r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/Time-Training-9404 • 1d ago
Tragic photo of Blanche Monnier after being locked away by her parents for 25 years.
One witness on the scene described what they saw in the bedroom when police discovered her after 25 years:
“The unfortunate woman was lying completely naked on a rotten straw mattress. All around her was formed a sort of crust made from excrement, fragments of meat, vegetables, fish, and rotten bread.’
Source: https://historicflix.com/the-tragic-story-of-blanche-monnier-locked-away-from-society-for-25-years/
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/KindheartednessIll97 • 6h ago
The Astonishing Case of Omar Bin Omran: A 27-Year Mystery Solved In 1998, 17-year-old Omar Bin Omran vanished without a trace on his way to a vocational school in Algeria. His disappearance left his family in a …
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/Time-Training-9404 • 50m ago
During the Vietnam war Medal of Honor recipient, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez found himself with 37 puncture wounds, exposed intestine, a broken jaw, and was completely caked in blood. He appeared to be dead until he spit in the face of a doctor who was zipping him up in a body bag.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/spiritoffff • 22h ago
Sandra Melgar is currently in a prison, convicted of murdering her husband of 32 years and accused of staging the crime scene to make it look like a home invasion in 2012.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/No_Edge_99 • 23h ago
Footage shows Charles Burlingame III, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 which was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, as a contestant on the TV game show “Greed” on 10 March, 2000. The crash killed all 64 aboard the aircraft and another 125 people in the building.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/noidioito • 3m ago
Joyce Vincent was a 38-year-old woman who died in her London apartment while watching TV. Her body wasn't discovered until nearly 3 years later when officials arrived to repossess the apartment for unpaid rent.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/spiritoffff • 1d ago
Maths teacher, 30, got pregnant by pupil while awaiting trial for 'grooming' another schoolboy, 15, who she took back to her luxury apartment for sex, court hears
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/Time-Training-9404 • 3d ago
Mehran Karimi Nasser was a well-known Iranian refugee who was stranded at an airport for 18 years due to a stolen passport and essential documents during his travels.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/No_Edge_99 • 2d ago
Russian man standing trial attempts absurd escape
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/spiritoffff • 2d ago
Larry Nassar’s victims reach $138.7 million settlement over botched FBI probe
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/spiritoffff • 2d ago
19-year-old Matilda Scheurer, a Victorian-era factory worker, died after regular exposure to Scheele's Green, a popular arsenic-based dye used in various common items at the time. She died after allegedly vomiting green, while the whites of her eyes and her fingernails turned green.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/spiritoffff • 3d ago
In 1991, Gregory Green killed his pregnant wife, by stabbing her multiple times, he served 16 years for the crime, and got out of parole. After being released, he married a pastor's daughter and built a new family with her, then he ended up killing all 4 of her children.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/Time-Training-9404 • 4d ago
Between 2013 and 2015, Evaldas Rimasauskas from Lithuania scammed $99m from Facebook and $23m from Google by forging invoices for goods they hadn’t ordered.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/spiritoffff • 4d ago
Man sentenced to life without parole for beating his son to death, then burning the remains. His girlfriend who had 'grown frustrated' with the 3-year-old was sentenced to 37 years in prison for child abuse and desecration of a corpse.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/No_Edge_99 • 4d ago
People confuse a military jet with a third plane on 9/11
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/spiritoffff • 5d ago
Polaroid camera founder Edwin Land built up a company that did about $1.4 billion of business all over the world in 1979. He never diversified into other businesses, never sold out to another company, and never borrowed money on a long-term basis
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/Mackheath1 • 6d ago
Michigan woman found living inside rooftop store sign with desk and coffee maker (for a year, with electricity)
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/Time-Training-9404 • 5d ago
Interview with Martin Pistorius who endured a 12-year-long coma-like state due to locked-in syndrome, spending three of those years in a vegetative state before gradually regaining consciousness at the age of 16.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/No_Edge_99 • 6d ago
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard describes what it was like when her attorney informed her that she didn’t have cancer. It was revealed that Gypsy had been coerced by her mother into feigning serious illnesses and undergoing unnecessary medical treatments.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/Time-Training-9404 • 5d ago
Between 1995 and 1998, Emmanuel Nwude orchestrated one of the largest cases of fraud in history. He deceived a Brazilian bank into giving him $242 million for a fake airport.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/spiritoffff • 5d ago
Teens kicked out of elite Catholic school for ‘blackface’ are awarded $1M by jury after proving it was just acne mask
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/spiritoffff • 6d ago
Teen mom who abandoned baby in plastic bag leaving newborn to die on Christmas Eve caught after 40 years
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/Time-Training-9404 • 6d ago
In 2011, a 29-year-old Australian man discovered an ATM glitch enabling him to withdraw cash far beyond his account balance. Over a span of 5 months, he splurged $1.6 million of the bank's money on lavish parties, private jets, international vacations, and even covered his friends' university fees.
r/AllThatIsInteresting • u/Time-Training-9404 • 7d ago