Prepare to be shocked as we dive into the most bone-chilling true stories that are far more terrifying than any horror movie. From mysterious disappearances to gruesome historical events, these real-life accounts will leave you questioning the boundaries of human horror and survival.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Inside the boathouses, there is a microscopic layer of red-colored ash.
00:05Evidence of human blood.
00:08Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the real-life tragedies
00:13that are even more chilling than the scariest horror movies.
00:16I wanted to see just what kind of verbal abuse that people can take before they start objecting,
00:22before they start flashing back.
00:26Number 30. The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery.
00:29As the ship approached the rocky island, Moore felt a deep sense of foreboding.
00:36Could something terrible have happened to the three keepers?
00:40Disappearances occur every day, and sometimes are never solved.
00:44In 1900, a relief keeper arrived at Flannan Isles Lighthouse,
00:48only to discover no trace of the three men who had been manning it.
00:51He was met with proof of recent life, such as unmade beds and a set of abandoned oil skins.
00:56Even after the area was searched, no sign of the trio was found, dead or alive.
01:02I have a feeling on this island of tension, even just walking about.
01:08There was no definitive explanation for their vanishing,
01:11although one investigator suspected they may have been swept into the water during rough weather.
01:16Some even believe that paranormal forces are behind the losses.
01:19Whether their fates were natural or not,
01:22it remains one of the creepiest cold cases in modern history.
01:25You can come up with all sorts of ideas of what could have happened,
01:34but I think one thing, nobody will come up with a definite answer now.
01:41Number 29. Radium Girls.
01:43It's no secret that workplace conditions in the United States used to be incredibly dangerous.
01:48The radium girls, female laborers that painted dials, are a grim reminder of that fact.
01:54They had been told their materials were harmless,
01:56and had even been told to use their lips to get a smaller point on their brushes.
02:00This led to them ingesting high amounts of radium over an extended period.
02:04At first, the side effects were small, mostly consisting of loose teeth.
02:09They soon devolved into much worse symptoms,
02:11including necrotic jaws and unwanted sterilization.
02:15And I'm sure these people didn't like to go down there to Luminous,
02:19you know, especially if they were thinking maybe this stuff is bad for us,
02:24after some of their friends died.
02:26By 1924, a dozen women had died,
02:29and were the targets of smear campaigns blaming them, rather than the unsafe practices.
02:34It wasn't until the paint's inventor passed that they finally saw justice.
02:39Dear sisters,
02:40The New Jersey League of Women Voters is working to set a legal precedent for radium toxicity.
02:46Because of you.
02:50The last known location of the ships was found in this letter left by Franklin's crew,
02:55the final coordinates just north of King William Island.
02:59Some attempts at exploration ended in tragedy before they could even truly begin.
03:04Sir John Franklin had good intentions,
03:06with hopes of mapping out an uncharted area of the Northwest Passage.
03:09They set sail in May of 1845,
03:12and just over a year later, disaster struck.
03:15Both ships had gotten stuck in the ice, trapping over 100 men.
03:19They were forced to set up camp there,
03:21which would prove fatal as two dozen died from a litany of causes,
03:24ranging from starvation to lead poisoning.
03:27Further investigations done on the bones revealed marks,
03:30indicating that some may have even turned to cannibalism in an attempt to survive.
03:34In 1848, the survivors attempted to escape, but were never seen again.
03:40John...
03:44You always sleep.
03:46Yes.
03:49Yes.
03:53Unsuccessful revolutions could end in terrible tragedy for those who mounted them.
03:57In the 1510s,
03:58Gyorgy Dozsa attempted to lead a revolt against the noble family ruling Hungary at the time.
04:03He was initially successful, even gaining control of multiple fortresses.
04:07When he was finally caught, he was swiftly reminded of his place.
04:10Dozsa was forced to sit on a burning throne and wear an equally hot crown,
04:15simultaneously torturing and mocking him.
04:17Pliers were then shoved into his skin,
04:19and members of his revolt were forced to eat his skin or risk being punished themselves.
04:24And 70,000 commoners were tortured, fracturing the country even further.
04:33What do you remember about the crash?
04:36About the crash? I thought I was going to die.
04:38Cannibalism is considered beyond the pale,
04:41and yet in some situations, it becomes an unfortunate reality.
04:44It soon became the only option for the survivors on the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
04:49after they crashed into the Andes Mountains in 1972, killing a dozen on impact.
04:55After a rescue aircraft failed to notice them, the search was called off,
04:58leaving them to fend for themselves.
05:00Another 13 passed from a combination of an avalanche and the constant exposure,
05:05and when they ran out of food, they turned to their fallen in order to survive.
05:20After months of enduring the awful conditions,
05:23they were finally able to find rescue,
05:25with only 16 of the 45 occupants surviving to the end.
05:29To some of the boys, the Andes can be a spiritual experience.
05:33To another boy, it can be the avalanche.
05:36To another one, it can be the cold.
05:38To another one, it can be the hunger.
05:43The death penalty has been used since the beginning of human civilization,
05:47with countless methods being employed to bring people to justice, permanently.
05:51Some executions have been so intense that they've been the cause of scrutiny and horror.
05:56One of the most punitive killings in history was inflicted upon Hajj Mohamed Mesfawi,
06:00a man convicted of murdering at least three dozen women.
06:03At first, officials were opting for either crucifying or beheading him,
06:07making sure to whip him daily while they made their decision.
06:10Eventually, they decided on something even more torturous,
06:13sealing him alive behind a wall.
06:23He begged for mercy throughout,
06:25and was heard screaming for two days afterwards until he finally fell silent.
06:29Forever.
06:44It sounds like something you would come across in a scary movie or video game,
06:48but to hundreds of German soldiers, it was all too real.
06:51World War I was known for its high death toll and the popularization of chemical warfare,
06:56with the latter leading to one of its most horrifying battles.
06:59On August 6th, 1915, the German military attacked Russian fighters
07:03with a combination of poisonous gas, bromine, and chlorine,
07:06a noxious mix that would kill most instantly.
07:18The assailants thought the same,
07:19until they attempted to storm the area and were met by the still-standing oppositional forces.
07:24Even as they coughed up pieces of their own organs and bodily fluids,
07:28they stood their ground, even forcing their enemy to retreat.
07:35Sometimes the punishment doesn't seem to fit the crime.
07:39One example of this occurred following the capture, torture,
07:42and eventual murder of 17-year-old Junko Furuta.
07:45In 1989, four teenage boys kidnapped her and put her through 44 days of pure hell.
07:51She was repeatedly burned, beaten, and sexually assaulted,
07:54to the point where she begged for death.
07:56After one last brutal assault, she finally succumbed to her injuries and passed.
08:01The indignities she suffered are worse than in many horror movies.
08:04Even after her corpse was found and her murderers arrested,
08:08many feel she did not receive appropriate justice.
08:11Her assailant's identities were initially hidden due to their age,
08:14and the sentences imposed were considered by many to be too lenient.
08:21They may not be the creatures you've come to recognize in modern media,
08:24but they were just as terrifying at the time.
08:26The first major outbreak of syphilis hit Naples around 1495,
08:31following France's invasion of the city.
08:33As a result, hundreds were afflicted, resulting in horrific physical side effects.
08:38Most patients' bodies were covered in painful blisters,
08:41and in some cases, their skin would fall right off their faces.
08:44Many died just a few months after contracting it,
08:47but before that, their disease-ridden appearances
08:49led to them inadvertently emulating the living dead.
08:52The strain they had been afflicted with was far more lethal
08:55than its modern counterpart, and hopefully,
08:57modern medicine will keep it from rearing its ugly head once more.
09:05It may be difficult not to think of this the next time you're perusing the liquor store.
09:09While the actual founder of Jameson Whiskey is innocent of this horror,
09:13one of his heirs can't say the same.
09:14In order to stand out, he knew he needed the highest quality ingredients money could buy.
09:19Now, it's been more than 200 years since John filled his first order,
09:22and we care more than ever about the quality of our barley and water.
09:26During a visit to Africa in the 19th century,
09:28James Sligo Jameson was informed that the tribe
09:31completed some celebrations by partaking in cannibalism.
09:34He allegedly ended up trading six handkerchiefs
09:37for the chance to see the act for himself.
09:39He soon got what he asked for and more,
09:41as a group of men brutally murdered and ate a young slave girl,
09:45who reportedly didn't scream once.
09:47To make things more disturbing,
09:49Jameson sketched out the entire act,
09:51documenting it and his wretched curiosities all at once.
09:59Pope Pius XII served as the Vatican Sovereign from 1939
10:03until his death in 1958 at the age of 82.
10:07Due to the Pope's insistence on keeping his deceased body the way God created it,
10:11his personal physician, Riccardo Galeazzi Lisi,
10:14decided on an unconventional embalming method.
10:17Mom, I told you he didn't want to be embalmed or made up.
10:22But people need a viewing.
10:23Galeazzi Lisi refused to drain the corpse of its fluids,
10:27instead relying on an experimental series of oils and resins
10:30and wrapping the body in plastic afterwards.
10:33The intense heat in the area,
10:35combined with the lack of air circulation,
10:37caused the cadaver to decompose.
10:40During the funeral procession,
10:41the chest of the corpse imploded.
10:44The body ended up turning a bright green.
10:46None of us could breathe.
10:49Somewhere under those bushes was the rest of Ray Brower.
10:55On August 12th, 1819,
10:57the whaling ship Essex left Nantucket for a trip to South America.
11:01The voyage lasted a little over a year before tragedy struck in November 1820.
11:06A massive sperm whale attacked the ship and essentially sank it,
11:09causing the survivors to enter small whale boats.
11:12They floundered in these little vessels for over three months on the open ocean,
11:16with barely enough food and supplies to survive.
11:26Slowly, the men began dying,
11:28and the others had to resort to consuming their companions.
11:31At some point, they even drew lots to determine
11:34who would be killed to feed the group.
11:36Only eight of the 21 men survived,
11:39and the story inspired Herman Melville to write his great American novel.
11:46Pequod, her crew, and Moby Dick.
11:53John Edwards Jones suffered an absolutely horrific death
11:56that is quite literally the stuff of nightmares.
11:59On the evening of November 24th, 2009,
12:02Jones was exploring Utah's Nutty Putty Cave with his brother when he became trapped.
12:07The 26-year-old had mistaken a tight passageway for the infamous birth canal
12:11and found himself stuck upside down.
12:17His body remained compressed and inverted for 28 hours.
12:24Rescue workers attempted to free Jones using a rope and pulley system,
12:27but their efforts failed.
12:29Due to his precarious position,
12:31his heart went into cardiac arrest and he eventually passed away.
12:35It was decided that Jones' corpse would remain in place
12:38and that he would be entombed within the now-sealed cave.
12:4617. Minnie Dean
12:50New Zealand established capital punishment in 1840,
12:53and it was completely abolished by 1989.
12:57In that time, 85 inmates were executed.
13:00Minnie Dean was the only woman to receive that fate.
13:03Dean worked as a baby farmer.
13:05Basically, she was paid to adopt other people's children.
13:09Look, I don't have time for all these legalities.
13:11One second, Dad. I have the adoption papers.
13:13She took in numerous kids, and many started dying or disappearing.
13:18While infant mortality was high at the time,
13:20the deaths were exceeding the norm, and Dean started attracting attention.
13:25She was eventually arrested for homicide.
13:27Due to lax record-keeping,
13:29it's hard to determine how many people died under Dean's care.
13:33However, three bodies were unearthed in her garden following her arrest.
13:37She was hanged on September 2nd, 1844.
13:4116. The Death of Maximilien Robespierre
13:45French lawyer Maximilien Robespierre is one of the defining
13:48and most divisive names of the French Revolution.
13:51Although initially beloved, Robespierre's ambitions grew too great,
13:55which eventually corroded his public reputation.
14:03Upon his arrest on July 27th, 1794,
14:06Robespierre reportedly attempted to take his own life with a pistol but failed.
14:10The incident left him with a damaged jaw, which was kept together with a bandage.
14:15He was then taken to the Place de la Révolution to be executed.
14:18The officer in charge, Charles-Henri Sanson, removed the bandage,
14:23leaving Robespierre's jaw to hang loose.
14:25He was reportedly in pain until he was beheaded.
14:3715. The Donner Party
14:40Composed of multiple pioneer families,
14:42the Donner Party sought to move from the Midwest to California in the mid-1840s.
14:47Halfway into the trip, the group decided to take a new shortcut called the Hastings Cut-Off,
14:52which was a much more difficult terrain to cross.
14:55As they traveled further, they became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada,
14:58and the wagon train was unable to penetrate the snow.
15:06To survive the harsh winter,
15:10the party was forced to camp at the nearby Truckee Lake.
15:13The cold in this region soon became unbearable,
15:16leading to the deaths of multiple people.
15:18With very little supplies,
15:20the survivors had to resort to consuming their deceased companions.
15:23In all of the party's 87 members, only 48 lived to tell the tale.
15:3214. The Experiments of Nikolai Krasnogorsky
15:36Soviet neurologist Ivan Pavlov is famous for his conditioning experiments on dogs,
15:41resulting in the widely used term Pavlovian response.
15:49But what many do not know is that his tinkerings led to a devastating outcome.
15:53Pavlov had an assistant named Nikolai Krasnogorsky,
15:56who continued with his mentor's experiments.
15:59However, this assistant conducted his test on young subjects he acquired through orphanages.
16:04The subjects were outfitted with a device that measured the amount of saliva
16:08emanating directly from their glands when they were given food.
16:11Unfortunately, the method of installing these devices was frankly atrocious.
16:16Krasnogorsky experimented on these test subjects,
16:18presumably in a bid to prove that humans can be easily conditioned, just like dogs.
16:23Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sad!
16:2713. Jonestown
16:30American preacher Jim Jones created a doomsday cult called the People's Temple.
16:34In the 1970s, Jones moved his congregation to an isolated area in Guyana,
16:39where they established a remote settlement called Jonestown.
16:42That became the site of one of the most infamous crimes involving American lives.
16:54After disturbing details from the settlement came to light,
16:57U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan traveled to Guyana with some concerned relatives of the Jonestown members.
17:02Concluding that his cult had failed, Jones reportedly ordered the killing of Ryan,
17:07who was later shot at a nearby airstrip.
17:09Jones then led his entire congregation to ingest a drink poisoned with cyanide.
17:14This resulted in the deaths of 909 people,
17:17becoming one of the worst massacres in American history.
17:23Let's just be done with it. Let's be done with the agony of it.
17:2612. The Stanford Prison Experiment
17:29Does the situation outside of you, the institution, come to control your behavior?
17:34Or does the things inside of you, your attitudes, your values, your morality?
17:38If you need proof that power corrupts,
17:41look no further than the highly controversial Stanford Prison Experiment.
17:45This social test was conducted from August 14th through the 20th, 1971,
17:50and saw student volunteers playing fake prisoners and prison authorities.
17:54The goal of the experiment, led by Professor Philip Zimbardo,
17:56was to study the effects of unchecked power in prison guards.
18:10The experiment quickly flew off the rails,
18:12with some of the guard students veering into psychological torture by enacting extreme measures,
18:18including psychological abuse and harassment.
18:21That said, the experiment's methodology is extremely contentious,
18:25as it had repeatedly been compromised by Zimbardo's goading.
18:28Some of the prisoners also knew the study's hypothesis and acted accordingly,
18:32which is an unwanted variable in psychological experiments called demand characteristics.
18:4911. Octavia Hatcher
19:04The story of Octavia Hatcher is a popular one around the small town of Pikeville, Kentucky.
19:10The legend states that the young mother fell sick and passed away
19:13a few months after she gave birth to a son, who died shortly after delivery.
19:16Due to the southern heat, they buried her very quickly.
19:19Soon after her death, however, other locals seemingly showed similar symptoms,
19:23only to recover.
19:24The culprit, retrospectively, was likely encephalitis.
19:28Locals promptly dug up Hatcher's grave and realized that she didn't die,
19:32but had fallen into a coma.
19:33They found evidence of her having woken up,
19:36including scratches on the coffin and Hatcher's bloody nails.
19:40The veracity of the story has been questioned,
19:43but according to a member of Big Sandy Heritage Center's board of directors,
19:47quote,
19:47most local historians do agree that Hatcher did fall ill and was buried alive.
19:5710. The Curse of King Tut
20:00Even if you don't believe in curses,
20:02there's no denying that there's something spooky about this story.
20:05I believe if I can see it and I can touch it, then it's real.
20:08That's what I believe.
20:10I believe in being prepared.
20:11Egyptologist Howard Carter found the tomb of King Tutankhamen in 1922,
20:16and various members of his team were immediately struck with health issues.
20:20The first to die was financier Lord Carnarvon,
20:23who passed away from blood poisoning after a mosquito bite became infected.
20:27Within a dozen years,
20:28more people involved in the excavation were dead,
20:31including Carter's personal secretary Richard Bethel.
20:34Carter himself died in 1939,
20:37nearly 20 years after opening the tomb,
20:39but his death is still attributed to the curse.
20:42The story even attracted the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
20:45who linked Carnarvon's death to mythical beings called elementals.
20:569. Advice to Animal Owners
21:05Can you imagine killing your own pet?
21:07Unfortunately, that was a reality that many in pre-WWII Britain were forced to face.
21:12Pets were seen as an unwanted nuisance in wartime,
21:15as they would either roam the streets following a bombing,
21:17or eat the already limited and rationed food.
21:20A committee was formed to solve the problem,
21:22and their solution was unimaginably horrific.
21:25They released a pamphlet advising pet owners to either release them into the countryside
21:29or have them euthanized.
21:31All told, an estimated 750,000 pets were killed in a week,
21:36more than 107,000 per day.
21:518. Recycling Deceased Soldiers
21:54Turns out, there's nothing better for farming than human bone.
21:58The Napoleonic Wars cost upwards of two million soldiers their lives,
22:02and it was common practice for the survivors to loot the dead for supplies.
22:13This included the death of a few of the soldiers,
22:15and the death of a few of the survivors.
22:179. The Battle of Waterloo
22:23This included tearing out teeth with pliers for use in dentures.
22:27The Battle of Waterloo proved especially fruitful for the denture market,
22:31and the resulting products became known as Waterloo Teeth.
22:34Battlegrounds were also looted for bones after the dead had decomposed,
22:38and these bones were ground into dust and sold to farmers.
22:42A British paper from 1822 reported that human bone made for quote,
22:47substantial manure.
22:537. Knocking in Space
23:03Imagine you're an astronaut,
23:04and you're all alone floating through the quiet vacuum of space
23:07in your cozy little spacecraft.
23:09And then, you hear someone or something knocking.
23:13It's enough to make you go mad.
23:27Luckily, astronaut and famed knock-hearer Young Leeway didn't go mad,
23:32but he was understandably creeped out.
23:34Leeway attempted to replicate the knocking sound after returning to Earth,
23:38but nothing proved successful.
23:40Future Chinese astronauts also reported hearing the eerie knocking sound,
23:43leading some to believe it was caused by the spacecraft itself.
23:46The source was later attributed to changes in air pressure and temperature
23:50morphing the capsule's inner wall.
23:52Mundane explanation aside,
23:53we couldn't imagine how utterly terrifying that experience would be.
24:046. Hinterkaifeck Murders
24:07There are literally countless creepy true crime stories,
24:10but there's just something really unsettling about the infamous Hinterkaifeck murders.
24:14These took place at a farm in Bavaria, Germany in 1922.
24:18Prior to the murders, Andreas Gruber found human foot tracks in the snow
24:21leading from the nearby forest to his house.
24:23That night, the family heard footsteps coming from the attic,
24:27but failed to notify the police.
24:29On March 31st, every member of the household,
24:32including their daughter, her grandchildren, and their maid, were killed.
24:36It would be four days until the bodies were discovered.
24:39The still-unknown murderer had long made their escape.
24:42This unsolved case truly has it all.
24:45Gruesome violence, no survivors, an unidentified culprit,
24:49and an incredibly creepy case of murder.
24:52The murder case is a bit more complicated than the others,
24:56and an incredibly creepy case of home invasion.
25:005. The Sad But Creepy Case of Henry Rathbone
25:09Everyone knows of Lincoln's assassination,
25:11but the role played by Major Henry Rathbone is less common knowledge.
25:15Rathbone and his fiancée were attending the play with Lincoln,
25:18and Rathbone tried subduing John Wilkes Booth after he shot the president.
25:21His artery was severed in the process.
25:24Rathbone survived, but he blamed himself for Lincoln's death
25:27and spiraled into insanity.
25:29On December 23rd, 1883, he assaulted his own children,
25:33and when his wife intervened, he took care of her
25:36before stabbing himself in a failed attempt at his own life.
25:39I'm not gonna hurt you.
25:41You didn't let me finish my sentence.
25:43I said I'm not gonna hurt you.
25:45When police arrived, they found a deranged Rathbone and his wife's corpse.
25:50You wouldn't get it.
25:524. Chernobyl
25:54The world held its breath throughout the spring of 1986,
25:57desperately hoping that their respective areas wouldn't be inundated with radiation.
26:01On April 26th, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded,
26:06sending enormous plumes of radiation into the atmosphere.
26:09This radiation was then carried far and wide by the wind.
26:12Who's the next closest?
26:14It's Chernobyl, but that's not possible. They're 400 kilometers away.
26:17Well, that's too far for eight mini-Romkin. They'd have to be split open.
26:20It was given the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale,
26:24and it resulted in an extensive cleanup effort
26:27that took years and billions of dollars to complete.
26:30Nearby cities were completely evacuated and are now eerie ghost towns.
26:35Many people also suffered unimaginably horrible deaths
26:38from acute radiation syndrome as their bodies shut down.
26:42Chernobyl was a living nightmare that struck the fear of radiation into millions.
26:573. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius
27:06The ancient Romans experienced hell on Earth in 79 AD,
27:10when Mount Vesuvius famously erupted.
27:12The eruption launched a massive cloud of gas and debris 21 miles into the air,
27:16effectively blocking out the sun.
27:18This in turn caused a tsunami in the Bay of Naples,
27:22and ash rained down on nearby cities.
27:24The volcano later released pyroclastic flows,
27:27which are essentially 18,000 degree Fahrenheit clouds of gas and volcanic matter
27:31that can travel upwards of 400 miles per hour.
27:35This distinct layer of solidified ash
27:37is evidence of a high-speed current of heated gas and volcanic debris,
27:44known as a pyroclastic flow.
27:46The flows decimated the nearby cities and killed people instantly,
27:50vaporizing their blood and organs.
27:52The eruption buried the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Stabii,
27:57killing at least 1,500 people based on the human remains uncovered,
28:01but likely many more.
28:03The exact nature of the pyroclastic density current
28:06In some instances, it's very, very light and fluffy,
28:09but you can have temperatures from 200 degrees centigrade up to maybe 700 degrees centigrade.
28:14That's not unheard of.
28:15Number 2
28:16The Mary Celeste
28:18Bad luck plagued her from the beginning.
28:20On her maiden voyage, her master fell fatally ill.
28:24Ghost ship stories are a dime a dozen,
28:26but none is as arguably popular as the Mary Celeste.
28:29This was a sailing vessel built in Canada and named the Amazon
28:33before it was wrecked and sold to American buyers,
28:35who renamed her the Mary Celeste.
28:37On December 4, 1872, the ghost ship was found floating off the Azores Islands.
28:42It was not leaking.
28:45The sails were damaged.
28:47Those that were up and had not been furled were damaged.
28:50Aside from that, there was no real structural damage to the boat.
28:54The ship was in good condition.
28:55There was nothing recent in her captain's log,
28:57her provisions were undisturbed,
28:59and the crew's belongings were still on board.
29:01However, the lifeboat was missing,
29:04leading many to wonder why the crew had abandoned ship.
29:06Naturally, conspiracy theories abound to this day.
29:10And while numerous sound theories have been put forth over the years,
29:13the mystery remains unsolved.
29:16But the riddle of that ill-fated voyage in 1872 will haunt us forever.
29:21The mystery of the Mary Celeste will live on.
29:26Before we continue, be sure to subscribe to our channel
29:28and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos.
29:31You have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them.
29:35If you're on your phone, make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications.
29:41Number 1.
29:42Plague, Riots, and Refugees
29:45For three horrifying years between 1348 and 1350,
29:50the Black Death pushed medieval man to the brink of an apocalypse.
29:54The Black Death wasn't just the deadliest epidemic of infectious disease in human history.
29:59It killed an estimated 30 to 60 percent of Europe's entire population.
30:04Seriously, the entry can just end here.
30:06For the Almighty has said,
30:09I shall wipe man whom I created off the face of the earth.
30:13But it also turned into what's probably the closest thing we've ever had
30:17to a real-life zombie movie.
30:19London quarantined plague victims inside their homes,
30:22and armed guards were reportedly stationed nearby to prevent escape.
30:26This didn't sit well with the quarantined,
30:28and they often fought back by attacking, and in some cases, murdering the guards.
30:38This led entire neighborhoods to be quarantined,
30:40which only instigated rioting and more death.
30:43If some plague victims happened to escape,
30:45they wandered the countryside pretty much like zombies,
30:48as no towns or villages would permit them entry.
30:51In some cases, they were even attacked on the road by the healthy.
30:587,000 people are buried in a single graveyard.
31:02Which real-life event do you think is more terrifying than fiction?
31:06Let us know in the comments below.