Wojciech Frykowski was an aspiring writer from Poland who tried to make it in Hollywood with the help of his friend, Roman Polanski. But his connections would prove deadly.Bettmann/Getty ImagesWojciech Frykowski was a Polish writer and filmmaker who was slain in the 1969 Manson murders. Wojciech Frykowski was brutally murdered along with his girlfriend, Abigail Folger, in the 1969 Manson Family killing spree. The couple were dear friends of director Roman Polanski and actress Sharon Tate, and had moved into the Polanski-Tate house to keep the pregnant starlet company.

The true story of Béla Kiss, the Hungarian serial killer who killed at least 23 women and drained their blood.Wikimedia Commons Many serial killers desecrate or mutilate the corpses of their victims, but few go to the lengths of Hungarian serial killer Béla Kiss. Little is known about his childhood, but by the time Kiss was 23, he was renting a home in the town of Cinkota, outside of Budapest, and running a prosperous tin business.

Allegedly conducted on the east end of Long Island during the Cold War, Project Montauk was a secret military experiment to develop psychological warfare with abducted children.The Montauk Project just might be the motherlode of lesser-known conspiracy theories. Time travel, teleportation, and mind control are all integral to the story, while contact with aliens and the staging of Apollo moon landings add color to an already wild yarn. Yet even after all that and the fact that it inspired the Netflix series Stranger Things, relatively few have even heard of the Montauk Project story.

The true story of the history of M&M's sounds like something out of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Wikimedia CommonsM&M’s as they appear today “They melt in your mouth, not in your hand!” Anyone who considers themselves any kind of candy connoisseur has heard the phrase before, and most likely indulged in the candy it’s describing. Since being released to the masses in the 1940s, M&M’s have been a staple of the candy lovers diet.

Brutal Gangs: MS-13 Image Source: www.slate.com Mara Salvatrucha–or MS-13 if you’re in a hurry–grew out of the disaster that was El Salvador in the early 1980s. The short version of what happened is that the local oligarchy cracked down on farmers and rural peasants with death squads that were trained and supported by the CIA—because communism is bad, you see. The slaughter claimed around 50,000 lives and created a refugee crisis in the region.