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10Chester Wheeler Campbell Campbell was an anomaly among the ranks of history’s hired guns, to say the least. He worked for both the urban drug lords and the Italian Mafia in Detroit in 1970s and ’80s. He was like the James Bond of hit men, with more surveillance equipment than most police had at the time, not to mention an arsenal that any assassin would envy. A master manipulator, Chester was able to get others to do much of the dirty work for him....

See Also: 10 Terrifying Serial Killers You’ve Never Heard Of—But Should Have Forensic psychologist Tom Powell, who spent more than a decade working for the Department of Corrections in Vermont, told NBC, “They see this as a viable way to strike back at the world. Through either enactment of fantasies in the privacy of their own home or use of pornography that might be on point to what their deviant interests might be....

Unfortunately, those same scientists believe that alien bacteria and viruses may still be raining down on us. These microscopic invaders have been blamed for all sorts of illnesses—from the everyday to the completely bizarre. Germophobes beware. 10 Pandoravirus If the terrifying name of this newly discovered virus isn’t enough to worry you, maybe the fact that it is 10 times larger than any ordinary virus will. Discovered by French scientists in 2013, this bizarrely unique microorganism is only found in two places on Earth: off the coast of Chile and in a single Australian pond....

Frankenstein first made his onscreen debut in 1910 in a 13-minute film directed by J. Searle Dawley and starring Charles Ogle. In 1941, Lon Chaney Jr. played The Wolf Man, and in 1954, The Creature from the Black Lagoon introduced audiences to an aquatic humanoid monster. On this list are some more entertaining facts about some of the most beloved monster movies and their creatures that have stomped onto our screens over the years....

10Ra Paulette’s Caves Some people build sculptures, while others build houses. Ra Paulette digs cathedrals into mountains. Over the last 25 years, he’s carved immense and intricately decorated caves into the sandstone of New Mexico, working completely alone. He only uses manual tools, including a pickaxe, a shovel, and a wheelbarrow. He’s completed 14 of these structures, one of which you can buy for $995,000. If the price tag doesn’t give you a sense of scale, pictures will come closer....

10 UFOs Are Earthlights Some people believe that the appearance of UFOs is simply the result of an unknown natural byproduct of the Earth. This idea was developed by Professor Michael Persinger in the 1970s as tectonic strain theory, which we have mentioned in a previous article. These ideas were built upon by author Paul Devereux. He believes that while most UFO sightings can be explained as misidentified mundane aerial objects, mirages, hoaxes, and hallucinations, there are some that result from an unexplained electromagnetic phenomenon related to earthquake lights and ball lightning....

10The Untouchables (1987)Frank Nitti During the Prohibition era, federal agent Eliot Ness made it his mission to bring down Chicago crime kingpin Al Capone. To do so, he assembled a team of incorruptible law enforcement officers who were nicknamed “The Untouchables.” In 1931, they succeeded at sending Capone to prison for income tax evasion. Watch this video on YouTube The Untouchables’ exploits were chronicled in a hit television series and an acclaimed 1987 film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Kevin Costner in the role of Ness....

10He Was Traumatized For Life By Teddy Roosevelt World War I was in full swing, and the young Seuss was a plucky boy scout doing his part to help the war effort. He went door-to-door and, thanks largely to a $1,000 purchase from his grandfather, became one of the most successful war bonds salesmen in his town. Seuss and nine other boy scouts were honored for their efforts. They were brought up on stage at the Municipal Auditorium and presented an award by the president himself, Theodore Roosevelt....

10New Chronology Hypothesis While similar to Heribert Illig’s Phantom Time Hypothesis, this fringe theory by Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko takes the issue of time forgery to even more insane heights. Whereas Illig’s hypothesis drops approximately 300 years off the calendar, Fomenko asserts that 1,100 years of history have been a total sham, thanks to the machinations of churchmen in the 15th and 16th centuries. Using a method he called “empirico-statistical analysis,” Fomenko arrived at the conclusion that ancient history was really just a distorted version of Medieval events....

10 The “Horse Laugh” You may have seen a horse making a strange expression where it curls its upper lip and bares its teeth into a wide grin. This makes the animal look like it’s laughing. In reality, this is part of a special nose-enhancing technique called a flehmen response. Horses pull this amusing face in order to direct scents floating in the air toward special olfactory glands that are located at the end of the horse’s nasal passage....

10 Deja Vu Deja vu is defined as the feeling of having already experienced something that’s happening in the present time. As to how this happens, one theory is that there’s a slight delay between the time an image hits the eyes and when it registers in the brain. Although we’re still not sure if that’s true, it would seem to suggest that someone who’s blind can’t experience deja vu. But strangely enough, they can....

As technological growth is exponential rather than linear, “futuristic” in 2019 means quite a bit more than it did back then. All bets are off at this point as scientific progress is rapidly leaving even our imaginations behind. Most of us didn’t even know that these 10 futuristic technologies were in development, let alone already in existence. 10 Thought-Controlled Prostheses Humanity has a long history of going out and doing things that take our limbs away....

Interstellar space travel is unmanned or manned travel between stars. The concept of interstellar travel in starships is a staple in science fiction. Interstellar travel is tremendously more difficult than interplanetary travel due to the vastly larger distances involved. Imagine being able to travel to distant worlds, discover new horizons and colonize space, all in the blink of an eye. Can it be done? The NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project identified two breakthroughs which are needed for interstellar travel to be possible: A method of propulsion able to reach the maximum speed which it is possible to attain A new method of on-board energy production which would power those devices....

As we will see as we go down our lit of the darker side of Christmas, as much as the holidays bring out the best in most of us, for some, they can bring out dark and twisted feelings that finally bubble over to breaking point. Here are ten such examples. 10 Kristy Bamu Accused Of Witchcraft As soon as paramedics saw the lifeless body of 15-year-old Kristy Bamu in the bathtub on Christmas Day 2010, they could tell he was subject to a horrific ordeal before he had drowned....

SEE ALSO: 10 Horrifying Haunted Villages Around The World 10 Lower Yellowstone Falls—Wyoming Waterfalls can be both beautiful and terrifying. They offer a sense of serenity, but going over the edge is the stuff of nightmares. In 1870, a group of five American militia men and their Crow guide went exploring deep in the canyons of Yellowstone. Native American tribesmen in the area stole all their horses overnight. The militia men began pursuit and soon caught up while the tribe was crossing the river near the Lower Falls....

10 Sergeant Dakota MeyerUS Marine Corps, Operation Enduring Freedom Sergeant Meyer was serving in Afghanistan in 2009 where, at the Battle of Ganjigal, he was instructed by his commander to disregard a distress call due to an order to fall back. Nearly 100 American troops were pinned down by enemy fire and were repeatedly denied artillery support. Sergeant Meyer realized that the possibility of those troops’ survival was unlikely and took matters into his own hands....

SEE ALSO: 10 Stunning Photos Snapped At Just The Right Moment 10Dr. Bahnson’s Lily Pads Dr. George Frederic Bahnson was a man of many talents. He was one of the most acclaimed medical diagnosticians in his time, he served as a Union sharpshooter in the Civil War, and he grew the biggest lily pads the US had ever seen. 9The Antarctic Snow Cruiser By the 1940s, Antarctic exploration mania was reaching a fever pitch....

10 The Original Nativity Scene In the King James Bible, Luke chapters two through seven depict the story of the birth of Jesus Christ. One section reads, “…she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger; because there was no room in the inn.” The fact that Jesus was born in a stable and had an animal’s manger as a crib comes down to the fact that Bethlehem was crowded with people coming to pay their taxes....

The fashion for hiring “male midwives,” also known as accoucheurs, to attend middle and upper class ladies in labor often proved deadly, as did the new “lying-in” hospitals. Because doctors went to their patients with their sleeves clotted with another patient’s blood, their hands unwashed, and a placenta or two in their coat pockets, women frequently succumbed to childbed or puerperal fever, an infection of the uterus causing a drawn out, agonizing death....

10 Tough Negotiator In late November 2016, Nassau county authorities charged Raphael Oyague, 36, with the murder of a Craigslist prostitute. Prosecutors allege that he attacked Deeana Wingender, 25, with a hammer. The attack occurred during a sex-for-cash rendezvous. An argument broke out over compensation for services rendered. Oyague bludgeoned Wingender multiple times, killing her. A blood trail led authorities to Oyague’s back door. Prosecutors allege that Oyague murdered Wingender in his Baldwin, New York, apartment at 10:00 PM....