Rasputin’s preserved penis, allegedly 12 inches, sits in a Russian museum - a relic of the man rumored to have seduced Empress Alexandra and countless others. In 1916, his killers poisoned, shot, and drowned him, yet he refused to die.
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A photo and diagram of H. H. Holmes' infamous "Murder Castle," a building specifically designed for killing. It featured gas chambers, torture rooms, secret passages, trap doors, and industrial ovens. Holmes is believed to have murdered up to 200 people within its walls.
Arab slave traders march captives along the Ruvuma River, 19th century illustration. The Arab slave trade lasted from the 9th century until the 1960s, when Arab states finally abolished slavery.
In 1921, a white supremacist mob, aided by the U.S. National Guard, attacked the thriving Black community of Tulsa, OK. At least 300 were killed, and over 1,000 injured in what became known as the Black Wall Street Massacre. This is how the media chose to report it.
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A man guards his family from cannibals during the engineered Madras famine of 1877 under British rule in India.
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In 2014, a hiker and friends spotted a nearly dead woman near the trail. Her red hair caught their eye. She'd been stranded for days, and her partner had died seeking help. Only later did they realize she was visible in the background of their photos from that day.
Taken on March 16, 1968, this photo shows South Vietnamese women and children moments before being killed by U.S. soldiers in the Mỹ Lai Massacre. Witnesses later stated that troops attempted to tear the blouse off the woman in the back while her mother tried to protect her.
In 1926, a well-known Hollywood actor performing a stunt, threw himself out of a 3rd story window. Unfortunately, the safety net and crew had set up on the wrong side of the building.
From 1935–1945, Unit 731 in Japan-occupied China conducted live human dissections, biological tests, frostbite experiments, rapes to study STDs, poison trials, weapon tests, and pressure chamber experiments. The U.S. paid and granted immunity to their leaders for the data.
This 1909 photo shows the UVa School of Medicine’s Cadaver Society, 3rd Club, posing with specimens. Similar images are preserved in the special collections library at UVA. The Black man at the front worked to acquire bodies for study, often sourcing them from Black graveyards in the area.
Over 50 years ago, a boy built a suicide helmet designed to fire eight shotgun shells into his head simultaneously.
They called it the future of humane execution, but William Kemmler proved otherwise. After brutally murdering his wife with a hatchet, he became the first person to die in the electric chair on August 6, 1890. This is the story Thomas Edison never wanted told.
Cyntoia Brown Long, born 1988, was trafficked at 16. She shot Johnny Allen, who paid her $150 for sex, claiming self-defense. Brown was convicted and sentenced to life in prison as a minor, serving 15 years before clemency.
In 1932, Australia declared war on emus after farmers complained about the birds destroying crops. The military intervention failed, and the emus "won."
From 1932 to 1972, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study lured Black men with false promises of treatment. Instead, doctors watched as syphilis ravaged their bodies, leaving them to suffer and die, all for the sake of "science."
In 2021, journalist Hind Hassan asked the Taliban if they would allow women to become politicians, and they simply laughed.
This 1890 photo from the Michigan Carbon Works factory in Rougeville shows a massive pile of bison skulls, which were set to be processed into products like bone glue, fertilizer, bone ash, bone char, and bone charcoal.
The sad look of an 18-year-old Russian girl after being freed from Dachau on April 29, 1945.
In 2013, George H.W. Bush shaved his head alongside the entire Secret Service team to support the 2-year-old son of an agent battling leukemia. Bush had lost his own 4-year-old daughter to leukemia decades earlier.
In 1945, Marlene Dietrich kissed a soldier as he returned from war.
In 1973, Kenyan athlete Sabrina Chebichi won a marathon while running barefoot and wearing a dress.
