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The Killer Clown John Wayne Gacy  (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American Serial Killer who raped, tortured and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois. All of Gacy's known murders were committed inside his Norwood Park ranch house. His victims were typically induced to his address by force or deception, and all except one of his victims were murdered by strangulation with a makeshift garrote, as his first victim was stabbed to death. Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home. Three other victims were buried elsewhere on his property, while the bodies of his last four known victims were discarded in the Des Plaines River. Convicted of 33 murders, Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13, 1980, for 12 of those murders. He spent 14 years on death row before he was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correction Center on Ma...

The Sadistic Sociopath Theodore Robert Bundy   November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989, was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, before his execution in 1989, he confessed to 30 homicides that he committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. The true number of victims is unknown and possibly higher. Bundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic, traits that he may have exploited to win the trust of victims and society. He would typically approach his victims in public places, feigning injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before overpowering, raping and killing them in secluded locations. He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made any further interaction...

The Zodiac Killer He is our Jack the Ripper. Fifty years ago this week, a psychopath with a .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol sneaked up on two high school students parked on a windswept lover’s lane in Benicia. Shot down as they scrambled in terror, the young couple died in a spray of gunfire. It was an unusually messy crime scene. The killing on Dec. 20, 1968, of David Faraday, 17, and his 16-year-old date, Betty Lou Jensen, marked the beginning of what became the twisted legend of the Zodiac Killer. By the time he was done, five more victims across the Bay Area would be shot or stabbed — three of them killed, two left barely alive but scarred for life. Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday, the Zodiac’s first victims.   | Chronicle File Photos Although the carnage spanned less than a year, the moniker Zodiac Killer was cemented into history. He would never be caught. Considering the homicidal tumult of the 1960s and ’70s, the number of his victims was actual...

The super-secret society, that dominates the world 1/3  -DavidG. You have heard of them, you know who they are — Illuminati. The secret society, which was started in 1776 in Bavaria by  Adam Weishaupt , a professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt. Weishaupt patterned his organization on the  Freemasons. What is Freemasonry? It’s a 300 years old loose organization of various fraternal groups that trace their origins back to stonemasonry guilds from the Middle Ages. Since then, Freemasons have diversified their interests, and are now essentially community organizations that focus on fraternity, charity, and goodwill towards mankind, like a more secretive version of a Rotary Club. Or at least, that’s what they’d like you to believe.  Dedicated conspiracy theorists continue to disagree. Everyone wanting to join must attest that they  believe  in one singular  Supreme Power  — a monotheistic god, but  not  necessari...

Lucid Dream Overview Lucid dreaming happens when you’re aware that you’re dreaming. You’re able to recognize your thoughts and emotions as the dream happens. Sometimes, you can control the lucid dream. You may be able to change the people, environment, or storyline. This type of dream of control could potentially reduce nightmares and anxiety. Keep reading to learn more about lucid dreaming — what it is, when it occurs, and what you can do to experience it. When lucid dreaming occurs When you sleep, your brain cycles through rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep. Non-REM sleep includes three separate stages. During non-REM, your brain waves, heartbeat, and eye movements gradually slow down. In REM sleep, your brain is extremely active. Your heart rate and eye movements also increase. Lucid dreaming, like most dreams, usually happens during REM sleep. In a lucid dream, you know that you’re dreaming. You’re aware of your awarene...

Leper colony A  leper colony ,  lazarette ,  leprosarium , or  lazar house  was historically a place to  quarantine  people with  leprosy  (Hansen's disease). The term  lazaretto , which is derived from the biblical figure  Saint Lazarus , can refer to quarantine sites, which were at some time also "colonies", or places where people affected by leprosy lived or were sent.  Many of the first lazarettes were operated by Christian monastic houses.  Leper hospitals exist throughout the world to treat those afflicted with leprosy, especially in Africa, Brazil, China, and India. Leper colonies or houses became widespread in the Middle Ages, particularly in Europe and India, and often run by monastic orders. Historically, leprosy has been greatly feared because it causes visible disfigurement and disability, was incurable and was commonly believed to be highly contagious. A leper colony administered by a Ro...

Machine Gun Kelly  George Kelly Barnes  was born in the late 1890s in Memphis, Tennessee. His family was fairly wealthy, and he lived an ordinary life until his enrollment at Mississippi State University. At first, he was only in small trouble, earning poor grades and racking up demerits. However, after falling in love with a woman named Geneva, he decided to quit school altogether. They quickly found themselves in financial trouble, so Kelly schemed up a plan and began working as a gangster after separating from Geneva. At the time, he was only 19. In 1927, he fell for a woman named Kathryn Thorne, whom he later married. Kathryn Kelly was a criminal in her own right. She bought him a machine gun, which spawned his nickname, “Machine Gun Kelly.” His crimes were mainly centered on taking advantage of Prohibition’s laws and on robbing banks. However, his most famous crime was kidnapping. With the help of a man named Albert Bates and the planning skil...

Crazy Badass Jungle Fighter Deep in the jungles of the Philippines, an  Australian soldier lays on a makeshift stretcher made out of bamboo and leaves. Using a mirror, a pocket knife, and no anesthesia whatsoever, the man starts making a small incision in his abdomen.  Biting down on a wooden stick to avoid screaming out in pain, the soldier proceeds with the ad hoc surgery, using his fingers to feel for his enlarged appendix.  In the distance, there’s the sound of gunfire as Japanese troops hunt down the Filipino guerillas sheltering the Australian. Time is running out, and soon the guerillas will have to move to a new location, whether the Australian man is ready to go or not- and that’s if he even survives this self-surgery in the middle of a disease-ridden jungle.  Born in Scotland in 1902, Robert Kerr McLaren emigrated to Australia in his teens, after serving briefly in the First World War.  The land down under soon became his adopted home, a...