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WWII

As one of the most devastating conflicts in the&nbsp;20th century, World War II permanently changed the social and political landscape of the world for generations to come. However,&nbsp;it also had an indelible impact on the English language. World War II&nbsp;slang terms&nbsp;often centered around military life, but many of these words and sayings are still popular today.&nbsp; Expressions from World War II&nbsp;that are still commonly used include: &quot;baloney!&quot; to&nbsp;mean&nbsp;&quot;bullsh*t,&quot; &quot;beat it&quot; meaning &quot;go away,&quot; &quot;copacetic&quot; for &quot;very good,&quot; referring to a betrayal as being&nbsp;&quot;double-crossed,&quot; and even&nbsp;proclaiming &quot;for crying out loud&quot; when you're frustrated.However, much of this&nbsp;World War II-era slang fell by the wayside, which is a shame&nbsp;because it was rather colorful to say the least. So, compiled here&nbsp;is a collection of some of&nbsp;World War II's&nbsp;most interesting slang terms&nbsp;for all you&nbsp;modern speakers who are looking for alternatives to the &quot;baes,&quot; &quot;lits,&quot; and emojis that&nbsp;have overtaken our world.And when you've finished memorizing all&nbsp;your WWII verbiage, be sure to check out <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/1930s-slang-words-and-expressions/robert-f-mason" target="_blank">slang from the 1930s</a>, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/1950s-slang-words-and-expressions/robert-f-mason" target="_blank">the 1950s</a>, and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-old-timey-hobo-slang/kellen-perry" target="_blank">the era of the&nbsp;American hobo</a>&nbsp;and we'll have you talkin' like an old-timer lickety-split!

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Lists of bone-chilling lore and weird AF urban legends from your home state and your neighbors. Also some cities ;) .

State Secrets

Welcome to creepy New York -&nbsp;a land of lake monsters and wild men, of hook-handed killers and flying blob monsters. There's more to New York than just the city - in fact, it's a whole state, and it's full of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-central-park-stories/juliet-bennett-rylah">its share of strange stories</a>. Many of the urban legends from New York have served as&nbsp;the inspiration for novels, movies, TV shows, and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/creepiest-urban-legends/dukeharten">even urban legends in other states</a>. This list looks at some of the&nbsp;strangest urban legends and&nbsp;ghost stories from New York state, from the ghostly tales of its original Dutch settlers to the weird science yarns of its modern inhabitants.

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11 Ghost Stories And Urban Legends That Prove New York Is The Creepiest State

11 Creepy Stories and Urban Legends from New York

Minnesota

Aw geez, is there any state in the U.S. that should be less creepy than Minnesota? Sharing a border with Iowa,&nbsp;the useless Dakotas, cheesy Wisconsin, and benevolent Canada, Minnesota exists in an area <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-appalachian-trail-stories/jacobybancroft">without the remoteness of Appalachia</a>, and you never hear news stories from&nbsp;Minnesota the way <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/weird-florida-news-2016/jacob-shelton">you hear news stories from&nbsp;Florida</a>. Situated&nbsp;in the Midwest, America's heartland, the place appears&nbsp;so quaint and wholesome, where would a &quot;dark side&quot; even be able to lurk?The answer is: everywhere. Every place harbors&nbsp;a dark, spooky side, as this list of Minnesota urban legends can attest. From cannibalistic monsters to spectral pick-up trucks, the variety of ghost and paranormal&nbsp;stories from Minnesota is as impressive as any other state;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-native-american-creatures/t-l-perez">Native American folklore</a> and modern myths permeate its wilderness. In addition to sending shivers down your spine, many of these Minnesota scary stories also propose new versions of history, including alleged evidence that Vikings may have traveled further west than previously thought.&nbsp;Enter the Land of 10,000 Lakes at your peril.

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10 Creepy Stories And Haunted Places That Prove Minnesota Is The Creepiest State

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The 1930s were a unique time in American history. This post-Roaring '20s economic depression era brought a new way of life that shaped the rest of the century for many Americans. This great change gave birth to a host of 1930s slang terms. A huge amount of retro slang from the&nbsp;1930s shows the country was anxiety-ridden and nervous, but chose to make light of its fears with clever turns of phrase.&nbsp;Slang from the Great Depression almost all concerns poverty, alcohol, and criminal activity of some kind.&nbsp;This isn't entirely&nbsp;surprising, as many people in poverty turned to either alcohol or crime to escape their dire straits.But none of that means the language of the day is obsolete.&nbsp;On the contrary, the 1930s was also a time of great comic genius that produced some of the cleverest quips in American English.&nbsp;We still use some of 1930s expressions&nbsp;today, such as referring to prison as the &quot;big house,&quot; or calling a gun&nbsp;a &quot;gat&quot; (originally short for &quot;Gatling gun&quot;).&nbsp;In that spirit, this list looks at some other expressions from the Great Depression that might be worth reviving.

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Eerie true tales of people and places being haunted by g-g-g-ghoooosts!!!

Real Hauntings & Ghost Stories

Ghosts

Most ghosts are seemingly passive or even benevolent, appearing to scare people only by accident, never by intent. Ghosts that are violent (also known as poltergeists), however, are in a class by&nbsp;themselves. Stories suggest that some of these malevolent spirits&nbsp;have actually killed people. The most famous cases of violent hauntings have inspired multiple books&nbsp;and movie adaptations. This list looks at&nbsp;some of the most vicious &quot;true&quot; <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-museum-ghost-stories/cheryl-adams-richkoff?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">hauntings around the world</a> and throughout history.

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Alaska

You've come a long way, and the sign up ahead says, &quot;Welcome to Creepy Alaska.&quot; This is the Last Frontier, a realm of vast untracked wilderness, where monsters and evil spirits slither through the darkest parts of the land's day-long nights. There aren't many Alaskan urban legends. But that doesn't mean the state is devoid of local legends and tall tales. On the contrary, the state is home to dozens of monster and ghost accounts, chronicling everything from UFOs to murder. Here's some of the best scary stories from Alaska.&nbsp;

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Lists of fun facts, fascinating trivia, and wild, charming, and even heartbreaking stories about some of the most famous people you feel like you already know.

The Life of an Actor

Steven Seagal

The 1980s and '90s were a golden age for American action films. The genre launched the careers of icons like Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Mel Gibson, along with a whole pantheon of popular B-listers&nbsp;such as&nbsp;Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, and an intriguing martial-arts-instructor-turned-movie-star named <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/steven-seagal-movies-and-films-and-filmography/reference">Steven Seagal</a>. &nbsp;&nbsp;Seagal's fighting style was aikido (he was the first foreigner to operate an aikido dojo in Japan), which focuses on blocks, parries, throws, and other defensive moves, so his action scenes were unlike anything in American movies at the time.&nbsp;And so was Seagal himself. It wasn't long before some truly wild&nbsp;Steven Seagal stories emerged, and he developed a reputation as one of the industry's strangest and most difficult-to-work-with stars.There are many nutty things about Steven Seagal, and this list looks at some of the weirdest and most troubling stories that have emerged over the years. From his obscure music career to his new status as "Serbian citizen Steven Seagal" and the fact that he's a living god (no lie!), there's a reason he's continued to fascinate us over the years.&nbsp;

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In the late 1960s, charismatic Charles Manson accumulated a loyal cult of followers who took hallucinogenics and did whatever he said. In  August 1969, they casually took the lives of eight people, including actress Sharon Tate.

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The Manson Family committed one of the most reviled crimes in modern American history: the <a href="http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1937349_1937350_1937412,00.html" target="_blank">Tate-LaBianca Murders</a>, which brutally ended the life&nbsp;of actor Sharon Tate (wife of director Roman Polanski) when she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, along with four of her friends and her gardener&#39;s son. The next day, married couple Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered by the Manson Family in equally brutal fashion, this time with Charles Manson himself helping commit the crime. The cult had hoped to frame a Black man for the killings to spark race riots in Los Angeles, which they believed would usher in the apocalypse.

While the facts of this&nbsp;case are well-documented, the&nbsp;Manson Family lies at the center of many other mysteries, as well, including several similar but unsolved murders. Other stories about the Manson Family have circulated for years, including several conspiracy theories that make them agents of the CIA or members of a secret Satanist network (or both!).&nbsp;This list looks as some of the most compelling unsolved mysteries and conspiracy theories surrounding Charles Manson and his cult of killers.

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10 Creepy Unsolved Mysteries Surrounding the Manson Family

As scientists continue to forge ahead, paving humanity's road to the future, so should you do your part by reading and voting on each of these lists.

They Blinded Us with Science

Science

Sometimes science is a real pain -&nbsp;especially when a scientist&nbsp;acts as their own test subject. While not the most common practice in the history of hypotheses, many scientists, including famous thinkers like&nbsp;Isaac Newton and Marie Curie, have stepped up and performed experiments on themselves.&nbsp;Some really have no choice as their research is so cutting edge, testing their ideas out on anyone else would be a huge breach of ethics. Others have volunteered for experiments for a variety of reasons: ego, humanitarianism, getting around protocol to get faster results. In the face of death, disease, and general discomfort, these intrepid scientists decided they would be their own best test subjects.While scientists subjecting themselves to their own experiments doesn’t always earn respect, sometimes it does pay off. Some of the world’s greatest discoveries have been made only after scientists decided to serve as&nbsp;their own guinea pig. From life-saving drugs to crazy acid trips, there’s no end to what these researchers did to their bodies in the name of discovery.Don’t try this at home. Instead, keeping reading below to learn all about the professionals who risked it all in the pursuit of knowledge.

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Sweatpants at the table; sweatpants while you fistfight your neighbors over slightly discounted TVs. The holidays are here!

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When most Americans are feasting and celebrating on Thanksgiving day, some people are killing, dying, or vanishing. Creepy Thanksgiving crimes, unfortunately, are a ghastly tradition, too, one we rarely speak about. But disappearances on Thanksgiving and other unsolved Thanksgiving mysteries can make for interesting dinner conversation to distract from the usual chatter about sports, or drunken-uncle rants about politics and religion. Just don&#39;t share any of these stories with the kids. Except maybe <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/db-cooper-mystery/megan-summers" target="_blank">the D.B. Cooper one</a>, because it has all the components of a good folktale.

10 Unsolved Crimes and Disappearances That Happened on Thanksgiving

Lists that dissect and analyze (and possibly ruin) some of the movies and TV you watched over and over and over and over when you were a kid.

Revisiting Childhood Favorites

Looking closer at the most bizarre, traumatizing, truly baffling '80s flicks that were allegedly made for children.

WTF '80s Movies for Kids

The Goonies

Fat shaming and bullying. Racial stereotyping. Drug and sex abuse references. Assault, theft, and attempted murder. And that&#39;s just in the first 30 minutes.

That&#39;s right, it&#39;s The Goonies, a &quot;classic&quot; 1980s kids adventure movie that is among a certain generation&#39;s absolute favorites. But it shouldn&#39;t be, because, frankly, The Goonies sucks.&nbsp;

Okay, granted, that&#39;s a bit of an overstatement. There are far worse movies than this one. But, if you&#39;re a grown-up&nbsp;or a kid with a halfway logical brain, there are a lot of things you ignore in The Goonies so you can keep enjoying it, and not all of them are minor plot points or gaffes that only pedants or film snobs would care about. The plot of&nbsp;The Goonies&nbsp;is, of course, ridiculous, and that&#39;s not a bad thing in itself. It&#39;s just that along with the crazy Goonies plots, you&#39;re also served up a dollop of regressive social attitudes and sloppy writing.

So, hey, you guys: maybe it&#39;s time we took this movie down a peg or two.

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Death

The autopsy is a staple of crime and medical dramas, often holding the miraculous key to solving the story's central mystery. But very little of the story actual focuses on what happens in an autopsy. In fact, the TV autopsy process is usually handled with just a few X-rays, some prop organs, and an eccentric examiner spouting esoteric jargon at befuddled detectives.&nbsp;Perhaps it's because of this glossing over that the autopsy fascinates us.&nbsp;Autopsy facts, however, are rarely shared with outsiders, and the steps of an autopsy remain mysterious to the average person. But for those interested in the details, this list looks at what happens during autopsies, gruesome step by gruesome step. The links and videos give even more detail.This list is not for the squeamish!

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The Art of War

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There&#39;s a special kind of bad*ss in the world, though they are often considered a coward at first glance. The kind who&#39;s not afraid to risk their life, but still refuses to raise a fist. Some people consider pacifists to be weak, but this cadre of famous pacifists might change their minds. And it&#39;s not just famous pacifist leaders like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.&nbsp;who displayed bravery and balls in the face of great danger. Other, less well-known non-violent leaders carried the torch of the peaceful warrior, as well. This list looks at&nbsp;historical figures whose actions proved that you don&#39;t need a gun or fist to join the hero club.

10 Totally Heroic Pacifists from History

10 Totally Badass Pacifists from History

Baby Boomers, diners, and everything the 1950s brought us.

1950s: The Postwar Boom

Every generation develops its own slang.&nbsp;It often sounds alien to the generations who came before, even as these new&nbsp;words and phrases eventually&nbsp;get adopted into mainstream culture and become just the way people talk. 1950s slang is no different.&nbsp;The decade that birthed rock &amp; roll used old words in whole new combinations, to the consternation of parents and old fogies everywhere, giving us terms like &quot;baby,&quot; &quot;cool,&quot; and &quot;hipster&quot; that mean more or less the same thing now as they did when they were just rockabilly slang.Modern American English slang owes a lot to retro slang, so it's worth looking back to see if there's anything else we should be using. Here's a list of 1950s expressions that are worth reviving. Most of them began with either hot-rodder or Beat subcultures, but quickly infiltrated teenage language everywhere.

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&quot;What happens after we die?&quot; That's probably the oldest question in history. And the answer is simple: we become worm food.&nbsp;Which is to say, we decompose. And a whole lot happens to us before (and as) we become worm food, too. The decomposition of corpses is more complicated than you probably imagine. How do bodies decompose, step by step? This list includes many&nbsp;body decomposition facts, so you can know what it's like to decompose before you do so yourself.First, the basics: decomposition of human (and animal) corpses occurs in five general stages: fresh,&nbsp;bloat,&nbsp;active decay,&nbsp;advanced decay,&nbsp;and dry/remains. At every stage, there are specific&nbsp;chemical processes&nbsp;as well as specific types of animals and fungi&nbsp;that produce distinct effects on the corpse. Along with these general stages, there are two chemical stages of decomposition, called autolysis and putrefaction.&nbsp; Autolysis, sometimes called &quot;self-digestion,&quot; is the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes. Putrefaction is the decomposition of proteins and the eventual liquefaction of connective tissues and internal organs.The timing of these processes is one of the main things used by forensic experts in determining time of death when bodies are discovered at under mysterious circumstances. However, many factors influence the speed at which these stages occur, including&nbsp;temperature, moisture, and whether the body was buried.&nbsp; And&nbsp;of course, chemical preservation techniques such as embalming can interfere with, and even postpone, these processes for surprisingly long periods of time.That said, let's get to the good stuff. Read on for some stand-out body decomposition facts, to impress all your friends at parties.&nbsp;If your friends are weird enough, that is.

What Happens to Your Body When It Decomposes After Death

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Lake Champlain is the sixth-largest freshwater lake in North America, straddling the borders of Vermont, New York, and Quebec, Canada. Its shores are home to numerous quaint&nbsp;New England towns and tourist hotspots, and the region brims over with a rich history that stretches back before Europeans settled the continent. It's also a hot spot of weirdness involving ghosts, UFOs, werewolves, mind-control experiments, and a bonafide lake monster. Welcome to creepy Lake Champlain!This list compiles the wildest, weirdest scary stories from Lake Champlain, which might make you think twice about your plans to vacation in the area.

11 Myths and Mysteries Surrounding Lake Champlain

Lists about the Fab Four, who changed the entire world of music starting in 1960 Liverpool.

The Beatles

The most bananas stories and insane 100% true tales about the lives and behind-the-music antics of your favorite rock stars and legendary bands.

Freakin' Rock Stars

The Beatles are widely regarded as the most famous and influential band&nbsp;of the 20th century. After forming in 1960 in Liverpool, the group made their initial rounds in the red-light district of Hamburg,&nbsp;<a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-beatles-got-started-in-hamburg-theres-a-reason-for-that/" target="_blank">Germany</a>.&nbsp;At the time, there were five: Pete Best on the drums,&nbsp;George Harrison on lead guitar, and Stuart Sutcliffe on the bass, co-led by songwriters&nbsp;John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

In 1961, Sutcliffe left the band to pursue a career in painting, but&nbsp;by April 1962, he would perish&nbsp;from a cerebral hemorrhage at just 21 years old. Years later,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/fifth-beatle-died-after-fight-lennon-sister-claims-95936.html" target="_blank">Sutcliffe&#39;s sister would claim</a> the brain hemorrhage was caused by Lennon kicking Sutcliffe in the head during a fight.&nbsp;

The following year, shortly before recording their debut single &quot;Love Me Do,&quot; Pete Best was fired and replaced by Ringo Starr, who joined Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison to become &quot;The Fab Four.&quot; The counterculture icons would only play together for eight prolific years before their split. After Lennon was murdered in 1980 and Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001, only McCartney and Starr were left to carry on the Beatles&#39; bright <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/beatles-conspiracy-theory-list/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">albeit complex</a>&nbsp;legacy - one with a very dark side.

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Halloween: The one night a year you can be anyone else!

Getting in the Spooky Spirit

Trick or Treat - but really all treats for the Halloween season.

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Halloween

Halloween, for a lot of us, is truly the&nbsp;most wonderful time of the year.&nbsp; If only there were a wide assortment of great vintage Halloween songs to play at our Halloween party. Why does Christmas get so many damn songs? Save some for the other holidays, composers and musicians of the world. Aren't there any great Halloween songs? Ah, well, as a matter of fact, yes, there are.&nbsp;There's old standard&nbsp;&quot;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOFCQ2bfmHw">The Monster Mash</a>,&quot; as well as classics like &quot;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL1ZH0Ke92A">The Purple People Eater</a>,&quot; and&nbsp;&quot;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O9a7M2F5s8">The Witch Doctor</a>.&quot; Problem is,&nbsp;that's about all most people know, except for a few&nbsp;pop songs associated with zombies and ghouls, like&nbsp;Michael Jackson's &quot;Thriller&quot; or the original Ghostbusters theme song. Yet there are countless great Halloween songs out there for your spooktacular playlist.&nbsp;How quickly society has forgotten that the first decade of rock &amp; roll also&nbsp;spawned <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25507392-monster-mash">The Monster Craze</a>. Starting with the first televised airing of Universal's classic&nbsp;Frankenstein in 1957, teenagers and young&nbsp;kids went nuts for monsters and rock music. So it wasn't long before the two&nbsp;converged and gave birth to a chilling, thrilling, at the time new (but now largely forgotten) subgenre of monster rock.The subculture produced some wonderful songs (more than&nbsp;100, in fact!), most of which now languish&nbsp;on obscure rockin' Halloween&nbsp;compilations.&nbsp;This list provides&nbsp;highlights, but there's a whole new/old world beneath the tip of this iceberg. If you love monsters and Halloween, it could be just what you're looking for.If you dare...

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Sometimes, finding out who did it just as shocking as the details of the deed itself, and everyone is like "This guy? THIS guy?" (but some are like, "Yeah, I totally believe that guy did it").

People Who Went Too Far

Shining a spotlight on shocking deeds done by damsels in anything but distress.

Very Bad Girls

Some of the most ruthless and&nbsp;prolific female murderers are known as&nbsp;black widows - ladies who use&nbsp;their feminine nature in some way to lure their victims.

Deadly black widows hold a particular fascination for crime buffs&nbsp;and horror fans, so it&#39;s only fitting that we examine some of them in a historical context. This list looks at high-profile cases of female murderers from times past, giving a rundown of their alleged crimes, body counts, and ultimate fates.

10 Ruthless Black Widow Killers Whose Crimes Made History

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The Horrors of the Third Reich

Adolf Hitler

We all wish we had a guardian angel. Some of us are even nice enough to wish everyone else had one, too. But maybe we should be careful what we wish for, because if guardian angels were real,&nbsp;it would mean that awful people would end up with heavenly protection. People like <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/strange-hitler-facts/mike-rothschild">Adolf Hitler</a>, for example.&nbsp;

One of the most evil people in history, Hitler himself believed he enjoyed supernatural protection from God; or sometimes, from &quot;the gods,&quot; if he was in a particularly neo-pagan mood. And as you will see from the list below, it seems the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany had good reason to think there were occult forces working to keep him alive.

The following crazy coincidences from Hitler&#39;s life and rise to power do suggest that the future German dictator and mass murderer did indeed have a destiny. Any one of these incidents alone could be easily written off as luck, but when put together, they seem to form a frightening pattern: some otherworldly force or entity might have been looking out for Adolf Hitler.

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