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Ivan Milat, infamously known as the Backpacker Murderer, lured, tortured, and brutally murdered seven backpackers between 1989 and 1993 in the Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales, Australia. Three years after his encounter with Ivan Milat, backpacker Paul Onions, provided the crucial information that took down Australia's most notorious serial killer.

The Robertson family began their journey around the world in January of 1971. However after 18 months at sea, the 43-foot schooner was attacked by three killer whales and went down within minutes. The family then had to survive in a damaged life raft and dinghy in the middle of the pacific ocean for almost two months before finally being rescued.

On January 15, 1919, a storage tank collapsed releasing two million gallons of molasses on the North End of Boston. The thick liquid poured out like a tsunami wave, reaching speeds of up to 35 miles per hour, destroying everything in its path. The molasses flooded streets, crushed buildings, derailed trains and ultimately killed 21 people and injured 150 more.

In 2019, 39-year-old Rob Parkes answered the door for police who played him a recording of two voices bargaining over the price of his death. One of the voices on the tape was his ex-wife Victoria Breeden. Parkes didnt know it at the time but Victoria had approached 6 different men about the hit on Rob falsely claiming rob was a violent, abusive, drug dealing, gang leading, pedophile who needed to be killed. 

In 1941 31-year-old John Capes was the only passenger on board the HMS Perseus to survive after the submarine struck a mine and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Throughout the course of the World War II, the British navy lost 79 submarines – and from those there were only 4 escapes. One of which was that of John Capes. 


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While on a trip retrieving animal traps in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Ken Hildebrand was crushed under his quad on a remote hillside in hungry coyote territory.