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Lizzie Borden took an ax Gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one These days folks are no longer hesitant to cash in on things morbid and macabre, and Lizzie Borden has become Fall River’s chief tourist attraction. There are tours that visit Lizzie’s grave and the courthouse where she stood trial. Gift shops sell Lizzie Borden bobblehead dolls. As for the Borden house, it is now a homey bed and breakfast, where you can spend the night in the room where Lizzie’s stepmother got the Big Chop, or sit on a sofa similar to the one on which her father’s body was found....

To say that these buildings have witnessed much suffering would be a huge understatement. If suffering and death can lead to a place becoming haunted, you’d think that mental institutions would be prime candidates. Here are 10 asylums and mental institutions where exactly that sort of activity is said to have occurred. 10 Waverly Hills SanatoriumKentucky Widely regarded as one of the most haunted places on Earth, Waverley Hills Sanatorium is said to be home to a mysterious woman in chains, who can be seen running from the now abandoned building, a boy called Timmy who is obsessed with playing ball, a girl with no eyes called Mary, and the notorious Room 502, where the door slams shut if you dare to step inside its four walls....

SEE ALSO: 10 Heartwarming Stories To Restore Your Faith In Humanity That is why it is especially wonderful and heartwarming when the impossible happens and a victim of theft is not only reunited with their stuff but gets an apology, too. As the list below shows, some thieves can have a change of heart. 10 Thief Returns Money With Apology 11 Years After Robbery In the early 2000s, the InterAsian Market and Deli in Nashville, Tennessee was robbed....

Awesome as he was, though, Schindler was far from unique. We’ve already told you about John Rabe, the “Oskar Schindler of China.” Throughout the 20th century, others with little to gain and everything to lose stood up to psychotic regimes, saving thousands of lives. 10 The Cardinal Who Stood Up To Torture On September 11, 1973, Augusto Pinochet overthrew Chile’s democratically elected president. An orgy of torture and murder followed, as right-wing death squads stalked the capital, targeting dissidents....

10 The Cat Who Supplied A Supper When Sir Henry Wyatt was imprisoned—probably in Scotland—in the late 1400s, the accommodations left much to be desired, and the fare was abysmal. Fortunately, according to an account by Wyatt’s great-great-grandson, Thomas Scott, the despondent man began receiving visits from a friendly feline. The motherly cat must have decided that her new pal could use some fattening up because she began bringing him dead pigeons....

10The Battle Of The BulgeBattle Of The Bulge (1965) The Battle of the Bulge saw more American deaths than any other World War II engagement, so you’d expect MGM’s movie of the same name to strive for respectful accuracy. Unfortunately, the filmmakers apparently decided that the real thing wasn’t cinematic enough and just made up a different battle entirely. For starters, the filmmakers were determined to let audiences enjoy the picture in magnificent widescreen Cinerama....

10 Adolf Schicklgruber It is often claimed that Adolf Hitler was born with the surname Schicklgruber. Hitler’s father, Alois, was born out of wedlock to Maria Anna Schicklgruber, who eventually married Alois’s probable father, Johann Georg Hiedler. Hiedler didn’t legitimize his son in life, but Alois was later legitimized by his uncle. As historian Alan Bullock said, “From the beginning of 1877, 12 years before Adolf was born, his father called himself Hitler, and his son was never known by any other name until his opponents dug up this long-forgotten village scandal and tried, without justification, to label him with his grandmother’s name of Schicklgruber....

10 London’s Unregulated Baby Farms In 1874, an Australian newspaper ran a report on the problems of baby farms in London. The first major problem cited by the article wasn’t that the baby farms were run like a business or that they were set up to make money rather than provide loving care for infants, but the fact that they were completely unregulated. London supposedly had hundreds of small baby farms, but only three of those farms were genuinely registered as a business....

This list details ten movies that can all currently be found on Netflix and aren’t cheesy scary! Seriously, some of these films have actually made some of their viewers faint. Don’t worry, though, this article includes a variety of movies with different types of horror within. From blood and guts to demons and ghosts, this last packs a scream! 10 The Conjuring Directed by James Wan, the story of The Conjuring has terrified people since its premiere date back in July 2013....

10J. Paul Getty Having a billionaire for a grandfather sounds pretty awesome at face value, but it didn’t work out too well for J. Paul Getty III. Getty was a rebellious child, and he often joked that he would stage his kidnapping to squeeze some cash out of his frugal grandfather. So when the 16-year-old really was taken in Rome in 1973, no one took it seriously. The kidnappers demanded $17 million, but oil magnate J....

Horror films have built a reputation for utilizing lower budgets to great effect. But it’s only once in a while that these films see significant returns on their comparatively modest budgets. The movies on this list are those films. And while their budgets may seem large to the average person, these movies stand as feats of frugal ingenuity that surpassed all expectations in the film world. 10 Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead wasn’t the first zombie film ever made (that distinction most likely goes to Victor Halperin’s White Zombie), but it pretty much created the blueprint for the genre going forward....

Typhus is any of several similar diseases caused by Rickettsiae. The name comes from the Greek typhos meaning smoky or hazy,describing the state of mind of those affected with typhus. The first reliable description of the disease appears during the Spanish siege of Moorish Granada in 1489. These accounts include descriptions of fever and red spots over arms, back and chest, progressing to delirium, gangrenous sores, and the stink of rotting flesh....

Weather can also be extremely dangerous. Tornadoes, hurricanes and blizzards, to name but a few, cause havoc around the globe every year leaving death and destruction in their wake. On this list are some of Earth’s most terrifying weather events caught on camera or drawn and painted for posterity, and serving as an ongoing warning to always seek shelter sooner rather than later. 10 Intense Extraterrestrial Storms 10 Rain bomb In 2016, storm chaser Bryan Snyder was busy taking a time-lapse video of a storm over Tucson when he witnessed a rare sight....

10Martin Guerre The Middle Ages were an easy era for identity thieves. When identification documents didn’t exist and very few people could read or write, the very idea of self-identity was fluid at best. This might help to explain the ridiculous exploits of Arnaud du Tilh. On a summer afternoon in 1556, Arnaud waltzed into the Basque town of Hendaye and proclaimed that he was the long-lost Martin Guerre. The real Guerre had disappeared to join the Spanish army eight years earlier, abandoning his young wife Bertrande, and hadn’t been heard from since....

Eventually known as the seventh planet from the Sun, this enigmatic, beautiful, gassy, blue-green ice giant is so far away from its home star that one full orbit takes 84 Earth years to complete. The gas and ice giants in our solar system are so far away from Earth that they are extremely hard to observe and study. The Voyager missions have been the sole source of much, if not all, of the real raw data we have on the outer planets....

10 Sergeant James Landon Camp Sumter, commonly known as Andersonville, was a military prison operated by the Confederacy during the US Civil War. Even by the low standards of prisons at the time, Andersonville was notoriously horrible. The prison was overcrowded, and prisoners were forced to sleep in the open in disgusting, unsanitary conditions. During the Civil War, 13,000 prisoners died in Andersonville. Following the war, Captain Henry Wirz, the camp’s commander, was tried and hanged for war crimes....

10Ukawsaw Gronniosaw Ukawsaw Gronniosaw began his life in what is today Nigeria. As a young child, Gronniosaw was lured away from his village by slave traders who promised to show him “houses with wings to them (that) walk upon the water.” These “houses” turned out to be slave ships, and Gronniosaw was sent to New York and purchased as a slave there. His master, a minister named Theodore Frelinghuysen, ensured that he received a religious education....

Or do they? Look through the annals of corporate malfeasance, and you’ll find many tales of companies being rewarded for their incompetence. Companies that failed to deliver on any of their promises and still came out on top. Companies like these. 10 Thomas Cook Kills Two Children, Receives Massive Payout In 2006, Neil Shepard and his new girlfriend took Neil’s kids Bobby and Christi on vacation to Corfu. The hotel they chose was part of the gigantic Thomas Cook network, a widely trusted company....

Captivity: 10 days Elizabeth Shoaf, aged 14, was abducted after leaving her school bus on September 6, 2006. Her abductor, Vinson Filyaw, took her through the woods to a hand-dug, 15-foot bunker located near his trailer home. There he restrained her and raped her several times, daily. Filyaw repeatedly told Shoaf she would die and would place explosives around her neck anytime he left her. Despite this, Elizabeth talked to him about his interests and Filyaw began to view her as a person he could trust, not a captive....

Here are 10 stories of ruthless killers or would-be killers whose humanity unexpectedly triumphed. 10The Bomber Who Surrendered In 2002, Arin Ahmed Shaebat began her long walk toward the Rishon Lezion mall wearing a backpack full of explosives. A few hundred meters away, 16-year-old Issa Badir was hefting his own backpack toward the gaming tables. The plan was for Badir to detonate his pack, with Arin waiting until the survivors flocked for the safety of the mall before exploding her own....