2018 Darwin Awards: Teen Shot In Face As Part Of Social Media Challenge Grimes County Sheriff’s OfficeRaul Garcia Jr. A 17-year-old in Texas shot a 16-year-old in the face — all because of the social media-fueled “No Lackin challenge.” On June 10 in Grimes County, Texas, 17-year-old Raul Garcia Jr. and a 16-year-old friend (whose name has not been released) were driving around when they decided to play the No Lackin challenge, also known as the You Lackin challenge.

New York City Lunatic Asylum: The Isolated Island Asylum Wikimedia CommonsPatients at the island asylum were beaten, neglected, and subjected to violent treatments. Many of the mental health institutions of centuries past symbolize the neglect and stigma placed on society’s most underserved populations. These asylums often housed those who were not actually “ill,” such as criminals, people with disabilities, and sometimes even immigrants. They were targeted because they were deemed unwanted by society — and thus, they were all banished together.

The Tolkien estate's website includes drawings by J.R.R. Tolkien of the worlds he created for "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."Courtesy of the Tolkien EstateAn undated depiction of the “Misty Mountains,” a location that’s featured prominently in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In his life, J.R.R. Tolkien created the elaborate world of “Middle-earth,” where he set The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Now, his estate has released a number of drawings and maps that the author made as he plotted out his books.

The father forced Karrie Neurauter into a tough spot – save her mother's life, or his. Miami HeraldKarrie and Lloyd Neurauter Last August, a father from New York had had enough. He was sick of making child support payments and wanted custody of his youngest child. So, he went to his oldest daughter for help, giving her a startling ultimatum: help him kill her mother, or he’d kill himself. Lloyd Neurauter told his daughter Karrie, 20, that she had two choices.

Dwight D. Eisenhower And Kay Summersby Library of CongressDuring World War II, Eisenhower allegedly found comfort during the conflict in the arms of his driver, Kay Summersby. As Kay Summersby tells it, her affair with then-General Dwight D. Eisenhower started when he was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II and she was his chauffeur. “We found ourselves in each other’s arms in an unrestrained embrace,” Summersby explained in her 1976 posthumous memoir, seven years after Eisenhower’s death.

During Operation Paperclip, the records of premier German scientists were expunged so that they could secretly work in American labs to give the U.S. a leg up over the Soviets in the Cold War.In the immediate wake of World War II, the Allies were widely venerated for their role in ending the reign of the Third Reich. But the Allied powers also made controversial decisions in secret that were kept classified for decades.

For centuries, locals have reported seeing a strange apelike beast called the orang pendek stalking the remote forests of Indonesia — and some believe it’s related to a species of early human called Homo floresiensis.Ant Wallis/Centre for Fortean ZoologyThe orang pendek, the mysterious “Bigfoot” of Indonesian folklore. Indonesian legends speak of a small, hobbit-like cryptid said to reside deep in the mountainous forests of Sumatra. Known as the orang pendek, which literally means “short person,” this hairy creature is believed to stand on two legs and measure between just 30 and 60 inches tall.

On May 31, 2014, sixth graders Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier tried to murder their friend Payton Leutner in the woods of Wisconsin — to please Slender Man.In June 2009, the comedy website Something Awful issued a call for people to submit a modern scary story. Thousands of submissions rolled in, but one story about a mythical creature called Slender Man rippled through the internet thanks to its creepy featureless face and ghostly figure.

Although there was virtually no evidence against him, Richard Glossip was given the death penalty for the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese — and he was convicted based on the murderer's word alone.Change.org Richard Glossip was convicted for the murder of Barry Van Treese in 1998. While in the throes of meth addiction on January 7, 1997, Justin Sneed bludgeoned his boss Barry Van Treese to death with a baseball bat inside the Oklahoma City motel where he worked.

Steve Dennis was left inside a phone booth by his parents in 1954. But now, thanks to an at-home DNA test kit, he has some answers.Cheryl Evans/The RepublicSteve Dennis holding a photo of himself as a child. The 64-year-old mystery surrounding a baby left in an Ohio phone booth has finally been solved thanks to the help of an at-home DNA testing kit. Early one morning in Jan. 1954, two bread delivery men just outside of Lancaster, Ohio made the startling discovery of the two-month-old baby boy.