The Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986 in Pripyat, Ukraine remains the most catastrophic nuclear accident in history.

Indoctrinated by cult leader Marshall Applewhite, who claimed that a spaceship following the Hale-Bopp comet would transport them to a utopian planet, devotees eagerly followed his instructions. Not when it comes to a certain object within the Tower’s entrance. Most visitors don’t notice it. Those who do jump out of their skins. Look for the missing stone on your left as you pass through the Byward Tower.Although this photo was taken as a lighthearted gag, the image of the Apollo 1 crew jokingly praying over a miniature of their command module turned deadly serious in retrospect. The three men — Roger Chaffee, Virgil Grissom, and Ed White — would burn to death during a test launch on January 27, 1967. In The Playroom is a UK based Parenting Lifestyle Blog with a focus on crafts, free printables and kids activities. Founded in 2011, the blog is ranked #2 in the UK and is co-written by Anna Marikar and Luciana Oliveira, best friends and mums of 5 kids and a dog. This 1883 mugshot of Pete Spence is the only known photo of this Old West outlaw who terrorized Arizona alongside the infamous Frank and Tom McLaury. Whether it's kidnappings and murders or mad scientists and unexplained phenomena, the stories behind history's creepiest images run the gamut from the macabre to the unsettling to the just plain bizarre. As the beloved daughter of a prominent French family in the 1870s, Blanche Monnier lived her early years as if she was in a fairy tale, replete with notions of true love and happily ever after.

To start, allow 16 oz of cream cheese to soften slightly at room temperature for about 15-20 minutes. Then, in a large bowl, mix together the cream cheese with your desired flavorings (I used 1 tablespoon each of garlic powder and onion powder and ½ tablespoon each of dried basil and oregano). Spoon out about 1 C worth of your cream cheese mixture to make the palm of the hand at the base of the wrist bone. Smooth a little over the top of the prosciutto log to make it continuous. He grafted one head onto the other's body, sewed their circulatory systems together, and connected their vertebrae with plastic strings. After the procedure was completed, both heads could hear, see, smell, and swallow. Once a symbol of the seemingly limitless opportunity of America's westward expansion, the bison eventually symbolized the dark realities of "manifest destiny." Before European settlers arrived on the North American continent, there were at least 30 million buffalo roaming the land. Between 1800 and 1900, that number was reduced to around 325. Smooth out all of the fingers and add extra cream cheese as needed to give the form of a true hand.Creepy Hand is recommended for age 7+, we did include younger ones too but I think around 6-7+ is a good guideline for this game, as they can read the questions easily and enjoy the truth or dare element of the game. Though its story remains lesser-known, the hotel that inspired The Shining is just as chilling as its fictional counterpart. On Nov. 13, 1974, DeFeo stalked from room to room and shot his sleeping family dead with a .35 caliber rifle. The Amityville murders were said to leave the house haunted, a story that eventually inspired The Amityville Horror. The hand walks around, as you’ll see in the video and when it stops it will raise one finger and point at the person who has to take the card for their truth, dare or forfeit. This adds more suspense than just taking turns, and makes it ideal for a larger group of kids. We have been playing with 4 people but I think it would be even more fun the more people you include. At the turn of the 19th century, medical students commonly posed for photographs with their deceased subjects. "Privileged access to the body marked a social, moral, and emotional boundary crossing," wrote John Harley Warner and James M. Edmondson in Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930.