10 short but very scary bedtime stories

If you need to work at night and the coffee is no longer working, read these stories. Cheer up. Br-r-r.

Faces in portraits

One man got lost in the forest. He wandered for a long time and finally came across a hut at dusk. There was no one inside, and he decided to go to bed. But for a long time he could not sleep, because portraits of some people hung on the walls, and it seemed to him that they were looking at him ominously. Finally he fell asleep from fatigue. In the morning he was awakened by bright sunlight. There were no paintings on the walls. They were windows.

Count to five

One winter, four students from a mountaineering club got lost in the mountains and were caught in a blizzard. They managed to get out to an abandoned and empty house. There was nothing in it to keep warm, and the guys realized that they would freeze if they fell asleep in this place. One of them suggested this. Everyone stands in the corner of the room. First, one runs to the other, pushes him, he runs to the third, etc. So they will not fall asleep, and the movement will warm them. Until the morning they ran along the walls, and in the morning they were found by rescuers. When the students later talked about their salvation, someone asked: “If there is one person in each corner, then when the fourth reaches the corner, no one should be there. Why didn't you stop then? " The four looked at each other in horror. No, they never stopped.

Spoiled film

One girl photographer decided to spend day and night alone in a deep forest. She was not afraid, because this was not the first time she went hiking. All day she took pictures of trees and grass with a film camera, and in the evening she settled down to sleep in her small tent. The night passed calmly, the horror overtook her only a few days later. All four coils produced great shots, except for the last shot. All the photographs showed her, peacefully sleeping in her tent in the darkness of the night.

Babysitter call

Once a married couple decided to go to the cinema and leave the children with a babtsitter. They put the children to bed, so the young woman just had to stay at home just in case. Soon the girl became bored and decided to watch TV. She called her parents and asked their permission to turn on the TV. They, of course, agreed, but she had one more request ... she asked if it was possible to close something with the statue of an angel outside the window, and because it made her nervous. For a second, the phone went quiet, and then the father, who was talking to the girl, said: “Take the children and run out of the house ... we will call the police. We don't have a statue of an angel. " The police found everyone who remained at home dead. The angel statue was never found.

Who's there?

About five years ago, in the middle of the night, 4 short bells rang at my door. I woke up, got angry and didn't open: I wasn't expecting anyone. On the second night, someone called again 4 times. I looked through the peephole, but there was no one outside the door. During the day I told this story, and joked that, probably, death was the wrong door. On the third evening, a friend came to see me and stayed up late. The doorbell rang again, but I pretended not to notice anything to check: maybe I was hallucinating. But he heard everything perfectly and, after my story, exclaimed: "Well, let's deal with these jokers!" and ran out into the yard. That night I saw him for the last time. No, he hasn't disappeared. But on the way home he was beaten by a drunken company and died in the hospital. Calls stopped. I remembered this story because last night I heard three short rings at the door.

Twin

My girlfriend wrote today that she did not know that I had such a charming brother, and even a twin! It turns out that she had just stopped by my house, not knowing that I stayed at work until the night, and he met her there. He introduced himself, treated me to coffee, told some funny stories from his childhood and walked me to the elevator.

I don’t even know how to tell her that I don’t have a brother.

Wet fog

It was in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. The climbers set up camp near a small mountain lake. At about midnight, everyone felt sleepy. Suddenly a noise was heard from the side of the lake: either crying, or laughter. Friends (there were five of them) decided to check what was the matter. They did not find anything near the shore, but they saw a strange fog in which white lights shone. The guys went to the lights. We took just a couple of steps towards the lake ... And then one who was walking last noticed that he was standing knee-deep in icy water! He pulled the two nearest to him, they came to their senses and got out of the fog. But the two that walked in front disappeared into the fog and water. It was impossible to find them in the cold, in the dark. In the early morning, the survivors rushed to the rescuers. They didn't find anyone. And by evening those two who had just plunged into the fog also died.

Photo of a girl

One high school student was bored in class and looked out the window. On the grass he saw a photograph thrown by someone. He went out into the courtyard and picked up a picture: it turned out to be a very beautiful girl. She was wearing a dress, red shoes, and she was showing a V sign with her hand. The guy began to ask everyone if they had seen this girl. But nobody knew her. In the evening, he put a photo near the bed, and at night he was awakened by a quiet sound, as if someone was scratching at the glass. In the darkness outside the window came a woman's laugh. The kid left the house and started looking for the source of the voice. He quickly left, and the guy did not notice how, hurrying after him, he ran out onto the roadway. He was hit by a car. The driver jumped out of the car and tried to save the hit man, but it was too late. And then the man noticed a photograph of a beautiful girl on the ground. She was wearing a dress, red shoes, and she was showing three fingers.

Grandmother Martha

Grandfather told this story to his granddaughter. As a child, he found himself with his brothers and sisters in a village, which was approached by the Germans. The adults decided to hide the children in the forest, in the house of the forester. We agreed that Baba Martha would carry food for them. But it was strictly forbidden to return to the village. This is how the children lived in May and June. Martha left food in the barn every morning. At first, the parents ran in too, but then they stopped. The children looked at Martha through the window, she turned and silently, looked at them sadly and baptized the house. Once two men approached the house and called the children with them. They were partisans. The children learned from them that their village was burned down a month ago. Baba Martha was also killed.

Do not open the door!

The twelve-year-old girl lived with her father. They had a great relationship. One day my father was going to stay late at work and said that he would return late at night. The girl waited for him, waited and finally went to bed. She had a strange dream: her father was standing on the other side of a busy highway and shouting something to her. She barely heard the words: "Don't ... open ... the door." And then the girl woke up from the call. She jumped out of bed, ran to the door, looked through the peephole and saw her father's face. The girl was about to open the lock when she remembered a dream. And my father's face was somehow strange. She stopped. The bell rang again.
- Dad?
Dzin, dzin, dzin.
- Dad, answer me!
Dzin, dzin, dzin.
- Is someone there with you?
Dzin, dzin, dzin.
- Dad, why don't you answer? - the girl almost cried.
Dzin, dzin, dzin.
- I will not open the door until you answer me!
Everyone rang and rang at the door, but my father was silent. The girl sat huddled in the corner of the hallway. This went on for about an hour, then the girl fell into oblivion. At dawn, she woke up and realized that the doorbell was no longer ringing. She crept to the door and looked through the peephole again. Her father was still standing there staring straight at her. The girl carefully opened the door and screamed. Her father's severed head was nailed to the door with a nail at peephole level.
A note was attached to the doorbell, which contained only two words: "Smart girl."

From Yesterday, 13:20

It was evening, there was nothing. To be more precise, a few years ago, on a night of "sweet, melting". At that time we studied in the 11th grade. They began to communicate well with one of the classmates - Alina, she was still a riot. A person who is not afraid of anything in life (or just looks like that). All in piercings (either 17, or 18 holes, pricks herself). And I am a brazen reckless schoolgirl. Yes, only I have an innate sense of proportion (or maybe I'm just a coward), but if at least a little in an adventure I sense danger, I will never get into it.

And now on the case. As long as I can remember, I have always wondered. And I understand all these issues quite seriously, study and so on. But since childhood I have shunned mirrors. I don’t know why, but I’m afraid even in the afternoon near the mirror, if I’m alone at home. And this incident happened on Christmas carols, as I have already mentioned.

I stayed with Alina to spend the night. The apartment is large, 3 rooms. And also 3 huge fat lazy cats. Only at that moment did they disappear somewhere in the most mysterious way. It all started with beer and Christmas movies. And then at one fine moment it hit my friend's head to tell fortunes. On the clock, the wolf time is about two in the morning. I began to dissuade her. It's just useless. In general, I had no choice but to start "from afar", in the hope that my friend would finally abandon this idea.

Are you afraid to watch horror films, but still having decided, then for several days you are afraid to sleep without light? Let it be known to you that in real life even more terrifying and mysterious stories happen than the fantasy of Hollywood scriptwriters can invent. Find out about them - and for many days in a row you will peer into dark corners with fear!

Death in a lead mask

In August 1966, on a deserted hill in the vicinity of the Brazilian city of Niteroi, a local teenager discovered the half-decomposed corpses of two men. Local police officers, having arrived for the dough, found that there were no traces of violence on the bodies and in general there were no signs of a violent death. Both were dressed in evening suits and waterproof raincoats, but the most surprising thing was that their faces were hidden by rough lead masks, similar to those used in that era to protect against radiation. The victims had an empty water bottle, two towels and a note with them. which read: "16.30 - be at the appointed place, 18.30 - swallow capsules, put on protective masks and wait for the signal." Later, the investigation was able to establish the identity of the victims - they were two electricians from a neighboring town. The pathologists were never able to find traces of injuries or any other causes that led to their death. What experiment was discussed in the mysterious note, and from what otherworldly forces two young men died in the vicinity of Niteroi? Until now, no one knows about this.

Chernobyl mutant spider

This happened in the early 1990s, several years after the Chernobyl disaster. In one of the Ukrainian cities that fell under a radioactive release, but were not subject to evacuation. The corpse of a man was found in the elevator of one of the houses. The examination revealed that he died of massive blood loss and shock. However, there were no signs of violence on the body, with the exception of two small wounds on the neck. A few days later, a young girl died in the same elevator under similar circumstances. The investigator in charge of the case, together with the police sergeant, came to the house to conduct an investigation. They were taking the elevator when suddenly the lights went out and a rustle was heard on the roof of the car. Turning on the flashlights, they threw them up - and saw a huge disgusting spider half a meter in diameter, which crawled towards them through a hole in the roof. A second - and the spider jumped on the sergeant. For a long time the investigator could not aim at the monster, and when he finally fired, it was too late - the sergeant was already dead. The authorities tried to hush up this story, and only a few years later, thanks to eyewitness accounts, it got into the newspapers.

Zeb Quinn's mysterious disappearance

On a winter afternoon, 18-year-old Zeb Quinn got off work in Asheville, North Carolina and went to meet his friend Robert Owens. She and Owens were talking when Quinn received a message. Straining, Zeb told his friend that he had to call urgently, and walked aside. He returned, according to Robert, "completely out of his mind" and, without explaining anything to his friend, quickly left, and, moreover, drove off so hastily that he hit Owen's car with his car. Zeb Quinn was never seen again. Two weeks later, his car was found at a local hospital with a strange set of items: it contained a hotel room key, a jacket that did not belong to Quinn, several bottles of alcohol and a live puppy. Huge lips were painted on the rear window with lipstick. As police found out, Quinn's message was transmitted from the home phone of his aunt, Ina Ulrich. But Ina herself was not at home at that moment. By some indications, she confirmed that it was likely that someone else had visited her house. Where Zeb Quinn disappeared is still unknown.

Eight from Jennings

In 2005, a nightmare began in Jennings, a small town in Louisiana. Once every few months, in a swamp outside the city or in a ditch along the highway near Jennings, local residents found another body of a young girl. All the victims were local residents, and everyone knew each other: they were in the same companies, worked together, and the two girls turned out to be cousins. The police checked everyone who, at least in theory, could have anything to do with the murders, but did not find a single clue. In total, eight girls were killed in Jennings over the course of four years. In 2009, the murders stopped as suddenly as they began. Neither the name of the killer nor the reasons that prompted him to commit crimes are still unknown.

Disappearance of Dorothy Forstein

Dorothy Forstein was a well-to-do housewife from Philadelphia. She had three children and her husband Jules, who earned good money and held a decent post in the civil service. However, one day in 1945, when Dorothy returned home from a shopping trip, someone pounced on her in the hallway of her own house and beat her to a pulp. Lying on the floor unconscious, Dorothy was found by the arriving police. During interrogation, she said that she had not seen the face of her attacker and had no idea who attacked her. It took Dorothy a long time to recover from the nightmare incident. But four years later, in 1949, disaster struck the family again. Jules Forstein, arriving from work shortly before midnight, found the two youngest children in the bedroom in tears, trembling with fear. Dorothy was not in the house. Nine-year-old Marcy Fontaine told police that she was awakened by the creak of the front door. Going out into the corridor, she saw that a stranger was walking towards her. Entering Dorothy's bedroom, after a while he appeared with the unconscious body of a woman slung over his shoulder. Patting Marcy on the head, he said: Go to sleep, baby. Your mom was sick, but now she will get better. ”Since then, Dorothy Forstein has not been seen.

"Observer"

In 2015, the Broads family from New Jersey moved into their million-dollar dream home. But the joy of the housewarming was short-lived: the family was immediately terrorized by threatening letters by an unknown maniac, who signed himself as "Observer". He wrote that "his family has been in charge of this house for decades," and now "it is time for him to look after him." He also wrote to the children, wondering "have they found what is hidden in the walls" and declaring that "I am glad to know your names - the names of fresh blood that I will receive from you." In the end, the frightened family drove out of the creepy house. Soon the Broads family filed a lawsuit against the previous owners: as it turned out, they also received threats from the Observer, which were not reported by the buyer. But the worst thing about this story is that over the years, the New Jersey police have not been able to figure out the name and purpose of the sinister "Observer".

"Draftsman"

For almost two years, in 1974 and 1975, a serial killer was wielding the streets of San Francisco. His victims were 14 men - homosexuals and transvestites - whom he met in zany city institutions. Then, having got the victim in a secluded place, he killed her and brutally mutilated the body. The police called him a "draftsman" because of his habit of drawing small cartoon pictures that he gave to his future victims to break the ice when they first met. Fortunately, his victims survived. It was their testimony that helped the police find out about the habits of the "draftsman" and draw up his composite sketch. But, despite this, the maniac was never caught, and still nothing is known about his identity. Perhaps he is now walking sedately through the streets of San Francisco ...

The Legend of Edward Mondrake

In 1896, Dr. George Gould published a book describing the medical anomalies that he had to face during his years of practice. The most macabre of these was the case of Edward Mondrake. According to Gould, this clever and musically gifted young man lived in strict solitude all his life and even his relatives were rarely allowed to come to his place. The fact is that the young man had not one face, but two. The second was on the back of his head; it was the face of a woman, judging by Edward's stories, with a will and personality, and very vicious: she grinned every time Edward cried, and when he tried to sleep, she whispered all sorts of nasty things to him. Edward pleaded with Dr. Gould to relieve him of the accursed second person, but the doctor feared that the young man would not survive the operation. Finally, at the age of 23, an exhausted Edward, having obtained poison, committed suicide. In a suicide note, he asked his family to cut off his second face before the funeral so that he would not have to lie with him in the grave.

Disappeared couple

In the early morning of December 12, 1992, 19-year-old Ruby Brueger, her boyfriend, 20-year-old Arnold Archembo, and her cousin Tracy were driving along a deserted road in South Dakota. All three drank a little, so at some point the car skidded on the slippery road, and it flew into a ditch. When Tracy opened her eyes, she saw that Arnold was not in the cabin. Then before her eyes, Ruby got out of the car and disappeared from sight. The police who arrived at the scene, despite their best efforts, did not find any traces of the disappeared couple. Since then, Ruby and Arnold have not made themselves felt. However, a few months later, two bodies were found in the same ditch. They lay literally a few steps from the scene. In bodies in various stages of decomposition, Ruby and Arnold were identified. But many police officers who had previously participated in the investigation of the accident site unanimously confirmed that the search was carried out very carefully, and they could not miss the bodies. Where were the bodies of the young people these few months, and who brought them to the highway? The police could not answer this question.

Kula Robert

This old battered doll is now in one of the museums in Florida. Few people know that she is the embodiment of absolute evil. Robert's story began in 1906, when it was given to a baby. Soon the boy began to tell his parents that the doll was talking to him. Indeed, the parents sometimes heard someone else's voice from the son's room, but they believed that the boy was playing something like that. When an unpleasant incident happened in the house, the owner of the doll blamed Robert for everything. The grown boy threw Robert into the attic, and after his death, the doll passed to the new mistress, a little girl. She did not know anything about her story - but soon she also began to tell her parents that the doll was talking to her. Once the little girl ran to her parents in tears, saying that the doll was threatening to kill her. The girl was never inclined to dark fantasies, therefore, after several frightened requests and complaints from her daughter, they, out of sin, donated it to the local museum. Today the doll is silent, but the old-timers assure: if you take a picture in front of the window with Robert without permission, he will certainly cast a curse on you, and then you will not avoid trouble.

Facebook ghost

In 2013, a Facebook user named Nathan told his virtual friends a story that scared many. According to Nathan, he began receiving messages from his friend Emily, who had died two years earlier. At first, these were repetitions of her old letters, and Nathan believed that this was only a technical problem. But then he received a new letter. "It's cold ... I don't know what's going on," Emily wrote. Out of fear, Nathan drank well, and only then decided to respond. And Emily immediately received an answer: "I want to walk ..." Nathan was horrified: after all, in the accident in which Emily died, her legs were cut off. Letters continued to arrive, sometimes meaningful, sometimes incoherent, like ciphers. Finally, Nathan received a photograph from Emily. On it he himself was captured from the back. Nathan swears that no one was in the house when the photo was taken. What was it? Is there a ghost on the Web? Or is it someone's stupid joke. Nathan still does not know the answer - and cannot fall asleep without sleeping pills.

The true story of the "Thing"

Even if you've seen the 1982 movie "The Thing," in which a young woman is abused and bullied by a ghost, you probably don't know that this story is based on true events. This is exactly what happened in 1974 with housewife Dorothy Beezer, the mother of several children. It all started when Dorothy decided to experiment with the Ouija board. As her children said, the experiment ended well: Dorothy managed to summon a spirit. But he flatly refused to leave. The ghost was distinguished by animal cruelty: he constantly pushed Dorothy, threw her into the air, beat her and even raped her, often in front of children who were powerless to help their mother. Exhausted, Dorothy called for help from experts in the fight against paranormal phenomena. All of them unanimously told later that they saw strange and terrible things in Dorothy's house: objects flying through the air, a mysterious light that appeared from nowhere .. Finally, one day, right in front of the ghostbusters, a green fog thickened in the room, from which a ghostly figure emerged a huge man. After that, the spirit disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. What happened in the Los Angeles home of Dorothy Beezer, no one still knows.

Phone stalkers

In 2007, several Washington families immediately approached the police with complaints about phone calls from unknown persons, accompanied by terrible threats, the callers threatened to cut their interlocutors' throats in their sleep, kill their children or grandchildren. Calls rang out at night, at very different times, while the callers knew for certain where each of the family members was, what he was doing and what he was wearing. Sometimes mysterious criminals recounted conversations between family members in detail, in which there were no strangers. The police tried unsuccessfully to track down the telephone terrorists, but the phone numbers from which the calls were heard were either fake or belonged to other families receiving similar threats. Fortunately, none of the threats became reality. But who and how managed to play such a cruel joke with dozens of unknown people remained a mystery.

Call from a dead man

In September 2008, a terrible train crash occurred in Los Angeles, which killed 25 people. One of the victims was Charles Peck, who was driving from Salt Lake City for an interview with a potential employer. His fiancée, who lived in California, was eagerly waiting for the groom to be offered a job so that they could move to Los Angeles. The day after the disaster, while rescuers were still removing the bodies of the victims from the rubble, Peck's fiance's phone rang. It was a call from Charles's number. The phones of his relatives - son, brother, stepmother and sister - also rang. All of them, having picked up the receiver, heard only silence there. Calls back were answered by an answering machine. Charles's family believed that he was alive and was trying to call for help. But when rescuers found his body, it turned out that Charles Peck died immediately after the collision and could not call in any way. What's even more mysterious, his phone also crashed in the crash, and no matter how hard they tried to bring him back to life, no one succeeded.

Several years ago, in one of the hunting grounds of the Perm Territory, I heard an unusual story. About a strange mushroom picker. Impressed by what he had heard, he even wrote a short poem "The Lost Mushroom Picker" about this. Comic. Changing the essence of the story a little. I could not believe then in her veracity. You never know what the people will come up with ...

Although the hunting expert, who told about the strange incident, did not at all look like a humorist. In all seriousness, he said that for the second year in the local forests, mushroom pickers and hunters met a very strange character.

Back in school, the boys and I noticed a strange tendency - each of us had a particularly unlucky part of the body. Which got more than the rest of the organs and limbs. Someone had a hand, someone had a leg, someone had a completely unlucky head. And someone was unlucky as a whole on the right or, conversely, on the left side of the body. Like mine, for example.
Over the years, the majority, probably, the situation evens out, and "bumps" begin to pour evenly over the whole body. And the number of injuries with age and the arrival of the mind decreases markedly. But not everyone, unfortunately ...

Now, when you hear from someone that he is fond of photography, it becomes funny to God. With the development of digital technologies, photography as a hobby can rightfully be called a three-year-old child who has learned to point a finger at a smartphone.

I became interested in photography in the late seventies. Fortunately, there was someone to learn from in practice. And the theoretical base in the form of special literature was available (now many books of those times have become a second-hand book rarity).

I heard this story from a good friend of mine. Contrary to the prevailing opinion about former prisoners, after his release, he remained a normal person and returned to ordinary civilian life.

History textbooks are crammed with stories about who stabbed whom, which city was burned to the ground, and which kings married their cousins. Therefore, imagine what details of these stories the pundits chose to omit. Or better, we ourselves will tell you about them in this article. Continuing our educational quest, we will tell you about the things that your teachers decided to hide from you, and we will reveal some scary and little-known facts about the most famous historical moments.

1. Syphilitic "zombies" on the streets of Renaissance Italy

Thinking about the Renaissance, most imagine prim Italians in aristocratic clothes, admiring the work of Da Vinci, Michelangelo and other masters. What people don't know is the following:

Yes, Renaissance Florence could be an ideal place for various kinds of arts (and parkour, according to Assassin's Creed II), but at the same time, Italians experienced their own, so to speak, "zombie apocalypse" that happened during the first major outbreak of syphilis in 1494. Yes, even before the advent of antibiotics, this venereal disease was by no means a "shameful secret", but a disease (in those days it was called according to the alleged national origin - "German", "French", etc.), literally eating a person ... According to one description, due to the disease, "the skin of people slipped off their faces, and after a few months, death occurred." To be more precise, the outbreak caused "complete destruction of the lips, nose and other parts of the body, including the genitals."
Because of the outbreak, victims of the "Gallic disease" roaming the streets without "hands, feet, eyes and noses" were commonplace. So if the Renaissance fairs held today in Europe and America were true, then half of the people would look like the extras from The Walking Dead.
But as dreadful as the thought of living in a decaying body may be, the immediate horror lurks in the phrase "a few months later." In other words, the patients somehow managed to live in this state for months, probably exhausted from hellish pain, while their flesh was "eaten away, in some cases right down to the bone."
In general, for a short period during the era of the great masters of the Renaissance, the streets were often seen on the streets - not to mention the whole army of the French - with decaying and naked to the skull faces, who walked around the city until they fell dead. ... And why wasn't that in Assassin's Creed II?

2. The man who tried to save Lincoln shared the fate of Dilbert Grady

You've probably seen this illustration before, but can you name the people present?
On the right is obviously John Wilkes Booth, followed by Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary T. However, unless you are an avid historian, then you probably did not recognize in the two remaining Major of the Union Henry Rathbone and his wife, Clara Harris, daughter of a prominent senator USA. Rathbone is better known for his attempt to stop Booth than for the dark Kubrick murder story that fell upon him a few years later.

During the assassination attempt, Rathbone was seriously injured, but although he physically managed to survive the attack, his mind could not recover from the tragedy. The officer blamed himself for not interrupting Booth, and although he married Clara two years later, married life only made his condition worse.
In the end, the man's psyche deteriorated so much that on December 23, 1883, he decided to paint the walls of his house with family blood. While serving in Hanover as American consul, Rathbone attempted to kill three of his children. When his wife prevented him, he shot her and stabbed her with a knife, after which he killed himself.
The police found Rathbone covered in blood and losing his mind. According to an often repeated but unconfirmed version, he claimed that people were hiding behind the paintings in his house.
Rathbone spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital, where he complained about machines hidden in the walls, letting gas into his room, which caused him to suffer from severe headaches. The man died in 1911, becoming the last victim of Lincoln's assassination attempt, almost half a century after the tragedy.

3. Heads literally exploded during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

The Italian volcano Vesuvius is infamous for its violent eruption, as a result of which the Roman city of Pompey (and all its erotic sculptures, since the city was the sex capital of the Empire) remained buried in the ashes for the next thousand and a half years. But what you probably didn't know is that the gods actually treated Pompey with magnanimity compared to the horror that befell the small city of Herculaneum, even closer to Vesuvius, when he began to spit magma.

What Pompeii experienced can be compared to a classic disaster film: huge clouds of smoke, people scattering in panic, ash and possibly a side storyline about Tara Reed reuniting with her ex-husband. Herculaneum, on the other hand, got a real supernatural horror movie, as this town was exposed to "superheated pyroclastic vapors of stone, mud and gas", or more simply, the following began to happen to people:

Seriously. The human skull is filled with different liquids, and if you heat it up very quickly, then the same thing happens to it as to a hamster in the microwave. And, in fact, this is exactly what happened in Herculaneum, when all the inhabitants of the city fell into a cloud of gas, the temperature of which was approaching 500 ° C. In less than a couple of tenths of a second, "people's skin has evaporated<…>the brain boiled and the skull exploded. " Without any bullets and buckshot. By itself. From the inside.
Let's hope that the same fate will not befall the inhabitants of Naples, who stubbornly continue to live in the same place where Herculaneum once was and where Vesuvius is patiently waiting for the right opportunity to give them all a good thrashing.

In particular, the pamphlet stated that if people cannot send their pets out of town, then “their destruction will be the best way out” (the choice of words in this case provokes the assumption that this document was written by an early prototype of Dalek). And how did the British population react? Protests across the country, you decide. But no. In fact, 750,000 pets were “destroyed” in just one week.
At the same time, we emphasize that this action took place in the summer of 1939, that is, before the German invasion of Poland, when the British government could have done much more harm to Nazi Germany, if instead of the mass murder of animals, it attacked the former world lair of the Nazis.

5. The first documented serial killer in history lived happily ever after in the era of Pax Romana

Pax Romana, or "Peace of August", is one of the most peaceful periods in history. Deciding that their Empire was already large, the Romans forgot about bloodshed for a while and focused on more productive things, such as regulating the laws that we still use today. And how did Rome manage to live for so long without the daily garbage collection and laws invented specifically to keep all sorts of serial killers out of the streets and honest people?
However, the latter can be deleted. The first documented serial killer in history lived, as they say, royally during the era of Pax Romana.
Her name was Locusta, and her story begins in the middle of the 1st century. AD when a woman was arrested for poisoning. However, luck smiled at Locuste when Agrippina turned to her for help, who decided to poison the Emperor Claudius. Later, the criminal received a pardon for her help.

And what did she do next? A year later, in 55 AD, Locusta again fell into the hands of justice, and again for poisoning. Luckily for her, her help was needed by Emperor Nero, who asked the woman to prepare a deadly cocktail for his 13-year-old half-brother Britannica. For her service, Locusta received a pardon and a nice villa, along with students whom she could teach her craft.
Be that as it may, Locusta's luck ended when Nero committed suicide, leaving her with only a couple of allies, and the reputation of a witch. In 69 A.D. the woman was arrested and immediately executed by order of the emperor Galba. How did she die? An "ironic" death, you decide by tasting your own potion. But no. She was publicly raped to death by "a wild animal [some sources claim it was a giraffe] trained specifically for this kind of punishment."
Oh, those Roman laws.

6. Jeanne D'Arc fought shoulder to shoulder with one of the worst child killers

Let's not lie to you: we adore Jeanne. She was real. She was a heroine. And she didn't let anyone push her around.
However, although most of the fame for helping France in the fight against England in the 15th century. and it goes to Jeanne, she would never have been able to do what she did without the help of people like Gilles de Rais, who was her “passionate companion” and one of the bravest knights of the French army. He was even featured in a large budget film starring Mila Jovovich, in which he was portrayed by Vincent Cassel.

So why don't people name churches after him, you ask. Perhaps because at night, de Rais played the role of a terrible killer, hunting children between the ages of 6 and 18.
Do not forget that we are now talking about one of the few people in the French army who helped Jeanne d'Arc build her career and ultimately secured her place among the saints ... and yet, as incredible as it sounds, he was also sadistic monster. The records of his trial and his personal confession cause a chill on the skin and make the soul chill with horror: in addition to murder and physical torture, de Rais loved to torture his victims psychologically, convincing them that what was happening to them was just a game, after which he did something more perverted. This guy would have been kicked out of Arkham Asylum in a flash for scaring the Joker.
Depending on the source, de Rais's death toll ranges from 80 to 800 children, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Like his girlfriend, de Rais was burned at the stake, unless in his case it was well deserved.