Top 20 Creepiest Historic Events That Are Scarier Than Horror Movies

Stanford experiment rates on this list? Waste of a spot. A compromised experiment which ending was predetermined, guards encouraged to abuse their power, a very short test time, no injuries and no lasting damage? Kinda like calling a minor novel virus a "pandemic", don't ya think?

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't"

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Philip Zimbardo's prison experiment was heavily biased by the participants' awareness of the hypothesis they were testing. The fact that it is still taught to first year psych students as valid is a travesty.

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You did Ms. Honey dirty showing her during the baby farmer part! 😂

what about the joseph mengele experiments or the unit 731 ?

No 6: If no one survived, how do they know they heard "footsteps in the attic"?

I truly believe that World War II and the holocaust was the ultimate horror evil

you don't "pass away", you die

Decent video but a lot of these stories are not scarier than horror movies and have many videos made about them.

Mummy powder was consumed as a delicacy

We watched the Stanford prison experiment in sociology. It took a concerned sociologist outside looking in to remind everyone this was an experiment and traumatizing, so they stopped it early when they realized what they were doing.

The Pope: Yep, body dripping in oils and resins then wrapped in plastic. Just the way god made us. Lol

I wasn't aware of this till about a year or so ago, but apparently my grandfather was involved in handling the deceased from Jonestown when they came to the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. I don't know too much about it, but I can't imagine what he must have felt. My grandfather and I may not have had a good relationship, but that's something I certainly can give him credit for.

The Chernobyl disaster was horrible. The series on HBO was good but so heartbreaking.

Pavlov's experiments went WAY beyond the feeding these dog with a ringing bell, he was a psychopath who tortured and disembodied dogs too.

Also something to note about Roebspierre’s death. He had a chronic autoimmune disease known as sarcoidosis. It causes pockets of inflammation called granulomas to appear all over the body. If untreated, it can wreak havoc on almost every organ, and by the time Robespierre was to be executed, his liver and kidneys were already in complete failure, and his lungs were filled with inflammation. On top of the jaw, it must have been excruciating. It’s also hypothesized that his mental breakdown was due to sarcoidosis.

Honestly, I'd say Floyd Collins' death in Sand Cave, which is now in Mammoth Cave National Park was much scarier than the Nutty Putty Cave incident. He was in there for 2 weeks, eventually succumbing to the early spring chill.

There is a horror story based on soviet russia “psychologists,” even if not specifically Nikolay Krasnogorsky.

It’s a creepypasta called the Russian Sleep Experiment. And frankly, it’s terrifying because it seems somewhat believable. The human mind is fragile and capable of disturbing breakdowns (as seen in the case of serial killers). Of course, we wouldn’t know and hopefully never will know if the “experiment results” are accurate to what would happen in real life. To conduct a similar experiment would be a crime against humanity, no?

However, consider how you act and feel when you pull an all nighter. Now imagine being a prisoner of war in a lab at the same time, not knowing what those “scientists” are doing. Severe stress, possible trauma due to being on the battlefield, and lack of sleep? For seven straight days? You. Would. Break.

Anyways, yeah, there’s plenty of horror film potential for Soviet Russian human experiments.

no mentions about The Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Trying to say French names like a French person is pretentious. Just pronounce it the english way so people know who you are talking about. This trend to try to pronounce things like native speakers is another form of virtue signaling

The wreck of the Batavia

I would say the Andes plane crash in 1972 and the Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959 belong in this list as well!

A big one that I think you guys missed was the Expedition of the H.M.S Erebus, and the H.M.S Terror. Dan Simmons wrote a book about it. If you're interested, look it up. Some spooky stuff.

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When I hear people say" I believe in what I can see and touch" I like to ask them" Then you don't believe in gravity"?

Great list! No Timothy Treadwell though? I was certain that one would make the cut.

I greatly appreciate The Great Rebecca taking efforts to pronounce foreign names correctly.

I have a crush on Rebecca. 😍

Nothing worse than friendly-firing pets T_T

Calling The Plague the deadliest epidemic "in human history" is unforgivably Eurocentric. Let's not forget the 95% of the native peoples of the Americas were killed by disease, some estimate as many as 20 million people. We tend to forget about it BECAUSE there were so few people left to tell their stories.

lol king tut's curse....Did you know that Howard Carter great great great grand son died while eating shrimp even though he was allergic to shrimp........SURELY THAT'S A CURSE!!!! (nothing about this hypothetical scenario is real, I'm just trying to say how ridiculous that "curse" is)

You forgot the Dyatlov Pass incident

You forgot to mention Scotland whilst discussing the black death, In Edinburgh there is a popular tourist attraction known as Mary King's close, which is almost like a window into the past. It's an underground street, which wasnt always underground. A popular myth is that plague victims were sealed inside the close and it was built over with the people still inside, though that has been proven to be untrue. Plague victims inside the close were actually given food and water, in any case it's an extremely intresting place to visit and gives you a window in the past during the black death.

Battle of ramree island? Truly the stuff of nightmares....

The Stanford Experiment = Lord of the Flies = any given high school.

Corona?

So 900 people died at Jonestown? Well I am a guy that really speaks my mind on and off the internet. So the way I look at it the world lost 900 stupid and gullible people.

when I first watched "Schindlers List" I thought it was a fictional event made up for the movie. Imagine my horror when I found out the Holocaust was very very real. 15 year old me literally couldn't imagine humans doing that to each other.

Zimbardo has a weird place in psychology.
By modern standards, he's a quack and a crook.
But he didn't work modern standards. He did his experiment in the 70s, where they were still using fucking Freud. He was a Behaviourist but also an egotist. So yeah, psychology is a new field and Zimbardo outlived his own obsolescence.

The thing about pets being killed at the start of wwii in the uk was not the committees’s actual plan. The leaflet was supposed to be letting the owners to be prepared to do this if the war looked it was going to last any length and if rationing came into place (note that the leaflet was published 1939), and gave info in how to do it if/when needed. Except people took it as advice to do it now and 750,000 pets were killed in the following week

Amelia Dyre is the uk’s equivalent of Minnie Dean. She also was a baby farmer. Although only officially convicted of one murder and executed, she admitted to many more after she was found guilty. It’s estimated her victim number could be over 300.

The funniest messed statement is. He died in the nutty putty cave, and he was stuck in the birth canal.

Moby Dick.

How is 900 dead not higher than a college experiment gone wrong?