30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived

Many horrific catastrophes have rocked the world and shaped history forever. However, some of these events were apparently worse than initially perceived.

A Reddit question recently went viral: “What event in history is grislier or grosser than we think?” Commenters unearthed these tragedies with some extra information that many likely didn’t know until then.

Someone talked about how horrific medicine was before anesthetics and painkillers. Another individual who claimed to have been on the scene painted a picture of the atrocities in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

This list is quite dark, but it provides insight into the harsh realities of these historic mishaps. Scroll through this somber trip down memory lane.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Irish Famine. It was actually a genocide and gets downplayed quite frequently as a result of a potato blight but it was more than that. The British shipped out any and every morsel of food available and the Irish were left with nothing to eat. Forced to eat grass or whatever was available and others (millions) fled across the sea to America.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Belgians' treatment of the people of the Congo during King Leopold's reign.

If a parent worker didn't meet their quota, it was common practice to cut off the hand or foot of one of their children.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Trail of Tears.

Zapkin:

I live in Memphis, and there are signs around that say ‘Path of the Historic Trail of Tears.’ As a kid, I didn’t think much of it, but now I can’t help but think about how those people were going through one of the worst things imaginable, carrying what little they had, with hundreds of miles to go—and now I drive on that path to get to Target. We really don’t do enough educating on the topic here in the states.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The atrocities carried out by the Imperial Army before and during WW2. Truly horrific, inhumane s**t.

Yes, Americans, the Russians, and the British did some ghoulish s**t, but Japan’s Imperial Army did next level cruelty.

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) were responsible for a multitude of war crimes leading to millions of deaths. War crimes ranged from sexual slavery and massacres to human experimentation, torture, starvation, and forced labor, all either directly committed or condoned by the Japanese military and government.

Evidence of these crimes, including oral testimonies and written records such as diaries and war journals, has been provided by Japanese veterans.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived I'd argue many people don't know about the Holodomor. Hell, I didn't until I started learning about it after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. I'm not a major history buff and I'm on the (literal) opposite side of the planet, which is probably why I didn't know about it, but still... Death toll estimated between 3.5-7 million (some estimates as high as 11) with most settling around the 3.9 million mark. That's the number of Ukrainian people who died in the Holodomor. It was a man-made famine in 1930-1933. Genocide carried out by Stalin on the Ukrainian people.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Unit 731. The majority of what we know about hypothermia comes from the cruelty of Japanese scientist to POWs at this place during WW2.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Reading about the Sand Creek massacre in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee forever changed my perspective on the American West. The details are absolutely horrific especially what happened to the children.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The sinking of the SS Princess Alice

The ship sank in September 1878 in the River Thames 4 minutes after colliding with another ship. Around 600-700 passengers are thought to have died and a diver reported seeing masses of bodies jammed together still standing upright in the doorways.

What made this sinking particularly horrible was that the ship sank in an area where 75 million gallons of raw sewage had been released into the river an hour earlier. The water was also polluted by untreated waste coming from nearby chemical factories.

A chemist described the water as being “Two continuous columns of decomposed fermenting sewage, hissing like soda water with baneful gases, so black that the water is stained for miles and discharging a corrupt charnel-house odour”

16 passengers who had been rescued subsequently died within 2 weeks after accidentally ingesting the water. Many of the passengers couldn’t swim and were dragged under by the weight of their heavy woollen clothing.

Bodies that were recovered were covered in slime that was difficult to clean off and the corpses rotted extremely fast due to the polluted river water.

Drowning is awful enough but drowning in a river of raw sewage is a whole other level of horrible….

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Armenian genocide. Turkish military would march Armenians to Syria, and put them in fenced sections of desert with no food, water, or shelter. The only way to get mercy was to try to break out, because they would shoot you and that's quicker.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Honestly, I recently spent some time learning more details about the September 11th attacks than I had learned from the news as a kid. This might not be uncommon knowledge, and maybe even a “yeah duh” from most people, but I don’t think I had ever realized the amount of human body parts that littered the streets around the towers.

There was a moment when first responders realized the periodic bangs they were hearing were jumpers hitting the ground. Eye witnesses said the bodies would explode into pink mist upon contact, and one fire fighter was even k*lled by a falling body. First responders were begging people to stop jumping, that they were coming to save them… not realizing that they wouldn’t be able to reach them, and that the buildings would soon collapse.

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 week ago

I remember seeing that live on television. Jesus....

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MaryHadaLittleLamb 1 week ago

So do I. I remember watching the news coverage with tears streaming down my face. For hours. It was horrific, but I felt like I had to know what was happening and I couldn't turn it off.

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nicholas nolan 1 week ago

Occasionally i still see the two people clinging to eah other as they jumped to escape the flames.

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Bec 1 week ago

Yep, me too. It was horrific.

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Bored Trash Panda 1 week ago

Yea, that was horrible to watch, especially as a kid. (Well teenager).

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 week ago

God damn GWB for ignoring the warning signs. That was the SECOND attack on those towers. If you're old like me you might remember back in 1993 Al-Qaeda tried to blow up the North tower. Bush ignored that and ignored all the intelligence that said Bin Laden was going to attack the USA.

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Game Guy 1 week ago

In fairness, while Bush absolutely ignored the signs leading to 9/11, it was Clinton who failed to do anything effective in response to the '93 bombing.

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William Teach 1 week ago

It wasn't ignored. There was zero timeline. Just that "Bin Laden determined to strike the US", just as he had been for a decade. Many of the terrorists were already here. The intel community failed. I don't like to blame Clinton, either. They can only work with the intel they are provided.

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nottheactualphoto 1 week ago

To be precise, god damn him straight to hell. And I don't even believe in hell.

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brittany 1 week ago

i heard that the dogs they used to find survivors were getting depressed that all they were finding were people who had passed away so volunteers would hide themselves in the wreckage so the dogs would be able to find people who were still alive

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 week ago

I can't even imagine having to make the choice whether to jump or not. I just really imagine it.

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BookFanatic 1 week ago (edited)

Yeah. I was in college and I remember seeing that second plane hit. A few years later I had the absolute honor of meeting a survivor when he came to speak at my library. He didn't sugarcoat, or downplay, or take it lightly. I've never seen an audience so completely silent.

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Nikole 1 week ago

I was in college too, just before starting my senior year. It was insane to see that on live tv.

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JokerMan774 1 week ago

I was there and I will never forget what I saw.

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Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 1 week ago

Aye, I can't forget the smell . Every piece of wiring, drywall, office furniture, etc. burning for months.

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G A 1 week ago

The Falling Man picture is haunting

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JoNo 1 week ago

There's a documentary about the Falling Man available on YouTube. It's amazingly horrifying to watch.

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Heras buddy 1 week ago

And our government will never let us know how much the Saudi government knew or participated .

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Scott Rackley 1 week ago

Die quick or die on fire, I'm leaning towards the first one

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Libstak 1 week ago

They had to jump the flames and heat were roasting them alive.

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leendadll 1 week ago

There's also thought that people wete blinded by airplane fuel and/or smoke and stubbled out.

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Kevin Hickey 1 week ago

3,000 people were murdered that day. Over 100,000 were murdered in Iraq and Afghanistan who had nothing to do with 9-11

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Big Chungus 1 week ago

I recommend everyone go to the 9/11 memorial in New York. So heartbreaking and sad. Does a great job explaining what led to these events and respectfully shares victim stories.

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SirWriteALot 1 week ago

There was a documentary by two french filmmakers where there are a few scenes you *hear* people landing ... the whole documentary was scary and horrible but those jumpers, man, they freaked me out. Immagine what it must have felt like up there.

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Jan Feline 1 week ago

I remember this all too well. One of my closest friends lost his brother that day. Chris worked on the 105th floor

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Mark Karol-Chik 1 week ago

Once again- F**K RELIGION. Secondly- what type of lunatic does that kind of s**t?!

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Kat 1 week ago

I was 8 years old when I watched the World Trade Center burn and collapse to the ground on live television. To this day it is still the worst thing I have ever witnessed with my own eyes.

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The Shark Premium 1 week ago

I saw a documentary recently that was exclusively video and audio from people on the street or within view of the towers, in addition to news and other audio... There was brief footage of the "pink mist" when a jumper struck an awning, and footage of firefighters under scaffolding with what sounded like a hail storm of bodies hitting cars nearby... Truly horrific.

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Sven Horlemann 1 week ago

I just watched on YouTube the National Geographic documentation film. Unbelievable. Had to do it in several sittings (ok, it is +3 hours long). What I appreciate is. They are not dramatizing. All interviews, everything you hear and see... that speaks for itself.

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William Teach 1 week ago

Probably the best documentary on it was 102 Minutes that changed America, where you hear them hitting in the courtyard while a muzac version of a Billy Joel song plays. It is truly horrifying. That, and The Falling Man. If young folks want to really understand that day, I'd start there.

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Wolf princess quinn 1 week ago

Taking death into thier own hands. What horror those poor ppl went through Atleast they had thier own choice! So sorry for the loved ones left behind

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Anthorn 1 week ago

Colin Jost talked about the guy who got killed by a falling body...forgot his name though...

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Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 1 week ago

It was the fire department chaplain , Mychal Judge.

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Evagating Beewolf (she/they) 1 week ago

It's common for people to jump. Read about the Triangle Factory Fire, also in New York City, at some point. It's horrifying.

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Lorraine R 1 week ago

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire The only survivors among those who jumped were the ones who landed on those who had jumped before them.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The aftermath of Katrina in and around New Orleans. I was down there twice immediately after the storm and the stench from dead bodies was almost overwhelming.

My sister and BIL bought a house on the other side of lake pontchartrain a few months later and there were STILL bodies floating up on the north shore of the lake.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived New London, TX school explosion.

"The force of the explosion was so great that a two-ton concrete block was thrown clear off the building and crushed a 1936 Chevrolet parked 200 feet away."

Why does the gas company add that odd smell to the natural gas supply???? Holy c**p!!! THIS is why.

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The Death chambers in Germany. I lived in Germany for a few years. You know how we all heard of the nazi's gassing Jews. I took a tour to one of these places. As I got of the bus I was assaulted my whole body tightened up goose bumps appeared my brain was screaming evil walks here. I did not go in. I sat on the bus and cried to myself.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The sinking of the Britannic. Though she sunk with significantly fewer casualties than her sister ship Titanic, many of the deaths were due to the fact that the lifeboats were prematurely launched while the ship was still moving, which resulted in some of the lifeboats being sucked into the propellers, instantly obliterating the passengers on them.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Syphilis.

When it first hit Europe it was nothing like the disease we know now.

It was fast-acting and MADE PEOPLE'S FACES ROT OFF (yes I do believe there are woodcuts of this).

As you might imagine, this was a bad transmission strategy long term for syphilis, so it eventually evolved into the decades-long misery we know today.

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WWII in Croatia. Ustashe commited crimes so gruesome that even the N*zis were shocked.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Great Stink of 1858 in London. The River Thames was so polluted with untreated human waste and industrial runoff that the city was overwhelmed by a horrific stench during a heatwave. It was so bad that Parliament had to be suspended, and the situation was considered a public health crisis. It wasn’t just gross, it contributed to outbreaks of cholera and other diseases.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Before we had anesthetic and abundant pain k*llers, field surgery wells absolutely horrific. Here's a bottle of alcohol, we're going to saw your leg off now.

Also, most people doing the work were far from qualified to do the work, they were just slightly better than the next guy in the platoon. I remember reading a first person account of a Civil War nurse who was tasked with curing pneumonia by removing the fluid from a man's lungs. She was given explicit direction based on "I guess this is how the body works". The process was to heat up the rim of a metal rimmed shot glass, sear his chest, and pop the resulting blister, thus removing the water from his body. This was done twice an hour. He died 3 days into the removal, likely a combination of dehydration and infection.

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Pretty much the entire Vietnam war. Open pits of burning bodies, and people being blown apart and impaled everywhere.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Not really history, as both are still relevant, but they are a lot less so these days:

Ebola and rabies. What they do to a person is nightmare fuel.

hamburgersocks:

Rabies k*lls you by making your muscles spasm so hard you break your own back... if the hydrophobia doesn't dehydrate you first.
Still no cure if it's caught too late. Don't get bit, folks.

rricenator:
The stories of Ebola remind me of Poe, The Masque of the Red Death.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived So grizzly and gross is this:

The bubonic plague, often referred to as the Black Death, is one of the most infamous pandemics in history. It ravaged Europe, Asia, and North Africa during the 14th century, peaking between 1347 and 1351. The plague was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which was typically spread by fleas that lived on rats. The pandemic k*lled an estimated 75 to 200 million people, wiping out between 30-60% of Europe’s population.

The disease manifested in three forms: bubonic (affecting the lymph nodes), septicemic (infecting the bloodstream), and pneumonic (infecting the lungs). The bubonic form was characterized by painful, swollen lymph nodes (called buboes), fever, and skin turning black due to gangrene, giving rise to the name “Black Death.”

This pandemic had profound social, economic, and cultural effects. Labor shortages following the mass deaths led to significant social upheavals, including changes in feudalism, a rise in wages, and a shift in land ownership patterns. It also triggered a wave of religious movements and scapegoating, with many minorities, especially Jews, being wrongly blamed for the plague.

Smaller outbreaks of the plague have occurred since then, but none reached the same devastating scale as the 14th-century pandemic. Modern medicine, particularly antibiotics, can now treat plague infections effectively if caught early.

Imagine the smell alone.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Donner Party. Children choosing who dies to suck the marrow from the bones of their parents.
Randomizing flesh so that parents wouldn't know that they were eating their own children.
It was nuts.

wookiee42:

Yeah, just radomly ran into a mention of the Donner Party the other day and read the wikipedia. I thought it was a wagon train got stuck in the mountains and they eventually were forced to eat each other.
They survived for way longer than I thought and wayyyy more crazy stuff happened

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The American Civil War in general. Old school war tactics meeting modern warfare sprinkled with pre germ theory medicine practices resulted in quite the s**t show.

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Look up the cannabilism during Stalingrad.

westwebwarlord:

Most people don’t talk about cannibalism during sieges. It starts with house pets when food runs out and leads to picking at your dead friends. War is hell.

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The sand creek massacre and the following battle. In the massacre, the colonists k*lled women and children, up to ripping unborn babies out of their mothers and tearing ovaries from women to wear proudly on their persons. A horrifying event that should never have occurred.

In the following battle, the natives took revenge by grabbing the colonists by THEIR genitalia and twisting and jerking them around until said member came free from their body. Needless to say, war is gruesome and you should never mess with your enemies families lest you find yourself bleeding out of a delicate place.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961) - With 15 to 45 million people dead - kicked off by Great Leap Forward. Mao ignored technical experts and economic principles and established agricultural collectives, relying on peasants to figure out industrialization. The government tried to cover up conditions, which only made things worse.

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Arab slave trade, they had the custom of castrating male slaves, about 60% of boys bled to death during this process. Mostly due to eunichs selling for more.

Like, slavery is bad enough, do you need to castrate them as well?!

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I had always read about how Jack the Ripper mutilated his victims but it wasn't until I saw the photo of one them and realised how f****d up it actually was.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived All of Genghis Khan invasions.

From memory, theirs the capturing and then skinning and then using fat as incendiary to launch and burn the enemies forts down.

Another one where they dug a huge hole and put the prisoners of war in this hole, then put a board on top and continued to use it as a bridge/road until they all died.

There are more but listening to Dan Carlin episodes covering it are epic.

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30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than Perceived The Eastern Front of WW2. It was basically free reign to do any horrific thing they could come up with. I took a WW2 history class. The Holocaust as a whole was unprecedented in its horror. But the "Holocaust by Bullets" and the way they developed mobile gassing units as a precursor to the mass gas chambers was insane.

All the while the occupying forces were r*ping, pillaging, m*rdering, torturing, starving and basically enslaving people. Racially acceptable Women often made arrangements with n*zis to serve as their private girlfriends for food and protection from the other n*zis. Brothels with racially acceptable women were so overrun that the n*zis developed mobile and mass testing centers for syphilis I believe. They required soldiers get tested regularly and promoted it as part of being a good aryan soldier. Of course all the other STDS were there as well. The women were forced in a lot of cases. Keep in mind these guys were piling up bodies like sardines as they're r*ping and torturing. Truly the apocalypse.

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 week ago

Don't read these. I feel so sick now.

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Margot Plummer 1 week ago

Too late.

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Skogsrået 1 week ago

The spanish inquisition and the witch huntings all over Europe.

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Insomniac 1 week ago

The Alexandru Radita case in Calgary, Alberta. Yes, just one boy, but the horror he lived.... His parents were absolute psychopaths. And there were so many chances to save him had someone in the medical, education, or social services sector thought to push for some investigation.

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Julia H 1 week ago

Unfortunately history keeps repeating itself with k8ds who should be protected but are left with parents who would happily torture and starve them. Take the Turpin kids. Then revictimized (rap3d) in foster care.

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Mimi M 1 week ago

Just what we come to BP for. NOT.

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I need a nap. 1 week ago

I read all of them, but I didn’t do any other research. It’s 12:20 for me, and I want to get some sleep. But tomorrow you know I’m visiting the Wikipedia pages of these so I can see what ACTUALLY happened.

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Insomniac 1 week ago

A lot of these are relatively accurate. Surprisingly so.

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Stardust she/her 1 week ago

Jallianwala baag tragedy was horrible. Only one exit to leave from and hundreds of people were in that enclosed space when Dyer opened fire and killed many innocent people.

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90HD 1 week ago

Ruby Ridge was terrible. Feds lied about some random homesteader, entrapped him into commiting a crime, raided his house, shot his dog, son, and unarmed wife holding her baby.

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Sapna Sarfare 1 week ago

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and the Bengal Famine.. horrible Also 26/11 Mumbai attacks.. it still shakes Mumbai

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Paulina 1 week ago

And my "favorite" is missing again, as in every history piece ever :( Look up Bengal Famine of 1943 - it's a manmade disaster that took at least 3 MILLION people. In India during WWW2, British rulers decided to take away food from people and send it to their white soldiers. As a result, horrific amount of people died of starvation. And yet, no one talks about it. Ever. I highly recommend BBC podcast called "3 million" - despite being British, it is quite comprehensive account of the disaster.

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Insomniac 1 week ago

Was that the one where White administrators in India were forbidden to feed the starving ppl out of their own pockets?

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Patrick Linnen 1 week ago

Fort Pillow; After the fight, Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest had his troops massacre the Union troops, half of which were African-American. From the wiki page, "Only 58 (around 20%) black soldiers were taken prisoner, whereas 168 (about 60%) white soldiers were taken prisoner. Not all of the prisoners who were shot were black; Major Bradford was apparently among those shot after surrendering."

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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 week ago

Surprised no one mentioned that kid who fancied himself a "bear whisperer".... Till it ate him and his girlfriend... You want something that'll keep you up at night, read the Wikipedia article on HIM. Oi.

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G A 1 week ago

He wasn't a kid by any means. He was a very naive man who thought he was friends with starving bears who got himself, his girlfriend and the bear responsible killed due to his own stupidity.

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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago

Not a "kid". A grown adult. He was 46 years old.

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Nicole Weymann 1 week ago

Not exactly a "history moment", but surely gross.

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Chloe 1 week ago

Timothy Treadwell

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Mike F 1 week ago

All in all, this was pretty good.

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Julia H 1 week ago

Agreed. It is painful to examine the past atrocities of people who share a genome. We can't just skip over them because it's uncomfortable.

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mtn.dew.13 1 week ago

byford dolphin

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Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 1 week ago (edited)

Well, that was unrelentingly grim. In fairness, the title was accurate.

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Mimi M 1 week ago

BP often puts the worst on the headline, so we all have to read it even if we don't want to click on the post. No thanks, BP.

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 week ago

Don't read these. I feel so sick now.

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Margot Plummer 1 week ago

Too late.

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Skogsrået 1 week ago

The spanish inquisition and the witch huntings all over Europe.

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Mimi M 1 week ago

Just what we come to BP for. NOT.

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I need a nap. 1 week ago

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Insomniac 1 week ago

A lot of these are relatively accurate. Surprisingly so.

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Stardust she/her 1 week ago

Jallianwala baag tragedy was horrible. Only one exit to leave from and hundreds of people were in that enclosed space when Dyer opened fire and killed many innocent people.

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90HD 1 week ago

Ruby Ridge was terrible. Feds lied about some random homesteader, entrapped him into commiting a crime, raided his house, shot his dog, son, and unarmed wife holding her baby.

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Sapna Sarfare 1 week ago

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and the Bengal Famine.. horrible Also 26/11 Mumbai attacks.. it still shakes Mumbai

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Paulina 1 week ago

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Insomniac 1 week ago

Was that the one where White administrators in India were forbidden to feed the starving ppl out of their own pockets?

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Patrick Linnen 1 week ago

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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 week ago

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G A 1 week ago

He wasn't a kid by any means. He was a very naive man who thought he was friends with starving bears who got himself, his girlfriend and the bear responsible killed due to his own stupidity.

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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 week ago

Not a "kid". A grown adult. He was 46 years old.

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Nicole Weymann 1 week ago

Not exactly a "history moment", but surely gross.

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Chloe 1 week ago

Timothy Treadwell

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Mike F 1 week ago

All in all, this was pretty good.

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Julia H 1 week ago

Agreed. It is painful to examine the past atrocities of people who share a genome. We can't just skip over them because it's uncomfortable.

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mtn.dew.13 1 week ago

byford dolphin

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Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 1 week ago (edited)

Well, that was unrelentingly grim. In fairness, the title was accurate.

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Mimi M 1 week ago

BP often puts the worst on the headline, so we all have to read it even if we don't want to click on the post. No thanks, BP.

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