welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
creepiest historic events that are
scarier than horror movies
if there is anything in this world about
which i know positively nothing
it is agriculture
bad luck plagued her from the beginning
on her maiden voyage
her master fell fatally ill for this
list we're including both well-known
events
and relatively unknown reportedly true
stories
which historical event do you consider
the scariest let us know in the comments
below
the whole line will advance in which
direction you're great
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why straight ahead to be sure number 10
the stanford prison experiment
does the situation outside of you the
institution come to control your
behavior
or does the things inside of you your
attitude your values your morality
if you need proof that power corrupts
look no further than the highly
controversial stanford prison experiment
this social test was conducted from
august 14th through the 20th 1971
and saw student volunteers playing fake
prisoners and prison authorities
the goal of the experiment led by
professor philip zambardo was to study
the effects of unchecked power in prison
guards
the negative environment zimbardo chose
to test his ideas
was a prison he would convert the
basement of the university's psychology
department
into a subterranean jail the experiment
quickly flew off the rails
with some of the guard students veering
into psychological torture
by enacting extreme measures including
psychological abuse and harassment
that said the experiment's methodology
is extremely contentious
as it had repeatedly been compromised by
zimbardo's goading
some of the prisoners also knew the
study's hypothesis and acted accordingly
which
is an unwanted variable in psychological
experiments called
demand characteristics
at this rate we gonna be here all
goddamn night
and i love it number nine octavia
hatcher
the story of octavia hatcher is a
popular one around the small town of
pikeville kentucky the legend states
that the young mother fell sick and
passed away
a few months after she gave birth to a
son who died shortly after delivery due
to the southern heat they buried her
very quickly
soon after her death however other
locals seemingly showed similar symptoms
only to recover the culprit
retrospectively was likely encephalitis
locals promptly dug up hatcher's grave
and realized that she didn't die
but had fallen into a coma they found
evidence of her having woken up
including scratches on the coffin and
hatcher's bloody nails
the veracity of the story has been
questioned but according to a member of
big sandy heritage center's board of
directors
quote most local historians do agree
that hatcher did fall ill
and was buried alive
number eight advice to animal owners
can you imagine killing your own pet
unfortunately
that was a reality that many in
pre-world war ii britain were forced to
face
pets were seen as an unwanted nuisance
in wartime as they would either roam the
streets following a bombing or eat the
already limited and rationed food
a committee was formed to solve the
problem and their solution was
unimaginably horrific
they released a pamphlet advising pet
owners to either release them into the
countryside or have them euthanized
included in the papers was an ad for a
captive bolt pistol
said to be quote the standard instrument
for the humane destruction of domestic
animals
all told an estimated 750 000 pets were
killed in a week
more than 107 000 per day
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number seven recycling deceased soldiers
if there is anything in this world about
which i know positively nothing
it is agriculture turns out there's
nothing better for farming than
human bone the napoleonic wars cost
upwards of two million
soldiers their lives and it was common
practice for the survivors to
loot the dead for supplies
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this included tearing out teeth with
pliers for use in dentures
the battle of waterloo proved especially
fruitful for the denture market
and the resulting products became known
as waterloo teeth
battlegrounds were also looted for bones
after the dead had decomposed and
these bones were ground into dust and
sold to farmers a british paper from
1822
reported that human bone made for quote
substantial manure
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number six knocking in space
imagine you're an astronaut and you're
all alone floating through the quiet
vacuum of space in your cozy little
spacecraft
and then you hear someone or something
knocking it's enough to make you go mad
but the thing is that i'm still scared
i'm really scared
nobody will mourn for me no one will
pray for my soul
luckily astronaut and famed knock hearer
young lee wei
didn't go mad but he was understandably
creeped out
leeway attempted to replicate the
knocking sound after returning to earth
but nothing proved successful future
chinese astronauts also reported hearing
the eerie knocking sound
leading some to believe it was caused by
the spacecraft itself
the source was later attributed to
changes in air pressure and temperature
morphing the capsule's inner wall
mundane explanation aside
we couldn't imagine how utterly
terrifying that experience would be
dallas are you sure there is no sign of
it there
it's got to be around there number five
the hinter kaifak murders
there are literally countless creepy
true crime stories but there's just
something
really unsettling about the infamous
hinterkaific murders these took place at
a farm in bavaria germany in 1922.
prior to the murders andreas gruber
found human foot tracks in the snow
leading from the nearby forest to his
house
that night the family heard footsteps
coming from the attic but
failed to notify the police
on march 31st every member of the
household
including their daughter her
grandchildren and their maid were killed
it would be four days until the bodies
were discovered
the still unknown murderer had long made
their escape this unsolved case
truly has it all gruesome violence no
survivors
an unidentified culprit and an
incredibly
creepy case of home invasion number four
the sad
but creepy case of henry rathbone
shakespeare
how do you do it's a great pleasure to
meet you
everyone knows of lincoln's
assassination but the role played by
major henry rathbone is less common
knowledge
rathbone and his fiancee were attending
the play with lincoln and
rathbone tried subduing john wilkes
booth after he shot the president his
artery was severed in the process
rathbone survived but he blamed himself
for lincoln's death and spiraled into
insanity on december 23
1883 he assaulted his own children and
when his wife intervened he
took care of her before stabbing himself
in a failed attempt at his own life
i'm not gonna hurt you you didn't let me
finish my sentence
i said i'm not gonna hurt you when
police arrived they
found a deranged rathbone and his wife's
corpse
number three the eruption of mount
vesuvius
the ancient romans experienced hell on
earth in 79 a.d
when mount vesuvius famously erupted the
eruption launched a massive cloud of gas
and debris
21 miles into the air effectively
blocking out the sun
this in turn caused a tsunami in the bay
of naples
and ash rained down on nearby cities the
volcano later released pyroclastic flows
which are essentially 18 000 degree
fahrenheit clouds of gas and volcanic
matter
that can travel upwards of 400 miles per
hour
this distinct layer of solidified ash is
evidence of a high speed current of
heated gas and volcanic debris
known as a pyroclastic flow the flows
decimated the nearby cities and killed
people instantly
vaporizing their blood and organs the
eruption buried the cities of pompeii
herculaneum oplantis and stabiai killing
at least 1500 people based on the human
remains uncovered
but likely many more the exact nature
of the pyroclastic density current in
some instances it's very very light and
fluffy
but you can have temperatures from 200
degrees centigrade up to maybe 700
degrees centigrade
that's not unheard of number two the
mary celeste
bad luck plagued her from the beginning
on her maiden voyage
her master fell fatally ill ghost chip
stories are a dime a dozen but
none is as arguably popular as the mary
celeste
this was a sailing vessel built in
canada and named the amazon
before it was wrecked and sold to
american buyers who renamed her the mary
celeste on december 4th 1872
the ghost ship was found floating off
the azores islands it was not leaking
the sails were damaged those that were
were up and had not been furled or
damaged aside from that there was no
real
structural damage to the boat the ship
was in good condition there was nothing
recent in her captain's log her
provisions were undisturbed and the
crew's belongings were still on board
however the lifeboat was missing leading
many to wonder why the crew had
abandoned ship
naturally conspiracy theories abound to
this day
and while numerous sound theories have
been put forth over the years
the mystery remains unsolved but the
riddle of that ill-fated voyage in 1872
will haunt us forever the mystery of the
mary celeste
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number one plague riots and refugees for
three horrifying years between 1348 and
1350
the black death pushed medieval man to
the brink of an apocalypse
the black death wasn't just the
deadliest epidemic of infectious disease
in human history
it killed an estimated 30 to 60 percent
of europe's entire population
seriously the entry can just end here
for the almighty has said
i shall wipe man whom i created off the
face of the earth
but it also turned into what's probably
the closest thing we've ever had to a
real-life zombie movie
london quarantined plague victims inside
their homes and armed guards were
reportedly stationed nearby to prevent
escape
this didn't sit well with the
quarantined and they often fought back
by attacking
and in some cases murdering the guards
lawn
order broke down tight-knit communities
broke apart
this led entire neighborhoods to be
quarantined which only instigated
rioting
and more death if some plague victims
happened to escape they wandered the
countryside
pretty much like zombies as no towns or
villages would permit them entry
in some cases they were even attacked on
the road by the healthy
in one six-week period 11 000
people are buried in a single graveyard
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