Top 20 Creepiest Historic Events That Are Scarier Than Horror Movies

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  • These horrific real-life events will creep you out! For this list, we’ll be looking at the most terrifying historical tragedies and incredible events that would make fitting content for a horror film. Our countdown includes The Funeral Procession of Pope Pius XII, The Donner Party, The Curse of King Tut, Hinterkaifeck Murders, The Mary Celeste, and more! What would you do if you found yourself in these predicaments? Let us know in the comments below!
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  • @WatchMojo
    @WatchMojo  ปีที่แล้ว +41

    What would you do if you found yourself in these predicaments? Let us know in the comments below!
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    • @user-pj1nj5qn4n
      @user-pj1nj5qn4n ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How could you miss the Fritzl affair? That thing's stuff of nightmares...

    • @ckotcher1
      @ckotcher1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@user-pj1nj5qn4n are you speaking of the Austrian(German?) family? If so yeah that was badddd. Kidnapped by your own Dad and kept in a windowless room for a decade. Being s/a’d over and over and over and made to bear your fathers children and give birth with no medical help. One of the babies died as a result but the interesting thing about that was Fritzel actually showed some humanity at the end by giving himself up so he could save his Granddaughter. There’s an important lesson to be learned by that: even the most evil among us are capable of good, and even the very “best” of us are capable of evil.

    • @dominictrujillo3323
      @dominictrujillo3323 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't think any of us really knows what we'll do in those predicaments until we're faced with them.

    • @mousemd
      @mousemd ปีที่แล้ว

      About my euthanizing my pet. Over my dead body! But I live alone. I would hate to think what I would go through if I had to choose between my human family or my pet

    • @zanethind
      @zanethind 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I'd want it to be over with although worth the Celeste ship case if everything was fine with the ship then why did they escape the ship? I'd wonder about it

  • @BobBrophy78
    @BobBrophy78 ปีที่แล้ว +495

    "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." Mark Twain

    • @bullrun2772
      @bullrun2772 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Huh I think that fails at the same time

    • @bizsmith1812
      @bizsmith1812 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I said that before Mark Twain did

    • @Scudzzorz15
      @Scudzzorz15 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Something that isn't possible hasn't ever happened. Sorry Twain, take the L on this one.

  • @mbrow
    @mbrow ปีที่แล้ว +282

    A good friend of mine was one of the military responders to Jonestown after the mass murder-suicide. All these decades later and he still remembers the sight and smell of nearly 1,000 dead bodies, including children who never got the chance to choose life.

    • @beccawiley6684
      @beccawiley6684 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      This is the first thing I remember paying attention to on the nightly news. I can't imagine the horror your friend must live with.

    • @stephendavidson7256
      @stephendavidson7256 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Was such a sad day, what happened to mostly innocent people.. some of them were not so innocent like the people who could have saved the kids but instead helped to end their lives, poor kids were unfortunate to be among evil people and I can not imagine how horrible the last minute of that sick day 😢 if only someone could have saved them... 🤦

    • @gerarduspoppel2831
      @gerarduspoppel2831 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That guy saw Hell. I can not even Imagine the horror hè saw.

    • @mikeveis7322
      @mikeveis7322 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They're all in a better place.

    • @mbrow
      @mbrow 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@mikeveis7322 While I don't disagree with your comment per se, hundreds of children were among the dead. These never had the option to grow up and experience life - lives that could have been filled with joyful experiences.

  • @princessnatasha668
    @princessnatasha668 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    What's sad to me about Pompeii is that, even if you tried to escape by boat, you still woudn't have made it. If you're not killed by the huge tsunami wave, your boat was sunk by one of the flying rocks. Those people really stood NO chance. Even worse still, they thought they did something to anger the gods. Their last thoughts were probably "What did we do to anger them?"

    • @Tomboyy9818
      @Tomboyy9818 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Wouldn’t*

    • @samanthasanders954
      @samanthasanders954 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      ​@@Tomboyy9818you must be fun at parties

    • @kathrynhoward4196
      @kathrynhoward4196 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Tomboyy9818 Good catch.

    • @Marvelfanatic3658
      @Marvelfanatic3658 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@samanthasanders954stop it

    • @nurlindafsihotang49
      @nurlindafsihotang49 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      As a person lives in many...many volcanoes are located in my country, and expected to be killed by one someday, it does not matter what we do. Mother nature will do what she does, and we just have to hope we survived and accept it when it was our time.

  • @joshcantrell8397
    @joshcantrell8397 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    It sucks cuz they almost had John out from the cave, but the pulley system broke right before they had him all the way out. They had him over 50% of the way out of the crevice.

    • @zanethind
      @zanethind 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Damn

  • @michaelpaysour2151
    @michaelpaysour2151 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    I’d have to add the stories of the Andes plane crash survivors. They too resorted to cannibalism to survive. Many who survived the initial crash later died due to an avalanche. I remember hearing the news of the survivors being rescued after two members of the group walked out to get help.

  • @richeybaumann1755
    @richeybaumann1755 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    2:24 I remember the Nutty Putty cave tragedy. It was terrifying to me when I was 8 years old, and it still terrifies me to this day. I'm not claustrophobic, but the idea of being physically wedged upside down in a hole for over a full day, knowing that you were dying and unable to even move, is maybe the worst thing I can imagine.
    If I was in that situation, I'd tell them to toss a grenade my way and let it be over with.

    • @irysh9
      @irysh9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was stuck head first. A grenade would certainly damage your legs, or more depending on how much free space there is around your body, but there's a good chance it wouldn't be immediately fatal. So make sure you ask for more than one.

    • @richeybaumann1755
      @richeybaumann1755 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@irysh9 Or a stick of dyanamite, or C4, or even just flood the tunnel with knockout gas.
      Anything would be better than that. I have no idea how he stayed awake, or why he would want to.

    • @stanlylord
      @stanlylord ปีที่แล้ว +6

      My scout leaders took us to that cave and I been in there when I was 8 this incident happened 4 years later after we where there

    • @shannacollins4741
      @shannacollins4741 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Just hit me witha shot of some kind of anesthesia to make me die !

    • @JackOfAllRAIDs
      @JackOfAllRAIDs 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Only problem is that could be considered murder, so regards of your preference, unless you brought your own grenade it won't happen.

  • @imshinycaptain
    @imshinycaptain ปีที่แล้ว +78

    The Chernobyl miniseries did a really good job of conveying the horror around the incident.

  • @blightburnt
    @blightburnt ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I was in 7th grade when I saw the twin towers collapse. It didn't set in though to me until as a 7th grader I saw a person leap from the building on TV and a bystander described the following... "smack" I'm horrified to this day.

  • @Raztiana
    @Raztiana ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The one about Tut is just ridiculous. Some people died over 10 years while having spent time in some very unhealthy places. But Carter, the leader, didn't die for 20 years?
    And Conan Doyle believed in anything fictional but Santa.

  • @nerdymormon7
    @nerdymormon7 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    My mom went on a first date to the Nutty Putty caves, assuming that the guy knew what he was doing. He did not. They almost got super lost and thank goodness they ran into a more experienced person!
    There was no second date.

    • @gerarduspoppel2831
      @gerarduspoppel2831 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Arrogance has killed more people than people think

    • @FuryMcpurey
      @FuryMcpurey 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Good, smart of her not to go on another date with the guy!

    • @pagodebregaeforro2803
      @pagodebregaeforro2803 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Plot twist: he was the love of her life and they would be very happy.
      Jk dont take this serious. I got it why she didnt go out with him again. He was very irresponsible.

  • @diegovasquez840
    @diegovasquez840 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Also something to note about Roebspierre’s death. He had a chronic autoimmune disease known as sarcoidosis. It causes pockets of inflammation called granulomas to appear all over the body. If untreated, it can wreak havoc on almost every organ, and by the time Robespierre was to be executed, his liver and kidneys were already in complete failure, and his lungs were filled with inflammation. On top of the jaw, it must have been excruciating. It’s also hypothesized that his mental breakdown was due to sarcoidosis.

  • @michaelbugner7011
    @michaelbugner7011 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    What about the Flannen Isle lighthouse mystery? The lighthouse keepers disappeared without a trace. In their logbook they mentioned a massive amd terrifying storm. It was their last entry. And no one in the surrounding area saw a storm.

  • @inkheart151
    @inkheart151 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    We watched the Stanford prison experiment in sociology. It took a concerned sociologist outside looking in to remind everyone this was an experiment and traumatizing, so they stopped it early when they realized what they were doing.

    • @JohnDoe-zw8vx
      @JohnDoe-zw8vx 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I hate how flawed the experiment was but people refuse to acknowledge anything accept the end results.

  • @lisashafer9
    @lisashafer9 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    The one about pets got me. I don't think I could ever do that. Call me weird but my pets are family to me.

    • @FuryMcpurey
      @FuryMcpurey 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I understand the feeling. It's a heartbreaking story.

  • @joshuamohlman
    @joshuamohlman ปีที่แล้ว +35

    The mass suicide in Jonestown breaks my heart every time I read or hear about it

    • @snoox27
      @snoox27 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Murders, it's hardly much of a choice when there's many guns pointed your way.

  • @RougeAngelic
    @RougeAngelic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    A recently discovered oral history account of some native Americans from the same area. It was actually discovered that the Native Americans attempted to help the Donner party multiple times by leaving rabbits and deer for them to find it’s even reported that some of the women wanted to use the food that they found but were stopped by then men. when the native tribes discovered that the Donner party we’re eating each other, they left the area in fear for their life.

    • @thatonecubchoo1541
      @thatonecubchoo1541 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      If this is true, it makes the situation even more tragic.

    • @sassofthesea548
      @sassofthesea548 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      That sounds like something the Native Americans would do. I’m from Ireland and when the Irish were suffering due to a really bad famine around the 1840’s a Native American tribe sent aid

  • @cazia9
    @cazia9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Jonestown left out that Ryan and his entourage was shot while escaping at the air field and killed 5 people including Ryan himself while 9 others were wounded

  • @theamateur88
    @theamateur88 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The Batavia Shipwreck and The Franklin Expedition are 2 horrifying events that deserve a mention

  • @wynonasbigbrowndragon6121
    @wynonasbigbrowndragon6121 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    An important detail about that bug bite on Lord Carnarvon. King Tut's unmasked mummified face had a mark on the same spot as Lord Carnarvon's bug bite

    • @arlenedavis5770
      @arlenedavis5770 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And the cobra in the canary cage.

  • @emberslayer9072
    @emberslayer9072 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    How is Dyatlov Pass not on this list?!

    • @edi9892
      @edi9892 ปีที่แล้ว

      Reality was probably pretty boring.

    • @appleandaria6947
      @appleandaria6947 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dyatlov Pass?

    • @simonzinc-trumpetharris852
      @simonzinc-trumpetharris852 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because the exact cause of death is unknown.

    • @timw7256
      @timw7256 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because it was an avalanche

  • @rebekahdecavit2354
    @rebekahdecavit2354 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The whole year of 536 AD was pretty bad too. It is generally believed that the eruption of Krakatoa led to a planet-wide blackout of the sun for the entire year and subsequently led to crop failures and other related tragedies.

    • @jakealter5504
      @jakealter5504 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I believe that Krakatoa got ruled out as the cause of that event

    • @JonathanSchmallippe
      @JonathanSchmallippe หลายเดือนก่อน

      An entire year without sunlight would've causes a mass extinction episode. Could've obviously caused a ton of suffering, but not on that scale.

  • @mombiethezombie7536
    @mombiethezombie7536 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The Donner Party departed from my hometown. For a long time, there was a plaque marking the spot where they departed. It was taken down out of respect for the departed.

  • @blakefletcher9834
    @blakefletcher9834 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    You forgot to mention Scotland whilst discussing the black death, In Edinburgh there is a popular tourist attraction known as Mary King's close, which is almost like a window into the past. It's an underground street, which wasnt always underground. A popular myth is that plague victims were sealed inside the close and it was built over with the people still inside, though that has been proven to be untrue. Plague victims inside the close were actually given food and water, in any case it's an extremely intresting place to visit and gives you a window in the past during the black death.

    • @Huskymum79
      @Huskymum79 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mary Kings close was built in the 17th Century, Black death was in The 14th century, so I Highly doubt that's true!

  • @leslieannvanhumbeck7630
    @leslieannvanhumbeck7630 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I have a story similar to Octavia Hatcher. My grandma was born in 1906 and one time a woman died and they didn't want to bury her because there was still a warm spot on her.

  • @TSierra
    @TSierra ปีที่แล้ว +80

    The nutty putty cave incident is a nightmare. Just imagine being trapped upside down for over a day unable to move. The fact that they had to leave him there means that his body is still there.

    • @screamqueen_1359
      @screamqueen_1359 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is, they sealed his body in so no one can get in.

    • @christinadumont458
      @christinadumont458 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeaah Lol?!? That's literally exactly what they said during the Video... 😂🤦‍♀️🤔🤷‍♀️🥴

    • @bamboozledan
      @bamboozledan ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@christinadumont458don't have to be a jerk about it.

    • @christinadumont458
      @christinadumont458 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bamboozledan Aaaand you didnt have to comment on it either, yet HERE we are. 🙄🤷‍♀️🤔

    • @bamboozledan
      @bamboozledan ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@christinadumont458 can't even take you seriously with how you text.

  • @place_there9104
    @place_there9104 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    The last surviving member of the Howard Carter expedition, Richard Adamson, didn't believe that there was any curse of Tutankhamen. I read an interview conducted by ARAMCO magazine (that is available online) He was the chief guard of the expedition and a British Army veteran of World War I. He spent seven years guarding the tomb and went to sleep inside of it, right next to the coffin in the later days of the expedition once they'd cleared the rest of the tomb. ARAMCO paid for him to visit Egypt and the tomb for the magazine article in 1981. Since handicapped facilities didn't exist in Egypt at the time, porters carried him and his wheelchair onto boats, up and down stairs, and even into the tomb itself.

    • @KZ3fps
      @KZ3fps ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah there's no curse. Everyone dies.

    • @theasinclaire52
      @theasinclaire52 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The most logical theory I've heard is there were bacteria inside the tomb and the deaths were probably caused by infection.

  • @MissSirenita
    @MissSirenita ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I keep thinking about the literal hell fire that struck the people of Pompei sounds like that of the worst type of nightmares

    • @Tomboyy9818
      @Tomboyy9818 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pompeii*

    • @MessianicMermaid
      @MessianicMermaid 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was equivalent to 1.5 million tons of TNT or 100,000 Little Boys (the Hiroshima bomb).

  • @aplit
    @aplit ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The Beast of Gevaudan. If there's one story to make you believe werewolves are real, it's that one. Three years in one French providence, at least a hundred people torn to pieces, and the French military and the king's personal hunter were sent to kill the creature and they failed. On top of that, they still aren't sure what the hell it was.

    • @blakeharris58
      @blakeharris58 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A small pack of enormous wolves.

    • @cliffhaasjr.5881
      @cliffhaasjr.5881 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Beast of Gevaudan was a colossal gray wolf. When it was caught/shot a woman named Marie Renauld and her sister both identified it as the animal that attacked them.

  • @BobBrophy78
    @BobBrophy78 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    The miniseries Chernobyl was more scary to me than any horror movie and IMO should have easily been #1

    • @jamespaul6315
      @jamespaul6315 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol

    • @beccawiley6684
      @beccawiley6684 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember when Chernobyl happened, and I couldn't bring myself to watch the series

    • @beccawiley6684
      @beccawiley6684 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same with Jonestown. God, I'm old.

    • @MarcelleLeiturasPreguicosas
      @MarcelleLeiturasPreguicosas ปีที่แล้ว +4

      the vesuvian eruption is the most terrible because is a natural event that humans can't predict. chernobyl, in theory, was preventable.

  • @kavinaderrow3269
    @kavinaderrow3269 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Honestly, I'd say Floyd Collins' death in Sand Cave, which is now in Mammoth Cave National Park was much scarier than the Nutty Putty Cave incident. He was in there for 2 weeks, eventually succumbing to the early spring chill.

  • @ewok40k
    @ewok40k ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Honorable mentions:
    Fate of any lost Arctic/Antarctic expedition. From Scott's South Pole team to Erebus and Terror crews.
    Lost colony of Roanoake.
    Survivors of USS Indianapolis facing the sharks.

    • @edi9892
      @edi9892 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I immediately thought of that failed expedition.

    • @rmarieshen862
      @rmarieshen862 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@edi9892 That one always haunted me, too. However, there is one that I recently learned of, that haunts me almost as much is the Russian Nazino Island Experiemnt.

    • @ChibiProwl
      @ChibiProwl ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep. With Roanoke....what does Croatoan mean!?

  • @lindseymcdougall9774
    @lindseymcdougall9774 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Amelia Dyre is the uk’s equivalent of Minnie Dean. She also was a baby farmer. Although only officially convicted of one murder and executed, she admitted to many more after she was found guilty. It’s estimated her victim number could be over 300.

  • @MRGETEM247
    @MRGETEM247 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I’m still trying to figure out how she was buried alive . Even in a coma state , wouldn’t you still have a pulse? Wow that’s a terrifying death .

    • @wizwitch5318
      @wizwitch5318 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      It can be difficult to find a pulse on someone healthy at times, let alone someone whose pulse has likely slowed and weakened
      Fun fact, this is why wakes are a thing--the purpose actually was to make sure that the body really was dead and wasn't going to "wake up"

    • @ChibiProwl
      @ChibiProwl ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@wizwitch5318 I didn't know that. Thank you.😊

  • @edi9892
    @edi9892 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The Hinterkaifeck- case was most definitely NOT the work of a deranged individual, but a group of organised people!
    It's not like someone stealthily killed one after the other or somehow managed to defeat them all and let none escape. No. They were rounded up, tied down and summarily executed. The police was stereotypical in their incompetence and the timing of the event could have been significant. (Germany loosing WWI and different groups fighting each other and planning to overthrow the government)
    BTW: the location was an Einödhof. This means that it was a farm in the middle of nowhere. It's name Hinterkaifeck is so archaic that no modern German would understand it.

    • @beccawiley6684
      @beccawiley6684 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I tend to believe this, too. I've read about this case for 45 years

  • @fejamolonblun2002
    @fejamolonblun2002 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Really creepy events. Even worse, they are completely real and not fictional.

  • @davidroddick91
    @davidroddick91 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Jonestown incident gave rise to the expression "drink the Kool-Aid," meaning to "demonstrate unquestioning obedience or loyalty to someone or something."

    • @sabbic
      @sabbic 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And forever slandered the name of Kool aid when in fact they used flavor aid at jonestown

  • @crazy1234573
    @crazy1234573 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Every time, I mean, every time I hear King Tuts name...I immediately think of Steve Martin.

  • @jpmccarthy33
    @jpmccarthy33 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    What? No Monty Python bring out your dead clip for #1? Lol

  • @paradigmshift470
    @paradigmshift470 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The fact that that mans remains will be in that cave forever is chilling…

    • @WatchMojo
      @WatchMojo  ปีที่แล้ว +4

    • @JohnDoe-zw8vx
      @JohnDoe-zw8vx 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Why? People's remains are mostly underground currently.

  • @Manicies
    @Manicies ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It's rare that I skip one - but i had to skip the nutty putty entry, for my own mental wellbeing. ugh. I hate caves.

  • @JeffSherlock
    @JeffSherlock 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I sadly remember when the National Geographic was a legitimate entity, which you could rely upon fpr science and nature stories. Not the absolute garbage it is today.

    • @TheRealZenman
      @TheRealZenman หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amen to that. Very disappointed in what Nat Geo has become.

  • @Aquinas218
    @Aquinas218 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wonder why they used a scene from Matilda, Matilda, and The Mummy for the Minnie Dean segment. Didn't seem to fit the story.

    • @LadyAdDikt
      @LadyAdDikt ปีที่แล้ว +7

      One dealt with hanging, the other dealt with adoption? 🤷‍♀️
      They were definitely stretching for something to show 😂

  • @croc560
    @croc560 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    1:37 TRAGEDY?! That was justice in my book. Get 'em, whale! GET 'EM!

  • @ataikonotatsujinplayer2610
    @ataikonotatsujinplayer2610 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Imagine having notifications on for this channel 💀

  • @go4brookle761
    @go4brookle761 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Not all members of the Donner Party resorted to cannibalism, some starved to death because they refused.

  • @Irish443
    @Irish443 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Fun fact that you forgot to mention but 7:45 is actually where the saying "drinking the Kool Aid" comes from.

    • @felixftw4702
      @felixftw4702 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i actually thought it was heaven's gate

    • @ohbichonplease2600
      @ohbichonplease2600 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was also used earlier, from Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, about LSD consumption amongst the Merry Pranksters and hippies. Did get a darker connotation from Jonestown, though

  • @georgebedor4729
    @georgebedor4729 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I heard about that excavation. Back then they didn't air out the tomb filled with diseases, bacteria, and rotting corpses. That's why they died. Not a curse.

  • @KamaliLowe
    @KamaliLowe ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Even though it was a horrific event, jonestown place our beautiful country Guyana on the map. Sadly that's how foreign countries differentiate us from Ghana ❤🇬🇾

  • @Weeboslav
    @Weeboslav ปีที่แล้ว +5

    few events that are creepy
    Siege of Suiyang:Forces of Yan try to capture city from Tang. Tang force of around 10k suffer near annihilation while Yan forces also suffer great casualties despite outnumbering Tang 15 to 1. But it's not military casualties that make this battle horrific,it's the fact that up to 30k civilians has been eaten alive during the siege.
    Battle of Changping,that that there was 1 million men present in the battle,not that 750 thousand of them died,but on losing side,the state of Zhao,most of man that survived the battle were buried alive after the battle. There was so many mass graves that they're being discovered regularly today

  • @raeelbakry5757
    @raeelbakry5757 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I started watching this just as I was about to fall asleep. But when the narrator says it’s the stuff of nightmares, It’s time to stop so I can actually sleep without nightmares. I’ll complete it tomorrow during the day.

  • @ireadbooks3475
    @ireadbooks3475 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A big one that I think you guys missed was the Expedition of the H.M.S Erebus, and the H.M.S Terror. Dan Simmons wrote a book about it. If you're interested, look it up. Some spooky stuff.

  • @Sam_00209
    @Sam_00209 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for sharing this valuable information in such an engaging way!"

  • @geologymule
    @geologymule ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Floyd Collins stuck in Sand Cave is much worse than Nutry Putty.

  • @mikeveis7322
    @mikeveis7322 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The King Tut curse was definitely real.

  • @morganleanderblake678
    @morganleanderblake678 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I wonder if the Black Death had news criers being like, "It's fine, go back to wooooork"

    • @imshinycaptain
      @imshinycaptain ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's almost less worse, because they simply didn't have the knowledge about infectious diseases like we do now. They couldn't know better. Now we know better and people are still choosing... well.

    • @blakeharris58
      @blakeharris58 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@imshinycaptain less worse?

    • @pattierotondo1108
      @pattierotondo1108 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you actually going to compare a disease with a less than 2% mortality to Bubonic Plague?
      Even the LEAST deadly of the types of plague is 10%+ even when treated.

  • @thatonecubchoo1541
    @thatonecubchoo1541 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    There is a horror story based on soviet russia “psychologists,” even if not specifically Nikolay Krasnogorsky.
    It’s a creepypasta called the Russian Sleep Experiment. And frankly, it’s terrifying because it seems somewhat believable. The human mind is fragile and capable of disturbing breakdowns (as seen in the case of serial killers). Of course, we wouldn’t know and hopefully never will know if the “experiment results” are accurate to what would happen in real life. To conduct a similar experiment would be a crime against humanity, no?
    However, consider how you act and feel when you pull an all nighter. Now imagine being a prisoner of war in a lab at the same time, not knowing what those “scientists” are doing. Severe stress, possible trauma due to being on the battlefield, and lack of sleep? For seven straight days? *You. Would. Break.*
    Anyways, yeah, there’s plenty of horror film potential for Soviet Russian human experiments.

  • @darthveatay
    @darthveatay ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I figured the Black Death would be number one.

  • @captainsensiblejr.
    @captainsensiblejr. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Princess Natasha, yes, trying to escape Pompeii during the infamous AD 69 eruption by boat was particularly futile. Because it had no rover and was not near the sea. The famous seaside skeletons of victims of the pyroclastic flow from Pompeii were actually in clif caves of Herculaneum.

  • @shawnj1679
    @shawnj1679 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sylvia Likens death should also be on this list. Truly disturbing.

  • @lisakaz35
    @lisakaz35 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    How about the Fritzl case in Austria?

    • @appleandaria6947
      @appleandaria6947 ปีที่แล้ว

      ??

    • @Luisa-te7qu
      @Luisa-te7qu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      One of the worst crime cases

    • @justinabakugou5813
      @justinabakugou5813 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Luisa-te7qu What happened?

    • @Luisa-te7qu
      @Luisa-te7qu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@justinabakugou5813 Father held his own daughter captured in the basement. Raped her multiple times and had children with her. Some were allowed to live upstairs with him, some being with the mum in the basement

  • @doingstuffwithrus6574
    @doingstuffwithrus6574 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I love horror and creepy things. Creepy creeps under your eyes when you try to see the flowers growing from worms and flies.

  • @TheFluffyWendigo
    @TheFluffyWendigo ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I beg your pardon? I'm still here as the most distinguished of Wendigos.

  • @lindseymcdougall9774
    @lindseymcdougall9774 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The thing about pets being killed at the start of wwii in the uk was not the committees’s actual plan. The leaflet was supposed to be letting the owners to be prepared to do this if the war looked it was going to last any length and if rationing came into place (note that the leaflet was published 1939), and gave info in how to do it if/when needed. Except people took it as advice to do it now and 750,000 pets were killed in the following week

  • @mikeveis7322
    @mikeveis7322 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There are places around Chernobyl that can't be inhabited for 20,000 years!

  • @cedgson91
    @cedgson91 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember studying the Stamford prison experiment 😮 also the Jones town massacre always shocks me when ever it’s mentioned

  • @LittleMysTeries3786
    @LittleMysTeries3786 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I want to know how there was knowledge of the victims hearing footsteps in the attic if noone survived to tell of that incident. #6 H-Murders

  • @user-dt4um5qc1k
    @user-dt4um5qc1k 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lord Carnarven, who financed the search and excavation of King Tut's tomb, was still in Egypt when he died, but in England, at Carnarven Hall, his favorite hound dog let out a single howl and passed away...at the exact time that his master did, so far away in Egypt.

  • @arielraine1642
    @arielraine1642 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wasn't aware of this till about a year or so ago, but apparently my grandfather was involved in handling the deceased from Jonestown when they came to the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. I don't know too much about it, but I can't imagine what he must have felt. My grandfather and I may not have had a good relationship, but that's something I certainly can give him credit for.

  • @JordaneseTyphoon-jk6fr
    @JordaneseTyphoon-jk6fr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The worst part about the Hinterkaifeck murders is that they will literally NEVER be solved. This is due to the fact that the investigation was extremely botched, with many people entering and exiting the house and tampering with the crime scene, and destroying any possible evidence that was there. This frustrates me to no end, knowing that this mystery will never be solved ever. And it was all due to negligence and a lack of care…

  • @lucyhurst2534
    @lucyhurst2534 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was expecting the baby farmer one to go somewhere creepy…..

  • @fejamolonblun2002
    @fejamolonblun2002 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Terrifying real events scarier than many of today's horror films.

  • @ConnorNotyerbidness
    @ConnorNotyerbidness ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Shocked that the Franklin Expedition isnt on here
    Extreme cold, isolation, scurvey, lead poisoning, madness, cannibalism, and no survivors, with nightmarish descriptions from the inuits who would come across the remains of the survivors

  • @BlenderStudy
    @BlenderStudy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! 7:00 I heard there is a new movie being made on that event.. starring Leonardo DiCaprio. 🥶

  • @Shigeru0508
    @Shigeru0508 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    yo, watchmojo:
    Would you pls considre to include metric measurements in your videos? Other people outside the US like to watch your stuff too.

    • @arlenedavis5770
      @arlenedavis5770 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Here we get slammed for being unable to convert to metric, lol. Can you guys not do the conversion either?

    • @Shigeru0508
      @Shigeru0508 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@arlenedavis5770 we, the other 95% of the world?

  • @arfinjalal4563
    @arfinjalal4563 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There are surviving relatives of Octavia hatcher

  • @elmercruz854
    @elmercruz854 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great list! No Timothy Treadwell though? I was certain that one would make the cut.

  • @McKayDarkwood
    @McKayDarkwood ปีที่แล้ว +2

    🤣🤣🤣 21:18 where whoever made the map confuses the location of London with Grantham

  • @dracidsmidnightmadness
    @dracidsmidnightmadness ปีที่แล้ว +4

    truth is always scarier than fiction when I realize someone actually lived or died the event 😱

  • @fejamolonblun2002
    @fejamolonblun2002 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Nice vid, WatchMojo ❤

  • @pjmoran42
    @pjmoran42 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Pyroclastic flow is not 18000 degrees F. But hey it sure makes it sound bad.

  • @alexisc1474
    @alexisc1474 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The crew members of the Essex also destroyed islands of Ecuador and many animal species

  • @50percentGrey
    @50percentGrey หลายเดือนก่อน

    My father was stationed in Vietnam in 1970. He found a dog to keep as a pet in the barracks, but that same rule about "Animal Owners" (11:30) applied and he was ordered to shoot it, much to his own reluctance and sheer disgust. I'm sure he was a much different human being before that happened. At least someone who would have loved to have a dog, even when he and my mother got together and started a family.
    God Rest Dad. And God Rest that poor dog.

  • @oscarf5433
    @oscarf5433 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The retelling of the Vesuvius eruption in Pompeii is usually exaggerated, yes the eruption killed 2,000 people in Pompeii but about 20,000 people lived there at that time, so we're talking about 18,000 survivors that movies don't show you.

    • @appleandaria6947
      @appleandaria6947 ปีที่แล้ว

      How did those 18000 people escape?!

    • @ChibiProwl
      @ChibiProwl ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@appleandaria6947 According to Wikipedia, the eruption lasted two days. The first day rained pumice and ash which allowed residents to escape. Though.... Wikipedia admits that the exact death toll remains unknown.

    • @appleandaria6947
      @appleandaria6947 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ChibiProwl Why would people stay after the first day? They had to have known it was dangerous!

    • @oscarf5433
      @oscarf5433 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@appleandaria6947
      Amazingly easy, they just ran Eastbound where the fury of the volcano couldn't reach them.

    • @oscarf5433
      @oscarf5433 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@appleandaria6947
      Well, malaria and other maladies were common in those days so many of them were sick, many others were eldery or orphans and apparently some others were overzealous believes that they had to stay and perform the ritual of the Vulcanalia the religious festival of fire god Vulcan. Others may just had been too worried about looters and stayed home.

  • @josi4251
    @josi4251 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:45 The biggest mystery to me is why people go caving. Jesucristo, I have nightmares about that since a guy at my college got stuck in one. They got him out, but that haunted my dreams for years.

    • @pagodebregaeforro2803
      @pagodebregaeforro2803 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yea dude. . I like being outdoors but a fkn cave? Ugly, dark, lonely.. not fun at all..

  • @playyboi4133
    @playyboi4133 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gotta add “THE Tuskegee Experiment” to the list

  • @Kolkholzkola
    @Kolkholzkola 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You did Ms. Honey dirty showing her during the baby farmer part! 😂

  • @mdturnerinoz
    @mdturnerinoz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You need to look into the great famine of 1315-`1322; it probably caused the black death of 1340 (at least indirectly). During those years, the growing season in Europe (due to The Little Ice Age (900 AD-1850 AD)) was only two months. See Prof. Brian Fagin at UCSB's research/books for more details about this.

  • @nathanclarke2501
    @nathanclarke2501 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Should have had a special trigger warning for showing the “I Am Legend” dog death scene.

  • @lynderherberts2828
    @lynderherberts2828 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For one of my college courses, we each had to choose two active cults to report on. I chose Bahai and Jonestown.
    In Jonestown, the mass suicide was achieved by lacing KoolAid with poison. The bodies were three people deep.
    "Don't drink the KoolAid" is a reference to that fateful event.

  • @MooseSchlongPod
    @MooseSchlongPod ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So there's this thing where every generation in my family has a complete dunce, I'm sure my ancestor was on the Mary Celeste and just forgot to anchor while everyone left the ship to go search some new land they found.

  • @mikestanislaus1107
    @mikestanislaus1107 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The eruption of Vesuvius cannot be compared to the eruption of Mt. Pelee, which wiped out an entire city's population (save 2) in 2 minutes, 121 years ago today. And trust me, the events leading up to that horrible climax make for good horror story fare.

  • @shannonnaish347
    @shannonnaish347 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wh...why would you play THAT clip from I am legend.. whyyyyyy??? 😢😢

  • @philipkalin1928
    @philipkalin1928 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The really scary thing about the dude who got stuck head over in the cave is, they had him almost out of the cave, but then the rope they tried to pull him out snapped and he was back stuck even deeper then befor.

  • @freddiemolinajr.8397
    @freddiemolinajr.8397 ปีที่แล้ว

    good video

  • @seanbordenkircher7854
    @seanbordenkircher7854 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Donner party didn't decide to take the route, it was a possible route that an "explorer" had "checked out" and been advertised to them like "yeah, this new route is much faster!" But they hadn't actually traveled it yet.

  • @snoop4470
    @snoop4470 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The nutty putty cave story always comes back around in my youtube.

  • @retro.raider
    @retro.raider 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    when I first watched "Schindlers List" I thought it was a fictional event made up for the movie. Imagine my horror when I found out the Holocaust was very very real. 15 year old me literally couldn't imagine humans doing that to each other.

    • @Hermititis
      @Hermititis 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Your education never covered WWII or the holocaust until you were 15? Might I ask, where were you raised?

    • @SuperJoshdave
      @SuperJoshdave 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you German how else could you not know

    • @retro.raider
      @retro.raider 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Hermititis I was raised in suburban Australia. An hour outside of Melbourne. We learned our history and a little about the First World War. The Holocaust wasn’t in our curriculum. I also went to a shitty public school so that could have something to do with it.

    • @retro.raider
      @retro.raider 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@SuperJoshdave lmao no I’m Australian born and bred. Didn’t learn about it until very late Highschool.

    • @Hermititis
      @Hermititis 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@retro.raider , huh. That's really odd, given that Australia joined WWII when the UK did & had almost 1 million people who served. Do other schools in Australia wait until later grades to cover world history, or was that atypical? Outsidecof school, were there not a lot of movies, TV shows or books set during that time period?

  • @cifusito
    @cifusito ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Top 10 great foreshadowing movies for being alone

  • @ALY-xc7fl
    @ALY-xc7fl 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The pronunciation on robspierre was insanely good