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A single-setting movie has the unique challenge of using a geographic restriction as a source of inspiration. Whether they&#39;re taking place in one room, a house, or even a submarine, single-location films have to keep our attention, build up tension, and keep things interesting even while sticking to the same general locale for the duration.

The best examples use their cinematic space to make even everyday&nbsp;locations feel urgent, claustrophobic, or microcosmic. Thus, it may be no surprise that the minimal-location format often works best with thrillers and horror movies - genres that can most naturally take advantage of their settings, placing pressure on characters increasingly desperate to escape. While most of these movies take place&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/movies-that-happen-over-one-day/anncasano" target="_blank">in a single day</a>&nbsp;- or one night in <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-die-hard-facts/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">Nakatomi Plaza</a>&nbsp;- they all stand out for exhausting every ounce of storytelling potential from their surroundings.

The Best Movies That (Mostly) Take Place In A Single Location

Film

The Best Single Setting Movies That Never Really Leave That One Location

Hugh Landman

Real tales of terror from real people doing normal things, like playing the Powerball and using tampons. These creepy lists contain crazy true stories that will make your skin crawl. 

Crazy True! Horror Stories

Strange True Stories

There&rsquo;s something universally off-putting about elevators as a concept.&nbsp;Every day, countless people elect to stand in a metal box suspended precariously over a looming&nbsp;abyss.&nbsp;Perhaps people think this is safe because&nbsp;elevators seem to run on magic, but when the magic runs out, the results aren&#39;t pretty.&nbsp;

Reading about&nbsp;terrifying elevator stories should make everyone pause and think about the risks they take on each time they step&nbsp;into one of these mechanical deathtraps. Sure, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/what-being-in-a-falling-elevator-is-like/kellen-perry" target="_blank">falling elevators</a>&nbsp;are something to worry about, but that&#39;s just the tip of the grisly iceberg.&nbsp;

Most elevator horror stories come from modern times, but people have always had suspicions about the contraptions. When elevators were first invented, many users&nbsp;were skeptical and some even had episodes of panic upon entering.

Early elevators had operators, as it made people feel&nbsp;like there was someone&nbsp;in charge of the machine&nbsp;when, in reality, all they did was push a button. Now, without even the facade of a human director, elevator-related carnage often feels like an inevitability.&nbsp;

The Most Terrifying Stories Involving Elevators

General

The 9 Most Terrifying Stories Involving Elevators

Shining a flashlight on real places around the world that are really haunted and really spooky.

Hello Is There a Ghost Here?

Supernatural & Paranormal

Alaska is a vast land of natural beauty -&nbsp;its national parks attract thousands of visitors every year. But prospectors and travelers alike should be wary of scary stories from Denali National Park -&nbsp;formerly Mount&nbsp;McKinley National Park -&nbsp;a protected expanse of nearly 6 million acres and home of North America's tallest peak.Some of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-alaska-stories-legends/robert-f-mason" target="_blank">these&nbsp;Alaska&nbsp;ghost stories</a> originated during the&nbsp;Alaska&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/gold-rush-photos/liam-ross" target="_blank">gold rush in the late 1800s</a>, but over&nbsp;the years people have reported a range of paranormal activity, hauntings, and other strange and inexplicable phenomena throughout Alaska's wild lands.<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-stories-from-yellowstone-national-park/amber-fua" target="_blank">Spooky national park stories</a> are the perfect yarns to weave around a fire beneath the northern lights. Pull up a camp stool and snuggle in closer under that blanket -&nbsp;Denali National Park has some of the eeriest tales ever told,&nbsp;and most of them are rooted in truth.

Spooky Stories From Denali, AK

9 Extremely Creeply Stories About Denali, Alaska

Interesting

There's something about enormous caverns that captures humanity's imagination, and Devils Hole in Death Valley National Park is one of the strangest natural formations in the world. <a href="https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature/devils-hole.htm" target="_blank">Devils Hole</a> has a&nbsp;unique natural ecosystem&nbsp;and is home to&nbsp;an isolated fish species which doesn't exist anywhere else. Its waters also act&nbsp;like a natural earthquake sensor that can detect vibrations from as far away as Japan, Chile, and Indonesia.But it wouldn't be called Devils Hole if there weren't <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-stories-from-yellowstone-national-park/amber-fua" target="_blank">creepy national park stories</a>&nbsp;inspired by the mysterious depths. Despite thorough&nbsp;studies, nobody seems to know exactly how big the cavern is, with estimates ranging&nbsp;from around 500 to&nbsp;900 feet. In 1965&nbsp;two divers went missing in the hole and were never found. The cavern's ominous reputation was sealed when&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-charles-manson/harrison-tenpas" target="_blank">Charles Manson</a>&nbsp;selected the Hole as his potential refuge during the end times.

The Craziest, Most Mind-Blowing Things About Devils Hole, An Eerie Alien Geology On Earth

The Craziest Things About Devil's Hole, An Eerie Alien Geology On Earth

Think you know your favorite animals? Study up on fun facts and fascinating trivia to drop at your next cocktail party.

Up Close with Awesome Animals

Weird Nature

The&nbsp;star-nosed mole is&nbsp;interesting both in an aesthetically curious&nbsp;way and from a scientific perspective. After all, these little furry creatures kind of look like they have an&nbsp;octopus growing out of their face. However,&nbsp;those <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-10-strangest-most-terrifying-creatures-ever-found/ivana-wynn" target="_blank">weird-looking</a> tentacles are actually&nbsp;sensory organs that&nbsp;help the mole move, detect prey, smell underwater, and accomplish everything it needs in life.The mole's&nbsp;bizarre nasal appendages contain&nbsp;thousands of sensory receptors -&nbsp;more sensitivity than the human palm - which is an unexpected feature for an animal that&nbsp;spends its life burrowing in the muck. Star-nosed moles are <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-the-naked-mole-rat/beth-elias" target="_blank">incredible creatures</a>, but also are at risk of <a href="http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Condylura_cristata/" target="_blank">losing their wetland homes</a> as development and construction take over.

Facts About The Star-Nosed Mole

11 Fascinating Facts About The Star-Nosed Mole

Bloodsport

If you thought&nbsp;Bloodsport&nbsp;was dramatic, wait until you hear about the story that inspired&nbsp;it. Bloodsport&nbsp;allegedly tells <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-laundromat-true-story-panama-papers/melissa-sartore?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the true story</a> of Frank Dux, a martial arts expert who claimed to participate in and win a Kumite, an underground secret fighting tournament. If the story behind&nbsp;Bloodsport&nbsp;sounds straight out of fiction, you might be onto something. You see, whether or not the events of&nbsp;Bloodsport&nbsp;are real, Dux has a tendency to exaggerate stories about his own career.

Dux claims to be&nbsp;a legendary fighter with several world records - but only he can verify them. He also says he worked as a covert operative in the &#39;80s and was offered a contract to take out another famous fighter. The whole story, regardless of its validity, is just as engaging, if not more so, than&nbsp;Bloodsport&nbsp;itself.

The Insane Story Of Frank Dux, Whose Life Allegedly Formed The Basis For 'Bloodsport'

The Story Of Frank Dux, Who Lied About The Events of Bloodsport

Lists about American living and culture before the modern era.

Early Days in the USA

History

Often, when people recall Bacon&#39;s Rebellion, they think of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/lies-about-the-founding-of-america/stephanroget" target="_blank">patriotic stand</a> Nathaniel Bacon took against the Commonwealth, which, in itself, is a significant part of the story. However, the event had other, equally significant consequences, particularly in&nbsp;the&nbsp;link between&nbsp;<a href="http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/bacon_s_rebellion_1676-1677" target="_blank">the rebellion</a> and racial slavery. Bacon&#39;s Rebellion united both African slaves and poor European whites; this union&nbsp;terrified&nbsp;the aristocracy in Virginia. Despite beginning as a local skirmish with Native Americans, the event had significant&nbsp;class and race implications.

The rebellion sparked following the Commonwealth&#39;s failure to protect settlers living on the frontier from attacks by Native Americans. However, the facts about Bacon&#39;s Rebellion are&nbsp;more complicated: They don&#39;t fit into any kind of tidy historical narrative of good vs. evil.&nbsp;

Details About Bacon's Rebellion That Didn't Make It Into Your History Textbook

12 Details About Bacon's Rebellion You Didn't Learn In School

Lists about insects, spiders, and other things you don't want living in your house.

Bugs & Creepy Crawlies

Flora & Fauna

Moths and butterflies are some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/top-100-weirdest-most-amazing-creatures-ever-on-earth/rocknrollrocksout?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">most amazing creatures</a> in nature but many pass through a phase as&nbsp;horrifying caterpillars. These larvae might look cute and cuddly but are really&nbsp;freaky caterpillars that are covered in debilitating or even deadly toxins. Others are downright&nbsp;scary caterpillars that look like demons from another dimension or some kind of comic book mutant that sprang from the mind of Stan Lee.&nbsp;

Even the ones that are harmless to people are&nbsp;mean caterpillars and can eat entire crops or devour every leaf growing on a tree. From the Saddleback caterpillar to the Red Tailed moth caterpillar, these creatures are as fascinating as they&nbsp;are strange looking.&nbsp;

Freakish Caterpillars That Prove They're The Weirdest Creatures You've Never Thought About

Animal/Plant

Horrifying facts and disturbing details about real cases that shocked.

In Cold Blood

Unspeakable Times

When Kim Wall was between freelance assignments, she decided to interview 46-year-old inventor and entrepreneur Peter Madsen about the amateur spacecraft he was building in Copenhagen, Denmark. On August 10, 2017, Wall boarded Madsen&#39;s submarine, the UC3 Nautilus, to do a quick profile she planned on pitching to Wired on the Danish inventor. What was supposed to be a quirky profile quickly turned into a high-profile murder case. Wall&rsquo;s boyfriend reported her missing a day after the interview. After her dismembered body washed ashore on Amager, Denmark, a few weeks later, the investigation of the murder of Kim Wall was in full force, and Madsen was the prime suspect.&nbsp;

Journalists who report from the frontline of war have died in crossfires, just as criminal investigative journalists have died as a means to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/story-of-murdered-irish-journalist-veronica-guerin/harrison-tenpas" target="_blank">keep a story quiet</a>. In other extreme cases, perpetrators have <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/kidnappings-reporters-held-hostage/aaron-pruner" target="_blank">held journalists hostage</a> to keep information from leaking to the public. This was not the case with Wall. Prosecutors speculated a fixation with snuff films fueled Madsen&#39;s&nbsp;motive for murder. Although Madsen eventually admitted to dismembering Wall, he claimed he was innocent&nbsp;of her murder - despite the mounting evidence against him. In April 2018, prosecutors <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/serial-killers-from-other-countries/christopher-myers" target="_blank">found Madsen guilty</a> of premeditated murder and sexual assault. Copenhagen court sentenced him to life in prison, and he lost his appeal against the term in September 2018. 
&nbsp;

The Tragic And Gruesome Death Of Journalist Kim Wall

Death

We've all heard the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/brutal-drug-kingpins/katherine-ripley" target="_blank">horror stories</a> of victims targeted by Mexican drug cartels. They typically involve <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/brutal-execution-methods-used-by-mexican-drug-cartels/harrison-tenpas" target="_blank">vicious torture</a>&nbsp;such as dismemberment, face peeling, and acid baths. One of the more ruthless cartel leaders is the Los Zetas boss,&nbsp;Miguel Trevino Morales. In 2013, Mexican authorities arrested and imprisoned Trevino, also known as Z-40, for crimes that include drug trafficking, torture, and the illegal use of firearms.&nbsp;Truly sadistic&nbsp;toward his victims, Trevino&nbsp;murdered hundreds&nbsp;if not thousands of people. He <a href="http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/08/on-hunt-for-z40-he-slept-in-his-car.html" target="_blank">is responsible</a> for bodies hanging from bridges,&nbsp;hours-long torture videos, and mass graves of Mexican migrants.George Grayson, an expert on the Zetas at the College of William and Mary, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/10182371/Profile-the-brutal-cartel-boss-who-took-sadistic-killing-to-new-levels.html" target="_blank">says that&nbsp;Trevino</a>&nbsp;is one of &quot;the most sadistic&quot; of the cartel leaders who &quot;really gets off on inflicting diabolical pain on people.&quot; Certainly there is no lack of cruelty in&nbsp;Trevino's tactics. Encouraged by corruption in both the <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/claudiolomnitz/mexico-corruption-causes_b_6186682.html" target="_blank">Mexican</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/fC7KkbkL2GdtG22bGKRkZT/the-making-of-secrets-of-mexicos-drug-war" target="_blank">United States</a> governments that help perpetuate the deadly&nbsp;drug war,&nbsp;Trevino's&nbsp;terrors knew no bounds. Unexpectedly, it was Trevino's&nbsp;love for his U.S.-based newborn child that led to his eventual capture.

This Sadistic Mexican Cartel Boss “Stewed” His Victims In The Worst Death Imaginable

14 Sadistic Facts About Mexican Cartel Boss Miguel Morales

Examining and celebrating the quirks and glory of human anatomy.

The Human Body

Sometimes, the physical signs of illness are pretty straightforward. An upset stomach can point to food poisoning. Chest pains and a tingling in the left arm can be a sign of a heart attack for men. There are some things, however,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/most-common-recessive-human-genes/laura-allan" target="_blank">your body is telling you</a> that may not be so cut and dry. For example, did you know that swollen feet might be a hint that you should head over to the cardiologist?Your entire body, logically enough, contains clues to your health. From your head to your toes, body signs can help predict future ailments or point out when you should visit a doctor, stat. Continue below to discover the surprising things your body is telling you.

12 Things Your Body Is Telling You (That You Probably Never Realized)

12 Things Your Body Is Telling You That You Didn't Even Realize

Les Stroud

Les Stroud, better known as <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/les-stroud-survivorman/eric-vega" target="_blank">Survivorman</a> from his TV shows and books, has made it out of some seriously wild&nbsp;environments and lived to tell the tale. Although his survival situations are part of&nbsp;a TV program, survivalist <a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/1918786/what-would-survivorman-do" target="_blank">Les Stroud is the real deal</a>. Part of what makes his shows -&nbsp;and thus his survival advice -&nbsp;so authentic is that Les puts himself into these harrowing situations and often films everything himself. While that might make Stroud a bit of a crazy risk-taker, it certainly adds sincerity and authenticity to his survival advice.&nbsp;The best tips from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770659/" target="_blank">Les Stroud</a> around survival aren't about stockpiling on survival tools or equipment. Instead, if you want to know how to survive like Les Stroud the key is to think like Les Stroud. Here's the best survival know-how Les Stroud has shared with the world. Start memorizing!

These 10 Survival Tips From Les Stroud Might Save Your Life One Day

Here's one way to get everyone talking at a dinner party: swap your terrifying <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/scary-facts-about-spiders/justin-andress" target="_blank">stories about spiders</a>. Everyone's got one, and luckily, Reddit is there to help bolster your stockpile of horrible spider tales.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/spiders-you-should-never-google/laura-allan" target="_blank">These scary spider</a> stories range from the surprising, like an egg sack erupting with hundreds of baby spiders,&nbsp;to the creepy, like an eight-legged monster crawling on someone's underwear.&nbsp;People are universally&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/deadliest-spiders-how-fast-they-kill-you/rachel-souerbry?ref=browse_list_5&amp;l=2&amp;pos=7" target="_blank">pretty scared of spiders</a>, and for good reason. Aside from the fact that they have too many legs and a million eyes, they also just&nbsp;look like they would fill you with venom, even the non-poisonous ones are&nbsp;just creepy. Spiders hide out in clothes and shoes, they sit perched, ready to glide down on their silky webs from shower heads and attack people at their most vulnerable. Even though spiders eat other pests, there is nothing good about them, and they're everywhere. If you don't believe it, check out these nightmarish encounters people have had (and lived to tell!) with spiders.

People Reveal Their Most Nightmarish Encounters With Spiders

Spider Horror Stories: People Reveal Their Nightmarish Encounters

Sure, serial killers ~killed~ people, but what did they actually do? Lists about who they murdered, how they did it, and other horrifying facts that will keep you wide awake tonight, shaking your head at humanity.

The Grisly Details

In 2017, this&nbsp;Tokyo serial killer case rocked the usually peaceful country of Japan, in part because the&nbsp;murderer was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/tweeting-killers/cristina-sanza" target="_blank">the latest in an&nbsp;increasingly long list of&nbsp;serial killers who use Twitter</a>. In this case,&nbsp;serial killer Takahiro Shiraishi used the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/31/japan-man-arrested-nine-bodies-severed-heads-found-in-flat" target="_blank">social media service to find his victims</a>. He preyed upon suicidal young women using the tricks he learned as a recruiter and scout in the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5046199/Japanese-killer-called-hanging-pro-Twitter.html" target="_blank">Japanese sex industry</a>. After meeting his victims, he would strangle them.&nbsp;Shiraishi&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/world/asia/japan-zama-serial-killer.html" target="_blank">killed nine people</a> in the span of&nbsp;about three months, before his operation was uncovered in late-October. It took an uncomfortably long time&nbsp;for police to capture him, and it is unclear whether he would have been found out if one of his victims's relatives hadn't&nbsp;asked the police for help. The victim's tweets led them to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/10/31/a-serial-killer-may-be-responsible-for-body-parts-found-in-coolers-japanese-police-say/" target="_blank">the killer's apartment</a> where they found a disturbing scene. His home was littered with mounds&nbsp;of bones, and police even uncovered two severed heads.

Twitter Led This Serial Killer Right To His #Victims

How Twitter Led This Japanese Serial Killer Right To His Victims

First comes trial, then comes guilty, then comes sentencing to years locked away with people even more dangerous than you are. Join us on a whirlwind tour of prison!

Prison: Behind the Bars

Criminals

Wild stories from prison run the gamut, from the mundane turned terrifying to just plain weird. Prison guards have <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-prison-guard-stories/christopher-shultz" target="_blank">their own tales of working in the system </a>, but ex-con&#39;s stories are even crazier. Things criminals witnessed while they were in prison include heinous acts&nbsp;and strange behavior by their fellow inmates. Yes, there are <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/prison-ghost-stories/christopher-myers" target="_blank">scary things that happen in prison </a>, but there is also comradery, goofy pranks, and... feeding flying squirrels?

Going to jail is no picnic, but at least these things criminals witnessed while they were in prison will make pretty great stories that they will surely be unable to forget.

Ex-Cons Describe The Craziest Sh*t They Witnessed While In Prison

20 Ex-Cons Share the Craziest Things They Saw in Prison

Graveyard Shift

There are plenty of crazy <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/how-does-a-heart-transplant-work-what-happens-to-the-body/laura-allan" target="_blank">heart transplant</a> stories out there. But none are as bizarre or as tragic as that of the man who received a heart transplant, only to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/heart-transplant-wife-death/jtdesaulnier" target="_blank">commit suicide</a>. Sonny Graham was Cheryl Sweat's fifth husband, and the recipient of the heart belonging to her second husband, Terry Cottle. And in a strange twist, Cottle&nbsp;had committed suicide, too.After Cottle shot himself in the head, Graham received his heart in a transplant. Eventually he fell in love with Sweat and married her. A few years later, he was dead in exactly the same way as Cottle. Reports began swirling about the rocky marriage between the now twice-widowed woman and her new husband, with some blaming her behavior for her husbands' deaths.Do organs have memories, as some have suggested? Was Graham fated to end his life the same way as his heart's original owner? Or is this a story of a wife driving her husbands to commit suicide?

He Got A Heart Transplant From A Suicide Victim, Married The Donor's Wife And Then Killed Himself

Saved By A Suicide Victim’s Heart Transplant, This Man Married The Donor’s Widow… And Doomed Himself

Lists about Ted Bundy, the charismatic confessed serial slayer of at least 30 young women across seven states throughout the 1970s.

The Handsome Stranger

Ted Bundy

It&#39;s weird to think of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/people-with-hybristophilia-who-married-killers/stephen-tompkins" target="_blank">serial killers with girlfriends</a>, but part of what makes them so mysterious is that they present&nbsp;a public persona of normalcy. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/ted-bundy-facts/lyra-radford" target="_blank">Ted Bundy&#39;s</a> girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer&nbsp;knew him before he became a killer and&nbsp;thought he was normal&nbsp;at first. He came off as charming... but he also threatened her the first day they met.&nbsp;

After he began killing, she had no idea what he was up to at first, or at least that&#39;s what she told herself. But as he began to sink into his mania, she began to catch on. Kloepfer&nbsp;found evidence, including tools that looked like they were fashioned into weapons, and even the plaster material he used to create casts to get sympathy from his victims and then lure women to their deaths. Maybe she just couldn&#39;t believe that Bundy was capable of what in the back of her mind she knew to be true, but Kloepfer stayed with the serial killer for years before he was finally caught.&nbsp;The story she tells about what it&#39;s like to date a serial killer is truly creepy.

How A Woman Could Date One Of The Most Infamous Serial Killers Of Our Time Even While Suspecting Him

The Bizarre Story of Ted Bundy's Girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer

Unscripted

&quot;Stars, they're just like us&quot;...except for the vast wealth and notoriety they possess. While it may seem like these celebs are set for life in their current careers, what you might not know is many&nbsp;of them actually have&nbsp;a plan B. Celebrities reveal the jobs they would have if they weren't actors/singers/athletes/famous, just like most of us,&nbsp;and many of them are pretty normal. In fact, the&nbsp;jobs celebrities would pursue if they didn't become famous are mostly jobs like dentist or priest. These surprising celebrity career choices may seem odd for some of the stars on the list, but others are a great fit.&nbsp;From the commonplace to the strange to the unexpected, these career choices certainly reveal more about these celebrities' personalities and makes them seem more relatable than just some abstract rich, famous person. Vote up the celebrity career aspirations that are most shocking, yet also somehow make the most sense!

Jobs Celebrities Think They Would Have If They Didn't Pursue Fame

Person

There's something about the ocean that keeps sailors, even people who were lost at sea, coming back time and again. But two&nbsp;sailors who did get lost on the ocean recently have many people wondering:&nbsp;were <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-women-lost-at-sea-20171031-story.html" target="_blank">Jennifer&nbsp;Appel and Tasha&nbsp;Fuiava</a> really lost at sea, or were they making the whole thing&nbsp;up? Some think that rather than survivors of a trying ordeal they're really&nbsp;women lying about being <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/people-who-were-lost-at-sea/jude-newsome" target="_blank">lost at sea</a>.&nbsp;Several factors&nbsp;about their saga has people questioning their story. For example, they had an emergency beacon but didn't use it. Stranger still, they seemed to actively avoid bringing their badly damaged ship into port several times. Other people point to the simple fact that it seems like too much of a coincidence that they would have all of their communications equipment break all at once. But if there's something about the ocean that keeps people coming back, there's also something that inspires the imagination of those who spend thousands of lonely hours at sea to stretch the truth at times.

Were These Women Lying About Being Lost At Sea?

Did Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava Lie About Being Lost at Sea?

Stories of the&nbsp;Cold War-era&nbsp;Soviet Union always read&nbsp;like they&#39;re&nbsp;straight out of a science fiction movie, and this tale of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-animal-crossbreeds/nida-sea" target="_blank">strange animal experiments</a>&nbsp;is no exception. In the 1950s,&nbsp;a Soviet scientist named&nbsp;Dmitry K. Belyaev&nbsp;wanted to see if he could accelerate the domestication process of&nbsp;animals. He hoped to prove&nbsp;that it was possible to take 1,000 years of evolution and streamline the process into one that would span a hundred years or less. He chose to cross-breed dogs and foxes because of their similar gene structure, and&nbsp;carefully selected&nbsp;his breeding subjects in an attempt&nbsp;to replicate a perfect combination of traits and appearance that humans wanted in pets. The goal was to eventually domesticate foxes, using the personality and character of dogs matched to a foxy aesthetic.

It wasn&#39;t easy to be a scientist&nbsp;in Stalinist Russia, although things did let up after Stalin passed. Although&nbsp;Belyaev&nbsp;managed to&nbsp;survive&nbsp;and&nbsp;continue his research, he passed&nbsp;in&nbsp;1985 before his project was completed.&nbsp;Scientists have continued Belyaev&#39;s&nbsp;work in genetics and now,&nbsp;after more than&nbsp;50 years of work Russians have&nbsp;successfully created tame foxes.&nbsp;It took more than 30 generations of animals, and things haven&#39;t turned out exactly as predicted,&nbsp;but domesticated foxes are now on the market.

Russians Are Trying To Turn Foxes Into Pets—But They Noticed A Weird Side Effect

Florida

Lots of things happen in prisons that probably shouldn't, such as people <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/convicted-killers-who-married-in-prison/ranker-crime" target="_blank">getting married</a> or <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-criminals-who-were-murdered-in-prison/ranker-crime" target="_blank">murdered</a>, but there definitely shouldn't be fight clubs. More specifically, there should not be fight clubs run by youth detention center staff, which is exactly what has been happening in Florida's juvenile&nbsp;correction system since 2000.&nbsp;Forced fighting, trading sexual favors for <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/tags/fast-food?ref=internalCrossLinking_tag">fast food</a> and cell phone time, and the deaths of roughly a dozen youths are only a few of the dread-inducing details of the abuse happening in not just one Florida youth correctional facility, but at least half a dozen, according to investigative work by The Miami Herald. The journalists&nbsp;examined&nbsp;10 years of Department of Juvenile Justice incidence reports, restraint records, emails, personnel files, police files, court cases, and terrifying video surveillance&nbsp;to uncover the horrors happening in Florida's privately-run youth correctional programs.&nbsp;&nbsp;

12 People Have Died Participating In A Teen Fight Club, But It's Even More F*cked Up Than You Think

12 People Have Died Participating In A Teen Fight Club

Lists about the bizarre, fascinating, and mysterious Democratic People's Republic of Korea and its Dear totalitarian dictator Leaders who will disappear your friends and family to remind you of their love.

Meanwhile, in North Korea...

Korea

In February of 2017, Kim Jong Nam,&nbsp;the older brother of infamous North Korean dictator&nbsp;was murdered, and there's a lot of speculation that his <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/who-killed-north-koreas-leader-kim-jong-uns-half-brother-women-facing-death-675232" target="_blank">little&nbsp;brother Kim Jong&nbsp;Un&nbsp;arranged the killing</a>.&nbsp;North Korea has long been&nbsp;the source of many surreal&nbsp;stories, having&nbsp;been run by <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/51-best-pictures-of-kim-jong-un-looking-at-things-v1/ariel-kana?utm_expid=16418821-324.2rKKjRK2SiiDbzpdgYwgeg.0" target="_blank">a weird&nbsp;family dynasty</a> for decades and&nbsp;closed off from the rest of the world. Although this <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/craziest-things-north-korean-leaders-have-claimed/nathan-gibson" target="_blank">latest North Korean conspiracy</a> was hatched inside the restricted&nbsp;regime, the actual murder played out in an international airport and is as bizarre&nbsp;as it is terrifying. Kim Jong Nam&nbsp;was walking in Kuala Lumpur's airport when two women&nbsp;ran up to him, rubbed oil on his face, and ran away. Only minutes later, Nam&nbsp;was dead.&nbsp;Two female&nbsp;sex workers were arrested and are now standing trial, but both claim&nbsp;they&nbsp;were deceived into thinking they were participating in a <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/great-pranks-in-history/mike-rothschild?utm_expid=16418821-324.2rKKjRK2SiiDbzpdgYwgeg.0&amp;utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F" target="_blank">harmless TV prank</a>. As they wait in prison, authorities have been hard at work attempting to crack this strange case and figure out just why Kim Jong&nbsp;Nam was murdered, and by whom.&nbsp;In the past, poor planning had foiled three&nbsp;execution attempts against Kim Jong Nam, but the victim would not be so lucky this time.

People Think Kim Jong Un Murdered His Brother And Blamed 2 Women As Part Of A Bizarre 5-Year-Plan

People Believe Kim Jong Un Murdered His Brother And Blamed 2 Innocent Women As Part Of A Bizarre 5-Year-Plan 

As America&nbsp;becomes more&nbsp;obsessed&nbsp;with contracting services to corporations, the crimes committed by those corporations&nbsp;become&nbsp;more commonplace. From <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/hanoi-hilton-terrible-stories/christopher-myers" target="_blank">inmate abuses</a> in private prisons&nbsp;to drastic price increases&nbsp;from&nbsp;privatized water utility companies, oversights occur quicker than they can be addressed.&nbsp;Private foster care companies, too, have been known to commit egregious injustices&nbsp;with hardly any repercussions.The MENTOR&nbsp;Network - an&nbsp;enormous for-profit foster care provider - was called to answer for its crimes against the children it was supposed to protect in 2015. In total, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/10/18/foster-care-children-deaths-mentor-network/" target="_blank">86 children lost their lives</a> because of the MENTOR&nbsp;Network's negligence. It was those children's misfortune that finally spurred the senate to propose <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senator-blocks-foster-care-reform_us_584783d3e4b0b9feb0da3920" target="_blank">legislation that could govern</a> privatized&nbsp;foster care but the bill that could have been used to spare dozens of lives still hasn't been passed.&nbsp;

It Took 10 Years To Stop The Giant, For-Profit Foster Care Firm That Killed 86 Children

A Giant For-Profit Foster Care Firm Killed 86 Children

British

These <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-5015581/The-rooms-battling-Britain-s-ULTIMATE-man-cave.html" target="_blank">amazing man caves</a> from the UK are <a href="https://www.homeleisuredirect.com/games-room-vote/" target="_blank">monuments to manly pursuits</a>. More than that, they're from a contest and these man cave competition pictures showcase some of the best man caves of all time. For the most part, it seems like man caves have a few things in common. They almost all have some kind of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/things-every-man-should-know/ryan-kaiser" target="_blank">shrine to alcohol</a>. Then, there is a necessary element of some kind of entertainment. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/essential-products-for-a-single-guy/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">Most men</a> seem to opt for one or more of four choices. The first is a pool table; it's a classic game that brings men together and can be played drunk for better - or&nbsp;worse - effect. Then there are the video games; some man caves even have more than one TV and console system so several games can go on at once. A third choice is darts, which is a smart move because it is a safer version of throwing tomahawks - something most men would probably do given the opportunity. Finally, there are a lot of pinball tables in the contest. It's always a good option because it can be played alone for those manly loners or a friend or two can join in the fun.Read on to see some amazing man caves that give new meaning to the term &quot;recreation.&quot;

Britain Has A Competition For The Best Man Cave And It's Just As Amazing As It Sounds

Dog Whisperer

Cesar Millan&nbsp;has been a household name since he landed his first cable show in 2004,&nbsp;but controversy has followed him in the years since.&nbsp;Groups ranging from animal rights organizations to other dog trainers have&nbsp;<a href="http://dogtime.com/dog-health/general/6007-the-good-the-bad-and-cesar-millan" target="_blank">challenged</a>&nbsp;him, claiming that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.petful.com/news/cesar-millan-critics/" target="_blank">his techniques are bogus</a> and based on <a href="https://www.livescience.com/5846-critics-challenge-dog-whisperer-methods.html" target="_blank">bad science</a>, and&nbsp;there have&nbsp;been allegations that Millan is a <a href="https://simplyfordogs.com/dog-training/cesar-millan-fraud/" target="_blank">fake dog whisperer</a>.

Under Millan&#39;s training methods, a human shows dominance over their dogs as if they&#39;re the alpha in a wolf pack, even using displays of physical force. This reflects our old understanding of wolves - that a pack&#39;s&nbsp;leadership is always in flux as wolves challenge each other for the alpha position. But a lot of recent research contradicts those ideas.

These controversial theories have resulted&nbsp;in allegations of <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/zak-george/cesar-millans-animal-cruelty-investigation_b_9490176.html" target="_blank">animal cruelty</a>&nbsp;against Millan. The National Geographic network also began issuing an on-screen disclaimer&nbsp;during Millan&#39;s&nbsp;show, Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan:&nbsp;&ldquo;Do not attempt these techniques yourself without consulting a professional.&rdquo;&nbsp;

Controversies Surrounding Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer

Controversies About The Dog Whisperer

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio&nbsp;is one of the most accomplished actors of his generation. But before he got Oscar attention or began speaking about environmental issues, he was just&nbsp;a famous young man with a lot of money and a taste for attractive&nbsp;women. <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/leonardo-dicaprio-facts/coy-jandreau" target="_blank">Stories about Leonardo&nbsp;DiCaprio</a> in the &#39;90s have become Hollywood legend. He rolled with a crew of like-minded young men in a group that Hollywood circles at the time branded with an unapologetically raunchy name. True stories about the Posse not only detail their wild times, but they also illustrate how even big-time celebrities can be obnoxious twerps.&nbsp;

Who was in the Posse? The group allegedly&nbsp;included stars like David Blaine, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/tobey-maguire-movies-and-films-and-filmography/reference" target="_blank">Tobey Maguire</a>, Jay Ferguson, Josh Miller,&nbsp;Ethan Suplee, and Scott Bloom. But the leader was unquestionably DiCaprio. From the mid to late 1990s, DiCaprio took his squad out partying all over New York City. They <a href="https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/11/history-of-the-pussy-posse-leonardo-dicaprio" target="_blank">chased girls</a>, pulled pranks, and clowned the paparazzi. They even endeavored to produce an independent film called&nbsp;Don&#39;s Plum.&nbsp;The film is all about their misogynistic misadventures but was so terrible that&nbsp;Maguire&nbsp;and DiCaprio&nbsp;blocked it from release and it was&nbsp;ultimately banned in the US. In 2019, the&nbsp;New York Post produced a three part mini-series called&nbsp;<a href="https://themuse.jezebel.com/the-lecherous-ghost-of-leonardo-dicaprios-pussy-posse-g-1837176429" target="_blank">The Curse of Don&#39;s Plum</a> that examines what went wrong with the project.&nbsp;

The question that remains is, was the Posse&nbsp;just a group of kids being kids, or were they sexist, law-breaking oafs?&nbsp;

Stories From Leonardo DiCaprio's 'Pussy Posse,' The '90s Boy Gang Who Wreaked Havoc In Hollywood

11 True Stories About Leonardo DiCaprio's Pussy Posse

Lists about people who were tried, convicted, and even executed for crimes they didn't commit.

Wrongful Convictions

Texas

In 1991, a tragic fire burned down a house in&nbsp;Corsicana, Texas, and killed three children. Cameron Todd Willingham, the father of the kids, was quickly found guilty in the aftermath&nbsp;and was&nbsp;executed for the crime in 2004. His death was one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/controversial-us-death-penalty-executions-093015/mike-rothschild" target="_blank">most controversial US death penalty cases</a> in history.&nbsp;In the years leading up to his execution, and even after,&nbsp;evidence has been mounting that addresses a pressing question:&nbsp;was Cameron Todd Willingham&nbsp;really guilty?&nbsp;

There is plenty of evidence that points toward&nbsp;Willingham&nbsp;being innocent. From weird witness testimonies&nbsp;to a jailhouse snitch who got a secret deal, there are many factors that make Willingham&#39;s&nbsp;guilt questionable. In the minds of many, all of the unearthed&nbsp;evidence over the years&nbsp;shows&nbsp;that Texas killed an innocent man for what may very well have been an accident. Even Cameron Todd Willingham&#39;s last words proclaimed his innocence, and he&#39;s certainly not the first person to be potentially&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/california-innocence-project/jodi-smith" target="_blank">falsely accused</a>. Read on below to discover the disturbing&nbsp;facts that make&nbsp;Willingham&#39;s&nbsp;guilt questionable.&nbsp;

The Disturbing Capital Punishment Case Of Cameron Todd Willingham

Disturbing Evidence That Texas Executed An Innocent Man, Cameron Todd Willingham

Work is never fun, but any awful boss or weird co-worker is nothing compared to the horror stories of Abercrombie &amp; Fitch employees. While the retailer may present the image of all-American friendliness and hunky celebrity models, Abercrombie &amp; Fitch behind the scenes is a much darker place.Redditors share Abercrombie tales of being mistreated by management and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/weird-rules-for-abercrombie-employees/mariel-loveland" target="_blank">weird company policies</a> that border on the insane. Stories from Abercrombie &amp; Fitch employees include those about workers being fired for not having an attractive appearance, being forced to buy clothes, and managers who believe every word from corporate &nbsp;– to the detriment of their staff.What's it like to work at Abercrombie &amp; Fitch? It can vary from the mundane (inhaling lots of cologne and wearing uncomfortable sandals) to the excruciating (having to tell people that the store doesn't stock large sizes).

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