Williamina “Minnie” Dean 1844 – 1895 Death Toll: 3+ Minnie Dean was the first, and only, woman to be executed in the history of New Zealand. She was executed by hanging. Under the guise of helping poor young girls, this evil woman murdered their children and took what little money they had to improve her own lifestyle. At the time, a young woman becoming pregnant without a father was severely stigmatized by society....
Over the following ten years we had many monumental changes, including four redesigns, a change of chief editor (and a reversion back to me as chief editor), staff coming and going, and we switched from a free model to a paid model for our writers. It seems fitting that our grandest and most expensive site overhaul would come in the year of our tenth anniversary. Work is progressing at a rapid rate and we are expecting to launch the new site around September this year....
Sure, many scholars have considered the future impact of new technology. Robots and space travel, as you’ll see below, factor in prominently. But many past guesses were remarkably inaccurate. Take, for example, the decades-old belief that we would someday live underwater and ride giant seahorses. As the saying goes, you can’t win ’em all. Still, in these ten instances, past prognosticators were remarkably on point with their guesses about life down the road....
While the U.S. doesn’t have quite as long of a history, it does boast its own ancient afterlife. And the burial grounds that go along with it are fascinating. Historians across America study old cemeteries to learn about the past. The stories they’ve unearthed are both unsettling and amazing. In this list, you’ll learn about ten of America’s oldest graveyards and the supposed spirits who stay within. These centuries-old cemeteries are seriously spooky!...
In these parallel universes called Elseworlds, if there’s a caped crusader, chances are there’s a crown prince of crime not too far away, plotting to make his life a living hell. Let’s take a look at 10 of these substitute psychopaths. 10 Joker, Lord Of The VampiresBatman: Bloodstorm In the 1994 sequel to Batman & Dracula: Red Rain, Batman has destroyed Dracula (yes, the Dracula) but was himself turned into a bloodsucking fiend....
10 Neolithic Nativity Scene In 2005, geologists made a discovery that belongs to the Neolithic or Paleolithic era but is still very recognizable today. While in a small cave in the Sahara Desert in Egypt, somebody looked up, and on the ceiling sat an apparent nativity scene. It certainly doesn’t show the baby Jesus. The painting is 3,000 years older than the famous Christmas spread, but the elements are there. A newborn infant is raised, as if important and valued, between its parents....
Sometimes though people wanted a more personal god, one they could form a special relationship with. Cults, especially mystery cults, were common in the ancient world and here are ten of them you could join if you are in need of some heavenly attention. Top 10 Ways That The Occult Are Infiltrating Social Media 10 Mithras Scattered across the Roman world are a number of strange underground chambers. Unlike most Graeco-Roman temples that stood tall and proud these were subterranean sites of worship for the cultists of the god Mithras....
Bolstered by a whopping 15 different playfields, Diner is the single most amazing game for the Intellivision. Players have a rollicking good time as they climb ladders, grab side orders, shake pepper at rotten foods (hotdogs, bananas, cherries and root beer), and kick food balls down ramps and over ledges to fill plates at the bottom of the screen. Diner is the sequel to BurgerTime, but it never appeared in the arcades or on any other system, making it a must-have for Intellivision owners....
Showcasing the best miniseries ever reveals one truth: TV has gotten better over the years. As the number of available platforms – network, cable, streaming services. – exponentially expands, the medium has found fertile ground for experimentation and niche-catering, resulting in a list top-heavy with recent releases. Top 10 Best Recent TV Comedy Series 10 Watchmen (2019) Watchmen is a cinematic sequel to a same-named mid-1980s DC Comics collection. Notably, it brought broader awareness of the racially-motivated destruction of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood neighborhood – the so-called “Black Wall Street” – in 1921....
SEE ALSO: 10 Paranormal Events Linked To Mass Tragedies Ever since the discovery that a hobbit like race actually once existed on the earth, science has been re-examining the possibility that other reported little people may not be entirely mythical. Putting science aside, there have always been those who insist that small humanoid creatures exist amongst us. Recent reports of gnome like or elf like creatures sometimes caught unawares in remote locations have been made....
Museum of Jurassic Technology The museum claims to have a “specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities.” This explains the museum’s name and also suggests its puzzling nature, since the Lower Jurassic ended over 150 million years before the appearance of hominoids and in particular before anything that could be called technology. Some of the exhibits found in the museum are a collection of decomposing antique dice owned by magician Ricky Jay, a collection devoted to trailer park culture, entitled “Garden of Eden On Wheels”, an exhibit on household myths of years past, and a collection of micro-miniature sculptures and paintings, such as a sculpture of Pope John Paul II carved from a single human hair and placed within the eye of a needle....
Well, this quirky little superstition is nothing compared with the entries in this list—people all over the world still engage in some pretty extreme, gruesome and downright bizarre behaviour simply because that’s what has been done for generations. From throwing babies from great heights to trying to high-five venomous snakes, faith is still a great motivator. And, sometimes, deranging. RELATED: Top 10 Bizarre Traditions 10 Snake Handling – Evangelical Christianity, Southern US States....
SEE ALSO: Top 10 Corpse Medicines That Turned Patients Into Cannibals 10 Depression – Books In the United Kingdom, doctors can now prescribe reading. Should a patient with depression need treatment, they can get a prescription paper from their physician for “bibliotherapy.” However, this ticket is not a backstage pass to grab any book. Given only to those with moderate depression, it can be handed over to a librarian in exchange for specific reads....
If you have experienced a coma, it generally means that you have gone through a life changing event. Many people are intrigued by the stories of people who have been in a coma and returned to life. In some cases, bright lights and vivid dreams are reported. Almost everyone who has experienced a coma comes out of the experience with a different outlook on life, often time not fearing death and making life changes....
9/11 was Planned by the US Government [Wikpedia] Many conspiracy theories have been presented concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks, many of them claiming that President George W. Bush and/or individuals in his administration knew about the attacks beforehand and purposefully allowed them to occur because the attacks would generate public support for militarization, expansion of the police state, and other intrusive foreign and domestic policies by which they would benefit....
While Halloween has become increasingly commercialized in recent years, a number of small towns and cities still offer their own community-driven festivities. These places have quaint Halloween traditions which are often overlooked by thrill seekers. But as the autumnal weather sweeps in, a number of small town attractions – from witchcraft expos to haunted hayrides – start to draw tourists in from around the world. So, with the spooky season upon us once again, we take a look at some of the coolest (and strangest) Halloween traditions throughout America....
10 Dangerous Curiosity On a midsummer day around 1853 in County Donegal, Ireland, a boy named Neil Colton was out behind his home with his brother and a female cousin gathering berries when the three of them heard music playing nearby. Stepping around some large rocks, the trio saw a group of six to eight small people dancing in a circle a few hundred feet away. As soon as they spotted the dancers, a small woman dressed in red broke from that group and ran at the children, striking Colton’s cousin across the face with what seemed to be a green rush....
Animal coprolites also carry their weight in the scientific world. Their locations and ages have revealed the eating habits of extinct species, desperate survival tactics, and even a glimpse at the dawn of the dinosaurs. 10 Shark Worms While the rest of humanity just wishes to be tapeworm-free, researchers are obsessed with finding the parasites in ancient poop. The reason? To trace the pests’ origins. Tapeworm eggs leave the body through the host’s bowel movements, making coprolites the best place to find them....
10 They Had Lips T. rex may not have been so toothy. A new study suggests that the ferocious dinosaur might have had lips that completely covered its pearly daggers. Sadly, this could one day remove the popular image showing off the permanent croc-like grin. The Cretaceous predator’s fearsome fangs had a thin coating of enamel. To avoid decay, especially when it is this fragile, enamel must remain moist. Today’s larger lizards support this face-changing theory....
Top 10 Must-See Recent Genre-Defying Horrors 10 Where It All (Mostly) Began (1910s) Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the films of the era of the Great War were short (as were pretty much all movie experiments before this decade), silent, or lost. That, however, does not leave us entirely devoid of excellent examples of moving pictures for the era. Released on the 10th of March, 1911, L’Inferno became the first full length film in Italy....
