Author's note: These are some real short scary stories that really happened in history.. Hope you enjoy..................................................................................................................................
1. An American airplane crashed in Chichijima, Japan during World War II. Out of the nine soldiers on board, eight were captured—and eaten—by Japanese officers. The only American who was saved by a U.S. submarine was George H.W. Bush.
2. The Brazen Bull was a medieval torture device created by the Greek tyrant Phalarus. It was a hollow bronze bull in which criminals were locked while a fire was lit underneath, effectively roasting the person alive. A system of tubes allowed for steam to imitate a bull’s low roar.
3. According to the Clathrate Gun Hypothesis, the Permian-Triassic extinction—which annihilated the dinosaurs 232 million years ago—was caused by melting permafrost that contained methane. This prompted ocean toxicity and global warming. This theory is debated within the scientific community, but it does make you wonder…could the same thing be happening right now?
4. Edgar Allen Poe’s only novel, titled The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, included a scene wherein members of a shipwrecked crew drew straws to sacrifice someone to feed the others. The death straw was drawn by a character named Richard Parker.Forty years after the book’s 1838 release, a real shipwrecked crew ended up eating a man named Richard Parker when they didn’t have enough provisions for survival.
5. One of the lesser known atrocities of World War II was Japan's unit 731, which performed deadly experiments on 3,000 enemy civilians and soldiers. These prisoners were used as guinea pigs for research on what the human body can handle, such as removing organs from live bodies to test the effects of disease. People were also put into pressure chambers to record how long it took for their eyes to pop out.
6.In December, 1937, the Japanese army murdered 200,000 to 300,000 civilians and soldiers out of a population of 600,000 in Nanking, the capital city of China’s Jiangsu province. Over the following six weeks, Japanese officers held beheading contests and published the results in papers. An estimated 20,000 to 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. It was said that the streets of Nanking literally ran red with blood.
7. In the early part of the 17th century, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was found torturing young girls in her home of Csejthe Castle in Hungary. She believed that human blood kept her young and healthy, and often kidnapped peasant girls in order to eat their flesh or jam needles under their nails. Bathory gained the name the Blood Countess and was thought to be one of the first recorded stories of vampires.
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