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September 27, 2023

Spooky season is still at least a few days away, but we decided to round up a bunch of spooooky facts that will send chills down your spine anyway. Go ahead and grab a flashlight or leave the light on, we certainly won’t judge. (Full disclosure: We have all the lights on.)

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A plot aimed to resurrect George Washington. Family friend William Thornton planned to warm Washington's corpse by the fire then inject it with lamb's blood to revive him. Fortunately, widow Martha rejected the plan, along with the probable brain-eating rampage that would follow. CRACKED.COM — 6 Real-Life Horror Movies Your History Teacher Skipped Over

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Scabies

CRACKED.co This horror causes scabies. This is Sarcoptes scabiei, a mite that causes the contagious skin condition known as scabies. The tiny bastards spread just by touch. In severe cases, thick crust forms on the skin, which can contain thousands of mites. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKEDo COM Oradour-Sur-Glane is a French village where a Nazi massacre of over 600 people occurred. The ruins are left as they are as a reminder of the atrocity of WWII. — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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YOU CAN (IN THEORY) KILL SOMEONE WITH FARTS. How many farts does it take to kill a person? Someone did the math and published the results on the internet, because that's exactly what the internet was invented for. The answer is 605. Make a healthy person breathe in about 600 average farts, and the methane and nitrogen will kill them dead. CRACKED.COM — 6 Very Stupid Questions With Very Smart Answers

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Fukushima, Japan, CRACKED.COM has become a tourist attraction. There are tours organized by the local authorities or you can ride a bus across the nuclear disaster zone. — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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In London, You can visit a pub namedaferthe! century doctor who determined source cholera outbreak, WORK MOUSL JOHN SNOW LECOME FOOD The pub is built at the site of the contaminated water pump that killed over 500 people PREME POWERS GRAGRED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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Poveglia Island, 10-minutes from the most famous square in Venice, Italy, was a dumping ground for Europeans dying of the plague. If that doesn't put a shiver in your boots, maybe the fact that, in 1922, it was repurposed for a (mental) hospital will. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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JEFFREY DAHMER IDENTIFIED WITH THE DEVIL IN THE EXORCIST. To get in a killing mood, Dahmer would watch both Return of the Jedi and The Exorcist III. According to forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz, who examined him, Dahmer related to how evil, corrupt, and powerful the Emperor and the demonic murderer are in those movies. He even got yellow contact lenses to look like them. CRACKED.COM — 5 Shocking Ways Pop Culture Inspired Horrible Crimes

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CRACKED.COM No, they're not holding their breath and they're not dead. Placed on the seabed in Moilinere Bay, Grenada, they're elements of one of many eerie and compelling underwater installations created by English sculpter Jason deCaires Taylor. These silent figures are now serving as artificial reefs, actively promoting the re-generation of marine life devasted by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. They'll be covered with life, and that's the idea. Sources: es: hup://preview.tinyurl.com/6almupu ~ hutp://www.underwatersculpture.com/ ~http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason deCaires Taylor — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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IN THE COMICS, THANOS COMMITS UNIVERSAL GENOCIDE TO IMPRESS DEATH. Thanos' finger snap of doom wasn't originally a radical approach to resource allocation- it was a bid to get the attention of his crush, Death. As in Mistress Death, who is a person in the Marvel Univers. And she ended up rejecting him, essentially for trying too hard. CRACKED.COM — 6 Times The Source Material Was Too Dumb For The Movie

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Austria Germany Germany Austria These Halloween costumes are actually real costumes worn throughout Europe during festivals such as New Year and Christmas. Italy And no, none of these are actually worn at Halloween. Bulgaria CRACKED.COM — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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KEEP CALM IT'S JUST WORKERS FROM MADAME TUSSAUD'S PERFORMING TOUCH UP WORK. ON THE DISPLAYS OF JFK AND NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV CRACKED.COM — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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There are almost no public trash cans in Tokyo, Japan. B 1 AND NECISION 3F FREN x99:30~ the 4 503-3346-1010 2-00 www.yodobashi.com NEW They were mostly removed after the 1995 Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas terrorist attacks. GRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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CRACKED.COM In Oranienburg, Germany, everyday life is shaped by WWII bomb disposals., Form The strategically important town took the most bombing per square mile of any town in Germany, and bomb squads there defuse old bombs every day. — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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CRACKED.CO .COM STELLER'S SEA APE WAS SEEN ONLY ONCE. Georg Wilhelm Steller wasn't a wacky cryptozoologist but a reputable 18th- century naturalist. So it's strange that a big, fat, mustachioed animal that he described during Captain Vitus Bering's Great Northern Expedition was never seen again. Some believe, however, that the sea ape was actually a snarky description of Captain Bering himself. — 5 Historical Mysteries That Had Painfully Dumb Explanations

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A major museum in Helsinki is infested with venomous, nearly unkillable spiders from South America. in They've been there since the 1960s, and nobody knows exactly what brought them. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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In Lhasa, Tibet, people are practicing Sky Burial It's a funeral practice where they lay a human corpse on a mountaintop to decompose or to be eaten by scavenging birds CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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This monster! lives in your cereal, Acarus siro, the flour mite, can cause allergies and carry diseases - and it has been detected in over 20% of cereal- based foodstuffs. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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When Vesuvius erupted, heads exploded. Herculaneum saw superheated pyroclastic flows of molten rock, mud, and gas. The skull holds lots of liquids, and if you heat it quickly, it reacts much like a hamster in a microwave. In less than two-tenths of a second, skin vaporized ... brains boiled, and skulls exploded. CRACKED.COM — 6 True Stories From History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie

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CRACKEDO Your wine isn't made of just grapes. While newer picking machines are getting better at separating grapes from other stuff, small objects and creatures can still make it into even the fanciest bottle. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Britain killed 750,000 pets in the run-up to WWII. CLOSED SUNDAYS UNWANTED ANIMALS HUMANELY DESTROYED SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS They feared food shortages being made worse due to people feeding their pets. Pamphlets advised the population that if they could not send their pets into the countryside, it really is kindest to have them destroyed. CRACKED.COM — 6 True Stories From History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie

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A motorway tunnel in Lucerne, Switzerland is actually one of the world's biggest fallout shelters. The Sonnenberg Bunker was designed so that the motorway tunnels could be closed to traffic, sealed off, and converted into fallout shelter dorms for 20,000 people. The bunker was downsized in 2006 so the motorway can't be converted into dorms anymore. But its still-operational underground logistics center can shelter 2,000 people. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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This is much worse than it looks. This might look like a bunch of harmless balls of Jell-O, but it's actually Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest strain of malaria. It kills about half a million people every year. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Andrew Jackson kept Native noses in a bucket. Jackson had his men systematically murder hundreds of Creek Indian men, women, children, and even infants ... and then cut off their noses to keep track of exactly how many they killed. According to one account, soldiers ended up with a pile of 557 noses. CRACKED.COM — 5 Horror Scenes Deleted From History For Being Too Creepy

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Boston construction workers found these two masks buried in 60-year-old concrete... one week before Halloween. Officials are unsure how the masks got there, but they're (probably) not cursed. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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This ficker can kill you, The mosquito Aedes aegypti is the carrier of dengue and yellow fever. It's found in over 100 countries. CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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A boy's story about a man with a light at his window wasn't just a story. The boy's parents assumed he was having nightmares... until they found footprints. They set up a camera, and sure enough, the intruder returned and was arrested soon after. CRACKED.com — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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Human Remains

A family in Modesto, California was trying to bury their pet in their backyard when they accidentally uncovered the remains of a human. The identity of the corpse remains unknown. CRACKED.co — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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In 2018, almost 1,000 feet of a beach in Greece covered CRACK was in spiderwebs. Tetragnatha spiders weave these webs every year during their mating season, but they usually don't make them this big. So why did the spiders get so busy in 2018? The population of mosquitos, which they eat, exploded that year. — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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In 2017, bloodthirsty rabid bats swarmed the Brazilian city of Salvador at night. Since bat saliva acts as a topical painkiller, their victims only realized they'd been bitten when they woke up and saw their bedsheets were -stained. One man died of rabies, and another 40 had to be treated. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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