Welp, It's Official. I Won't Be Getting Any Sleep Tonight After Reading These Dark, Weird, And Terrifying Stories

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

1. You’re astir apt acquainted with the amusement Jackass, not slightest due to the fact that of its famously grotesque and painful-to-watch stunts, but I stake you didn’t cognize it erstwhile had a pistillate formed subordinate who astir DIED.

Her sanction is Stephanie Hodge, and during an aboriginal stunt gone horribly wrong, she slammed into a hidden snowbank, was launched into the air, and deed the crushed with capable unit to fracture some her pelvis and her spine. The wounded ended her stunt vocation instantly, and softly erased her from Jackass history, but she inactive says she’s “100 percent proud” of being portion of the madness.

2. As if having occupation sleeping isn’t atrocious capable these days, radical successful the aboriginal 1900s faced thing overmuch worse: a existent “sleeping sickness.” It was called encephalitis lethargica, and it affected implicit a cardinal people.

With sleeping sickness, 1 time you’d beryllium fine, and the adjacent you’d commencement slipping into a heavy, sinking benignant of slumber you couldn’t fight. Some radical froze mid-movement, trapped wrong bodies that simply stopped responding.

People were afloat alert but incapable to move, speak, oregon adjacent power their ain eyes, similar being turned into a statue portion your caput keeps screaming down the scenes. And adjacent if you survived that, sometimes the illness came back, years later, dilatory locking radical up again successful a paralysis-like state.

Doctors had nary hint what caused it. No cure, nary prevention, nary explanation. And then, suddenly, the epidemic just…evaporated. To this day, nary 1 knows wherefore it arrived, wherefore it left, oregon if it could ever return.

3. The unusual missing persons lawsuit of Emma Fillipoff, a 26-year-old Canadian pistillate who disappeared successful downtown Victoria, British Columbia, connected Nov. 28, 2012.

Emma was past seen barefoot and visibly distressed extracurricular the Empress Hotel, wherever constabulary concisely spoke with her earlier letting her go. Her reddish van was aboriginal recovered containing astir each her idiosyncratic belongings, suggesting she hadn’t planned to locomotion distant from her life.

Despite years of searches, tips, and reported sightings, nary confirmed hint of Emma has ever been found. Theories scope from a mental-health situation to foul play oregon a voluntary disappearance, but nary person been proven.

The Avro Lancastrian “Star Dust” was a rider level that crashed successful the Andes successful 1947 portion flying from Buenos Aires to Santiago. Its last vigor connection ended with the puzzling connection “STENDEC,” which galore recovered unsettling due to the fact that nary 1 could fig retired what it meant.

Over the years, assorted theories person emerged, ranging from a garbled upwind codification to an acronym for a distress message, and adjacent alien ones, specified arsenic the level carrying concealed cargo. But the biggest enigma was simply what had happened to the plane.

Fifty years later, its wreckage yet emerged from a melting glacier, revealing that it had crashed into Mount Tupungato and been buried successful ice. The enigma of that last message, however, remains unsolved.

Walker was 40 years aged erstwhile helium died successful a unspeakable clang successful Valencia, California, alongside his person Roger Rodas. Their 2005 Porsche Carrera GT was traveling astatine speeds implicit 100mph erstwhile it mislaid control, deed a airy rod and aggregate trees, and burst into flames wrong seconds.

The autopsy recovered that Walker suffered extended traumatic injuries, including fractures to his jaw, collarbone, ribs, pelvis, spine, and near precocious arm, and his assemblage was truthful severely burned that it could not beryllium visually identified. He besides had a tiny magnitude of soot successful his trachea, indicating helium took a fewer breaths aft interaction earlier succumbing to the combined effects of blunt-force trauma and the fire.

At the time, respective of Walker’s Furious 7 scenes were unfinished. Universal paused accumulation and completed the movie utilizing assemblage doubles (including Walker’s brothers), unused footage, and precocious ocular effects to digitally recreate him. The communicative was reshaped to discontinue his quality Brian O’Conner.

6. Finally, the unspeakable communicative of serial slayer Nicholas Todd Sutton.

He was a serial killer from Tennessee who murdered 3 radical helium knew, including his grandmother, erstwhile helium was conscionable 18, often to screen up earlier crimes oregon tied to cause use. After fleeing Tennessee, helium was caught successful North Carolina, wherever helium yet led constabulary to the victims’ bodies. While serving beingness sentences, helium helped termination different inmate, which earned him a decease sentence. In 2020, Sutton chose to dice by electric chair.

His past meal: Fried pork chops, mashed potatoes with gravy, and peach pastry with vanilla crystal cream.

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