Morbid Wave

A HUSBAND'S CR:U:EL WORDS COST HIM EVERYTHING - THE NOTE HE FOUND CHANGED HIM FOREVER For years, Sandy sacrificed her career to care for their home and children at Henry's insistence. Despite keeping their large house immaculate while raising their kids, nothing ever satisfied Henry, who believed his job made him more important. The final straw came one morning over a wrinkled shirt. "You do NOTHING all day!" Henry scre@med, his face red with rage. "Can't you remember one simple thing? All you do is lounge around this house!" "Please stop," Sandy pleaded quietly. "The children are watching. You're frightening them." "Oh, now you care?" Henry sc0ffed. "Like you care when you're gossiping on the phone all day? Face it - you'll never be a decent wife if you can't even handle basic tasks!" With those final words, he st0rmed out. When Henry returned that evening, the house stood eerily silent...

Taxidermist Carl Akeley posing with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896 Carl Akeley with the leopard that nearly killed him, 1896. Carl Akeley, considered the father of modern taxidermy, was not only a taxidermist but also a naturalist, sculptor, writer, and inventor. Best known for the Hall of African Mammals that bears his name at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Akeley revolutionized the field of taxidermy by developing a method of reconstructing the animal from the inside out. In 1896 Akeley started his first trip in Africa and it was also on this trip that Akeley came face to face with a deadly 80-pound leopard. During a journey to Somaliland, Akeley and his assistant were out hunting ostriches for the Field Museum in Chicago when the hunter spotted something lurking in the tall grass. As this was his first big trip, Akeley was a bit inexperienced and thought the mystery creature was a warthog. Wanting to bag “th...

Terry Fox: The Relentless Runner Who Turned His Cancer Battle Into a Movement Terry Fox was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist whose remarkable determination turned personal tragedy into a national movement. In 1980, after losing his right leg to cancer, Fox set out on an ambitious cross-country run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Though his journey was cut short, his legacy continues through the annual Terry Fox Run, an event that began in 1981 and now involves millions of participants across more than 60 countries. It has become the world’s largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research, raising over C$850 million in his name as of September 2022. From an early age, Fox displayed an unwavering commitment to sports. As a student, he was both a distance runner and a basketball player for his high school, which now bears his name, and later for Simon Fraser University. His athletic ambitions were interrupted in 1976 when a car ac...

Hiroo Onoda: The Japanese Soldier Who Refused to Surrender, 1974 Lt. Hiroo Onoda, sword in hand, walks out of the jungle on Lubang Island after a nearly 29-year guerrilla campaign. March 11, 1974. Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda is the most famous of the so-called Japanese holdouts, a collection of Imperial Army stragglers who continued to hide out in the South Pacific for several years after World War II had ended. An intelligence officer, Onoda had been on Lubang since 1944, a few months before the Americans invaded and retook the Philippines. The last instructions he had received from his immediate superior ordered him to retreat to the interior of the island – which was small and in truth of minimal importance – and harass the Allied occupying forces until the Imperial Japanese Army eventually returned. “You are absolutely forbidden to die by your own hand”, he was told. “It may take three years, it may take five, but whatever happens, we’ll come back for you. Until then...

THE SECOND VULTURE: In the 1990's there was a widely circulated photo of a vulture waiting for a starving little girl to die and feast on her corp. That photo was taken during the 1993/94 famine in Sudan, by Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist, who later won the Pulitzer Prize for this 'amazing shot'.* *However, as Kevin Carter was savouring his feat and being celebrated on major news channels and networks worldwide for such an 'exceptional photographic skill', he lived just for a few months to enjoy his supposed achievement and fame, as he later got depressed and took his own life!* *Kevin Carter's depression started, when during one of such interviews (a phone-in programme), someone called in and asked him what happened to the little girl. He simply replied, "I didn't wait to find out after this shot, as I had a flight to catch..." Then the caller said, "I put it to you that there were two vultures on that day, one had a cam...

The hunt for Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, 1961 Adolf Eichmann awaited trial in Israel, 1961. Adolf Eichmann inspired Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase  ‘the banality of evil’ . A career civil servant in Nazi Germany, he was put in charge of administering the ‘Final Solution’ and organized the seizure of Jews from all over Europe and their transportation to the concentration camps to be killed. Other observers also thought he brought to the job the same bureaucratic, unemotional, form-filling attention to detail that he would have given to road maintenance, say, or food rationing. Eichmann joined the Nazi Party in April 1932 in Linz (Austria) and rose through the party hierarchy. In November 1932 he became a member of Heinrich Himmler’s SS, the Nazi paramilitary corps, and, on leaving Linz in 1933, he joined the school of the Austrian Legion at Lechfeld, Germany. From January to October 1934 he was attached to an SS unit at Dachau and then was appointed to the SS Sicherh...