Most of us think of sleep as a safe retreat—a place where our minds can wander while our bodies rest. But for some, the night isn’t quite so peaceful. Sleepwalking can turn bedrooms into crime scenes, transform sidewalks into tightropes, and in a few chilling cases, even blur the line between dreaming and disaster. What … Continue reading Sleepwalking Secrets: 7 Strange and Shocking Stories
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Herman Lamm, known as the pioneer of modern bank robbery, introduced groundbreaking methods such as meticulously scouting banks and devising escape plans prior to committing the crime. Employing a systematic approach called “The Lamm Technique,” he successfully executed numerous bank heists. Unfortunately, his final robbery attempt ended in disaster and ultimately led to his demise. […]
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Adam Worth, an American who served in the Union Army during the US Civil War, later embarked on a criminal career in Europe. Garnering the moniker “the Napoleon of Crime,” he became the basis for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary character, Professor James Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’ archenemy. Notably, Worth organized and led a network of […]
Tom Justice, a contender for the Olympic…
Tom Justice, a contender for the Olympic cycling trials, became a bank robber and used his cycling skills to escape after the robberies. However, during his crime spree, his own bike was stolen. He also developed a drug addiction and started a master’s degree.
A man robbed a bank for $1 in order…
A man robbed a bank for $1 in order to get sent to prison and receive treatment for pancreatic cancer. However, once inside he learned he did not have cancer, and struck a deal with prosecutors for an early release after one year in prison.
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In 2019 a man robbed a bank, threw…
In 2019 a man robbed a bank, threw the money out onto the street, and shouted “Merry Christmas!” He then went to a Starbucks where he waited to be arrested.
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A Lithuanian man living in the UK…
A Lithuanian man living in the UK went missing in 2015, he was presumed murdered and the case went cold until 2020 when a Facebook profile with his named showed up. He had been living in woodland for 5 years completely isolated from the outside world and not sighted once in those 5 years.
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People Break Down The Wildest Rumors From High School That Turned Out To Be True
As often as we were told not to believe—or spread—them, we tended to love rumors in high school.
Whether it was an overheard tidbit flying around the hallways or some juicy gossip in the lunch room, it wasn’t uncommon to find ourselves bending our ears to hear every eye-widening detail.
Apparently Redditor tall_hopelessromantic was feeling a bit deprived of the tea lately, because they kicked off a thread with the following question:
“What popular rumour in your school turned out to be true?”
Plenty of people, of course, spoke of romantic affairs.
“Our science teacher was having an affair with our science technician and regularly left the class to have sex with her in the technicians room.”
“That rumour started day 1, then 4 years, 2 divorces and 2 very quick departures later it was confirmed and what was left behind was a technicians daughter in my year whose life had fallen apart.” — Porochaz
Some were quite upsetting.
“That a 12-year-old 6th grader had gotten pregnant over summer break. Our Los Angeles county suburb (it was a small and far-separated from LA itself, see how large that county actually is on Google if you are unawares)…”
“…was so scandalized by this ‘rumor’ that a newspaper article came out with a cartoon drawing of a pregnant girl in a pretty little girl dress and ribbon in her hair — playing with dolls and kneeling next to a doll-house — accompanied the story about the ‘little girl who got pregnant and planned to keep the baby.’ “
“She was interviewed. I remember her name but it’s unnecessary— the whole damn town knew who it was.”
“What’s wild is that the kids in Jr. High actually had a baby shower for this 7th grader as she got close to full-term, and all brought in packs of diapers and formula for her on a designated day. With the teachers, principal, and probably the school district in support of this. The year was 1984-1985.” — RelentlesslyCrooked
But others were a bit more wholesome.
“In my Catholic (Jesuit) high school, one of the priests and one of the nuns were very close friends. We all loved them, and we could see that they were quite fond of one another (and they made a really nice looking couple).”
“We used to affectionately kid them about ‘meeting in the tunnel’ between the convent and the rectory. A few years after my class graduated, they both left their Orders, got married, and had kids. We’re all happy for them.” — SmokeHimInside
Other rumors hinged on crime and other questionable activities.
“In high school: that the biology teacher was growing weed in the environmental lab. Supposedly he did it for 30 years without anyone noticing. No one could ever prove it though.”
“Later on, I was assigned to be the agent taking care of some of his financial matters, so I went to his house to have him sign some paperwork. He had a hydroponic setup there, so I asked him about the environmental lab. It was like Han Solo in The Force Awakens.”
“ ‘It’s true. All of it.’ Then he offered me a brownie.” — JayMax19
In one case, the truth was stranger than fiction.
“That one of the students was actually a cop. Turns out he was a cop and busted one of the actual students for selling handguns in school.”
“If you thought 21 jump street was unrealistic think again. Cop was a 33 year old male and undercover for like half the semester.” — AllThotsGo2Heaven2
Then there was the horrifying kind.
“That one of the seniors in my school wrote all over the men’s room bathroom about bringing a bomb to school.”
“The bomb squad evacuated us all, dogs came and they found one in a random locker. It was absolutely nuts, kid got arrested two seats next to me in english class a couple of days later once they could prove he did it” — Alienexxa227
And of course, more weed.
“There was always a rumor that the head janitor was a huge pothead and would smoke with students in one of the storage sheds away from the main building.”
“I always figured it was bullsh** until my friend CJ sent me a pic of him and the janitor smoking weed while surrounded by folding chairs.” — apocalypticradish
In one case, the rumor was shownto be true, rather than told.
“At our school this one kid was rumored to be a son of one of the local gyms amateur boxer teacher. Non of us had no real reason to think twice about it. Once we got to high school this kid started teasing that kid.”
“I had a couple of mutal friends with the bully so I warned the guy he might want to let up on teasing him. A couple days go by the dude didn’t stop. And the boxer’s kid proceeded to give this guy one of the worst one sided fights I have ever seen.”
“The bully learned his lesson and never bullied anyone else for the rest of our high school years. So it turned out to be true.” — gibry12
For one teacher, the scientific method left every door open.
“Biology teacher decided to use the scientific method to personally prove or disprove to himself that humans could photosynthesize.”
“He did this by laying bare ass naked on his front lawn, landing him a public nudity charge.” — Arikan89
And some were just plain bizarre.
Like this one, which involved an animal.
“this was a roumour that went around my elementary school. basically my school had a lock down but they didn’t tell us what it was for.”
“one kid came in the next day and told us that his sister said it was a cow in the field in between the high school and middle school. so my second grade class went and told everyone else in the school. the next day we had an assembly that confirmed this rumor.” — Ptential_Hedgehog92
Or this one, which also involved an animal.
“In middle school, there was a rumor my 7th-8th grade Social Studies teacher owned a pet donkey. Turned out to be true. The donkey’s name was Pedro the Donkey.” — MasterAqua2
But no matter how wild or out there these rumors may sound, we can rest assured there plenty more—perhaps wilder—out there as well.
Only you know how your school stacks up .
People Divulge The Most Disturbing Facts They Almost Regret Ever Learning
I’m a big fan of horror movies and quite a few of my favorite films happen to be depressing, hard-hitting dramas the average person might not choose to watch.
But truth, as they say, is stranger than fiction and real life can often be much more disturbing than anything we might see on our screens or read in books.
For instance, have you ever heard of the Kaimingjie germ weapon attack? During World War II, the Japanese bombed the Chinese with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.
The attack is just one of the many war crimes the Japanese committed against the Chinese, and that’s including the atrocities, among them human experimentation, committed at Unit 731.
If you have the stomach for it—and I have rarely been more serious in my life—the film Men Behind the Sun dramatizes many of these crimes.
It turns out there’s no shortage of disturbing facts out there.
Let’s face it, humans are messed up.
We heard quite a few of them after Redditor Ddeddffddvvf asked the online community:
“What was a fact you regret knowing?”
“From personal experience…”
“From personal experience… just how fast pigs… process… a corpse.”
“Had an old goat die in the barn and didn’t find her for a couple of hours. At the time we had two pigs that were a few months old. Didn’t realize just how much we had messed up by letting them be in with the goats that day.”
“Come evening, we go to close up and do the evening chores, and find half of a goat spilled all over the floor with our pigs rooting around the guts. And that’s the story of how fifteen-year-old me learned to respect pigs.” ~ CalamityJay
“More people jumped…”
“More people jumped from the burning World Trade Center on 9/11 than you think. Do yourself a favor and don’t Google it.” ~ GoreyFeldman
To which this person replied:
“Seriously. I was on a 9/11 kick recently, if you want to call it that, and I came across a documentary on YouTube of footage stitched together from the first plane hitting to the final building collapsing, lasting about 1 hour and 40 minutes.”
“No interviews, just cellphone footage, old home cameras, and some news footage sprinkled in. There’s a section in the documentary of people beginning to jump one after another. It continues on for the rest of the documentary and it’s very disheartening.” ~ TheChubbyBuns
“The Challenger space shuttle…”
“The Challenger space shuttle astronauts were most likely alive and awake on the way down.” ~ thezoidberg
“An octopus penis…”
“An octopus penis is actually one of their tentacles. So if you would go and pet an octopus at Sea World or some other place you could be groping their penis.” ~ TillyOTilly
“Every year thousands of children…”
“Every year thousands of children write to Santa Clause. One of the most requested things children ask for on their Christmas lists is a dad.” ~ jadedgenie
“There was an experiment…”
“There was an experiment once where, every hour, a rat had to choose between getting fed or having the pleasure nerve of its brain stimulated. And the rat being tested starved every time. It’s pretty interesting but also kind of sad.”
“Thanks, Freeman’s Mind.” ~ Superflamegameplays
To which this person replied:
“Yes, but for those experiments, they keep the rats isolated in cages with nothing else to do. So of course they choose that option all the time.” ~ hammermuffin
“Male ducks…”
“Male ducks gang-rape female ducks.” ~ PopcornVT
To which this person replied:
“Male and female ducks are also in an evolutionary arms race to develop more and more convoluted genitals to prevent/enable the rape. I am not kidding.”
“Female ducks develop more and more convoluted vagina shapes to make it more difficult, and males respond by developing ever longer explosive spiraling corkscrew dicks.
“The females that can control when they mate (only relaxing their vaginal shape when it’s consensual) are more successful and the males who are better at raping are more successful (in the sense of passing on their genes/having more living offspring), so they just keep evolving in that direction.” ~ holysh*treddit
“Your child is more likely…”
“Your child is more likely to be abused by someone you know than a stranger. You literally have to protect children more from their own family and friends than random criminals.” ~ CerseiLemon
“The fact that at literally any second…”
“The fact that at literally any second you could lose someone you love. Everyone “knows” this but once it’s happened a few times you’re acutely aware of it. A car wreck, a miscarriage, a heart attack, stroke.” ~ SaltyTapeworm
“This is dark, but…”
“This is dark, but in the U.S., police are not legally obligated to protect you.”
“There was a case where a police department refused to enforce a restraining order or act after a father kidnapped his three daughters because they assumed he would bring them back to his wife eventually.”
“He ended up killing them and driving their bodies to the police station, where he was then shot and killed. The police department was sued for not acting, but was found not guilty.” ~ ecoseeker
“That there are…”
“That there are anywhere between 25-50 active serial killers in the United States, according to the FBI.” ~ nmacro
“So when they land on your sandwich…”
“Flies don’t have teeth. So, when they land on your sandwich and want to eat some, they barf up the contents of their stomach (often containing another animal’s s***) so the digestive enzymes can get on the food and then they eat.” ~ Tmbgkc
We apologize in advance if any of these truly scared the hell out of you. It’s a big, beautiful world out there, but we’d be lying if we told you it’s not without its horrors.
While we’re at it, we’ll leave you with this—did you know that a brain aneurysm can happen at any time?
Aneurysms are unpredictable and may not show any symptoms until they rupture.
That’s a fact that has kept me up at night sometimes. And if you didn’t know about it, then you certainly know now.
Be afraid… be very afraid.
What is the Scariest True Story You Know? People Responded.
I’m a true crime fanatic and I genuinely enjoy reading and hearing about true stories that are disturbing and scary.
Does that make me a weirdo?
Perhaps, but at least now I know I’m not alone, judging by how many people out there are obviously into the same kind of stuff.
Folks on AskReddit shared the scariest true stories they know.
Prepare to get creeped out.
1. Creepy.
“I grew up in a funeral home. I helped out in the office.
When I was about 15, we got a call from a man whose wife and infant baby had been m**dered in cold blood.
There were very few clues. It made headlines. Cops set up surveillance at the viewing. It was heartbreaking, as the mother was holding the baby in her arms.
I was asked to take the flower cards and periodically get the husband and ask if he recognized the names. I then photocopied them and put them back. I did it because I was a “kid,” people knew me, and I was unobtrusive.
I talked to the husband quite a bit. He seemed devastated and shaken.
The cops told me they had an eyewitness to someone leaving the house the day of the m**der.
The witness was a three year old girl. She recognized the man leaving. It was the husbands best friend.
Turns out that the friend and the husband had made a pact to k**l each other’s families and run off with their secretaries. The little girl identified the friend, and I guess one of them cracked.
They both went to jail on multiple counts, all on the testimony of a three year old.
I still cannot believe to this day that that man stood right beside me, multiple times, and I had NO CLUE.”
2. Awful.
“James Bulger.
He was just 2 years old and with his mom running errands. She let go of his hand to pay the cashier, and he wandered away. Two ten year old boys spotted him, lured him toward them, took him by the hands and led him away. They took him to a remote location, pushing and kicking at him the whole time.
Some people questioned the two kids with the crying toddler, but they lied saying he was their brother and nobody intervened further. They took him to a secluded spot and t**tured him. I don’t want to recount the t**ture details, it’s just too gruesome. They left his body on some railroad tracks hoping that being run over by a train would make it look like an accident. He was found days later, his body severed in half by a train.
The boys were caught and became the youngest convicted m**derers in British history. Security footage from the day they took James shows them watching children, picking out a target. And they were just kids themselves. They were released at 18. One of them is back in jail for possessing child abuse photos on his computer.
The most terrifying thing about this for me is that my own son is only 2 now, and James’s m**derers were just children, too. It was premeditated and intentional and entirely random. Just a momentary lapse in attention and he became a target of two m**derous children. Children.
To think that children younger than my step son are capable of such a thing… ugh. Everything about this case is just horrifying.”
3. The more you know…
“My dad worked in a morgue in during college in the 60’s.
One time on the night shift he was training a recent hire who was wheeling a body down the hallway. The body was under a sheet but all of a sudden started to sit up. The guy immediately freaked out, ran out the doors and quit.
Apparently a d**d body can have muscle contractions in the abs causing it to start sitting up. The more you know I guess.”
4. Terrible.
“During college, I lived in an apartment with a community pool. There were a bunch of us having beers at the pool one night over summer term, and one of my friends ran to jump in the pool but changed his mind at the last second.
His feet slipped out from under him on the wet concrete and he went down. He broke his neck in the edge of the pool…never walked again and had extremely limited upper body function.
I watched someone’s life be ruined and it was terrifying. Listen to the lifeguard and walk.”
5. This is terrifying.
“I had a guy tell me a story a couple decades ago about how he was hiking in an area in South America and wandered away from other hikers in the area.
The ground was wet and without warning it gave away and he got sucked into a fast moving underground river- pitch black, completely submerged, and at the mercy of the current as it buffeted him against the sides of the tunnel. After some time the current subsided and he realized he was in a larger pocket, still pitch black and submerged.
He said that even as he struggled to hold his breath, he didn’t panic and realized that the water had to keep moving somewhere, so he moved around until he found another tunnel that sucked him in.
At one point he began to see light so he punched upwards, broke through the ground and pulled himself out, soaking wet, gasping for air, and a bit of a distance from the other dry hikers, who were somewhat bewildered when they saw him straggling up to them.”
6. Explosion.
“The New London school explosion.
A school in Texas in 1937 tried to tap into natural gas on their own and it ended up leaking and blowing up the school. It’s the reason they make natural gas scented in Texas and probably the US now. I’m amazed I never heard of this in school because it seems like something that should be taught.
I read some survivor stories and I had f**king nightmares. It was horrible. Three in particular stuck with me. One was a 7 or 8 year old girl, she saw her best friend and playmate with her entire body crushed by concrete with only her shoulders and head above it, and she still had a lollipop in her mouth like she didn’t know what happened.
Another was a guy I think a 16-17 year old, helping un-dig people and bring them out of the wreckage. He saw a dad holding his daughter crying his eyes out while the back of the girls head was broken open with her brain on the ground next to her.
The last was a 9ish year old girl who went to find her mom after it happened (there was a PTA meeting going on at the time so there was a lot of parents at the scene) her mom was freaking out trying to find her but didn’t even recognize her. She went upto her mom and called out to her but she just kept saying ‘you’re not my daughter.” She was so covered in blood and ash and tears that her own mother couldn’t recognize her.
It was a truly horrifying thing.”
7. Right next door.
“I lived next to a m**derer.
Faye Swetlik was 6 years old when she was kidnapped out of her front yard. It was all over the news. I had news crews, cops, even the FBI all over my townhouse complex. My fiancée and I met with the FBI 3 times. They searched our home and everything. I remember clear as day, my fiancée FaceTimed me as the cops were digging through the trash cans directly in front of my townhouse.
They pulled out her boot and a bloody knife. Then they found her body, dumped maybe 300 feet from my house. He had watched them find the m**der weapon. Dumbass put it in a trash bag along with his other mail. He went to his back porch and opened his own throat.
It’s crazy. I had conversations with the guy. I never knew he was a psycho. This all happened a year ago.”
8. Middle of the night.
“My great aunt woke up in the middle of the night, she heard her dog making these low growls.
She was single at the time and living alone in her ranch-style home. She walked out to her living room to check things out. She didn’t see or hear anything out of the ordinary, so she decided to make sure her door and front windows were locked. Door was locked, first window she checked was locked.
When she lifted the mini blind on the second window, it was wide open and a guy in a ski mask was standing there. She said he laughed this evil laugh and said “party time” then he started to climb in. She screamed that she had a g**, her dog started barking his head off. The would be r**ist decided to bolt. My aunt did get a g** after that and learned how to use it.
I can’t even think about what would’ve happened to her if she didn’t have her dog to warn her.”
9. The Girl in the Box.
“The kidnapping of Colleen Stan. She was hitchhiking in the 70s, and turned down rides because they didn’t seem safe.
A van with a young couple and a baby offered her a ride, and because it was a family, she accepted. They held her at gun point, put a giant box on her head that blocked out noise and sound, and later, kept her in box the size of a coffin underneath their bed. She was brutally beaten and r**ed daily for 7 years. They also brainwashed her to believe that they were part of a mafia called “The Company” that would k**l her family if she tried to escape.
Eventually, the wife helped her escape and received immunity for testifying against her husband at trial. The case is known as “The Girl in the Box.””
10. Chilling.
“Germanwings Flight 9525.
The copilot locked himself in the cockpit and set the airplane for a slow descent into the French Alps.
For 10 minutes, the crew desperately tried to get back into the cockpit, but in this post 9/11 world, the door was design to withstand assault did not fail.
This is was a daytime flight. Passengers knew what was happening. They could see the mountains getting closer out the windows. This wasn’t a quick, “what’s that… omg… out”… this was a long, drawn out realization of what was coming and the end was inevitable.
Chilling.”
11. The doctor.
“The story of Christopher Duntsch aka Doctor D**th who operated out of the Plano and Dallas area.
He maimed 33 people and ki**ed 2. He was an alleged neurosurgeon that didn’t actually receive a proper medical education to operate, but still did so despite not fully being trained. No hospital would report him or take his license away. They would just pass him off to another hospital to continue injuring or ki**ing people.
He was the first doctor to be formally indicated with m**der, and sentenced to life imprisonment.”
12. Wow.
“My brother was a police officer.
He had a call to check on the welfare of a mother who had not showed up for work. She had d**d on the sofa and her little toddler brought the little diaper pad and laid down next to her, and d**d of dehydration.
The little kid had opened the lower cabinets and drawers in the kitchen looking for food. He still cries about it. And he’s not the crying kind”
Okay, you’re up!
In the comments, tell us about the scariest true story you know.
Thanks in advance!
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