Just A Few Frightfully Dark And Terrible Things I Learned This Week

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Warning: Graphic contented ahead, including stories of execution and suicide.

1. Here’s a communicative I precocious work that volition everlastingly unrecorded successful my encephalon nether “Things I Wish I Never Knew.” A antheral panicked aft spotting worms wriggling successful his toilet vessel and assumed the worst — that they were coming from him.

Doctors ran tests, lone to observe the worms weren’t wrong him astatine each — they were crawling up done the plumbing.

Turns retired a cracked sewer enactment had fixed earthworms a nonstop way to his bathroom. The bully news: He didn’t request deworming. The atrocious news: He’ll ne'er spot a toilet again. (And neither volition I.)

2. In 1982, the quiescent agrarian assemblage of Torongni Village successful Uiryeong County, South Korea, became the tract of 1 of the deadliest wide murders successful modern history. A constabulary serviceman named Woo Bum-kon snapped aft an statement with his girlfriend, got drunk, and raided his station’s armory. Over the people of 1 horrifying night, helium went from colony to colony equipped with guns and grenades, sidesplitting 56 radical and wounding dozens more.

The rampage yet ended erstwhile Woo detonated a grenade wrong a house, sidesplitting himself and respective of his last victims. The tragedy, present known arsenic the Uiryeong Massacre, shocked the federation and led to tighter weapon power and constabulary oversight crossed South Korea.

3. The nightmare communicative of the infamous Twilight Zone: The Movie deaths connected set.

What was expected to beryllium a thrilling nighttime sprout connected 1 of Hollywood’s biggest productions turned deadly connected July 23, 1982, adjacent Santa Clarita, California. Actor Vic Morrow and 2 kid actors — Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (who were conscionable 7 and 6, respectively) — were killed portion filming a mock Vietnam War country involving explosions and a low-flying helicopter.

The country was meant to amusement Morrow’s quality rescuing 2 Vietnamese children from a burning village, but erstwhile pyrotechnics detonated excessively adjacent to the helicopter, the blast destabilized it midair. The craft spun retired of power and crashed into the actors — its rotor blades decapitating Morrow and Myca, and a landing skid crushing Renee.

Director John Landis and respective unit members were charged with manslaughter but yet acquitted aft a lengthy trial. Civil lawsuits followed, and the calamity led to sweeping changes successful on-set information protocols. The harrowing conception was wholly removed from the film's last cut, though it tin inactive beryllium recovered connected YouTube.

4. This weird and creepy Wikipedia leafage astir the "Mellified man."

Also known arsenic the “human mummy confection,” this past medicinal oddity progressive mummifying a idiosyncratic with chromatic — literally. An aged volunteer, adjacent death, would devour thing but chromatic and adjacent bathe successful it until they died. Their assemblage was past sealed wrong a coffin filled to the brim with honey. After a century, the resulting “mixture” was supposedly consumed arsenic a remedy for breached bones and different ailments.

5. The day of Edie Sedgwick's tragic decease connected Nov. 16, 1971, from barbiturate intoxication.

Sedgwick was an heiress and champion known arsenic an Andy Warhol "superstar" and "it girl" done the mid-1960s. Sedgwick struggled with cause and intoxicant addiction and intelligence wellness passim the bulk of her life. In fact, she met her aboriginal husband, Michael Post, a chap patient, successful the psychiatric helping of a hospital.

On Nov. 14, it was reported that Edie attended a manner amusement and aboriginal met a antheral who claimed she wanted to sojourn him the adjacent time but insisted they person enactment archetypal truthful she wouldn’t consciousness excessively nervous. The pursuing morning, her hubby recovered her dead, and the coroner could not reason whether it was an mishap oregon suicide.

6. Finally, the communicative of Martha Beck, an American serial slayer who, on with her spouse Raymond Fernandez, became known arsenic 1 of the “Lonely Hearts Killers.”

Born successful 1920 successful Florida, Beck met Fernandez aft World War II, and unneurotic they lured women done idiosyncratic ads by pretending to look for love. Beck often posed arsenic Fernandez’s sister to summation victims’ trust.

The brace would bargain from and sometimes execution the women they met, and are known to person killed astatine slightest 3 radical betwixt 1947 and 1949, though immoderate reports suggest determination were more. They were yet arrested, convicted of execution successful New York, and some aboriginal executed by electrical seat astatine Sing Sing Prison successful 1951.

Her past meal: Fried chicken, fried potatoes, and salad.

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