1. David Berkowitz: The .44 Caliber Killer/Son of Sam

Operation: Terrorised New York City from July 1976 till his arrest in August 1977, with a .44 claiber.
Quirk: Satanic quilt who was commanded to kill by a demon who possessed his neighbor’s dog.
Quote: “I didn’t want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them.”
What they up to now? Currently serving a 365-year sentence at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, New York. In 2002 he will be up for parole.

2. Wayne Boden: The Vampire Rapist

Operation: A Canadian serial killer and rapist active between 1969 and 1971
Method: Earned the nickname “The Vampire Rapist” because he had the penchant of biting the breasts of his victims
Quote:
What they up to now? Began serving his sentence on February 16, 1972. Boden died at Kingston Regional Hospital on March 27, 2006 of skin cancer after being confined in the hospital for six weeks.

3. Ted Bundy: The Campus Killer/Lady Killer

Operation: An American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who forcibly abducted, raped, and murdered at least 30 young women, and possibly many more, in the states of Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Florida between 1974 and 1978
Method: Superficially handsome, charming, and charismatic, Bundy used these qualities to full advantage
Quote: “What’s one less person on the face of the earth, anyway?”
What they up to now? Executed in the electric chair at Raiford Prison in Starke, Florida in January, 1989.

4. Dr. Thomas Cream: The Lambeth Poisoner

Operation: Claimed his first proven victims in the United States and the rest in England. Used poison.
Method: Handy with chloroform and strychnine. Anything that caused agony and respiratory arrest was his bag. And probably in his bag.
Quote: “I am Jack The Ripper” On his deathbed, even though he was jailed during the killings. Idiot.
What they up to now? Executed after his attempts to frame others for his crimes brought him to the attention of London police.

5. Nannie Doss: The Giggling Granny

Operation: A serial killer responsible for the deaths of eleven people between the 1920s and 1954
Method: Killed four husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson and a nephew with rank sweets (poison).
Quote: “Anyone fancy a Barley sugar?”
What they up to now? The state did not pursue the death penalty due to her being a “lady”. She died of leukemia in the hospital ward of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in 1965.

6. Colin Ireland: The Gay Slayer

Operation: Decided to serially kill gay men as a New Year’s resolution in 1993.
Method: Sought homosexuals in the well-known gay pub, The Colherne, in West London, who enjoyed the passive role (they all wore color-coded handkerchiefs) as they would initially believe his antics were a sexual game.
What they up to now? Recently tried to convert to Islam in Wakefield prison because he likes the curries they get fed. [This is not a joke.]

7. Thierry Paulin: The Monster of Montmarte

Operation: A French serial killer active in the 1980s who preyed on the old and weak and lived lavishly on the proceeds of his murders.
Method: Suffocated in plastic bags, beaten to death, forced to drink drain cleaner – all the crimes were violent and nasty and motivated by robbery.
What they up to now? Body ravaged by AIDS, in a state of near-paralysis, suffering from both tuberculosis and meningitis, Paulin died during the night of April 16, 1989, in the hospital wing of Fresnes prison.

8. Richard Trenton Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento

Operation: Pre-adulthood, Chase would hold oranges on his head, believing the Vitamin C would be absorbed by his brain via diffusion. He eventually killed six people in just one month in California, earning his nickname by drinking his victims’ blood and eating their flesh.
Method: He would shoot victims dead and then have sex with and mutilate their corpse. He did not wear a cape.
What they up to now? Committed suicide in prison using an overdose of prison doctor-prescribed antidepressants whilst awaiting the gas chamber.

9. Alexander Pichushkin: The Chessboard Killer

Operation: Wanted to kill 64 people, the number of squares on a chessboard primarily targeting elderly homeless men by luring them back to his apartment with vodka.
Method: After drinking with them, he would kill them (always from behind to avoid getting blood on his clothes) by hitting them on the head with a hammer. He then stuck vodka bottles in their skulls to ensure that they did not survive the ordeal.
Quote: What they up to now? He was arrested on 15 June 2006, and convicted on 24 October 2007 of 48 (of 49) murders and three attempted murders. Was held in a glass cage during the trial.

10. The Bender Family: The Bloody Benders

Operation: Family of serial killers (John Bender, his wife Kate, son John Jr. and daughter Kate) who lured victims into their Wayside Inn as “guests of honour”.
Method: One of the men would smash their victims’ skulls open with a hammer and then one of the women would cut their throats to make sure they were dead. This usually happened to wealthy types passing by Drum Creek, to the point where travellers began to avoid the trail.
What they up to now? All dead with their “artefacts (hammers etc) Bender artefacts were eventually given to the Cherryvale Museum and still on display today. It is not as popular as Disneyland.

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And today Walpurgis, night on April 30 is an old pagan festival, which borrowed its name from Saint Walburga whose feast occurs on May Day. On this night witches ride on their broomsticks to places of old pagan sacrifices in the Harz Mountains, especially to the Brocken. The Brocken, the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, is considered to be the point of Walpurgisnacht. Its peak has 1142-meter and it’s always in mist and clouds, lending it a mysterious atmosphere that has contributed to its legendary status as the home of witches (Hexen) and devils (Teufel). There, they dance around a huge fire and worship their lord the devil, who bestows them with new magic power.
The writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) in Faust writes that the witches come on Walpurgis night and sing:

“Now to the Brocken the witches ride; the stubble is gold and the corn is green; There is the carnival crew to be seen, And Squire Urianus will come to preside. So over the valleys our company floats, with witches a-farting on stinking old goats.“

If scary tales of witches, and devil and ghosts are not enough for you, the Brockenber has a meteorological phenomenon: the Brockengespenst, or spectre of the Brocken. Given the right atmospheric conditions, the mountain can produce an optical illusion. As the sun sinks, the shadow of a walker cast from a ridge becomes magnified and an enormous silhouette appears on low-lying clouds or mist banks below the mountain. If you are not afraid of the shadows than you’ll get scared when you find out that the distant shadow starts walking, tracking the observer’s path. The name Brocken spectre came into use among mountaineers after a climber fell to his death on the Brocken. Not realising that he was observing his own shadow, the climber lost his footing after being startled by a rainbow haloed figure emerging from the mists. Forest pathways snake through Brocken National Park, shrouded in mist, their gnarled limbs dripping with moss and lichens, the trees seem to close in behind the hiker. With names such as the Witch’s Altar and Devil’s Pulpit, bizarre rock formations rise from the forest floor. In the brooding green half-light, the rocks take on a malevolent appearance.

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1. Humans aren’t the only ones who perform oral sex. Cheetahs, hyenas, and goats all go down.

2. The clitoris is the only organ in the human body with just one purpose: pleasure.

3. Men who looked at porn of two men and one woman produced more sperm than those who looked at just women. Scientists speculate that seeing competition makes men step up their baby-making capacities.

4. As Brazilian waxes have become more popular, the pubic-lice population has dwindled.

5. Male chimps, bears, dogs (and almost all mammals besides humans) actually have a bone in their penis.

6. Coffee and booze can make semen taste bitter, while pineapple, celery, and melon make it taste less strong.

7. Women with hourglass figures tend to be more fertile.

8. Some of the first tampons were made of lint wrapped around wood.

9. The clitoris is shaped like a wishbone that’s about 3 to 4 1/2 inches long.

10. Male honeybees only get to have sex once in their life…because it kills them. During ejaculation the penis breaks off inside the female, and the male dies within hours.

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1. Death by Embracing the Reflection of the Moon

Chinese poet Li Po (701-706) was one of the two greatest poets in China’s literary history. He was known for liking to see the bottom of the cup and his greatest poems were written while drunk. One night, Li Po fell from his boat and drowned in the Yangtze River while trying to embrace the reflection of the moon in the water.

2. Death because of Beard

Austrian Hans Steininger was famous for having the world’s longest beard (it was 4.5 feet or nearly 1.4 m long) and for dying because of it. One day in 1567, there was a fire in town and in was in haste to get there and forgot to roll up his beard. He accidentally stepped on his beard, lost balance, stumbled, broke his neck and died!

3. Death by Dessert

King Adolf Frederick of Sweden loved to eat and died from it too! The “King Who Ate Himself to Death” as the children in Sweden learn in school about him, died in 1771 at the age of 61 from a digestive problem after eating an epic meal no less than: lobster, caviar, saurkraut, cabbage soup, smoked herring, champagne and 14 servings of his favorite dessert: semla, a bun filled with marzipan and milk.

4. Death from Stubbing One’s Toe

There is something to learn from this story. Famous Tennessee whiskey distiller Jack Daniel one day came early to work. On that morning in 1911, he wanted to open his safe but couldn’t remember the combination. In anger, Jack kicked the safe and injured his toe, which later developed an infection which killed him! Have you learned something from this? The most important thing you learn here is not to go early to work!

5. Death by 1) Poison, 2) Gunshot Wound (4x), 3) Beating by Clubs, 4) Drowning.

According to legends, Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916) was first poisoned with enough cyanide to kill ten men, but he wasn’t affected. So his killers shot him in the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell but later revived. So, he was shot again three more times, but Rasputin still lived. He was then clubbed, and for good measure thrown into the icy Neva River.

6. Death by Scarf

“Mother of modern dance” Isadora Duncan was killed in 1927 by her trademark scarf she loved to wear. As the New York Times noted in its obituary of the dancer on 15 September 1927, “The automobile was going at full speed when the scarf of strong silk began winding around the wheel and with terrific force dragged Miss Duncan, around whom it was securely wrapped, bodily over the side of the car, precipitating her with violence against the cobblestone street. She was dragged for several yards before the chauffeur halted, attracted by her cries in the street. Medical aid was summoned, but it was stated that she had been strangled and killed instantly.”

7. Death by Bottle Cap

American playwright Tennessee Williams died in 1983 after he choked on a bottle cap in his hotel room. Strange way for someone to die, but many strange deaths have been recorded while people were drunk.

8. Death by Belly Slam

British pro wrestler Mal “King Kong” Kirk died underneath the big belly of Shirley “Big Daddy” Crabtree. In August 1987, during the final moments of the match, Crabtree delivered his signature “Belly-Splash” move (basically jumping up and down, slamming his belly onto a guy) on Kirk, who then had a heart attack and died.

9. Death by Cactus

This is probably the one and only recorded revenge kill by a plant in history. In 1982, 27-year-old David Grundman and a roommate decided to do a little “cactus plugging,” by shooting the desert plant with a shotgun. The first one, a small cactus, went off without a hitch and Grundman was encouraged to try a larger prey: a 26-foot-tall Saguaro cactus, probably a 100-year-old plant. Unfortunately, Grundman blasted off a large chuck of the cactus that fell on him and crushed him to death!

10. Death by Orange Peel

Bobby Leach wasn’t afraid of facing death, he was daring it all the time : in 1911, he was the second person in the world to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. The daredevil went on to perform many other death-defying stunts, so his death is pretty ironic. One day while walking down a street in New Zealand, Leach slipped on a piece of orange peel. He broke his leg so badly it had to be amputated. Leach died due to complications that developed afterwards.

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