VIDEO: Scariest People Who Ever Lived!

We all know about the crazy criminals and serial killers who’ve committed terrible acts, but what if I told you there are even scarier people out there?

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This video presents the creepiest, strangest people in history!

I have always been fascinated with Grigori Rasputin. I mean, the guy must’ve been superhuman!

According to Wikipedia, he was born a peasant in the small village of Pokrovskoye, along the Tura River in the Tobolsk guberniya (now Tyumen Oblast) in Siberia. According to official records, he was born on 21 January 1869 and christened the following day. He was named for St. Gregory of Nyssa, whose feast was celebrated on January 10.

Like many spiritually minded Russians, Rasputin spoke of salvation as depending less on the clergy and the church than on seeking the spirit of God within. He also maintained that sin and repentance were interdependent and necessary to salvation.

Thus, he claimed that yielding to temptation (and, for him personally, this meant sex and alcohol), even for the purposes of humiliation (so as to dispel the sin of vanity), was needed to proceed to repentance and salvation. Rasputin was deeply opposed to war, both from a moral point of view and as something which was likely to lead to political catastrophe.

During the years of World War I, Rasputin’s increasing drunkenness, sexual promiscuity and willingness to accept bribes (in return for helping petitioners who flocked to his apartment), as well as his efforts to have his critics dismissed from their posts, made him appear increasingly cynical.

Attaining divine grace through sin seems to have been one of the central secret doctrines which Rasputin preached to (and practiced with) his inner circle of society ladies.

On 12 July 1914 a 33-year-old peasant woman named Chionya Guseva attempted to assassinate Rasputin by stabbing him in the stomach outside his home in Pokrovskoye. Rasputin was seriously wounded, and for a time it was not clear that he would survive the attack.

After a local doctor performed emergency surgery in Rasputin’s home and some time in a hospital in Tyumen, however, Rasputin recovered from the attack.

Guseva was a follower of Iliodor, a former priest who had supported Rasuptin before denouncing his sexual escapades and self-aggrandizement in December 1911. A radical conservative and anti-semite, Iliodor had been part of a group of establishment figures who had attempted to drive a wedge between the royal family and Rasputin in 1911.

When this effort failed, Iliodor had had been banished from St. Petersburg and was ultimately defrocked. Guseva claimed to have acted alone, having read about Rasputin in the newspapers and believing him to be a “false prophet and even an Antichrist.”

Both the police and Rasputin, however, believed that Iliodor had played some role in the attempt on Rasputin’s life. Iliodor fled the country before he could be questioned about the assassination attempt, and Guseva was found to be not responsible for her actions due to insanity.

According to his daughter Maria, Rasputin was very much changed by the experience and began to drink alcohol.