Hugh Glass, the inspiration for "The Revenant" who dragged himself over 200 miles to the nearest fort after being mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his fellow fur trappers. Then he began his quest for revenge — click here to read his unbelievable story: https://inter.st/03jb

A young woman smokes a cigarette and reads a magazine outside her office in London during the Blitz. See more images that capture the devastation of the Blitz here: https://inter.st/1vx6

The 3,300-year-old sandals of King Tutankhamun.

Two U.S. soldiers wear gas masks while walking through plumes of smoke during World War 1. While poison gas was responsible for less than one percent of deaths during the war, the new chemical warfare created a psychological terror that had never been known before.

Inside a farmers house in Edinburg, Texas, in 1939. See more haunting colorized images from the Great Depression here: https://allthatsinteresting.com/colorized-great-depression-pictures

Jack Bonavita was a 20th-century lion tamer who awed crowds with his dangerous feats. One of Bonavita's most famous acts was when he sat surrounded by 13 lions. However, the work was dangerous, and Bonavita once had his arm torn off when he looked away from one of the creatures for too long. Bo....

A man photographed next to Soyuz rockets in the steppes of Kazakhstan in 1980.

A mother and her daughter at a Budapest market in 1987 and photographed again in 2020. See more of old school cool here: https://allthatsinteresting.com/old-school-cool

In 1996, a Utah family fled their ranch in terror after seeing a wolf-like humanoid on their property. With glowing red eyes and an apparent immunity to bullets, the creature they spotted may have been the mythical Skinwalker. Learn about the Navajo legend so evil that some ... https://inter.st/fbfz

See more haunting images of insane asylums of the past: https://allthatsinteresting.com/mental-asylums

Illustrations from the "Compendium of Demonology and Magic," a mysterious tome that was published by an unknown author in 1775. Experience some of the most haunting scenes for yourself at the link in the comments.

Katharina Detzel, a mental patient who built her own man from straw in 1910. See more images from history's worst mental institutions here: https://allthatsinteresting.com/mental-asylums

The author of Psycho, Robert Bloch, writes at his desk in the 1950s.

The face of a tapeworm under an electron microscope.

A colorized image of a family in front of their sod house in Custer County, Nebraska in 1886. See more images of Nebraska's first settlers here: https://allthatsinteresting.com/nebraskas-first-settlers

Blowing smoke up your ass was an actual medical procedure in 18th-century England. Before doctors invented a long tube to keep their faces away, they used a standard smoking pipe to perform the procedure. Read more about this bizarre procedure here: https://inter.st/29m6

After more than 1,000 years, researchers believe they've finally decoded the mystery of the world's longest runestone, a Viking slab that describes the apocalypse. See their warnings of the real-life "Ragnarok" in the form of extreme climate change: https://inter.st/xp21

Born as John Chapman on September 26, 1774, Johnny Appleseed is an American folk hero known for planting apples across the American Midwest. Appleseed cultivated orchards to sell to settlers and planted apple trees. Meet The 77 Most Interesting People In Human History: https://inter.st/n02

Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis on the set of Gangs of New York in 2002.

During a 1982 interview, Titanic survivor Ruth Becker claimed the ship broke in two. The treasurer of the Titanic Historical Society took the microphone away and said she had been mistaken. Three years later, the ship was discovered in two pieces. Read... https://allthatsinteresting.com/ruth-becker

The view of Manhattan from Jersey City in the late 1970s.

The receipt from the studio where Elvis Presley recorded his first album in January 1954.

Betty Brosmer was known as a pin-up model with an "impossible waist" — but she was much more than that. Brosmer was the highest-paid pin-up model in mid-century America, helped create the now-famous fitness magazine Shape, and wrote columns about bodybuilding and fitness.

Scientists in Canada just confirmed an exact date for when the Vikings lived in North America — and it's nearly 500 years before Columbus first crossed the Atlantic. Learn more here https://inter.st/yc3l

ABBA working on the melody and lyrics for "Dancing Queen" in the studio in 1975.

Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn backstage at the Oscars in 1956. See more images from the Golden Age of Hollywood here: https://allthatsinteresting.com/golden-age-of-hollywood-colorizations

Paparazzi Ron Galella would wear a football helmet when following Marlon Brando, after Brando sucker-punched him, broke his jaw, and knocked out five teeth in 1973 for allegedly finding out about the actor's affair with Jackie Kennedy.

Born in 1775 in Guangdong Province, China, Ching Shih was a Chinese sex worker who ended up taking over her husband's fleet and becoming one of the most successful pirate lords in history. Her fleet included hundreds of ships and between 40,000 and 60,000 pirates who regularly battled with worl....

A museum in the Netherlands recataloging their archives has discovered an ancient Roman phallus carved from bone that measures over eight inches long. Dating back approximately 1,800 years, researchers believe the artifact may have been used to ward off evil spirits.

With a leg span of 13 feet, an average weight of 40 pounds, and the ability to live 100 years, the Japanese spider crab is perhaps one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. Lurking in waters as deep as 1,000 feet, this mysterious crustacean often scavenges for food by... https://inter.st/7u7j