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His brutally cruel experiments are without parallel in human history. He placed victims in pressure chambers, injected them with drugs and lethal bacteria, castrated them, froze them to death, performed surgery on them without anesthesia, gave them sex changes, and amputated their limbs. And the majority of his victims were children.

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Wikipedia is a virtual haven of information — anything you could ever want to know exists in its enormous database… including things you can never un-know. These 7 articles are proof positive that often truth can be far, far stranger than fiction.

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The church was burned down by vandals, but many have claimed there was a large upside-down cross, a mark of Satanism, painted on the front of the building. And underneath the church is where it’s said you can step right down into hell.

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I’m starting to have that feeling that I shouldn’t spend so much time on the Internet because I find out stuff like this — things that are so crazy I can’t believe they actually happened. Allow me to introduce you to Elmer McCurdy.

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Welcome to Mexico’s eerie Island of the Dolls, where decomposing toys dangle from the trees in honor of a dead girl’s spirit.

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The enchanting death mask of an unknown Parisian woman finds life after death as the inspiration to countless writers, painters, and artists.

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Once upon a time in the quiet English village of Woolpit, something very peculiar occurred.

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Myra Hindley was so infatuated with bad boy Ian Brady that she bleached her hair to look more Aryan (Brady was into Nazi culture) and even helped him commit a horrific murder.

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It was a rainy night in October 1849 when the master of the macabre was found slumped in a gutter on the streets of Baltimore, delirious and dressed in ill-fitting clothes.

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Jack had to look quite normal, not like some skulking creeper in a top hat and opera cape; he moved to and from the killings through busy, well lit avenues.