The Chilling True Story Of The Amityville Murders, The 3,500-Year-Old Severed Hands That May Have Been War Trophies In Ancient Egypt, And More

Explores History Uncovered's most popular stories this week. [History Uncovered]( [This 8-Year-Old Girl Just Unearthed A Stone Age Dagger Outside Her School In Norway]( [Elise was playing outside near her school in Norway when she came across the stone object — which turned out to be a 3,700-year-old flint dagger.]( [The Chilling True Story Of Ronald DeFeo Jr., The Murderer Who Inspired 'The Amityville Horror']( [When Ronald DeFeo Jr. went on trial for killing his entire family in 1974, his lawyer tried to build a case that he was a "possessed" and "insane" man who only became a murderer because of the demonic voices in his head. This tactic didn't work in court, and DeFeo was imprisoned for the gruesome crime — but the story was far from over.]( [A Collector Bought Some Jars For $25 At A Thrift Store — And It Turns Out They're Qing Dynasty Relics Worth $75,000]( [A ceramics collector had been perusing a London thrift store when they came across the two jars, which they bought with no knowledge of their rarity or financial value.]( [The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles, The Cryptic Street Messages That Started Popping Up In The 1980s]( [Toynbee Tiles first began appearing in Philadelphia in the 1980s with odd messages alluding to reviving the dead on Jupiter.]( [How A Nine-Year-Old's Horrifying Kidnapping And Murder Inspired The AMBER Alert System]( [The mom who came up with the system doesn't believe the police's claim that no one saw anything. She believes that the witnesses just didn't know what they were seeing.]( [These Ancient Rock Carvings On The Arabian Peninsula Might Be The Oldest Megastructure Blueprints In The World]( [Researchers say the etchings are scaled depictions of desert kites, complex walled structures used to hunt wild animals that are so large they're only visible from the air.]( ['If You Really Loved Me': How Cinnamon Brown's Father Manipulated Her Into Killing Her Stepmother]( [In 1985, David Brown ordered his 14-year-old daughter Cinnamon to murder her stepmother Linda, claiming that Linda was planning to kill him for his money.]( [These 3,500-Year-Old Severed Hands Dug Up By Archaeologists In Egypt Could Be Trophies Of War]( [The twelve hands were discovered buried together in the courtyard of an Egyptian palace dated to 3,500 years ago. The burial spot, visible from the palace's throne room, suggests they were placed there as part of a ceremony.]( [The Double Life Of Alpo Martinez, The Drug Lord Turned Federal Witness Who Couldn't Let Go Of His Past]( [After Alpo Martinez turned informant and finished his shortened prison sentence, he entered witness protection in 2015 and moved to Lewiston, Maine. There, Martinez started his own construction business, befriended his neighbors, and even shot hoops with local teenagers. No one suspected that he'd once been a drug kingpin — or that he couldn't let his past life go.]( [Archaeologists Just Uncovered A 7,000-Year-Old Road On The Floor Of The Mediterranean Sea]( [Archaeologist Mate Parica stumbled upon the first hints of the road completely by accident while looking at satellite images of the Adriatic sea floor in 2021.]( [This Oregon Nine-Year-Old Found A Strange 'Rock' In The Woods That Turned Out To Be A Prehistoric Mammoth Tooth]( [The boy's mother thought he had maybe found a piece of petrified wood, but after reaching out to some experts she was told it was a fossilized mammoth tooth.]( [Martha Place, The 'Brooklyn Murderess' Who Became The First Woman Executed By Electric Chair]( [Martha Place became the first woman ever executed by electric chair on March 20, 1899, after being found guilty of murdering her 17-year-old stepdaughter.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](