For two years, the humble New York town of Poughkeepsie was terrorized by a 250-pound serial killer named Kendall Francois, who murdered eight women before he was caught in 1998.Poughkeepsie Police Department/Attica Correctional FacilityKendall Francois in 1998 (left) and at a later date (right).
In 1997, the sleepy town of Poughkeepsie, New York, was made up of 40,000 people — some of whom had begun to go missing. But none other than the local police and those who knew the victims knew it yet.
In 2014, YouTuber Kenny Veach set out to explore a mysterious M-shaped cave he had discovered near Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert — then mysteriously vanished, never to be seen again.YouTube/SnakebitmcgeeKenny Veach vanished while looking for a cave he’d found on a previous hike.
On Nov. 10, 2014, a 47-year-old solo hiker and YouTuber named Kenny Veach disappeared while hiking in the Mojave Desert — and he hasn’t been seen since.
Brad Dokken / Rick Swenson / ATI Composite Rick Swenson both during (left) and at the end of (right) his record-breaking journey.
This past Saturday, it turns out that not one but two men were trying to break the world record for greatest distance paddled while floating in a giant pumpkin. But history doesn’t care about losers and thus the world will only remember Fergus Falls, Minn.’s Rick Swenson, who paddled a record total of 26 miles in a 1,086-pound pumpkin down the Red River from Grand Forks, Minn.
In the 1950s, Eddie Nash emigrated from Palestine to America with only $7 to his name. By the 1970s, he was worth over $30 million in real estate — and drugs.Boris Yaro/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesNightclub owner Eddie Nash was arrested in 1981.
Eddie Nash embodied the American Dream. After emigrating from Palestine to California in the 1950s, he briefly ran a hot dog stand before transforming himself into the owner of a sprawling nightclub empire.
Measuring nearly a foot wide, the Goliath bird-eating tarantula takes down prey like mice and birds, then liquefies their internal organs.Piotr NaskreckiBased on weight and mass, the Goliath birdeater is the largest spider on the planet.
The Goliath birdeater is one of the world’s most recognizable arachnids. Its impressive size allows it to prey on a variety of creatures, including birds, making it the biggest — and possibly the scariest — spider in the world.