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The facility features the impressive (and spooky) Abbey of the Psalms Mausoleum, and hosts music concerts, outdoor screening of film classics. The site also stages the largest annual Dia de Muertos event in North America. Additionally, a wide range of feature films and T.V. shows have shot there, including Californication, 90210, and American Greed. Fittingly, the indie band The Kills used the cemetery for their killer music video, “Doing It To Death”....

10 Crazy Conspiracy Theories About Celebrity Deaths Over the years many conspiracy theories have been formed around the idea that annual award shows are just Illuminati rituals in disguise. Weird celeb behavior and shocking deaths form part of these rituals. On this list are eight examples of such conspiracies. (Spoiler alert: the Illuminati is blamed for a lot of stuff.) 8 Heath Ledger Even before Heath Ledger died on 22 January 2008 at the age of 28, strange rumors chased him....

From the Grateful Dead’s ninth studio album comes a more symphonic and progressive sound, complete with the sixteen minute suite of “Terrapin Part One.” While considered to be a departure from their earlier style, Terrapin was written by Robert Hunter, while sitting in a home that overlooked San Francisco Bay during a thunderstorm. Typing the first thing that came to mind, the title Terrapin Station was conceptualized. The next day Hunter met with Jerry Garcia, showing him the lyrics, to which Garcia responded “I’ve got the music....

While we would like to believe that a story like theirs happens once in a blue moon, it turns out there are many killers who either copy what they saw from a movie, or feel compelled to appease the creatures within those stories. Here we will delve into several nefarious crimes where acts of atrociousness played out. 10 Childs’ Play 3 In the late winter of 1993, 10-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were skipping school, a pastime of theirs, and spent part of their day stealing junk food, a troll doll, batteries, and a can of blue paint....

In two weeks I am going for a short holiday to South Korea for cooking lessons (if you didn’t already know it I am a Korean food fanatic). To ensure that we have a great and diverse range of lists to publish over that time we are running a competition. This is our biggest competition ever. Two Macbook Airs are up for grabs. To win one of two Macbook Airs you need to send us a list that is good enough to publish on the site....

10 Competition To mark my return to the site and to re-invigorate and re-direct our writers, I have launched a competition. During the months of October, November, and December, the writer of the list which receives the most pageviews overall will win a $1,000 US prize. If you haven’t written for us before, you should consider doing so. Regardless of the competition we pay $100 US for each list we publish....

SEE ALSO: 10 Stories That Show How Horribly We Treat Male Rape Victims He wasn’t talking about a terrorist group. He was talking about a group of sexually frustrated men who get together and chat on the Internet. They call themselves incels, short for “involuntarily celibate,” but they aren’t as harmless as they sound. The things they talk about in their online communities are incredibly disturbing. These places are breeding grounds for mass murderers—and there’s every reason to believe that they are going to hurt people again....

10 Catwoman2004 Catwoman is a catlike female burglar who alternates between being heroic and villainous in DC Comics. She appeared in the 1992 film Batman Returns but got her own movie in 2004. It was a total flop and has been said to be the “worst superhero film ever made.” Everything is wrong with the film. First, series of rewrites by 28 different scriptwriters left the movie’s Catwoman bearing no resemblance to the comics’ Catwoman....

Certain sound effects from our favorite movies are so iconic that the instant we hear them, we can envision the object or character they belong to. Most of us know the sound of the lightsabers from Star Wars without any visual representation, for example. Many different, crazy-sounding everyday objects are used to create the unique sounds the artists envision, and animals are quite frequently the minor starts behind iconic sound effects....

Most of us have been subject to a condescending lecture on the excesses of the food industrial complex. And most of the time our internal monologue tells our obnoxious comrade to choke on his kale and quinoa salad. But sometimes they have a point. Last week we tackled animal-related atrocities in a variety of sectors, including clothing (fur farms), fragrances (beaver castor sac harvesting) and houseware (bone china). This list deals more closely, though not exclusively, with food and drink....

This one started life as an archaeological find. A mysterious clay tablet was found in the Middle East years ago, made by the Sumerians (earliest inhabitants of middle east). Upon this tablet was a depiction of something that looked like our solar system; all the planets were there, and all of them were rotating around the sun. But there were 11 celestial bodies. Now we know there are only 9 planets....

10 Paul McCartney Is Dead: Abbey Road This is perhaps the most well-known album cover conspiracy. We all know the English rock band the Beatles and its four members: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. A widespread conspiracy theory that has existed for years alleges that Paul McCartney died in a 1966 car crash and was secretly replaced by a look-alike. Supposedly, the band and the music industry covered up his death, but the album cover of Abbey Road, released in 1969, is said to feature revealing clues that prove Paul’s death happened....

In September 2009, police raided a small home in the New York suburb of Queens, expecting to find the owners in possession of illegal substances. What they found, was quite a bizarre surprise. The garage was littered with cages, housing a monitor lizard, a baby python and two iguanas. Also found at the home were: a baby caiman, four geckos, two marmosets, three tarantulas, seven adult pitbulls, 1 pitbull pup and a bulldog....

10Restrained Happiness Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi was a master physician around AD 1000 who also dipped his toes into philosophy and the study of happiness. Al-Razi believed that the spirit was preoccupied with death, which naturally caused distress in the mind. To alleviate this distress, al-Razi believed that the individual must convince the spirit that good things happen at death, rather than bad. In order to do so, the individual must spend much of their time studying scripture instead of indulging in food or drink....

Science is often fueled by competition and a race to be the first or the best. It takes a team to discover big scientific advances, and everyone wants his name in the author section. There are more cases than one would probably expect where those big science names we all know were almost replaced by someone else. Here are a few that you may find interesting. 10 Double Helix The discovery of the shape of DNA proved to be one of the most famous and important discoveries in scientific history....

Top 10 Most Evil Women 10Clementine Barnabet The Motive: Test Her Voodoo Superpowers In 1911 and 1912, brutal ax killings were terrorizing Louisiana. Entire families were slaughtered while they slept, and horrific, bloody crime scenes were left behind. A young African-American woman, Clementine Barnabet, confessed to participating in the murders. She claimed that she possessed a voodoo charm that would protect her from detection by the police. The 19-year-old said that she was the one who killed the children of the slain families so they wouldn’t be left as orphans....

Voiced by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, performing on the radio from 1928 all the way 1960. This sketch comedy act was based on turn of the century black minstrel acts, and the two voice artists depicted black people as poor, lower class menial workers, who eventually move from Georgia to Chicago and become taxi drivers. At least once, in 1931, when the Pittsburgh Courier took up the article of a black preacher who considered the show racially offensive (since the two voice artists were white)....

Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan (born Charles-Henri Morhange) was one of the most prominent piano virtuosos of his time and of Jewish descent. He was highly talented and child prodigy, who was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 6, won numerous awards during his youth and later developed close friendships with noted persons such as Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, George Sand, and Victor Hugo. Alkan was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the most masterful pianists and subsequently, he composed almost exclusively for the piano....

These purportedly haunted items have been blamed for causing disasters, and some have even been accused of attempted murder. Many have repeatedly changed hands due to the mayhem attributed to them. Here are ten reportedly cursed or haunted household objects. 10 Busby Stoop Inn Chair The Busby Stoop Inn chair was cursed by Thomas Busby, just before he was hanged for murdering Daniel Auty in 1702. Prior to the murder, Busby ran a coin counterfeiting operation with Daniel, who was also his father-in-law....

Embarrassment: Book of Abraham The Book of Abraham, one of the central texts of Mormonism, is a poor translation of Egyptian papyri. Fragments of the original text were found and studied by renowned historians with credentials and experience. These experts discovered the fragments to be scraps of funeral spells used to help spirits move on to the afterlife. There were no resemblances between the text and the supposedly divinely-inspired translation that Smith invented....