TopTenz Author: Evan Andrews

Top 10 Facts about Evan Andrews

1. He lives in Richmond, VA and attended college in the great state of North Carolina.
2. He has an obsession with books, movies and music that borders on unhealthy. He writes a blog about movies at www.theseventhartfilm.blogspot.com
3. He enjoys fishing, and is always on the lookout for the elusive large mouth bass. Maybe even a catfish or two.
4. He is a big soccer fan, but is way too out of shape to actually play it.
5. Darts are more his speed.
6. He loves history, especially the weirder stories that tend to fly under the radar.
7. He plays the keyboard. Badly.
8. He had way too much fun and wasted way too much time researching the Sasquatch for the Top Ten Cryptids list.
9. He was a big fan of the "Top Ten Best Comebacks” list, and has been trying to find ways to work them into everyday conversation.
10. He’s always looking for more writing opportunities. E-mail him at: evanmandrews@gmail.com

The Latest 10 Top 10 Lists by Evan Andrews:

• Top 10 Weirdest CIA Programs
• Top 10 Most Haunted Cities in the U.S.
• Top 10 Ghost Ships
• Top 10 British Crime Films
• Top 10 Unfinished Works Of Art
• Top 10 Con Games
• Top 10 Deadliest Gunslingers
• Top 10 Most Incredible Prison Escapes
• Top 10 Daredevils
• Top 10 Lost Cities

Over the years, the American Central Intelligence Agency has gained a reputation for being the most far-reaching, sophisticated, and effective government intelligence agency on the planet. At the same time, the CIA has also become known for its incredible paranoia and propensity to undertake costly, sometimes illegal, and often downright absurd projects in the name [...]

Visit even the smallest of towns in the U.S. and you’re likely to hear some local ghost stories and discover a few haunted houses. But some American cities have gained the reputation for being particularly ghost-ridden thanks to their rich and often bizarre historical backgrounds. The following are ten of the most haunted cities to [...]

Ghost ships, or phantom ships, make up a big part of the seafaring lore that has been passed down by sailors and fisherman throughout the years. The ships are said to be spectral apparitions that materialize on the horizon before quickly disappearing, and they are believed to be a sign of bad things to come. [...]

Ever since the 1940s, British film studios have been consistently making great crime and gangster films with a singular style and feel to them. Whether it’s the black comedies of the 1950s, the realistic, hard-boiled thrillers of the 1970s, or the flashy, fast-paced work of recent directors like Guy Ritchie, the following are ten of [...]

For every great work of art, literature, or architecture that gets completed, there are probably just as many that are abandoned and left unfinished because of wars, political strife, lack of funding, or the death of the artist. Most of these works are lost and forgotten, but some, by masters like Da Vinci and Mozart, [...]

Unlike most kinds of petty crime, a confidence game, or con, takes an enormous amount of skill and forethought to pull off. When done right, in many cases the grifters who perpetrate them have not actually done anything overtly illegal–they’ve simply used lies and manipulation to get their victim, or “mark,” to willingly hand over [...]

There’s no more iconic scene in Western movies than the good old-fashioned pistol duel, where the lawman and the outlaw meet at high noon to see who’s faster on the draw. In actuality, this kind of thing very rarely occurred, and the true life Western stories—like Wild Bill Hickok being shot in the back while [...]

Every year, thousands of inmates escape from prisons around the world. Of these, most just walk away from minimum-security corrections facilities, but other inmates implement complex, ingenious, and often violent schemes in order to make their getaway. Whether the work of notorious outlaws, WWII G.I.s, or 18th century writers, the following are the top 10 [...]

Some people call them crazy, while others consider them heroes, but there’s no denying that daredevils and stunt performers continue to command a huge amount of public fascination thanks to their death-defying acts of courage and outright lunacy. From skydivers and wirewalkers to magicians and flight-obsessed truck drivers, here are the top ten stunt men [...]

A city becomes “lost” when it is abandoned by its inhabitants and left to decay. This can be the result of war, migration, or natural disaster, but in each case these cities can act as a sort of time capsule, leaving a civilization frozen in history and waiting to be discovered. While many of these [...]