Number 10
Sea monster attack a few years ago scottish engineers discovered the wreckage of a german submarine from world war one sitting at the bottom of the ocean while they were laying undersea power lines it turns out this mysterious submarine wreck may just be the notorious ub-85 the german u-boat that was attacked by a sea monster as outrageous as that sounds the story has been going around for over 100 years it started on april 30th 1918 when captain kresh and his crew were captured by the hms coropsis a british warship the british thought it was strange that they had captured the submarine crew so easily when they began to interrogate the germans they told the british that their submarine couldn't dive because it had sustained serious damage when attacked by a beast from the bottom of the ocean according to the eyewitness reports the mysterious monster had horns huge teeth and evil eyes the creature was so big that when it climbed onto the side of the submarine the vessel tilted and nearly flipped upside down the creature took chunks out of their forward gun with its teeth scratched up the side of their vessel and forced the crew to abandon ship and surrender to the british but just how much of this story is true the submarine definitely existed these people were certainly captured and the wreckage is still at the bottom of the ocean however unless somebody dives down and checks out the hull of the submarine will never know if it does indeed have claw marks from some kind of terrible monster.
Number 9
The asaro mudman in the highlands of papua new guinea one of the most primitive frontiers on earth there is an ancient tribe of people known as the asaro mud men they are still living life as if in the stone age with almost no contact with the outside world there are about 90 tribes living in the area but the asaro are arguably the most terrifying they practice a bizarre form of psychological warfare in which they cover their bodies with mud and put on scary clay masks with demonic faces painted on them to scare their enemies the origin of their horrifying appearance is unknown some say they've been doing this for centuries it all started when the asaro warriors were forced to retreat during a battle and hide in a river they all held their breath and covered themselves with mud and clay from the bottom when they felt the coast was clear they emerged from the river at night and tried to run the enemy caught up to them but when they saw their pale white bodies they thought they were evil spirits from the forest and were so afraid they ran away and so began the tradition for the isaro to dress up like ghosts to terrify their enemies others say the mud came about because of tribal fights in the 1800s with warriors wearing the spooky disguises to hide their identities when assassinating people they would also cover themselves with mud and wear their scary masks and bamboo fingernails to sneak around and scare the daylights out of their victims.
Number 8.
Parachuting dogs during world war ii there was an entire regiment of parachute dogs these brave animals even fought during d-day alongside the allies before this dogs were used quite frequently during the war dogs were used as scouts and were trained to stay calm around loud noises like aircraft propellers and gunshots and could sniff out explosives but these dogs specifically were trained to wear parachutes and jump out of airplanes and after a while they didn't even seem to mind there are three dogs whose stories have carried on even today they are rainy bing and glenn being survived world war ii and was awarded with the dick and metal the animal version of the victoria cross when he died in 1955 the veteran parachuting dog was buried in a cemetery in the northeast of london and given full animal honors there is also a replica of him at the parachute regiment and airborne forces museum in duxford the other dogs were not so lucky glenn died on d-day while fighting with his handler emil cortell they are buried together in the commonwealth war grave cemetery the final dog rainey was the only female parachuting dog who fought during the war a german shepherd who battled bravely but unfortunately lost her life.
Number 7.
Nazi breeding program The lebensborn were the result of a secret nazi breeding program that lasted from between 1935 and 1945 part of a plan to design racially pure children that could be used by hitler's third reich it was quite horrifying with the program encouraging fit women who were racially correct in the eyes of the nazis to bear children that encourage aryan ideals the program had special birthing facilities secret identities and they even stole over an estimated 200 000 children but the program came around even before world war ii broke out it started in the first world war when the male population of germany fell into a sharp decline because of all the casualties when hitler came to power in 1933 he needed more men in 1935 heinrich himmler came up with the idea that to dissuade women from getting abortions if they had racially pure german children they could simply hand them over to the state and they would take care of them but things only got worse as more and more soldiers were killed there was a systematic need for more healthy fighting men and so the experiment went a bit out of control with the germans moving to kidnapping and stealing kids from orphanages to add them to their ranks the child napping mania went on and on until the war finally ended resulting in a whole lot of orphans and confused children who didn't know who their parents were another sad reminder of other damages that war can bring.
Number 6.
The great emu war was a very real war fought by australian soldiers it happened in the years between world war one and world war ii the australian government was having a difficult time finding things for their veterans to do when they got home there was a soldier settlement scheme that started in 1915 in which soldiers were given plots of land to farm this worked out for about 5 000 soldiers who went on to cultivate wheat and sheep and became farmers however by 1920 the government had purchased a whopping 90 000 acres of land and still had more veterans that needed things to do so they started giving them land in pretty crummy areas like in the middle of the desert where it was a nightmare to try and farm anything to make things worse the great depression hit in 1929 and the farmers found themselves in trouble but here's where the emus came into play there were tens of thousands of them living in west australia and the soldiers had basically stolen their territory they were a protected species until 1922 when they were causing such problems for the farmers that they were reclassified as vermin that's a pretty big switch so seeing as these guys used to be soldiers they got to work trying to get rid of them the australian military was also called in to fight the rampaging birds and it was a disaster the army used over 2500 rounds of ammunition military vehicles and everything else but they only managed to kill 200 emus in the first few battles it became such an expensive and useless effort that the troops were recalled and the emus were declared the winners of the war.
Number 5.
Wartime aliens it was november of 1944 near the end of world war ii when the airmen of the 415th night fighter squadron found themselves facing off against aliens lieutenant fred ringwald was the first one to see the unidentified flying objects he was an observer for his pilot lieutenant ed schluter they were flying across the rhine valley along the border of france in germany when ringwald saw the lights there were about 10 of them in a row glowing orange the ground radar registered nothing it was quite strange because the airmen could see the lights playing as day but the radar was detecting nothing just when they thought the lights were something natural playing a trick on them they formed a t-shape and followed their plane at 1 000 feet before mysteriously vanishing weeks later on december 22nd two more flight crews saw the exact same thing the unidentified flying objects were bright orange and were seen rising from the surface to ten thousand feet in the air the lights would then vanish then appear in a new spot and then vanish again these objects have never been officially identified and there were more sightings of them all the way into january some say they were flares some say weather balloons but others are convinced it was aliens.
Number 4.
Vietnamese ghosts while some were dealing with aliens soldiers during the vietnam war stationed in saigon had to deal with ghosts the building at 727 tran hang dao in modern ho chi minh city was used as a housing unit for american soldiers during a large portion of the war but the story of the ghost goes back to its original construction it's been said that many of the workers building it died and that their spirits never left the locals blamed the number of floors for the deaths of the workers since the building had 13 floors and 13 is an unlucky number amazingly the architect who designed the building called in a shaman to get rid of the ghosts and evil spirits that were allegedly haunting it the shaman brought with him the corpses of four dead virgins and then buried one at each of the four corners this was obviously a terrible idea because if the workers weren't haunting the place the dead virgins now were during the war soldiers reported hearing screams in the middle of the night and seeing apparitions even today people who live in the building say they sometimes see the ghost of an american soldier walking through the halls with his dead vietnamese girlfriend.
Number 3.
The meth nazis the nazis were the first ones to use massive amounts of methamphetamines to create super soldiers in fact world war ii according to lester grinspoon who wrote a book in 1975 about this horrible drug was what started the black market abuse of speed pills on a global scale it's true that japanese american and british soldiers all ate huge amounts of amphetamines to stay alert during the brutal fighting but it was the germans who did it the most enthusiastically encouraging their soldiers to pop pills like candy throughout all the phases of the war this is crazy because in nazi ideology drugs were a huge no-no drugs were considered to be proof of a person's weakness and if they were used in the country it was a sign of moral decay but it was also a key part of their strategy they had no problem peddling the drug and it was given to soldiers to make them extremely alert and vigilant they gave the excuse that it was perfectly fine for the soldiers of germany to use because it made strong people even stronger hitler also said other drugs like opium were for weak people to escape reality meth hit the scene big time in germany in 1937 under the brand name perverton you didn't even need to have a prescription to buy it meaning you could walk into a drugstore and get a box of chocolates that had drugs injected into them it became not only a huge problem for the soldiers who got addicted to it but also for much of germany with the civilians at home consuming massive amounts of what was basically meth when the germans invaded poland in september of 1939 killing over 100 000 polish soldiers in the brutal attack they did so on industrial strength speed.
Number 2.
Human trophies there is a dark side of american history that nobody wants to talk about and is kind of disturbing did you know that after the attack on pearl harbor propaganda began to spread that japanese people were evil sub-humans when soldiers were sent out to fight they began practicing some barbaric rituals soldiers started to take body parts of the kill japanese as war trophies the truth is that when the bodies of japanese soldiers were returned to their homeland to be buried over half of them arrived back in japan without their heads as was revealed later the heads had been stolen by american soldiers and kept as morbid war trophies in the jungles and islands of the pacific the soldiers would keep the skulls to use as warning signs or as creepy decorations around camps some would mail the parts home to the families as a form of revenge or psychological warfare showing that they were not afraid it became such a massive problem that the military had to expressly forbid it but it still happened throughout the duration of the war in a photo published in the may 22 1944 issue of life magazine there is a woman sitting by a skull she was a war worker and had gone home so as a gift her lieutenant and 13 friends sent her a skull with their autographs on it they had written this is a good a dead one picked up on the new guinea beach as life magazine reported natalie surprised at the gift named it tojo the armed forces disapproved strongly of this sort of thing even today there are still efforts to return trophies like this to their proper resting place.
Number 1.
The fugo balloon bomb is a little-known secret weapon that was developed by the japanese in world war ii the bomb was nothing more than a hydrogen balloon carrying an anti-personnel bomb and an incendiary bomb the balloons were designed as extremely cheap weapons that would coast effortlessly along the jet stream traveling over the pacific ocean where they would eventually burst and fall on major american cities it was the only thing the japanese could figure out to actually strike at the american continent even though these bombs were a huge failure they are still considered to be the first intercontinental weapons at the time these were the longest ranged attacks ever made in war history fortunately for the united states the bombs didn't work because of the unpredictability of the weather the balloons would get lost they would explode before they ever made it to america and none of the u.s cities were ever decimated in the way japan had hoped.
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