20 Historical Moments That Belong in Horror Movies

‘Human population was nearly eradicated 70,000 years ago’
20 Historical Moments That Belong in Horror Movies
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Purveyors of horror love to fictionalize a creepy twist in historical events. Hell, Ryan Murphy has made a whole career out of it. Unfortunately, they’re usually much more mundane than they’re portrayed onscreen. The banality of evil simply doesn’t make a good monster movie.

Sometimes, however, history is even creepier than anything Blumhouse could imagine. There are atrocities ordered by ogres that moviegoing audiences couldn’t stomach, but there are also spooky mysteries and straight-up science-nonfiction.

That’s why user FatMallow asked r/AskReddit, “What is the creepiest true event in recorded history with some significance?”

Noodle36 . 12y ago Late to the party, but the clathrate gun hypothesis freaks me out. Basically melting permafrost containing methane is thought to have caused runaway ocean toxicity and global warming, resulting in the Permian-Triassic extinction event 232 million years ago that wiped out the vast majority of life on Earth. Creepy because there's a chance it's happening.again.right now.
trevdordurden . 12y ago Human population was nearly eradicated 70,000 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba catastrophe theory.
majasaur . 12y ago I just learned about the Highway of Tears last week. Missing people spanning decades.
. 12y ago I thought that story from yesterday about Kim Jung Un having his uncle torn apart by dogs was one of the craziest things I've read in awhile.
Saftpackung 12y ago During WWII, the german auxiliary cruiser Thor sunk the british SS Britannia, eleven survivors who latched onto a small raft reported consistently that one of them was dragged in the depth by a giant squid..
PlayTheBanjo в 12y ago For me, it has to be when JFK's brain went missing while they were transporting his body after his assassination. Like, why would they do it? Who would have done it??
12y ago Rosemary Kennedy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_ Kennedy Mentally handicapped Kennedy girl, grew into rebellious teen so they gave her a lobotomy and turned her into a vegetable.
TheNosferatu 12y ago The guy who came up with the surgery to fix the 'ripping' of the vagina after a female gave birth. Не tested it over 30 times on the same woman, without any pain-killers. Go science?
prisoner216 . 12y ago . Edited 12y ago The Donner Party or the Dyatlov Pass Incident TL;DR (Donner Party) A few families go missing in 1846 going to Navada and resorts to cannibalism. (Dyatlov Pass Incident) Mysterious deaths of nine ski hikers in Russia. Although the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, a few of the bodies had high doses of radiation, and one was missing her tongue and eyes.
house_martin 12y ago Ok, I know I'm late for the party, but... In 1347, bodies of soldiers who'd died of the plague were catapulted over the walls to the city of Caffa, besieged by the Mongol army. This is said to be the first introduction of Black Death to Europe in the Middle Ages; it would wipe away over a third of the population in Europe and the Middle East.
AlbinoWitchHunter 12y ago The Dancing Plague of 1518 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague of 1518 Up to 400 took to the streets of Strasbourg, Alsace, several dancing until they died of heart failure or exhaustion. The one thought to provoke the plague was said to have taken some of the dancers back to a shrine where he skinned them and ate their flesh (not sure how true that part is)
Kiavu 12y ago creepiest, and most disturbing is the severed dog head that was kept alive with a machine in the 1920's. Sergei Brukhonenko kept the head of a dog alive with a primitive heart/lung machine. The research learned from such experiments led to the development of the first Heart/Lung machines, which are now used regularly for all types of cardiac and great vessel surgeries.
whatsasnozberry 12y ago e Edited 12y ago The brazen bull was a torture and execution device that basically roasted the person alive. It was a hollow brass bull with a door on the side. The victim would be locked inside. A fire was lit underneath the bull and a special design of tubes caused the steam to imitate the bellowing of a bull. Legend has it (with some fairly convincing evidence) that the designer of the bull was locked inside to see if his creation was true to the description.
McGravin 12y ago There's the Glico Morinaga case. An individual or group calling itself The Monster with 21 Faces started blackmailing a candy company in Japan, threatening to put poison-laced candy on store shelves if they didn't receive a ransom. Later, they switched to a different company but kept up the same tactics. At one point, an investigator dressed as a company employee went to make a money drop, following the Monster's instructions, and was watched by a suspicious looking man with eyes like a fox. This Fox-Eyed Man was the main suspect in the case until leads went cold
CursedJonas 12y ago Edited 12y ago The insanely creepy coincidence of the Titanic, and the book Futility, Wreck of the Titan, which was released 14 years before the Titanic sank. In the book they describe the titan as the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. Both the Titanic and the Titan was 800 feet long, British-owned, and sank after hitting an iceberg in the north atlantic, in april, around midnight. Не writes that the Titan crashed into the iceberg at 25 knots, 400 miles from Newfoundland. The titanic crashed into the iceberg at 22,5 knots,
crowwitch 12y ago Elizabeth Bathory - After her husband Ferenc Nádasdy's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80. Due to her rank, Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted, but promptly imprisoned upon her arrest in December 1610 within Csejte Castle, Upper Hungary, now in Slovakia, where she remained immured in a set of rooms until her death four years later. The case led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins
DuosTesticulosHabet 12y ago The story of Delphine LaLaurie is still one of the most horrifying and unnerving things that comes to mind when we're talking about shit that actually happened. She was a socialite in Louisiana who tortured and maimed her slaves. One day a house fire was started by one of her slave cooks who she had chained to a stove. The slave later said she started the fire as a way to kill herself. When police entered the house following the fire, they found slaves who were maimed due to all kinds of fucked up experiments LaLaurie had
BlackCaaaaat 12y ago Unit 731. Heard of Josef Mengele? These guys were doing similar fucked up experimentation in Asia, including germ warfare and this: Prisoners of war were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia. Vivisections were performed on prisoners after infecting them with various diseases. Scientists performed invasive surgery on prisoners, removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body. These were conducted while the patients were alive because it was feared that the decomposition process would affect the results. The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants. The most fucked up thing about
Cabes86 . 12y ago The Rape of Nanking. Between the beheading contest between Japanese officers (complete with statlines published in their local military paper) or the story of Japanese soldiers bayoneting Chinese infants and throwing them in pots of boiling water-- shit got so bad that the Nazi German sent there started helping people escape the city. His name was Rabe I believe.
Wolfgang7990 12y ago The Jonestown Massacre. Nearly 1000 people died including men, women, children, and a U.S. Representative. The recording of Jim Jones's final speech is truly nerve-wracking. The sounds of people applauding his words then of them dying in agony shortly after while he continues to speak just sends chills down my spine.

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