In late 1950s Los Angeles, serial killer Harvey Glatman raped and murdered three aspiring models — but not before taking some disturbing photos of them first.

Anneliese Michel was subjected to 67 Catholic exorcism rites that ultimately left her dead at age 23 on July 1, 1976.

The 111 mummies of Guanajuato, Mexico are terrifying to behold — and have a tragic backstory that makes their anguished expressions even more haunting.

Known as the "Sea Waif," 11-year old Terry Jo Duperrault spent more than three days adrift at sea until she was found.

A mysterious serial killer who murdered at least five women in London in the late 1800s, Jack the Ripper has never been identified.

For nearly 200 years, the Fugates — known as the blue people of Kentucky — remained largely sealed off from the outside world as they passed their blue skin from generation to generation.

After killing his grandparents at the age of just 15, Ed Kemper went on to murder eight women between May 1972 and April 1973, often violating and mutilating their corpses afterward.

Humans have been creating depictions of sex for millennia — and these examples of erotic paintings and sculptures prove it.

Ekaterina Lisina has the longest legs among women in the world, is the world's tallest model, and as far as anyone can tell, has the biggest female feet in Russia.

As the grandson of one of the richest men in the world, John Paul Getty III spent months being tortured and beaten until a ransom was negotiated with the Italian mafia.

Michael Rockefeller's death in New Guinea in 1961 was initially ruled a drowning — but some believe he was actually eaten by cannibals.