9 Of The Most Terrifying Christmas Legends From Around The World, Colorized Photos From The Early Days Of Organized Crime, And More From HU

[History Uncovered]( The Most Terrifying Christmas Legends From Around The World, Colorized Photos From The Early Days Of Organized Crime, And More Trending Stories From History Uncovered [9 Terrifying Christmas Legends From Around The World That Make The Holidays Anything But Jolly]( [You don't want these Christmas creatures coming down your chimney.]( [In 1958, America Plotted To Show Up The Soviets In The Space Race — By Nuking The Moon]( [Ultimately, the United States Air Force determined it would be safer to simply send a man to the moon instead.]( [From Murder, Inc. To The Chicago Outfit, See 36 Colorized Photos From The Early Days Of Organized Crime]( [Legendary Chicago gangster Al Capone was widely known as "Scarface" for his distinctive facial scars — which he received after he was slashed during a bar fight — but he actually hated this nickname and preferred to be called the "Big Fellow" or "Snorky" instead.]( [44 Vintage Photos Of Creepy Mall Santas And The Kids They Traumatized]( [From creepy masks to clown makeup to "face-boobs," these performers are a far cry from jolly old St. Nick.]( [The Shocking Story Of Túpac Amaru II, The Last Inca Revolutionary To Resist Spanish Colonialism]( [The Indigenous Peruvian leader inspired the name of the legendary American rapper Tupac Shakur.]( [The Rise And Fall Of The Japanese Empire — And The Trail Of Atrocities It Left In Its Wake]( [While many understand the magnitude of the Holocaust and European Theater, few understand the extent of Japan's carnage during World War II. By some estimates, there were upwards of 40 million deaths in the Pacific Theater — half of whom were civilians killed by Japan's military.]( [Archaeologists Just Stumbled Upon A Medieval Shipwreck At The Bottom Of A Lake In Norway]( [Made of wood and iron, this 33-foot ship was found 1,350 feet below the surface, at the very bottom of Lake Mjøsa.]( [Meet The Murderess Who's Evaded Justice Longer Than Almost Any Other Criminal In American History]( [One of the longest-missing felons in American history, Sharon Kinne escaped a Mexican prison in 1969, where she was being held for the murder of her husband, her extramarital lover's wife, and another man in Mexico.]( [9 Popular TV Shows That Got Important Details Wrong About Historical Events]( [Though the BBC drama "Peaky Blinders" was inspired by a real gang, none of the main characters in the show's gang actually existed. The gang members were also far younger than the ones portrayed in the series, and they were most prominently active before World War I — not after.]( [Archaeologists Just Unearthed This Stunning Trove Of 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Jewelry]( [A team of Egyptian and English archaeologists made the find at the Tell El-Amarna necropolis in present-day Minya, about 150 miles south of Cairo.]( [The Story Of Yoshie Shiratori, The Wrongfully Convicted Man Who Escaped From Prison Four Times]( [Sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, Yoshie Shiratori vowed to escape — and he did it again and again.]( [The Bone-Chilling Story Of John Jamelske, The 'Syracuse Dungeon Master']( [After John Jamelske's wife became sick and bedridden in 1988, he built a 24-by-12-foot bunker under his house — and then started "collecting" women and girls to imprison in the dungeon.]( [The Night Witches: The All-Female World War II Squadron That Terrified The Nazis]( [They decorated their planes with flowers and painted their lips with navigational pencils — then struck fear into the hearts of the Nazis.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](