The Brotherhood of Eternal Love started as a pseudo-religious commune of psychedelic-loving hippies. It soon turned into a collective of California’s most wanted drug traffickers.Dr. Dennis Bogdan/Wikimedia CommonsTimothy Leary, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love’s most famous member, on a lecture tour. State University of New York at Buffalo. 1969. In 1966, John Griggs was a member of an Anaheim, California gang known as the Street Sweepers when he robbed a Hollywood producer at gunpoint, taking his LSD stash.

Drawn together by shared childhood trauma, Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole became lovers — then serial killers who terrorized America in the 1970s.Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole killed hundreds of people together. Or so they claimed. In the 1970s, this serial killer couple embarked on a horrific murder spree across the United States. They raped, killed, and even cannibalized unsuspecting victims wherever they went. And if Lucas is to be believed, they killed more than 600 people together — an astounding claim.

In the 1600s, many Italian housewives had no hope of escaping bad marriages. So hundreds of them turned to poison to kill their husbands — and collect their inheritance.Public DomainAqua Tofana was often disguised as “Manna of St Nicholas of Bari,” an ointment for blemishes. The deadly poison Aqua Tofana came in a pretty bottle. It was colorless, odorless, and tasteless. And for almost 20 years in 17th-century Italy, hundreds of women used it to stealthily kill their husbands.

Saving Private Ryan: The Fog Of War Movies Wikimedia CommonsAmerican troops land on Utah Beach on D-Day. As far as movies based on true stories go, Steven Spielberg’s 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan may be the most historically accurate on our list. The film hinges on the retrieval of James Francis Ryan, played by Matt Damon, who is the last enlisted brother in his family still alive. In reality, the U.

He made some of the most astonishing technological breakthroughs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries — then he lived out his last days in isolation before dying penniless and alone. This is the story of Nikola Tesla's final chapter.On January 7, 1943, Nikola Tesla passed away at the age of 86 from coronary thrombosis. He died alone and in debt at a cheap hotel in New York City. His body was only found when a hotel maid ignored the “do not disturb” sign on his door and decided to enter his room after two days of no activity from within.