From an A student to a hippie drifter, Paul Watkins thought he'd found meaning at the Spahn Ranch with the Manson Family — until Manson tried to kill him.RXSTRPaul Watkins While Charles Manson has cemented his permanent place in American history, less is known about most of his faithful, murderous cult, the Manson Family. This ragtag band of hippies and social outcasts boasts a few recognizable names, but what about the lesser-known members of this notorious cult?

Fort Worth police said Jason Alan Thornburg admitted to killing three people in a motel room, chopping up their bodies, throwing their corpses into a dumpster, and setting the dumpster on fire.Fort Worth Police DepartmentAfter Jason Alan Thornburg confessed to the police, he said that he had “an in-depth knowledge of the Bible and believed he was being called to commit sacrifices.” Shortly before dawn at 6:15 a.m. last Wednesday, the Fort Worth Fire Department in Tarrant County, Texas responded to reports of a dumpster fire outside of a storage facility.

Ancient sphinx unearthed in Egypt, Celtic figure with oversized phallus found in England, new moai statue uncovered on Easter Island.1,500-Year-Old Sphinx With A Smiling Face And A Cobra Headdress Unearthed At Egypt’s Temple Of Dendera Ministry of Tourism and AntiquitiesWhile excavating a newly-uncovered structure at the Dendera temple complex, researchers descended into its water collection basin where they were shocked to find a fully intact sphinx from the Roman era.

While Walter Freeman has become infamous as the doctor behind the lobotomy, these photos reveal how misunderstood his story and the procedure really is. Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy using an instrument similar to an ice pick that he invented for the procedure on July 11, 1949.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images James Watts (left) and Walter Freeman examine a patient after lobotomy. Date unspecified.George Washington University Walter Freeman. Date unspecified.U.S. National Library of Medicine A before-and-after photo comparison of a lobotomy patient from the Freeman and Watts collection.

Did Hysteria Itself Cause The Salem Witch Trials? Wikimedia CommonsIn reality, authorities scrambled to find “evidence” that alleged witches had powers. While mass hysteria is usually associated with the time that the trials were happening, some have proposed that it may have caused them as well. Mass hysteria has been defined as the “rapid spread of conversion disorder, a condition involving the appearance of bodily complaints for which there is no organic basis.