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 It’s hard work being an archaeologist, but you love that it takes you around the world. You’re always discovering new and fascinating architectural finds from civilization past, but nothing has prepared you for what youencounter in your current dig in Costa Rica.  One of the biggest mysteries possible in archeologyis how ancient civilizations could create something so big, so perfectly constructedthat it would seem impossible to make by human hands. That’s the mystery behind the massive stonespheres of Costa Rica.  Imagine a mysterious collection of over threehundred stone spheres, almost perfectly round, ranging from as small as a few centimetersin diameter to as wide as over eight feet at their center. The smallest ones are light enough that youcould probably play catch with them - if they weren’t priceless artifacts. The biggest weigh up to sixteen tons, tooheavy to move without powerful construction equipment. From the smallest to the largest, most aremade from gabbr...

 Welcome to The Infographic’s HorrorpieceTheater! Today we’re taking a look at another ofthe internet’s most famous urban legends- Laughing Jack, the Demonic Killer- and exploringhis origins to discover, was this hideous monster real? Could he be out there right now, probablybehind you or under your bed this very second, waiting to claim his next victim? Stay tuned and find out! It was Christmas Eve in the late 1800s.  In a small wooden home in the poor outskirtsof London, Isaac, a seven year old boy, looks wistfully out the window into the dark night. He can still see families celebrating togetherthrough the grimy windows of the apartments and homes around him, joyfully singing asthey wait together in anticipation for the Christmas morning to come.  In young Isaac's home though, there is nosinging, no warmth, and no celebrating. There is only the silence that normally pervades,silence that is only occasionally broken by his mother's shrill voice calling for himto come an...

 “I give happiness, and then I take a life,”the woman thinks as she walks down the street on the way to the dating agency. “Those that succumb to my allure deserveeverything they get,” she muses, impressed by her own heartlessness. “They come to me desperate, like hypnotizedfools, enchanted by my deadly charm.” She catches a glimpse of her reflection ina store window, appraising herself for the effort she’s made to look beautiful andserene in her aging years. “Pity those idiots,” she says under herbreath, as if speaking to an audience, “because anyone who falls for me will soon get bittenand die.”  The woman walks into the agency, exuding confidence,elegantly dressed, dolled up for the profile photo she’ll soon be taking. “What kind of fella are you looking for,”asks the agent, completely unaware that he’s setting someone up for a death sentence. “Hmm,” she replies, knowing full wellwhat kind of man she’s looking for.  It’s not as if she hasn’t been throughthis routine co...

 It’s the middle of the night. You’re sound asleep when suddenly - youreyes pop open. You’re not sure why - you didn’t heara noise - but you feel… something. Is it in the air? Your room does feel colder than usual. You look around your room. Nothing. Relief washes over you and you start to closeyour eyes when - there is something there! A shadow in the corner. Something that wasn’t there before. You can’t quite make it out, but it lookshuman. It’s so dark you can’t tell. You pull the blankets up just below your eyes.  It must just be a weird shadow, right? Or your brain playing tricks on you? You close your eyes and count to three, youknow when you open them it will be gone. One, two, three. Phew, it’s gone. NO! It’s in the other corner now and it’scoming towards you! It’s eyes open, glowing red in the darkand staring right at you. You’re so scared you can’t scream. You can barely move.  It’s getting closer and closer you reachout and just in time you hit the switch on yo...

You’ve saved all year to take the vacationof a lifetime on a cruise ship. After you set sail the fun begins, the bandstarts playing, and soon you’ll be gorging on seemingly never-ending buffet items. After a few days, a few too many drinks anda couple of extra pounds added to your body, you decide that evening to take part in the,“Murder Mystery” party. You love that kind of thing, the “whodunnit”caper…you remember the last time you played, and the killer was the servant, who committedthe murder with a lead pipe in the ballroom. Half way through your game, people start runningaround covered in blood, and of course you think this is all part of the fun. What we just told you is a true story, andnow we will explain. 10. The Cruise Ship MurderIn 2017, the Emerald Princess set off from Seattle with 3,400 on board on a journey toSoutheast Alaska. One of those passengers would not survivethe trip. During the night of the murder mystery partya couple on that ship were having a domestic disput...

It's the year 2300, and you're on board astarship headed for distant worlds. Unfortunately for you, you've gotten caughtcommitting a space crime, and now that you've done the space crime, it's time to do thespace time- but what in the world will In present day Earth we have a serious problem-many of our prisons are overpopulated, and most governments are extremely reluctant togive up perfectly good real estate just to house An easy out, it seems, is to simply put themwhere there's lots of space for extra prisoners- namely, well, space. But building prisons in space comes with someserious drawbacks. The first and most obvious is the sheer costof operating a prison in space. Sure, it sounds like a great idea to put prisonersin orbit where they can't escape or hurt anyone, but with the cost of putting goods into spacestill running at hundreds of thousands of dollars a pound, nobody is going to foot thebill for blasting off El Chapo to his new digs on the moon. ...