Top 10 Times Plot Twists Happened in Real Life

[Music] real people real twists welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 times plot twists happened in real life for this list we're going over the occasions when unexpected or shocking events played out in real life and in history number 10 caesar's joking revenge let's say you're a sicilian pirate just minding your own business sailing the seven seas and kidnapping random folks for ransom then one day one of your victims doesn't react in a distressed way he actually suggests you're asking too little for his ransom and proceeds to get along with you and your pirate buddies famously in fact he treats you more like a subordinate than a captor and even threatens to crucify you you'd be pretty thrown off by this behavior right well when the person you've kidnapped is a 25 year old nobleman by the name of julius caesar it starts to make a bit more sense after about a month caesar's ransom was paid and he made good on his promise he raised forces to capture the pirates and saw to their crucifixions number 9. hemingway's paranoia ernest hemingway was a celebrated american author but he was also a soldier a war correspondent and even worked with the fbi given his time spent in cuba the last of these was particularly helpful to the us government hemingway was initially unimpressed with the organization but his derision turned to fear as time went on in his later years hemingway was convinced the bureau was keeping tabs on him following him around and even bugging his hospital room at the mayo clinic 20 years after his death the freedom of information act allowed the truth to come out the fbi really was following and monitoring hemingway primarily due to his support of castro's regime in cuba number eight a change in strategy miyamoto musashi was one of the most famous japanese swordsmen to ever live remaining undefeated even after fighting 61 duels for the purpose of this entry though we'll be discussing just a few of them in 1604 musashi challenged yoshioka seijiro the master of the yoshioka school to a duel despite arriving late as was his habit musashi defeated and physically disabled seizures the heir to the school cediro's 12 year old son challenged him next but he assembled a group of men armed with swords bows and guns to lie and wait for the perpetually late swordsman however to everyone's surprise musashi actually arrived early for a change and ambushed the group managing to kill many of them and escape number 7. ambiguous spy chevalier deion was an 18th century french soldier and spy deo worked undercover in both russia and england and that undercover work was aided by an androgynous appearance there was even a running bet about which gender deon truly was the mysterious spy eventually identified as female claiming to have maintained a male appearance so that luis deon de beaumont dale's father could inherit from his in-laws deon was forced to wear only women's clothing after this declaration in another twist of the story however an autopsy later revealed that deon may have been born intersex which would account for this fascinating figure's androgyny number 6. anti-corruption switch chester a arthur began his career in politics as a poster boy for the stalwart faction of the republican party as a group they favored awarding positions to friends and those close to them rather than you know based on merit naturally people panicked when the more moderate james garfield was assassinated with his assassin proclaiming his support for the stalwarts and arthur however arthur then shocked everyone by backing reform that mandated government positions go to those most qualified by signing the pendleton civil service reform act into law in 1883. for once being a two-faced politician worked out to everyone's benefit arthur didn't have an impressive presidency but it was more than competent and considering how it started that's well impressive number five cold war experiments created a monster in the late 1950s harvard psychologist henry murray conducted experiments on students possibly as part of the cia mind control program project mkultra henry murray was using students to study the effect of stress he did that by subjecting them to long periods of intense interrogation designed to break down their egos to break down their confidence the experiments were purposely brutal and involved tearing down the beliefs of the subjects and making them question everything they once believed one of these subjects used as a control and codenamed lawful was underage at the time and a prodigy who later went on to become an assistant math professor at uc berkeley that means he must have left past traumas behind him right the boy codenamed lawful recorded higher stress levels under questioning than any other participant well in 1969 he abruptly resigned from berkeley and later retreated to a remote cabin in montana essentially becoming a hermit he started mailing bombs to airlines and universities and if you haven't guessed already lawful was ted kaczynski more famously known as the unabomber as a young man he was so conventional that he was codenamed lawful but the fbi now calls him unabomber his real name ted kaczynski number four the do-over that launched a world war in the early 20th century austria-hungary was occupying bosnia-herzegovina which was then part of serbia the serbs were upset to that end a serbian military society planned to assassinate archduke franz ferdinand when he visited sarajevo for a state visit but despite their plans their attempt at killing the archduke by bombing his motorcade ended in failure the bomb was thrown by nadelko chabrinovich a member of the young serbian nationalist movement there are a few injuries but ferdinand and his wife are unharmed after surviving this ordeal the archduke decided to visit those who'd been injured in the bombing in the hospital ending up stopped right next to a would-be assassin gavrilo princip just happens to be standing outside schiller's delicatessen when suddenly the archduke's car turns into france joseph street completely by chance fate has brought the assassin and his target within 10 feet of each other franz ferdinand was assassinated and the first world war was sparked as a result and it's fair to say that that bullet that second bullet has enormous consequences in history that bullet kills 20 million people number three ships in disguise armed merchant vessels may be something of an oddity nowadays but they've been fairly common throughout history given the need to defend oneself on the open water during wartime some of these vessels were converted and used in battle during world war 1 the germans modified one of these merchant cruisers the cap trafalgar to resemble a british merchant ship the rms carmania in the hopes of catching the real enemy by surprise but twist unfortunately for them the first vessel they ran into was the real rms carmania which engaged it and promptly sank its german doppelganger number two olga gets revenge after igor of kiev ruler of the kievan ruse in the 10th century was murdered by a tribe called the drevelians his wife olga became regent to prevent a war the drebelians proposed that olga marry their prince who had had her husband killed far from being a meek widow olga had their first ambassadors buried alive the second group burned alive and had those that came to her husband's funeral feast massacred the dremelians gave up and surrendered begging her to spare their lives which olga agreed to but she asked for birds from each home as a sort of tribute my king has married and i owe my new queen a wedding gift [Music] ah she turned over a new leaf nice oh wait what she tied burning fabric to these birds because she knew they lived in the roofs of their homes and burned down their entire city gotcha before we unveil our number one pick here are some twisty honorable mentions spanish double agent juan pujol garcia created a fake fascist identity and passed misinformation to the nazis juan pujol codenamed garbo by mi5 alaric by the ab vowel it's probably the most important double agent of all time first female u.s president woodrow wilson's wife edith assumed his duties for over a year after a stroke immediately edith moved to protect her husband from the burdens of the presidency and began to sort through the piles of papers gathering on his desk high-level spy double agents kim philby almost led mi6 before he and others were exposed as soviet spies furthermore because i'd been born into the british governing class because i knew a lot of people of an influential standing i knew that they would never get too tough with me they never tried to beat me up or knocked me around because um if they had been proved wrong afterwards i could have made a tremendous scandal mobster fbi connection whitey bulger informed on his rivals to take over their territory for 20 years one man ran the city of boston he controlled the cops the politicians and the criminals his name was james joseph bulger but on the streets of boston he was simply known as whitey man turned up at his own funeral tim dexter faked his death and then rampaged when everyone quote wasn't sad enough [Music] before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one peace treaty leads to more war peace treaties are generally meant to stop wars not start them however that was exactly what the treaty of versailles which concluded world war one did in many cases they were dealing with factors way outside their control or anyone else's control outside anyone's ability to control how do you control ethnic nationalism we haven't made such a great job of it today the allied powers insisted on reparations from germany that devastated their economy so when a charismatic leader and public speaker named adolf hitler and his nazi party came along the country was ripe for exploitation and the next thing you know world war ii had begun each step hitler and his government took to counter the treaty of versailles reinforced his hold on german society although the first world war had been called the war to end all wars this second conflict ended up being the deadliest in history if a peace treaty that's meant to stop and prevent wars actually initiates one isn't a real-life plot twist we don't know what is the treaty of versailles was supposed to give meaning to the lives of the tens of millions of dead and wounded in the great war it didn't do that it did teach that military conquest alone offers no lasting safety do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from watchmojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos [Music] you

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Length: 12min 2sec (722 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2020