initiated mass reprisals. Killings, torture and imprisonment ran rampant over the islands and even ethnic Chinese or just suspected Communists were taken. Despite working with Sukarno for many years, the US would support his liquidation and the rise of the military. It is unclear how extensive American support to the army was, but it is probable they aided in training and may have even helped compile names of Communists to the army. Eventually, a general by the name of Suharto would take power and Sukarno would be placed under house arrest with no power.
Today, the massacres and chaos are not really taught in Indonesian schools and it’s clear that many have not come to terms with what happened. However, the mass killings of possibly a million or more people should rank up there in devastating events.
– captfaramir
In 1859, solar flares hit the earth causing an aurora borealis effect to be seen all over the world. It lasted for several days, during which time it was reportedly bright enough to read by at midnight. Telegraph operators reported receiving shocks and burns from the devices, and in some cases removed the batteries powering the telegraphs, as signals were being disrupted by the geomagnetic storm. After removing the batteries, the telegraphs still operated, in some cases better than they had when powered.
It wasn’t particularly devastating at the time, but it’s estimated that if a similar storm were to hit us today, it would cripple the entire planet for potentially decades. The estimated repair cost in the US alone is measured in the trillions. In 2012, a similar storm missed the earth by nine days.
– Dyne4R
Something that Is well known but not that much is the Goiânia accident in Brazil, where Cesium-137 was handled by many people, including children. It is regarded as the worst radioactive incident to happen in Brazil.
It was a radioactive contamination accident that happened on September 13, 1987 after a radiotherapy machine from an abandoned hospital was illegally stripped for parts and said parts were stolen, on September 16 one of the thieves opened a cesium capsule and then on September 18 sold it to a scrapyard, at that same night the owner of the scrapyard saw a blue glow in the machines parts (which was the cesium capsule that had been opened).
Thinking it might be valuable he brought it to his home, over the next 3 days he invited friends and family to see the strange glowing substance, on September 21 one of his friends succeeded in freeing several rice-sized grains of the glowing material from the opened capsule, he then started sharing some of them with friends and family, on September 25 the capsule was again sold to another scrap yard – although one day before the sale more dust was removed from the capsule by the scrapyard owner’s brother, the brother then took the dust home and spread it on the concrete floor where later his daughter would play in and with the dust she also ate while sitting on the floor and dust particles fell on her food, contaminating it – one of the family members of the owner of the first scrapyard noticed that many people around her fell ill and on September 28 she reclaimed the capsule from the second scrapyard and brought it to a hospital, in the morning of September 29 it was confirmed that the material was radioactive and the doctors persuaded authorities to take immediate action on the matter the city, state, and national governments were all aware of the incident by the end of the day.
News of the radiation incident was broadcast on local, national, and international media.
Within days, nearly 130,000 people went to local hospitals concerned that they might have been exposed, of those only 250 were indeed contaminated – some with radioactive residue still on their skin – 4 of those people died including a 6 year old girl (the one that ate food that had been contaminated by dust particles).
– Otaldolitro
It’s the deadliest conflict since WW2 with about 5.4 million deaths a vast majority of them due to malnutrition and disease
– TrentonTallywacker
Baghdad used to be one of the biggest and most vibrant cities in the world in the 1200s.
Until the Mongols came.
Baghdad did not recover its year 1200 population until the 1980s.
– SenorBeef
During WW2 the Japanese had invaded the Alaskan island of Attu. On the island was the village of Attu where the Aleutian tribe had lived for centuries. The only non natives were the wife school teacher and priest husband who were elderly and beloved by the townspeople.
The husband was shot in front of his wife by the Japanese. After that the Japanese loaded the native population on to ships back to Japan were they worked in POW camps where many died from disease and execution. The Japanese saw them as lower then soldier POW and almost sub human because they didn’t fight back and thus treated them horribly.
When the war ended only a handful of the native population survived and they went back home only to find their village burned down. They left the island and it now remains uninhabited basically, driving the Attu tribe to extinction.
Years later the Japanese left a peace monument on the island in honor of the American and Japanese soldiers that died there but have yet to apologize to the descendants of the Attu tribe they destroyed.
– arcticredneck10
One thing that doesn’t get talked about was more of a phenomenon or major problem than event, and that was how many people died in theater fires due to poor design, combustible materials, few fire exits, and panic.
One of the worst was the Iroquois Theater in Chicago (1903), which is both the deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in US history where patrons died after sparks from an arc light set a curtain on fire, then a chain reaction started, exacerbated by failures of the things in place that were supposed to combat fire.
The theater had been overbooked to compensate for earlier poor sales, causing some to sit blocking the exits. The fire was immediately worsened when performers opened the stage door to get outside, as it turned the fire into a fireball. Many people were held inside by iron gates that had been put in place to prevent people from sneaking in without paying. As people fled, they tumbled down stairs, trampled each other, and got squashed to death. Their unfamiliarity with the building got them stuck in dead ends and up against windows. Many jumped from fire escapes and died, while those behind them were saved, the bodies of the earlier jumpers cushioning their falls.
All in all, 602 people died, many were children. The story is a lot more complicated and sordid with city corruption, etc. The one takeaway is the incident promoted the development and use of the panic bar.
– etoiles-du-nord
Galveston, Texas was once considered to be one of the most important commercial ports in the United States and was referred to by several fantastical names such as the “Queen City of the Gulf” and the “Wallstreet of the West”.
All that changed when it suffered a near-direct hit from a devastating Category 4 Hurricane in 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in American history. Pretty much the entire city was destroyed by a storm surge and anywhere from 8,000 to 12,000 people died.
Galveston was rebuilt but it never truly regained its status; Houston became the state’s commercial center in the storm’s wake, in addition to other factors.
– TheMidnightScorpion
I watched Shake Hands with the Devil here awhile ago and highly recommend it.
Unspeakable acts of brutality inflicted.
Still gives me chills.
– GartSnart52
In 535, humans went through hell. Many reported a strange color in the skies, not just in Europe… A dense, dry fog was also reported in Asia and the Middle East. Even the regions, now known as the Americas, weren’t spared… e.g. drought in Peru. Temperatures were rather low in some places… it snowed either in the summertime. One survivor, a Roman politician named Cassiodorus, explained about the bluish sun and no shadows being cast, even in the noon.
It has been hypothesized that Iceland holds the reason for the events between the years 535 and 536. Iceland is known for its volcanoes, and it was possible one such was to blame.
– MissSara101
The sea peoples and Bronze Age collapse associated with it.
Seriously, over a thousand years of culture and progress lost in a hundred years
– xXshadowmaniaXx
The Paddle Steamer PS General Slocum, that caught fire and sank in the East River in 1904. More than a thousand German Americans died in the accident, and it was considered the NYC’s biggest disaster until 9/11.
Up until that point, the city had had a thriving German community, but that single event almost completely destroyed an entire Lutheran church congregation, comprised of many of the city’s most influential citizens.
Maybe not an event ‘no one talks about’, as it’s been lamented many times, but certainly a tragic date of historic note.
– willflameboy
Back in 1880, a bunch of educators of the deaf all decided to meet in Milan to determine how best to teach deaf people. 164 delegates were in attendance, only one of whom was deaf.
At the time, there was a conflict among educators of deaf people about whether an oralism or manualism based approach was better. Proponents of oralism argued that deaf people would never succeed in society if they could not speak and hold a conversation in the same way a hearing person would. To this end, anyone who attempted to sign would be punished, and deaf people were forced to lip read.
At the end of the conference, sign language was banned in all educational institutions, and deaf people were not allowed to teach, for fear that it would encourage the use of sign language. As a result, for roughly 100 years, deaf people were essentially isolated from communication and unable to form communities.
To this day, amongst older generations of deaf people, many still have never learned to sign. In addition, Deaf culture as a whole was and is profoundly affected by this event, because it essentially stole stories that had been passed down from generation to generation, erasing the history of deaf people and the Deaf community.
– FrauMew
Poor British children were taken from their families and sold to Canada as indentured servants/farmhands.
Many of these children were never checked on, were not paid, educated, fed, or clothed properly, and endured cruel and unusual treatment.
Some died, but most ran away.
– inkling66
He was a known advocate for racial equality. He appointed black men into his cabinet and tried expanding public education into the south to get more African-Americans an education.
He tried to fight for racial equality but died four months into his presidency which f*cked it up.
– bentheboy1139
D*mn history, you scary.
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