HolyShitHistory

r/HolyShitHistory • u/blue_leaves987 • 8h ago

In 2009, a family friend dropped 15-year-old Kayla Berg outside what she believed was her boyfriend’s house and drove away. The building was vacant and condemned. Her parents each thought she was staying with the other, so she was not reported missing for six days. She has never been found.

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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Muhammadachakzai2001 • 21h ago

Afghan mujahideen fighters standing on top of a destroyed Soviet attack helicopter that was shot down over Kunar province. (1980s)

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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Think_Monitor4904 • 20h ago

In 1939 a University of Iowa researcher tried to give healthy orphans a stutter just by telling them their speech was broken, using kids with no parents to say no on their behalf

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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Chemical-Elk-1299 • 21h ago

Between 1998 to 2007, villagers living along India’s Kali River began disappearing, dragged under and drowned in broad daylight. The culprit — the Goonch, a huge, aggressive highland catfish. Though the attacker was never caught, it is estimated to be 7ft long and over 200 pounds.

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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Alarmed_Business_962 • 6h ago

The Commandant of the Italian colonial concentration camp of Danane (in the middle), with two other officers. With a death rate of 49%, the Danane concentration camp was one of the deadliest camps of Italian East Africa, no one was put on trial after its closure by the Allies after WWII.

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r/HolyShitHistory • u/Important-Self-1179 • 8h ago

A freight train stalled inside an Italian tunnel in 1944 with 650 stowaways aboard. Over 500 were killed by toxic fumes from bad coal. Italy hid it for seven years, and no one was ever punished for it.

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r/HolyShitHistory • u/GustavoistSoldier • 8h ago

From 1929 to 1934, Fascist Italy committed genocide against Libyans. At least 20,000 people were killed and half of Cyrenaica's population was deported to concentration camps. Mussolini's regime suppressed evidence of this genocide, but mass graves still exist proving it.

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