CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - Rogue AIs WILL destroy the world.

Real Life can be much more interesting than fiction... and some real life events sound like the first 10 minutes of horror films.

You've read the sci-fi stories and seen the films.  There's a project to create an AI.  Or an android or robot which will "mimic" human intelligence.  Or someone's mind gets put into a machine.

You know what's going to happen next.  Because the same thing always happens in these films (and because the trailer and synopsis gave it away:

The AI/Robot/Ghost in the Machine will try to take over the world and kill all humans.

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - Radiation Eating Bacteria

Real Life can be much more interesting than fiction.  Some real life events sound like the first 10 minutes of horror films...

Microbiologists discovered 35 new groups of bacteria in Rifle, Colorado.  One strain of which "breathes" uranium.

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - Prehistoric Shark

Real Life can be much more interesting than fiction.  Some real life events sound like the first 10 minutes of horror films...

Prehistoric killer from the ocean's depths.  A shark rarely seen because it exists in deep waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean... and relativelu shallow waters around Japan that is often called a "living fossil" because he retains features from as far back as the Jurassic era.

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - Creatures from the Depths of Space

Real Life can be much more interesting than fiction.  Some real life events sound like the first 10 minutes of horror films...

Are there things alive in the vacwm of space?  Alive, growing, planing to feed?

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - CDC Outbreak 3: Anthrax!

Real Life can be much more interesting than fiction.  Some real life events sound like the first 10 minutes of horror films...

Even non-existent horror films deserve can become a pointless franchise, so we bring you CDC Outbreak 3...

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CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - CDC Outbreak 2: Bird Flu Contamination

Real Life can be much more interesting than fiction.  Some real life events sound like the first 10 minutes of horror films...

Even non-existent horror films deserve sequels, so we bring you CDC Outbreak 2...

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CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - CDC Outbreak

Real Life can be much more interesting than fiction.  Some real life events sound like the first 10 minutes of horror films...

In the non-existent horror film Man-Made Super Flu we discovered that scientists had mutated the H1N1 virus into a more dangerous form.  But luckily it was confided to a Level 2 Bio-hazard lab so the horror film nightmare could never happen because labs are so safe...

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CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - Man-Made Super Flu

Real Life can be much more interesting than fiction.  Some real life events sound like the first 10 minutes of horror films...

In 2009, the H1N1 virus, responsible for 17,000 deaths worldwide during the  Swine Flu pandemic.  Most people now have an immunity too it.

But now, Scientists have managed to mutate it to bypass that immunity...

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The work was done in a Level 2 Biohazard Lab.  Which is great, because we all know how well those work in films.  And if it escapes the lab humans would be defenceless against it.

~ DUG.

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - Caves of the Moon

Real Life can be much more interesting than fiction.  Some real life events sound like the first 10 minutes of horror films...

Following the discovery of the existence of volcanic tunnels on the moon, Russian officials have suggested that Cosmonauts and moon colonists could live in them.

Cosmonauts.  On the moon.  Living in unexplored caves.

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~ DUG.

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - Poveglia: Island of Madness

Real Life can be much more interesting than fiction.  Some real life events sound like the first 10 minutes of horror films...

Poveglia is one of the islands in the Venetian Lagoon and is considered by some the most haunted island on Earth (You have to go to Europa for the most haunted island in the Solar System).  Oh, and it's now available for a 99 year lease from the Italian government.

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CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - The Giant Prehistoric Virus Returns

Late Feb 2014.

French scientist find a giant 30,000 year old virus in permafrost, defrost it.  After 30,000 year this formerly extinct virus is alive again and infectious...

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CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - Miami Zombie Attack

26th May 2012.

Rudy Eugene's car broke down.  He walked away from his car, leaving 5 recently consumed water bottles and his bible.  As he walked he removed and discarded his clothes.  He soon came across homeless man Ronald Poppo, Eugene, by this time completely naked, began to strip Poppo and eat his face.  After an 18 minute attack Eugene was shot ded by a police officer and Poppo was left with most of his face missing and his left eye gouged out...

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CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - The Graves of the Insane

1460 - 1674
The Bethlem Royal Hospital for the Insane, London.

The world's first hospital dedicated to housing the insane, where they were kept in squalid conditions, chained and effectively naked: a place of such horror that the nickname for it became a word for an uproar or confusion - Bedlam.

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CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - The Camp Scott Murders

Monday 13th June 1977
Camp Scott Lodge, Mayne County, Oklahoma.

About 6am a camp counselor on her way to the showers finds the bound and bloody bodies of 3 girl scouts (ages 8, 9 & 10) in their sleeping bags 140 yards from their tent.

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Gene Lerot Hunt, convicted rapist and kidnapper, who had been on the run after escaping from prison 4 years earlier was quickly suspected and a 10 month manhunt began.  During the manhunt Hunt's mother claimed that a local sheriff was trying to frame her son for the murders.  Eventually he was found in the home of a Cherokee medicine man who claimed that if Hunt was the real murder and was found innocent he'd die soon after.  Found not guilty, Hunt was returned to prison to complete his earlier sentence but died soon after.

Friday the 13th a film about murders at an abandoned summer camp was released in 1980.  The film states that Jason Voorhees' birthday is the 13th of June.

~ DUG.

CUE THE HORROR THEME MUSIC - Murder House

Sometimes you see or hear things in the real world that just seem like the set-up of a horror film or the first few minutes of The X-Files.  This is one of those...