10Dawnn Ward & Taylor Carroll One body at the bottom of the well was that of the killer’s daughter, Taylor Carroll, age 14, who’d been stabbed in the chest. The other body at the bottom of the well was that of the killer’s estranged wife, Dawnn Ward, age 40. She, too, had been stabbed in the chest. After killing them, their murderer, Jeffrey Todd Ward, age 25, dropped both bodies down the a 10....
SEE ALSO: 10 Things You Never Knew About Famous Movie Plot Twists 10Murder Is Solved By Uncovering Illegitimate Child Of Deceased Man On the evening of November 26, 2010, 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio disappeared while walking home in Brembate di Sopra, Italy. Her body was found in a field three months later. She had been stabbed multiple times before dying of exposure. An extensive investigation was launched, in which over 15,000 DNA tests were administered to people from the area and compared with DNA samples found at the murder scene....
Not only has this 8,848-meter (29,029 ft) giant attracted some of the nuttiest, most impassioned, and daring adventurers the world has ever known (and perhaps even the odd ghost and Yeti) but it has also borne witness to some of the strangest, most inexplicable, and haunting events in mountaineering history. Below, we take you through ten of the most baffling and unexplained mysteries to have graced the planet’s loftiest peak since the first European expeditions there thrust the mountain into the international spotlight in the early 20th century....
When you’re finally embarking on that long-awaited and much-needed vacation, you might wish you never had to come back. Be careful what you wish for. Here is a list of ten passenger transports that mysteriously vanished. 10 Amelia Earhart’s Plane Our first plane disappearance is one of the most famous in history. In 1937, on what became Amelia Earhart’s final journey, she was to travel in her Lockheed Electra from Florida around the globe, following the equator....
But determining the sources of inspiration behind the works of other authors has sometimes been more difficult. There are a number of cases in which the muse has remained a mystery. In some cases, even when a forename is given, it has not been possible to conclusively establish the identity of the person in question. With others, not even the name of the individual has been discovered. Here are 10 examples of great literary muses whose identities have never been conclusively established....
From 12 to 29 July 1952, a series of sightings took place in Washington. One of the most publicized events took place on the 19th. On that evening, an air traffic controller at Washington National Airport detected seven unidentified objects on his radar screen. His superior immediately verified that the instrumentation wasn’t faulty. Moments later a controller at another facility also confirmed the objects, but he also saw “a bright orange light”, while yet another controller confirmed an orange disc hovering above the airport....
But we don’t have to travel that far to satisfy our curiosity. Our own world is full of fascinating natural things. Most of us have never seen or even imagined such wonders . . . until today. Here are 10 natural phenomena that you won’t believe actually exist. 10 Green Flash Let’s start our list with something we all know: the Sun. That yellow ball of gas that our planet orbits....
Standing guard over the Launching Pad Drive-in is a 20-foot tall green space man holding a rocket! The Dixie is the oldest recognized truck stop on Route 66. In nearly 70 years, it has only been closed one day (due to a fire) and continues to offer motorists food and fuel, as well as a small Route 66 museum. The Chain of Rocks bridge once carried Route 66 over the mighty Mississippi....
Yet, for more than a century, anthropologists have been living in close contact with populations all across the world, studying their attitudes toward death, and trying to understand their logic and meaning. Here is a selection of the strangest practices and beliefs about death that have been documented by anthropologists during their explorations. 10 The ‘Wine Of The Corpse’ In Borneo Southeast Asia is widely known for its elaborate (and for a Western audience, sometimes unsettling) funeral customs....
From a spring dedicated to a pagan virgin goddess to churches made almost entirely out of human bones, here are holy places that wanted to make sure you get their message and don’t mind creeping you out to do it. 10Crypt Of The Chiesa Immacolata ConcezioneRome, Italy This 17th-century church was built by Cardinal Antonio Barberini, a Capuchin Franciscan and brother of Pope Urban VIII, and was designed by Franciscan friar Michele da Bergamo....
Escobar’s cocaine empire bagged him an estimated net worth of $30 billion by the early 1990s. He was one of the richest men in the world. Pablo Escobar truly was the King of Cocaine, and these are some of the most outrageous facts about his unimaginable wealth. 10 From Poverty to One of the Richest Men in the World Born December 1, 1949, in the city of Rionegro in Colombia’s Antioquia Department, Pablo Emilio Escobar was the third of seven children....
10 The Rape Of Patricia Douglas It’s a sad fact of life that sexual assault often goes unpunished in Hollywood. If a woman is raped by a powerful or prominent person in the industry, she can be ostracized for speaking out about her experience. One of the most tragic examples of this involved an aspiring actress named Patricia Douglas, who traveled to Hollywood from her native Missouri and became a background dancer in musicals....
But what about those extreme examples? Some people live their lives in ways that most of us could never picture as enjoyable or even sustainable in the simplest of ways. Contradicting all norms of life, these individuals go against the grain and still live successful and productive lives. So with no judgment, here are 10 people who live happy but out-of-the-norm lives. 10 The Man Who Never Bathes For most people, a nice hot shower is a perfect way to unwind and relax after a long day of work....
Pope Sylvester II was one of the most learned men of his time. Well versed in mathematics, astronomy, and mechanics; he is credited with inventing the hydraulic organ, pendulum clock, and introducing Arabic numerals to Western Europe. He also wrote books on mathematics, natural science, music, theology and philosophy. Pope Sylvester II was the first French Pope and certainly the most significant in the 10th century. Upon his death, rumors began to fly that his great intelligence – and, consequently his inventive genius – was the result of a pact with the devil....
10The Leotard Jean Marie Jules Leotard was born in France in August 1838. His father owned a gymnasium, but young Jules initially aspired to become a lawyer. One day, perhaps bored at the thought of going to school, Jules was helping out in the gym when he ended up hanging a bar by stringing two ropes on both ends, resulting in the trapeze. Despite passing his legal exams, Jules decided to experiment further with his new acrobatic invention, often practicing above a swimming pool....
In 1933, Lina Medina was born in Ticrapo, Peru. At the age of five, Lina was brought to the hospital by her parents complaining of extreme abdominal growth. She was originally thought to have a tumor, but doctors later determined that the child was seven months pregnant. On May 14, 1939, Lina Medina gave birth to a baby boy. The child was delivered by way of caesarean section, as Lina’s pelvis was too small to perform a natural birth....
10New Type Of Storm . . . On A Star NASA’s Spitzer and Kepler Space Telescopes are a potent tag team and have recently observed an unexpected occurrence on a small star: a storm. Only 53 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, a Jupiter-sized L-dwarf named W1906+40 sports a weird mole-like growth likened to the Jovian red spot. Unlike its similarly sized brown dwarf brethren, W1906+40 is a bona fide star, capable of squishing atoms together to produce its own light....
10 The Bosom Of Abraham The Gospel of Luke refers to a place called the “Bosom of Abraham,” where Jesus said in a parable that a deceased beggar named Lazarus resided after death. Some Jewish writings compare the Bosom of Abraham to a paradise, but early Christian works generally present it as a kind of limbo where the righteous who died before Christ’s resurrection went to await his coming. According to the Hellenic Testament of Abraham, Adam sits at the gate of Hell and Paradise, but later views have Abraham sitting there....
Eventually, the flow of new investors will inevitably dry up, at which point the whole thing collapses under its own weight, and the originator of the scheme can usually be found on his way to the nearest airport with his luggage stuffed with dollar bills.[1] And Ponzi schemers, much like their investors, come in all shapes and sizes. 10 Sarah Howe And The Ladies’ Deposit Company In 1879, Sarah Howe, after a sketchy career as a clairvoyant, decided to become a banker....
Top 10 Unsettling Scenes From Horror Movies And Series 10 Beautiful Creatures (2013) Hot on the heels of the Twilight frenzy, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Caster Chronicles seemed like the perfect “next big thing.” A similar central plotline to Twilight, you’ve got a human whose romantically involved with a supernatural creature, in this case a “Caster” who will be claimed by either the Light or Dark by her 16th birthday....
