I'VE REMADE, LADS

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Lana Turner bails her thirteen year old daughter Cheryl Crane out of jail in 1957. Cheryl was picked up by police when she was found wandering around Skid Row. One year later Cheryl would use a kitchen knife to stab her mother’s boyfriend, mobster Johnny Stompanato, in the stomach, killing him. A jury ruled the death justifiable homicide. – TS

James Hydrick was once a stage performer and self-described psychic. He claimed he was able to perform telekinesis to turn pages of books and make pencils spin on tables, among other impressive claims. He also ran his own martial arts class in which he claimed he could pass the gift of telekinesis onto his young students through special techniques. He appeared on the tv show “That’s Incredible!” where he performed his famous pencil spinning trick. While on the show, host John Davidson exclaimed that he could actually hear James Hydrick blowing on the pencil, allowing it to move. Hydrick then appeared on “That’s My Line” with paranormal and magician skeptic, James Randi. Hydrick had planned to use his so-called telekinesis to turn pages of a book. Unbeknownst to him, Randi had brought along polystyrene and placed it on the table around the book to show that the pages were only moving because Hydrick was blowing on them. After an hour of staring at the book, clearly unable to move the pages without blowing on them, Hydrick confessed that he couldn’t move the pages. The bizarre reason he gave was that the stage lights were giving the foam pieces electric charge which added to the weight of the page. This failed stunt practically ended his television career and in 1981, his “psychic powers” were exposed as frauds by Dan Korem, an investigative journalist and professional magician. Hydrick soon confessed that he had learnt his tricks in prison: “My whole idea behind this in the first place was to see how dumb America was. How dumb the world is.” In 1989 Hydrick was on the television again, but this time it was for being charged with molesting five young boys. He currently resides in Coalinga State Hospital.

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my backpack is pretty fucking cool.

god is real but you can only see him behind the 7/11 at 3:34 am after you down 6 and a half 5 hour energys

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Born on 19 April, 1942, Bastiaan Johan Christiaan “Bas Jan” Ader was a Dutch artist and filmmaker. Moving to Los Angeles, California, Ader focused on career and produced a number of short films, including “I’m to sad to tell you” which consisted of a 3-minute video of him crying. Another film consisted of him sitting on a chair on a roof when he suddenly falls off. His final performance was called “In Search of Miraculous” in which he had a choir sing sea shanties at his Los Angeles studio. For this performance, he had planned to sail in a 113 ft pocket cruiser from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Falmouth, Cornwall. However, he never made it. After three weeks at sea, his radio contact failed. It wasn’t until ten months later that his abandoned boat was discovered over the coast of Ireland. Ader was not on board and his body was never found. Many believe that Ader had committed suicide as part of his final performance.

Disturbing Documentaries

1. Dreams of a Life (2011)

This documentary tells the story of Joyce Carol Vincent, whose body was found in January 2006, decomposing in her bed in Wood Green, North London. She apparently died unnoticed in December 2003, surrounded by unopened Christmas presents with her TV still turned on. The film interviews various friends, acquaintances, and former partners to try to tell the story of Joyce.

2. The Cheshire Murders (2013)

This film studies the murder-robbery case that occurred on July 23, 2007. Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were raped and murdered, while her husband, Dr. William Petit, was injured during a home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut. This case was referred to as “possibly the most widely publicized crime in the state’s history.”

3. Child of Rage (1992)

The film is based on the true story of Beth Thomas, who suffered from severe behavioral problems as a result of being sexually abused as a child. Beth was adopted after it was found that she was being sexually abused by a family member. During her stay with the family, she tried to kill her brother several times and even attempted to sexually abuse him. The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia. 

4. The Imposter (2012)

This documentary is about the 1997 case of the French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin, who impersonated Nicholas Barclay, a Texas boy who disappeared at the age of 13 in 1994. The film includes interviews with Bourdin and members of Barclay’s family, as well as actual television news footage

5. Cropsey (2009)   

This film initially begins as an examination of "Cropsey”, a boogeyman-like figure from the New York urban legend, before segueing into the story of Andre Rand, a convicted child kidnapper from Staten Island.

6. The Bridge (2006)

This film covers the depressing truth about the Golden Gate Bridge, capturing a large number of suicides during the documentary.The film also features interviews with family and friends of some of the identified people who had thrown themselves from the bridge that year. The Golden Gate Bridge, which first opened in May 1937, was the most popular suicide site in the world during the documentary’s filming, with approximately 1,200 deaths by 2003

7. There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane (2011)

This documentary discusses the traffic collision that occurred on July 26, 2009,  where eight people were killed when a minivan driven by 36-year-old Diane Schuler, after traveling 1.7 miles in the wrong direction on the parkway, collided head-on with an oncoming SUV. The deaths included Schuler, her daughter and three nieces, and the three passengers in the SUV. The crash was the worst fatal motor vehicle accident to occur in Westchester County, New York. 

8. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

This film focuses on the 1980s investigation of Arnold Friedman and his son Jesse for child molestation of several of their students. They held computer classes in their home where many children attended. During police interviews, some of the children that the Friedman’s taught reported experiencing bizarre sex games during their computer classes. Arnold Friedman committed suicide in prison in 1995, leaving a $250,000 life insurance benefit to his son. Jesse Friedman was released from New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility in 2001 after serving 13 years of his sentence.

9. Night & Fog (1955)

This documentary depicts the cruel reality of the Nazi Concentration camps. The film features footage from the liberation of camps in 1945 where malnourished humans are seen emerging out of the camps, voicing the life left in their lungs on to the camera.

10. Brothers Keeper (1992)

This documentary follows the case of Delbert Ward, an illiterate 59-year-old dairy farmer who was accused of murdering his brother Bill, in the bed that they shared for 50 years. The Ward brothers were four bachelors ranging between 59-71 and living in extreme poverty. One theory suggests that the slain brother, Bill, suffered the consequence of a sexual act gone wrong. What’s more disturbing is the fact that he was later acquitted of the crime after it was found out that the New York State Police coerced a confession out of him as he was illiterate.

Don’t be afraid to add to this list

John Baxter, at age 15, is seen here, holding his drawing after witnessing the Dover Demon. He saw the creature around 12:30am on April 21st, 1977 - only about 2 hours after the first sighting by Bill Bartlett. John actually chased after the Dover Demon when he saw it. He was walking home from his girlfriend’s house and came across the figure on corner of Miller Hill Road and Farm Road in Dover, Massachusetts. Thinking the humanoid figure was his friend, he called out to it, but got no response. John then noticed something odd about what he was looking at - the limbs were not in proportion to the body. The creature ran and John followed after it; but it soon stopped and stared back at him in the darkness of the night. John could only stop and note the glowing orange eyes before turning and running back the way he came.