The world’s first known "adult film," Le Coucher de la Mariée (1896), featured actress Louise Willy doing a striptease for the camera. Just a minute long, it shocked audiences who had never seen anything like it. It set the stage for over a century of scandalous cinema.

In 1982, Australian soldier Robin Reid, 34, and Nicole Pearce, 17, kidnapped Peter Aston and Terry Ryan, both 13. They shattered Peter’s ribs and skull, burned him with cigarettes, raped, and forced him to eat sand. After making Terry hit him, they strangled and buried him alive while Terry escaped.

In 1996, 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates was murdered in Manchester, England, by her abuser, James Patterson Smith, who had met her when she was 14. Over four weeks, he brutally tortured her, gouging out her eyes up to three weeks before her death, before ultimately drowning her in a bathtub.

In 1973, billionaire J. Paul Getty refused to pay $17M for his kidnapped grandson. After the boy’s ear was cut off, he paid $2.2M (the tax-deductible max) and loaned the rest to his son with 4% interest. He justified it by saying, “If I pay one penny now, I’ll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.”

Today in 1978, the terror attack that changed the course of history. Palestinian terrorists from Lebanon murdered 35 Israelis, 9 of them children, and injured dozens more. This was the single biggest terror attack in Israel's history up to the Nova Festival in 2023, causing Israel to invade Lebanon.

to "cure" homosexuality

In 1972, after years of attempting to "cure" her son's homosexuality by hiring prostitutes and later initiating a sexual relationship herself, American socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland was stabbed to death by him in their London home.

In 1972, after years of attempting to "cure" her son's homosexuality by hiring prostitutes and later initiating a sexual relationship herself, American socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland was stabbed to death by him in their London home.

In 1958, three kids were playing in their backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, when the U.S. Air Force accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on them.

The Pentagon’s push to remove DEI content has flagged over 26,000 images for deletion, including photos of the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II, along with key milestones of women and minorities in the military.

In 1984, Lisa McVey, then 17, was abducted and repeatedly raped by serial killer Bobby Joe Long. She gained his sympathy by calling him “sweet” and saying she understood him. He let her go, and her statement led to his capture and death sentence. She later became a police officer.

Chad MacDonald, 17, was forced by Brea, CA police to be a drug informant after a meth charge. When dealers found out, they labeled him a "snitch." His body was found in a swamp, bound and shot in the head. His girlfriend, a minor, was raped, shot in the jaw, and left for dead in a forest.

Between 1973 and 1974 in San Francisco, the "Death Angels," a radical Black Muslim group within the Nation of Islam, targeted white individuals, leading to over 70 deaths and 8-10 injuries. Their violent campaign aimed to ignite a race war, spreading significant unrest throughout the city.

Ken McElroy, known as the "town bully," was murdered in his truck in Skidmore, Missouri, on July 10, 1981, in broad daylight. Despite the presence of over 40 witnesses, no one claimed to have seen the murder occur, and to this day, no one has been charged.

Over 50 years ago, a boy built a suicide helmet designed to fire eight shotgun shells into his head simultaneously.

Minister Saves Town By Killing Crazed Gun Toting Valet of a Brigadier General

Minister Saves Town By Killing Crazed Gun Toting Valet of a Brigadier General

In 1938, legendary Brazilian outlaw Lampião, his wife Maria Bonita, and the members of their gang were ambushed and killed by the police in the state of Alagoas. Their heads were later publicly exposed by the authorities.

On March 31, 1922, six people were murdered at a Bavarian farm in Germany. They were lured to the barn one by one and killed with a grub axe. The killer stayed at the house, eating their food and caring for the animals. The family had heard strange noises in the attic before the murders.

In 1998, Lenny Dirickson was having breakfast with his son when a stranger showed up, asking about a horse Lenny supposedly had for sale. Lenny left with the man but never came back. It was later discovered that Lenny had never mentioned having a horse for sale.

On June 22, 1941, at 4:31 AM, a secret photo captured Stalin inside the Kremlin at the exact moment he learned that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union. It was taken by the editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, who was ordered to destroy it but chose to keep it instead.

Roman Polanski sits outside his home the day after his wife, Sharon Tate, who was two weeks away from giving birth, was murdered inside by the Manson Family cult in 1969. Theories about the killings and crime scene photos are linked below.

In 1946, Soviet children gave the U.S. ambassador a carved replica of the Great Seal, unknowingly hiding a listening device called “The Thing.” It wasn’t discovered until 1952 during a counter-surveillance sweep.

In 1988, Junko Furuta, 17, suffered 40 days of brutal rape, torture, and beatings so severe her brain atrophied, her hair fell out in clumps, and she begged for death. Her tormentors finally killed her, stuffed her body into a drum, and filled it with concrete. It was found three months later.

This is a prisoner registration photo of Krystyna Trześniewska, a Polish girl who was sent to Auschwitz in December 1942. She died there on May 18, 1943, at just 13 years old.

On Jan 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer opened fire on an elementary school, killing two and injuring eight children and a cop. When asked why, she simply said, 'I don’t like Mondays.' Before this, a psych evaluation recommended treatment for depression. Her father bought her a rifle instead.