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Hashima Island is an abandoned island which lies approximately 9 miles from Nagasaki, Japan. It was once a bustling mining community, with undersea coal mines. From 1930 to the end of the Second World War, prisoners of war were sent to the island and forced to mine coal under harsh conditions. It’s estimated that approximately 1,300 prisoners perished on the island. When the coal reserves dissipated in 1974, the mine was closed and the island left abandoned.

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It was a brisk winter morning at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego on the 29th of January, 1979. The children were waiting outside for Principal Burton Wragg to unlock the schoolyard gate so they could begin their day of learning. However, this day would change their lives forever. Inside her home just 100 feet away was 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer. She was setting up a vantage point with her Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic and her .22 caliber rifle, both of which were gifts from her father.

Then she pulled the trigger and then again and again until the schoolyard was filled with screams of children. She fired 30 rounds of ammunition. She injured 8 children, ranging in age from 6-years-old to 12-years-old, and killed Wragg and the school custodian, Mike Suchar, as they protected the children. She also shot a responding police officer in the neck. After the shooting, she barricaded herself in her home. When a reporter called to speak to her and ask her why she did what she did, she cooly responded: “I just did it for the fun of it. I just don’t like Mondays. I did this because it’s a way to cheer up the day. Nobody likes Mondays.”

Six hours after the shooting, Brenda finally surrendered and was detained at Juvenile Hall. Those who knew Brenda told authorities that she often spoke about guns and bragged that she was going to kill a police officer one day. The shooting became the inspiration for The Boomtown Rats song “I Don’t Like Mondays.” Brenda pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. In 1993, she became eligible for parole hearings but has been denied parole each time.

After initially confessing, Brenda later said that she hadn’t intended on killing anybody. She claimed she thought if she shot outside, police would come and shoot her. “Well, that’s pretty good shooting to hit as many folks as you did if you’re not trying to hit anybody from across the street,” was the reply of the parole commissioner. In another one of these parole hearings, Brenda said for the first time that her father had been sexually abusing her; he denied these allegations and the parole board doubted that they were true. Brenda later confessed that she often felt guilty for modern day school shootings. “With every school shooting, I feel in partially responsible. What if they got the idea from what I did?” she said.

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The terrifying mask that Edward Paisnel, “The Beast of Jersey”, would wear as he broke into the homes of his unsuspecting victims where he would proceed to rape the women and children. He was charged with 13 counts of assault, rape, and sodomy, but it is believed that he abused many other children; there are even reports of him breaking into a childres home that was owned by his mother-in-law, where he would then drug and sexually assault the children.

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