From novels that proved eerily prophetic to famous faces who met their end in uncannily familiar ways, here are some of the most tragic examples of life imitating art. 10 Carrie Fisher And The Fate of Princess Leia We picture her with cinnamon bun hair, a flowing white gown, and a blaster gun in hand. Indeed, actress and writer Carrie Fisher is best remembered as the woman who breathed life into the iconic Star Wars heroine, Princess Leia....

The first incident took place when 41-year-old Suzanne Hart was killed in an elevator accident. Hart worked at a New York City high rise building, and was on the first floor and heading to work around 10 a.m. As she stepped onto the elevator the doors closed on her and the elevator rose towards the second floor. This pulled her upward into the elevator shaft. Ms. Hart was trapped between the first and second floors....

While most of the bizarre accounts on our list are connected to the Bass Strait itself, several times, these encounters have seemingly wandered onto the mainlands. Perhaps the most famous of these incidents is the case of Fred Valentich. While that has been covered here before, the first two points on our list share bizarre connections to the famous case, so that’s where we’ll start. 10 The ‘Invisible Plane’ Encounter Of Jason Manifold On the same day that Fred Valentich disappeared (October 21, 1978), Roy Manifold would capture a picture (shown above) of a strange object in the sky over the Bass Strait....

The items listed below range from benign to beneficial in small amounts but become toxic in higher quantities. These seemingly harmless substances can land you in the hospital—or the morgue—if you overdo it. 10 Soy Sauce In 2013, a 19-year-old man from Virginia drank 0.9 liters (1 qt) of soy sauce after being dared by his friends to do so. He went into a coma and nearly died from the extreme levels of salt in his body....

However, while everyone looks forward to all the crazy things that are being developed, few people are stopping to ask why. The truth is that many of these technologies are completely unnecessary, and in some cases incredibly dangerous. Emerging technologies could not only prove to complicate modern life but could actually cause more problems than they solve. 10Driverless Cars Have Unaddressed Ethical Concerns Driverless cars, in many people’s eyes, are the next big wave of the future....

But the length of time between this era and the modern world means that not everything about this period of antiquity is actually known to us today. Records are lost, stories become embellished, and so on. Here are ten mysteries about ancient Greece which still remain unresolved. 10 The Secrets Of The Eleusinian Mysteries One of the most intriguing mysteries of ancient Greece concerns a secret organization whose name also helped to define the concept of “mystery” as we understand it today....

10 The Murder Of John Masegian In February 1983, John Masegian, a millionaire mortgage executive from Reno, was visiting the Fontainebleau Hilton in Miami Beach with his fourth wife, 38-year-old Carol. It was a working vacation for John, who had been at a weeklong convention. On February 11 at about 10:30 AM, Carol went to the pool. When John didn’t join her at noon as promised, she called their room twice....

10 The Blount Family Briefcase Bombing On November 28, 1985, Joe Blount was spending Thanksgiving with his family at their trailer in Lake Worth, Texas, when his 15-year-old daughter, Angela, found a briefcase on the porch. When she opened it, a bomb went off, killing Joe, Angela, and her 18-year-old cousin, Michael Columbus. In 1999, a man named Michael Toney was sentenced to death for the murders. The prime evidence against Toney was the inconsistent testimony of his ex-wife and former best friend, who claimed they saw him planting the bomb....

So take heed: You don’t want to make plans, tell everyone you’re coming, and get dressed up to the nines, only for the apocalypse to hit, leaving the world devoid of life and you red-faced with embarrassment. Knowing how much time humanity has left to exist is crucial for planning your social life, so here are ten dates to keep clear in case all life on Earth is annihilated....

10 The Disappearance Of Leonard Dirickson Leonard Dirickson was a 39-year-old divorcee who lived with his teenage son Jared at their dairy farm in Strong City, Oklahoma. On the morning of March 14, 1998, Leonard and Jared were eating breakfast when an unidentified man in a pickup truck showed up at their farmhouse. Leonard went to speak with the man for several minutes, and when he came back inside, he told Jared that the stranger was interested in buying one of his horses....

SEE ALSO: 10 Creepy Mysteries Shown Through Images If you could step back in time and stand on the Earth millions of years ago, you wouldn’t just see a few different animals. You’d see an alien planet pulled straight out of a science fiction story. 10 Giant Mushrooms Were All Over The Planet Approximately 400 million years ago, the trees only sprouted up to about a man’s waist. Most were only a few feet high, and the other plants and fungi weren’t much bigger—except for the mushrooms....

As it turns out, all of this might just be on purpose. Recent reports are saying that a lot of the extreme social media accounts that have been pushing these agendas weren’t created by Americans at all. Thousands of them were created in Russia as part of a propaganda war to tear the United States apart. It’s an old Cold War tactic. In the words of one Russian political strategist, it’s designed to encourage “all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts” and destabilize American politics....

It wasn’t always supposed to be this way, though. Peace is a tenant of every major religion. There are moments in history when members of the world’s religions have stood up and sworn to keep those who are faithful to another god safe and free. 10Muhammad Vowed To Protect The Christian Nation Saint Catherine’s Monastery has something unique: a contract promising to protect them—written by Muhammad. Muhammad held a good relationship with the monks there and in AD 626 wrote up document swearing an oath to keep them safe from his follower’s attacks....

10The Death Of The Euro Used in 19 countries, the euro is possibly the second-most important currency on Earth. Global debts are issued in it, other currencies are pegged to it, and plenty of countries use it as a reserve. The Greek elections could sweep all this away. As a euro country, Greece has the power to destabilize the entire currency with its fiscal decisions. Rather than go down that route, Germany recently said it would rather an uncooperative post-election Greece exit the euro altogether—a course of action known as a “Grexit....

10The Nambu Type 94 Handgun Imperial Japan had some amazing weapons, ranging from the rugged Arisaka rifle to the nimble A6M2 Zero fighter aircraft. This was not one of them. In fact, the Nambu Type 94 is a serious contender for the title of worst service handgun ever. Introduced in 1934, the Type 94 was plagued by a series of design flaws which would have been embarrassing even for a Saturday Night Special....

The brain is split into two hemispheres. While each half of the brain does broadly the same thing as the other, there are some differences. In humans, and lots of other mammals, one side of the brain is slightly dominant – this is why you favor one hand over another. Some studies have shown that left-handedness is linked to intelligence; left-handed people tend to score higher on IQ tests, and can also often finish these tests faster than right-handed people....

The truth is that pranks are more like that April Fools’ episode of SpongeBob SquarePants where Squidward viciously pranks SpongeBob, dragging him by a rope around the Krusty Krab where he eventually lands inside a garbage can. Anyone who likes to be pranked only allows it to take their revenge, and oh, how do they love revenge. Wow, turn down the drama, will you? Sometimes pranks are dark for other reasons outside of torture and vindictive natures....

10Abonde Germanic/Central European Abonde (also known as Perchta) is not just a Wiccan goddess—she’s one of the main archetypes for many of our favorite fairy tales. She inspired fairy godmothers, wicked stepmothers, Snow White, and even Tinkerbell. Abonde is the Winter Goddess—one of the most important figures in all of Wicca in Europe. Some believe that she arose from the earliest divine female guardian figures from ancient hunting cultures. Her association with witchcraft and witches may well have originated before the medieval witch trials—this provides evidence that witches existed long before people grew frightened of them....

The following are thirteen of the best Hammers, partly my opinion and partly the consensus of Gothic horror fans. Kids today may be jaded, but open your minds to suspended disbelief, and you may find yourself enjoying the look, colors, tonal moods and dark atmospheres of these small gems… not to mention the splendid acting talents of Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Michael Ripper, Andre Morrell and many others—the regular players who made Hammer their home....

Usain St. Leo Bolt C.D (born 21 August 1986) is a Jamaican sprinter. Bolt holds the Olympic and world records for the 100 meters at 9.69 seconds, the 200 meters at 19.30 seconds, and, along with his teammates, the 4×100 meters relay at 37.10 seconds, all set at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Bolt became the first man to win all three events at a single Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984 and the first man in history to set world records in all three at a single Olympics....