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31 Bone-Chilling Facts

October 08, 2023

We all love spooky season. The time of chilling dread that sends shivers down our spine. The time when we all eat way too much chocolate and fear to be alone. Yes, we’re talking about Valentine’s Day. But it turns out that other scary holiday, Halloween, also has some fascinating facts surrounding it.

For example, did you know that serial killer Ed Kemper was actually beloved by the local police? He loved to hang out at the local police haunts, where they would confess they had no idea who was brutally murdering all of the coeds in the town. He was so good at deflecting suspicion that he really had to work to convince his cop buddies he was the one responsible when he decided to confess.

Such hideous facts don’t stop there either. Scroll down for many, many more tidbits that will most certainly interrupt your sleep patterns…

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A 1927 school disaster killed one-sixth of a town's population. A Michigan school board treasurer killed his wife and blew up his farm with dynamite, which detonated the same time as explosives he planted at the nearby Bath Consolidated School. 58 people were injured and 45 killed- in a tiny village of 300 residents. CRACKED.COM — 5 Horror Scenes Deleted From History For Being Too Creepy

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CRACKED.COM Not even close... It's a couple of Michelin Man costumes from the early 1900's. Sources http://preview.tinyurl.com/kha2x7c — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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CRACKED.CO ED KEMPER WAS A VICIOUS MURDERER BELOVED BY THE COPS. Kemper loved to hang out with police officers, who would tell him they had no idea who was brutally killing and dismembering co-eds. He was so good at putting on a normal facade that he pretty much had to strongarm his cop buddies into believing him when he finally confessed. — 5 Horrible Mistakes That Let Serial Killers Go Free

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This is University College, at the University of Toronto. the Do BE Supposedly, the ghost of a stonemason, who was killed in a fight during construction, walks the College to this day. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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CRACKED COM ONLY WEALTHY CORPSES WERE SALVAGED FROM THE TITANIC. Many of the bodies recovered after the Titanic sank were thrown back into the ocean. Because of a shortage of embalming supplies, only first- and second-class passengers were embalmed and returned to port. The logic behind this choice was that poor people's bodies weren't needed to settle disputes over estates. — 5 Historical Tragedies That Were Even Darker Than You Think

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This is Aurouze, a pest-control shop in Paris. DESTROL TION DES ANIMAUX NUISIBLES Founded in 1872, it has displayed at their storefront dead rats hanging from traps since 1925. It was BRIEFLY shown in the Pixar movie RATATOUILLE. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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The Killing Caves

An eerie tourist ECEC attraction in Cambodia are The Killing Caves of Phnom Sampeau, the open graves of Cambodians slaughtered in the Khmer Rouge genocide. At a different entrance to the caves, a swarm of bats flies out each day for their evening hunt. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S CHILDHOOD WAS HELL. Abandoned by their father, and with their mother committed to an asylum, Charlie and his brother Sydney had a Dickensian childhood. Exploited in a workhouse, brutalized in an unsanitary orphanage, and finally eking out a living on the streets, young Charlie's life was misery until he had his big break as an actor at the wizened age of 12. CRACKED.COM — 5 Famous People Who Had Horrifying Childhoods

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The Bell Witch Cave in Adams, TN is said to be haunted by the legendary Bell Witch. A long string of people have claimed to have had supernatural experiences in and around the cave, including a 9 year old boy who claimed the witch saved him from a rock slide. and then lectured him on cave safety. CRACKED.COM — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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WE'RE GETTING TWO CHILD'S PLAY FRANCHISES BECAUSE A RICH JERK HATED HORROR MOVIES. Australian businessman Christopher Skase was about to buy MGM- and he disliked horror. So MGM gave Chucky's rights back to his creators so they could make sequels somewhere else, which they did. But Skase didn't buy MGM, which still Buddi retained the rights to the original movie- including the right to remake it. CRACKED.COM — 6 2019 Movies with Crazy Behind-the-Scenes Drama

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An annual income of $82,000 qualifies low-income but loping as in San Francisco. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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RTEAMPUNK ROBOT? SEEN HERE IN 1911 WITH IT'S INVENTOR, CHESTER E MACOUFFEE, IT'S ACTUALLY THE FIRST LICENSE ATMOSPHERIC DIVING SUIT TO INCORPORATE BALL-BEARING JOINTS REASONS ARE UNCLEAR HOWEVER, AS TO WHY THE HELL IT WAS DESIGNED WITH HUGE ERECT NIPPLES. GRACKEDG — 17 Creepy Photographs (That Aren't Fake)

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In Bali, Indonesia, people celebrate the new year with 'Silent Day' That means no lighting fires or lights, no working, no entertainment, no traveling and even no talking above a whisper, for 24-hours. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Room of Skulls

CRACKED.co A church in Leuk, .COM Switzerland, has a room lined with human skulls. In the 1980s, restorers removed the church's floorboards, discovering the room beneath. Nobody knows who made it, or why. — 23 Bone-Chillingly Creepy Real Places You Can Visit

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Iceland

While they shop or sip coffee, Reykjavik parents leave babies in carriages in freezing weather. It's considered a good way for babies to get fresh air, and the crime rate is low enough that parents don't worry about kidnapping. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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After Lincoln's death, Ma jor Rathbone went mad. Henry Rathbone is the man on the left of the famous illustration above. On December 23, 1883, he tried to kill his three kids, and when his wife stopped him, he fatally shot and stabbed her, then stabbed himself-mentally replaying Booth's actions from 18 years earlier. CRACKED.COM — 6 True Stories From History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie

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Genetic Disorders

CRACKED.co COM Fumarase deficiency is an extraordinarily rare recessive genetic disorder of the nervous system. Over 60% of the known cases in the world are in Colorado City (and adjacent Hildale), on the Utah-Arizona border. Colorado City is dominated by the FLDS, a polygamist Mormon sect, whose generations of intra-family marriage have made them a million times more susceptible to the disease. — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Three years after this photo, Rose Kennedy was lobotomized. Rosemary, who historians agree had some mental ailment (though it definitely wasn't debilitating), was awake throughout the operation. She spent the rest of her life in institutions, far from the public eye, especially when her brother John became president. CRACKED.COM — 5 Real-Life Horror Movies Deleted from Your History Books

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CRACKED.COM Vatican City has the highest crime rate per capita in the world, which is 1.5 crimes per person. A vast majority of the crimes are committed by tourists and pilgrims, and they often go unpunished because the city doesn't have a prison system. — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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Joan of Arc fought alongside a serial killer. Gilles de Rais was her ardent companion by day. By night, he preyed particularly on children between the ages of six and 18. De Rais may have killed as many as 800 children, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in history. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.co Shopping carts are nasty as hell, 50% of carts test positive for E. coli, a bacterium usually found in poop. No need to add it to your shopping list. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Your bath sponge can give you boils and rashes. Bacteria such as Acinetobacter (which causes boils and pink eye) and Candida (a common yeast) love to hide in your sponge's damp crevices. Keep it dry and replace it often! CRACKED.COM — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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The Seattle has more households with pets than households with children. CRACKED.COM — 29 Seemingly Normal Cities With Disturbing Facts

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CRACKED.COM Bottled water may contain Cryptosporidium and Giardia. We're not saying your spring water does carry these pathogens. But while tap water is required to be free of them, bottled water isn't. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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CRACKED.COM You have eaten: insects (and will again). Do you know how companies get rid of all impurities WHEN processing food? It's simple: They don't Each year, the average American ingests one to two pounds of bits of insects, like this grasshopper here. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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Three families in Tacoma, Washington have been stalked by Restricted, named based on the caller ID that showed up when he called them. The stalker would track every move they made, threatened to shoot up the schools the children attended, and sent recordings of them having conversations with police. One of the family members even received a message that Restricted !preferred lemons while she was cutting a lime in the kitchen. Authorities tried to trace the calls, but they would only refer back to the families' landlines, even when they turned them off. There are no leads. CRACKED — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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A HOUSE IN ILLINOIS WAS SO INFESTED BY GERMAN COCKROACHES THAT IT HAD TO BE BURNED DOWN. Firefighters set controlled a burn and started with ring of a fire the cockroaches couldn't SO spread to the nearby houses. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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A woman nearly ate a razor blade that was hidden in her Burger King salad. Fortunately, she spotted it in time and made a complaint to the manager. Turns out, an employee left the blade on a shelf, which fell into the salad by accident. The employee was promptly fired and the customer got her refund and another salad at no charge. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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Fingernails

CRACKED c You really shouldn't chew your fingernails. Researchers have detected harmful bacteria on nail clippings from 24% of men and 15% of women. The worst bugs they found can cause diarrhea and vomiting. — Tiny Horrors You (Thankfully) Can't See, That Are Everywhere

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A pair of masked strangers stalked a group of film students who were making a movie. Instead of starring in the next found-footage horror film, the students did the sensible thing and went to the authorities. The pair turned themselves in afterwards, claiming it was just a prank. CRACKED — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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Roller Coasters

Being hung upside down for ages would be horrible In 2018, it happened to 64 people in Japan when a roller coaster stopped while upside down. For two hours. CRACKED.COM — 23 Horror Movie Moments (That Happened IRL)

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