The Most Troubling Events in History

foreigner on the night of August 21, 1986 in the quiet town around Lake Nios everyone was asleep and the next morning none of them would wake up. More than 1,700 people from 3,000 animals were discovered the next day by travelers lying dead around the city apparently without any explanation. As to why, unsurprisingly, rumors circulated about what could have caused this, but when researchers began to investigate, they soon came to the same conclusion: it was the lake you see. Lake Nios is situated right at the top of the Cameroon Volcanic Line al

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1 000 Mile Line of underground volcanoes, approximately 50 miles below this line is a huge magma chamber that, unbeknownst to the villagers, It was quietly accumulating massive amounts of toxic gases, but how did these gases end up killing all the villagers and why is Lake Nios involved in the lake?

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200 meters due to Cameroon's tropical environment, the lake would form a sort of warm water layer on the surface trapping the denser water and gases below. Usually the lake remained in this constant state with the layer holding the deadly gases underneath in the Bay, but that night something happened, whether it was an earthquake or a volcanic eruption, but the gas contained beneath the lake immediately came to the surface. . 1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide spread rapidly around the lake creating a dense layer of carbon dioxide 50 meters high in the atmosphere The deadly CO2 cloud spread 15 miles outward causing any living thing trapped in she suffocated and died quickly and that's how the seemingly peaceful lake killed 1700 people from 3000 animals today scientists have installed degassing pipes in the lake to prevent the disaster from happening again and although killer lakes like lake nios are very rare, you might want to worry a little more about lakes from now on, Boy Scouts usually teach you how to tie knots or maybe start a fire, but one boy scout decided to take his survival training a little further , nicknamed radioactive boy scout David Han, at the age of 17 attempted to create a homemade nuclear breeder reactor in his mother's backyard shed in Michigan.

He was fascinated with chemistry from a young age. and he spent most of his early years conducting amateur chemistry experiments that often led to small explosions that terrified the neighbors throughout his childhood. He collected raw elements from the periodic table, having an often peculiar interest in those of a radioactive nature. He amassed radioactive material like americium from smoke detectors. radio from clocks, tritium from gun sites and thorium from camping lanterns using a block of lead as a casing, he drilled a large hole to contain the radioactive material and used lithium from batteries he purchased to purify the thorium using a Bunsen burner, his reactor progressed to potential functionality Han often posed as an adult scientist in letters to obtain help from professionals and often to gain access to radioactive isotope samples that would otherwise be restricted at the Pinnacle of his Conquest in construction of the nuclear reactor, its homemade breeder reactor began emitting dangerous levels. of radiation nearly 1,000 times the average background radiation, it never came close to reaching critical mass, but Han began dismantling his experiments fairly quickly in a random encounter.

In fact, police discovered his activities, which eventually caught the attention of the FBI and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in In 1995, the EPA even declared his mother's house a Superfund cleanup site. Han's mother was afraid the EPA would take it to her home, so before officials could investigate, she took most of David's radioactive material and threw it in the trash to be disposed of at the local landfill. . I did not realize this until long after the cleanup began, so unfortunately nothing was done to prevent possible contamination of his large mass of material, as David refused medical treatment after the incident and was never charged with any crime. in the rest of his life.

I was depressingly worried because David was eventually charged with theft in Michigan for stealing radioactive material from the smoke detectors in his apartment building. In his mugshot, his face was covered in sores indicating exposure to large amounts of radioactive material over time after a 90-day stint in jail. Han was evaluated for psychiatric problems until his death in 2016 due to drug poisoning. alcohol. The life of the world's only radioactive Boy Scout was particularly troubled, but it is an interesting mark in the

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of amateur nuclear research that is not usually a term heard casually. At least as far as the general public knows, no other incident where someone created their own nuclear reactor has never occurred for over 300 years.

Almost 50 percent of the people in the southern US were full of worms. This is that story that started as something referred to. like itchy ground, an itchy sensation felt between your toes, turned into a cough which then evolved into exhaustion and a foggy feeling. Adults in the south became so tired that they neglected their farms and fields and their children became lazy, there were also more physical symptoms for the victims. They had distended bellies, emaciated shoulder blades, and sunken eyes. What was this mysterious disease that affected 40 to 50 percent of the population of the southern United States?

They were considered hookworms. The germ of laziness, hookworms lived and fed on the blood of up to 50 percent of the Texas population. For Virginia, it was such a persistent problem that it is credited with creating the stereotype of a lazy, stupid Southerner. , the strangely common and still fairly centralized affliction of the southern hookworm. It may raise a rather worrying question about how it could have spread, but the answer is that it spread from the ground, the largest cities in the US had centralized waste management networks, but for much of the southern US past. The most rudimentary are the pipes leading to the fields.

Hookworms are spread through fecal matter. A healthy adult hookworm female can produce up to 10,000 eggs per day. Waste from infected individuals contains these hookworm eggs that can mature in soil and be transmitted through skin contact. It is where the worms reach the lungs and begin to feed on the blood of the infected, producing more eggs and spreading further. In fact, an infection of just 100 worms would mean losing about a teaspoon of blood per day, but just 25 hookworms in a child or pregnant woman could cause severe iron deficiency, and in severe cases, hookworms could cause anemia. and kill the infected.

Southern sanitation, or rather rural sanitation, being so mediocre by the standards of densely populated cities, children who simply played barefoot outside would contract hookworms in With just one encounter, to understand the poor waste management in the south and the ease with which hookworms can spread, you can begin to understand how much it would have influenced society as recently as the 1950s, hookworms could have been considered a pandemic in the southern United States, with time. John D Rockefeller learned of the alleged ailment and created the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for Hookworm Eradication, which was a lead agency for solving the hookworm problem in the US.

The commission established clinics that taught southerners how to avoid hookworm and screened populations to find those infected, if they were infected they were given Epsom salts and thymol, a medication that would treat hookworms if taken correctly or kill if taken incorrectly. The campaign made a huge impact on hookworm disease in the South, but lasted only five years and failed to completely eradicate it; it took until the development of more modern sanitation systems between the 1950s and 1980s for hookworms to be considered. a minor ailment, so that's the

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story of how for 300 years the southern US came to be known as sloths, not because they wanted to be, but because almost half the population had infectious sucking worms of blood living inside them, there really are 1,000 ways to die.

You could die by falling out of bed in the morning. You could be struck by lightning. You might forget to eat while binge-watching reality videos or you might drown after falling several floors of a building into a giant puddle of human waste. The latter is exactly what happened to a group of nobles from across the Roman Empire in the year 1184 called the Erfurt Latrine Disaster. 60 people died in the accident and most drowned in what can only be described as a huge cesspool of years of human excrement beneath St. Peter's Church and what is now Central Germany, notably one of the people who survived.

King Henry attended the incident. VI King of the Romans, an eventual Roman Emperor, the story behind why 60 people died in a giant septic tank is far-fetched, but the story goes something like this: Louis III, the Thuringian ground tomb, and Archbishop Conrad of Maine refute why nobles fought in the past. In the year 1100, land, money and power, these two nobles, although at odds with each other, had a respectable amount of power in the region, which worried the king of the Romans. King Henry was passing through the region while on a conquest in Poland and decided that he needed to put an end to this dispute once and for all, he decided to call a meeting in the town of Erfert to mediate the situation between the two Nobles. .

He also invited several other Nobles from the region to assist in the discussions. What better place to hold these discussions than in a church or something, thought King Henry. King Henry had everyone gather on the upper floor of the church of St. Peter's Monastery in Airfirt, while the exact number is not known. of people who gathered here, what is known is that there were over 100 people gathered on the upper level of the church that day, it being a former monastery, although it meant that the beams of the building had rotted and were not exactly designed to accommodate so many people, but at this point you may be wondering what it was like.

A large gathering of people on the top floor of a church caused more than half of them to drown in human excrement. Well, there is something you should know about medieval times. The bathroom pipes in medieval buildings consisted of openings that led to a small channel that transported waste. in a fairly large hole now this hole was nothing more than a hole that was not cleaned or drained rather it was a hole that when eventually filled would be covered in another hole dug to contain the waste the hole of St. Peter The church was directly below from the meeting room, a few floors below, heralding the return to the meeting room where everyone had gathered.

The floor was struggling and eventually broke, causing the large group to begin falling from the upper floor, however, there was still a second floor below them. The weight of the upper floor was so great that the debris and people hitting the second floor caused the second floor to break as well, sending the group further into the building. The group then found themselves in the latrine room, albeit briefly, when the group. along with two stories of rubble that hit the floor of the latrines, it also broke open the pit. This pit would have been filled with years of excrement, meaning that most of those who survived the fall would have drowned in the thick mud or died later from infection.

Some died. in the fall or were hit by large debris after disembarking, a significant part of the nobility of the region at the time died in this accident by drowning in the well, but notably King Henry did not because he was sitting on the windowsill of a window during the meeting and so it didn't fall when the floor gave way almost as if it knew it was going to give way and after all that the dispute was largely resolved because everyone had drowned in a sewage pit, but we can see the positive side after the incident.

Henry VI completed his conquest of Poland and became Emperor of the Romans, following in his father's footsteps. It's quite mysterious. Well, it would be if your entire city started hearing a massive buzzing sound in the air and had no idea where it was. Over the past 50 years, cities around the world have begun to hear annoying humming noises,mysterious and persistent that they cannot explain. Take, for example, residents of the city of Windsor, a Canadian city right on the US-Canada border, have been experiencing. a humming noise for about the last decade, it comes and goes, lasts anywhere from a few hours to a few days at a time, only certain people can hear it and it sounds like someone with a subwoofer is a little too loud, the humming noise causes nausea and headaches head and also pr

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people from sleeping shakes windows and makes pictures fall from walls the presence of this strange hum has caused many to develop theories about UFOs or covert military experiments all that mystery presented research professors believe that the hum It comes from industrial activity nearby, however, they are not sure if there is an island nearby that has a steel plant with blast furnaces.

Experts believe that the blast furnaces are emitting a 35 Hertz hum that makes the city cloudy and the residents here hum. generally corresponds to flames at the Stacks plants, but the company that operates the plant is largely uncooperative with any investigation into the correlation, for now Windsor residents are bathing in a buzz. This is not an isolated incident, however, residents of Bristol, England. He complained of a humming noise in the 1970s that was mainly attributed to noise from nearby factories. Over the next few decades, many cities in England and the world began to report mysterious humming sounds and these humming sounds occurred in the US, such as in the 1990s in Taos, New Mexico or Kokomo.

Hoosiers in these locations even claimed that the humming caused light bulbs to explode. The sources of these hums in the US have not really been determined. Researchers have tried to determine what might be capable of producing these humming sounds. In 2015, a study was conducted that showed that low frequency electromagnetic or radio communications can produce these hums like those used to communicate with submarines. They also discovered that ocean wave patterns are capable of producing similar humming sounds. All of this leads only to speculation and not definitive proof of the causes of any localized ringing, although we do.

We know that these lohoms negatively affect human cognition, reducing our visual and concentration abilities, even when people do not audibly hear the hums, they cause agitation, nervousness, distraction and can even cause depression. Mysterious humming noises are becoming an increasingly persistent problem in the world around us. For the most part, its specific causes are not really known, just take a look at this map here. It shows all the places where mysterious hums have been reported around the world and tracks all their unique characteristics. You can see more of this. map, experiment and play with it at the link here So what is causing these mysterious buzzing sounds?

Is it ripe evidence for conspiracy theories or is it just something more plausible like severe industrial activity in a certain area that we may never know about on the morning of December 5? 1952 the people of London woke up to their typical foggy city, although the weather that day was unusually cold and there was virtually no wind, unbeknownst to the citizens at the time, although this was not their normal fog and would not disappear until on Tuesday in December. On the 9th, four days later, over the city was something called an anticyclone, which is a weather event that causes a particular area to be too calm due to cyclical winds around that area that trap air centered within Londoners already accustomed to it. to his city with fog. about their normal days, but when the fog didn't go away and began to feel increasingly toxic, Londoners knew something was wrong.

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like this were known in London as pea rises because of how thick and slow they made the air. However, this event in December 1952 was much worse than previous events and would become known as the Great London Smog. Approximately 4 to 12,000 people would die over the next four days, many from respiratory problems and many from falling into the River Thames and drowning. While this may seem absurd, the smog during these four days was so thick that people couldn't even He couldn't even see his own feet, which caused many to accidentally fall into the river while trying to cross the city, but why did the Great Smog occur due to the exact cause?

In fact, it was not specifically known until recently. London has suffered from poor air quality since it began to industrialize in the 13th century. The densely populated city with its cool, humid climate was and is the perfect creator of dense fog and smog, but in the days before the Great Smog there was a particularly cold weather front that caused Londoners to burn more coal to heat their homes. creating more smoke during the Great Smog. It is estimated that every day one thousand tons of smoke particles 140 tons of hydrochloric acid 14 tons of fluorine compounds 370 tons of sulfur dioxide and 800 tons of sulfuric acid were emitted from the city's chimneys due to the burning of coal to maintain hot houses.

This was a deadly cocktail that would normally be swept away by victories, but there was an anticyclone over the city that prevented it. Air movement through the fog in London was also incredibly dense and the water droplets were large enough to facilitate intense sulfate reactions, causing the fog to become highly acidic. The Great Smog practically closed public transportation in the city. Ambulance services stopped the concert and film screenings were cancelled, everything stopped due to fog. Initially it was estimated that 4,000 people had died, but this was later raised to 6,000. More people got sick because of this. Mortality in London increased for months after the fog.

People died from the flu. respiratory tract infections hypoxia or drowned in their own pus that arose from lung infections, modern researchers today, although studying the event now estimate the death count at over twelve thousand, modern researchers also explain why we know that the fog became highly acidic and they examined the exact chemical processes. which caused the smog in 1952. The Great Smog of 1952 also led to the creation of the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and eventually 1968, which ultimately led to the reduction of air pollution in the United Kingdom.