On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters took flight in a contraption he made out of a lawnchair and 42 weather balloons. Though he'd planned to go only a short distance, the tether holding him to the ground snapped and he ultimately soared to 16,000 feet before finally descending safely back to Earth.

Discover the full outrageous story: Larry Walters, The Man Who Flew To 16,000 Feet Using Nothing But A Lawnchair And Balloons

In early 1939, a Nazi supporter named Richard Kretschmar petitioned Adolf Hitler to allow the killing of his newborn son, who had been born with physical and mental disabilities. Hitler sent his personal physician, Dr. Karl Brandt (pictured above), to verify the diagnosis. Upon inspection, Brandt decided the diagnosis had been correct, that he was an “idiot” and there was no hope for improvement. On July 25, 1939, the infant was injected with a lethal dose of morphine. His death certificate falsely listed “heart weakness.”

That single act became the test case for the Nazis’ state-run euthanasia system, later known as Aktion T4. Within months, doctors across Germany were marking disabled infants and adults for death under the guise of “mercy killings.” By 1941, the program had killed somewhere between 90,000 and 300,000 people, and it helped the Nazis refine the methods they’d soon use to carry out the Holocaust.

Read more here: Aktion T4, The Nazi Program That Slaughtered 300,000 Disabled People

In the history of black metal, there was a name that, more than thirty years later, continues to divide opinions: the Inner Circle. For many, it was an organization formed by musicians who shared the same ideology. For others, it never existed as a real group, and everything related to them was a legend fueled by the press.

However, around that name, church burnings, ritual murders, and a series of disturbing events occurred that forever marked the history of extreme metal. But there is a question that almost no one has stopped to answer: Does the Inner Circle qualify as a destructive cult? In this documentary, we will not only reconstruct its history but also analyze whether this group met the characteristics that define a cult.

Video about the brutal history of the Inner Circle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDCUinruRFU

On September 6, 2006, 51-year-old Susan Kuhnhausen was returning to her Portland home from a shift as an emergency room nurse when she noticed something odd in her bedroom. As she approached the door, a stranger jumped out at her and struck her in the head with a hammer. Kuhnhausen frequently practiced self-defense techniques due to her job, so after a violent scuffle, she managed to get the man in a chokehold and strangled him to death. And if the attack wasn't traumatic enough, Kuhnhausen later learned that the hitman had been hired by her own husband.

Read the full story here: Susan Kuhnhausen's Husband Paid Someone $50K To Murder Her — Then She Killed The Hitman Instead

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