10 Crazy and Creepy Facts
These true facts will have you saying, "WTH??"
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The Exeter family of Massachusetts was a really unlucky family. In the nineteenth century, husband and wife George and Bary died of tuberculosis, as did their daughter Mercy and son Edwin. Townspeople actually thought that Mercy was a vampire, so they disemboweled her and forced Edwin to drink her ashes. He died shortly thereafter. -
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A haunted heart tells many tales. Sonny Graham received a heart trapsplant after donor Terry Cottle killed himself. Graham fell in love with Cottle's widow, married her, and eventually killed himself in the same way as his donor. -
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Trent Reznor recorded his hit album, The Downward Spiral, in the house where Sharon Tate was murdered. -
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An artist repurposed dead flies for the most disgusting accessory. Jessica Harrison created a pair of fake eyelashes out of fly legs. Fun stuff! -
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The last person to be photographed with John Lennon was Mark David Chapman... who was also his killer. -
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Sheepshead fish eat shellfish. The creepiest part is that their teeth look like ours. -
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King Henry IV's head was owned by a tax collector. After a series of transactions dating back to the king's assassination in 1610, tax collector Jacques Bellanger bought the head at an auction after Henry died. -
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One member of the Storage Wars cast discovered a dead body in a locker. Darrell Sheets discovered a body covered in plastic. Police later determined that the previous owner killed his wife and stuck her in his storage unit. -
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The Dating Game once had a murderer as a contestant. They didn't know that Rodney James Alcala was a murderer at the time. After his failed appearance, the bachelor went on to kill several more women. -
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Cages were built around graves in Victorian times. This was to prevent dead people from coming back to life...which we'd find very useful during a zombie pandemic.
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