How far are you willing to go to get what you want?

For the hostage takers on this list, the answer is all the way to murder and mayhem.

The demands from hostage takers can sometimes veer into the bizarre, like the group on

our list that carried out a mass killing after police negotiators failed to procure a

1,000-year-old ginger plant they wanted.

So how do you negotiate with armed terrorists to end a hostage crisis?

Find out!

It's just as hard as it sounds.

Number one on the list shows just how badly things can go when you try to resolve a harrowing,

hostage situation.

Hey all you weirdos!

Welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from podcast.

I'm Ash, and I'm Olena.

Every week we'll highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling

crimes all picked by the podcast Research Gods.

This episode we're counting down the top ten harrowing hostage situations.

I always see TikTok videos and this is so random, but about what the different signs would

do if they were being held hostage and being a Gemini, I've learned that they would

probably just toss me out because I talk too much.

But like bringing this to a real place in all reality, I just can't imagine what I would

do in such a terrifying experience.

I feel like I would like to think that I would go into some kind of survival mode and just

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