This evolutionary arms race has been a battle between predators and prey of all sizes and on all scales to come up with the most effective way to survive and procreate. Whenever one side gets stronger, the other adapts and comes up with a new, clever way to beguile its foe and succeeds for a while—until it’s inevitably outdone again. This has also happened with many plagues, like the bubonic plague, throughout the long path of history....

Top 10 Mysterious People Who Should Have Movies Made About Them 10 Alfredo Balli Trevino Thomas Harris stumbled upon his muse on accident.[1] Harris’ magazine initially deployed him to interview Monterey Prison inmate Dykes Askew Simmons. Simmons told Harris that he would have died in a botched escape attempt if not for Dr. Alfredo Balli Trevino’s generous help. As Harris questioned Trevino, the surgeon eloquently spoke on psychoanalysis’ merits. Harris, convinced Trevino was an employee, was shocked to learn that Trevino was a fellow prisoner with a gory background....

In fact, many trains today are wholly automated. But even with modern technology, they are still extremely difficult to slow down in a short amount of time. Anything in their way is likely to experience a not-so-nice collision if it doesn’t get out of the way quickly. Some statistics are quite surprising when it comes to trains. Did you know that a person or a vehicle gets hit by a train every two hours in the United States?...

10Deborah Poe The graveyard shift at a convenience store is a job fraught with potential danger. But 26-year-old Deborah Poe needed the money, so she took a second job as an overnight clerk at a Circle K store in Orlando. On February 4, 1990, Poe was working her usual late-night shift at the store, and the last confirmed sighting of her was at approximately 3:00 AM. About an hour later, a customer found the store deserted and contacted the police....

10 Angela Cavallo Angela Cavallo was in her late 50s in 1982, living in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Her teenage son, Tony, had a 1964 Chevrolet Impala and was working on the suspension in their driveway, trying to knock something loose. This knocking caused the car to wiggle off the jack before landing on the high school junior. As he lay unconscious under the vehicle, an eleven-year-old, Johnny Edwards, who was in town visiting his grandparents, saw what happened....

Still, there are some people who, even after they’ve experienced life in captivity, willingly choose to return to that existence, seemingly against all natural human drive. These are ten such cases of individuals who, after escaping captivity, willingly returned to it. 10 An 81-Year-Old Returns To What’s Comfortable Robert Francis Krebs spent more than 30 years in prison for embezzling money as a bank teller in Chicago, for bank robberies in Florida, and for theft and armed robberies....

10Tkvarcheli, Georgia This Soviet ghost town is technically located within a country called The Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, which is only officially recognized by five other countries. To the rest of the world, these are just the remains of another Georgian town that supplied the Soviet industrial machine. The town was constructed back in the 1940s to supply coal to the Soviets. As such, it was built to last long into the future....

10 Mesa Verde and the Anasazi First up on our list is perhaps a unique outlier. Mesa Verde is not currently a populated city but rather is a national park protecting hundreds of unique species indigenous to the mesa and the ruins of the Anasazi people, who once lived and coexisted with their natural environment in the area. The former villages and cities of the Anasazi were built into and on top of the mesa, forming very distinct images....

10Robert F. Kennedy Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy left through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after celebrating his victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary. However, Kennedy’s aspirations of becoming president were shattered when he was shot to death by an assassin named Sirhan Sirhan, who received a life sentence for the crime. Much like his brother’s assassination five years earlier, Robert F....

10 Hidden Treasure The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a giant sculpture carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota. The idea stemmed from Doane Robinson in 1923 and enlisted the help of Danish-American sculptor Gutzon Borglum. Construction took place from 1937 to 1941, but in 1938, Borglum began secretly blasting away at the rockwork for what would become the Hall of Records. This room was meant to be a vault containing the nation’s history and important documents, but when Congress found out, they ordered the funding be spent on the presidents and not the Hall of Records....

10 God’s Name Have you ever had one of those awkward moments when you forget how to pronounce someone’s name? Judaism has been suffering that embarrassment for centuries. According to Jewish tradition, there are many different ways of referring to God, but the proper way is by the Tetragrammaton. Spelled “YHVH,” this simple combination of letters is meant to be the true name of God Himself—and no one is sure how to pronounce it....

10Cutaneous Horns Cutaneous horns (cornu cutaneum) result when keratin manifests in a conical shape and protrudes outward from the skin. Lesions found at the base of these horns may be malignant or benign. When cutaneous horns grow, they tend to be on people with fair skin, at an average age of 50. Sun-exposed areas of skin are most susceptible. A biopsy can help determine the cause because cutaneous horns are related to a variety of medical issues....

10New Zealand Developed An Unstoppable Tsunami Bomb During the Second World War, the Allied governments knew that it would take a weapon of unstoppable power to avoid a land invasion of the Japanese islands. But while the US worked on the mysterious Manhattan Project, the government of tiny New Zealand decided to throw their resources behind a somehow even more terrifying weapon. They were going to find a way to unleash the fury of nature itself on the enemy—via an apocalyptic tsunami machine....

Often, travelers can get a good idea of what is and is not allowed in other countries with a little careful thought. However, no amount of thinking can explain some of the more bizarre laws from around the world. 10 You Can’t Like Winnie The Pooh In Poland Children have impressionable minds. So we might think it’s a good thing that councillors give careful consideration to any mascots that they might put on a playground....

While this paraphilia may account for some such relationships, other psychologists, authors of books about such women, and serial killers’ own wives offer additional explanations that are also insightful, reasonable, convincing, and unusual. Let’s examine 10 reasons women marry serial killers. 10 Vicarious Celebrity The title of Denise Mina’s online article asks, “Why are women drawn to men behind bars?” It is not easy to date prisoners, she writes. Not only might a woman have to exchange letters with several, or even many, prisoners before making “a sustainable connection” with one of them, but she must also make a “considerable effort to meet” him since he resides “in [a] secure containment” facility....

The Ancient Theater of Epidaurus near Athens Greece was constructed in the late 4th century BC and is one of the best preserved ancient theaters. Even in ancient times, the theater was considered to have great acoustics. The actors can be perfectly heard by all 15,000 spectators without amplification. To demonstrate the theaters great acoustics tour guides have their groups scattered in the stands and then show them how faint sounds can be heard at center-stage....

A veritable flood of stories have recently featured nature doing stuff that has left our heads spinning. While none of these reports are mysteries, and all of them have rational explanations, they do all seem to have one goal in mind—to leave average laymen scratching their heads and feeling as confused about the world as humanly possible. 10 Wild Smalltooth Sawfish Experience Virgin Births We all know how sex works....

10The Death Of Hilda Murrell On March 21, 1984, Hilda Murrell was kidnapped from her home, driven away in her own car, and murdered. The 78-year-old was found in a field three days later, beaten and stabbed but actually killed by hypothermia. In 2005, burglar Andrew George was convicted of the murder after a cold case review found his DNA on evidence. Prosecutors said that George, who was 16 at the time, had panicked during a robbery....

Many agree that there is almost certainly a black budget that is operated by the US government for projects away from the public eye and without the public knowing that they are even happening. In fact, some theories are so outlandish that they almost force you to read about them. 10 Alternative 3The Hoax Broadcast That Started It All? Almost immediately following the broadcast of the documentary Alternative 3 on Anglia TV in the United Kingdom in 1977, there was a stream of calls from the general public expressing concern and confusion....

Whether they murdered for profit, pleasure, or both, the impact on the victims, their families, and the community was always the same. The ruthlessness of the following crimes may shock you, so mentally prepare yourself for the brutality to come. 10 The Bloody Benders The Bloody Benders were a family who moved into Osage Township, Kansas, in late 1870. This family of four would end up killing as many as 21 people....