The CIA once built safehouses in New York and San Francisco for the sole purpose of studying the effects of LSD on non-consenting subjects—but how they got them there is utterly disturbing.
In Fiji, if an elderly family member was found to be too much of a burden, the solution was either to be strangled by their children or buried alive—if that’s not bad enough, what happens to their loved ones afterward is even worse.
During Christopher Columbus’s explorations, he came across an eerie spot in the Atlantic Ocean where his compass went wonky and he saw a strange flame with a light in the distance—centuries later, scientists have come up with an explanation.
After Aaron Burr’s beloved daughter Theodosia mysteriously disappeared, many tales speculating on what had befallen the girl popped up, and one of the most plausible stories is also the most disturbing.
The girls at the center of the Salem Witch Trials had mysterious screaming fits, and modern researchers have finally come up with a disturbing explanation why.
