Tecumseh: The Native American Leader Who Tried To Form An Indigenous Alliance Wikimedia CommonsAn illustration of Tecumseh attacking William Henry Harrison, then the governor of Indiana Territory, in 1810. A warrior chief of the Shawnee tribe, Tecumseh was one of the most fascinating Native American leaders in history. He firmly believed that all Native American tribes needed to settle their differences in order to successfully fight the U.S. Army. In fact, he even organized a Native American alliance in hopes of establishing an autonomous nation.

When 17-year-old Alissa Turney vanished in 2001, police thought that she'd run away to California — until they discovered that her stepfather Michael Turney had been obsessed with her for years.Maricopa County Attorney’s OfficeAlissa Turney was a junior in high school when she vanished in 2001. Years after Alissa Turney’s disappearance on the last day of her junior year of high school in 2001, her sister Sarah wondered if she’d done more than simply run away from home as her father, Michael Turney, and the police believed.

The assassination of Gianni Versace on July 15, 1997, captivated the world, but there was much more to Andrew Cunanan than the public knew.“I don’t know that we are ever going to know the answers.” 20 years later, Miami Police Chief Richard Borerro is still right — we don’t have all the answers about the murder of fashion mogul Gianni Versace. But we do know that a serial killer was responsible.

Creepy Insects: Praying Mantis Source: Sci Fi Movies The praying mantis was also given Brobdingnagian treatment for a 1957 movie called “The Deadly Mantis.” Praying mantises have a lot of characteristics that lend them to being categorized as a creepy insect: cannibalistic tendencies; a strange, triangular head with alien-like eyes; and prickly forelegs that can quickly snatch prey—or even a human finger. Large species of carnivorous mantises have been known to prey on small scorpions, lizards, frogs, birds, snakes, fish and even rodents, but most of them dine on smaller insects.

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses..."Wikimedia Commons It’s not often that a mere piece of paper will be worth a few million dollars. But when it’s a letter written by Albert Einstein about how God is a “product of human weaknesses,” a multimillion-dollar price tag is exactly what you get. A document written by the iconic, Nobel Prize-winning physicist that’s known as the “God letter” just sold at Christie’s auction house in New York for a whopping $2.

Vasuki indicus may have reached lengths of up to 50 feet, rivaling the fearsome Titanoboa as the largest snake to ever exist.Indian Institute Of Technology RoorkeeAn artistic interpretation of Vasuki indicus. Researchers examining fossilized vertebrae found in a western Indian mine in 2005 just determined that they once made up the spine of a massive prehistoric snake. The creature, dubbed Vasuki indicus after a Hindu snake king, measured between 36 and 50 feet in length and weighed over a ton, making it one of the largest serpents to ever slither the Earth.

Though Freya was never known to have injured anyone, officials worried she may intentionally or accidentally harm someone who got too close.Tor Erik Schrøder/NTB/AFP via Getty ImagesPhotos of Freya blew up on social media over the summer as she hung around Oslo Fjord. Freya, a 1,300-pound walrus, became a bit of an internet sensation this summer as photos of her lounging on boats and piers in Norway’s Oslo Fjord popped up all over social media.

A little girl holds her doll in the rubble of her bomb-damaged home. England. 1940. Fox Photos/Getty Images A Jewish boy raises his hands at gunpoint after Nazi SS soldiers forcibly removed him and other ghetto residents from the bunker in which they'd taken refuge during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of civilians against the Nazis. Poland. Circa April-May 1943.Wikimedia Commons London children wear their gas masks as they skip in the park at their temporary homes on the south coast of England.

Snatched from the streets of Vienna by Wolfgang Přiklopil when she was just 10 years old, Natascha Kampusch never gave up on the idea that she would one day be free — and after 3,096 days, she would be.On the first day she was allowed to walk to school alone, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch daydreamed about throwing herself in front of a car. Her parents’ divorce had taken its toll. It didn’t seem that life could get any worse.

In 1972, seven-year-old Steven Stayner was kidnapped by a pedophile named Kenneth Parnell in Merced, California — and held captive for the next seven years.Three weeks before Christmas 1972, the course of Steven Stayner’s life would change forever. Raised in the peaceful suburbs of Merced, California, the 7-year-old was shuffling home from school on just another Monday — when he was kidnapped by Texas-born drifter Kenneth Parnell and held captive for seven years.