Brenda Ann Spencer: The Girl That Didn't Like Mondays
n Monday, January 29, 1979, a journalist from The San Diego Union-Tribune got the quote of a lifetime from 16-year-old Brenda Ann...
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Nellie Bly, The Journalist That Beat Phileas Fogg's Journey Around The World
With his 1873 classic Around the World in Eighty Days, master raconteur Jules Verne skilfully captured the excitement of an era in which...
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Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi, The Japanese Soldier Found Hiding In The Jungles Of Guam 28 After The War Ended
Upon returning to Japan, and after surviving in a Guam jungle for nearly three decades, Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi was given a hero's welcome -...
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The Ghost That Testified Against Her Husband
How could a young, healthy woman drop dead of an “everlasting faint”? This question was one of the things keeping Mary Jane Heaster, of...
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Rudyard Kipling: The Early Opium, Sex Workers And Booze Years
Kipling was born in India but shipped back to England when a child, as was the custom back then. But he returned aged 16 for seven...
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The Great Brinks Robbery Of 1950: A Perfect Crime...Almost.
On January 17, 1950, 11 men steal more than $2 million ($29 million today) from the Brink's Armored Car depot in Boston, Massachusetts....
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The 'Natural Born Killers', Caril Ann Fugate And Charles Starkweather
When she was just 13 years old, Caril Ann Fugate met Charles Starkweather. Though he was five years older than her, Fugate was enamored...
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Outrageously Good Tales About Little Richard
Being gay and black in the deep south during the 1950s may sound like a recipe for disaster, but not so much for Little Richard....
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The Murder Of 'The Black Dahlia' And The Man That Is Convinced His Father Was The Killer
10 AM. January 15, 1947. Betty Bersinger, a mother out for a morning walk with her child, they were walking down Norton Avenue in Los...
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"Let It Be Known, Homosexuals Are Not Cowards" The Brave Story of Willem Arondeus
One evening in March 1943, a building burst into flames in Amsterdam. By dawn, scattered pieces of paper shone through the charred...
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David Bowie & Tina Turner: Did They Or Didn't They?...
Few would have predicted Tina Turner’s triumphant comeback in 1984, when Private Dancer put her on top of the album charts – least of...
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'Colonel' Tom Parker, A Man Of Mystery, Or Maybe Just A Murdering Chancer.
To say The Colonel was a controversial figure would be something of an understatement. From his own mysterious background to his...
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Dead Popes; Do They Still Hit Them On The Head With a Hammer To Make Sure They're Dead?
Following the death of a pope, the camerlengo has the duty of “safeguarding and administering the goods and temporal rights of the Holy...
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The Death Of Rasputin, Poisoned, Shot Twice, Beaten And Drowned...Or Was He?
Sometime over the course of the night and the early morning of December 29-30, 1916, Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, a self-proclaimed holy...
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The Macabre Journey Of Eva Perón’s Corpse
Such was the outpouring of public grief following the death in July 1952 of Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón, that...
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David Ferrie And His Connection To Lee Harvey Oswald, The CIA And The Assassination Of JFK
For most of his life, David Ferrie struck those who knew him as an oddball. Bouncing from job to job, attempting to conceal his alopecia...
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Take A Tour On Board Led Zeppelin's Boeing 720, Otherwise Known As 'Starship'
When Led Zeppelin toured North America for their 1973 and 1975 concert tours they chartered (did not buy or own) “The Starship.” “The...
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Menno Huizinga’s Sensational Photographs of Dutch Boys After Liberation From Nazi Germany – 1945
In 1945, photographer Menno Huizinga (October 28, 1907 – 14, 1947) took these photos of excited Dutch boys hanging onto the doors of a...
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Rosie Ruiz, The Runner That 'Won" The Boston Marathon With The Help Of The NYC Subway
Rosie Ruiz, age 26, finished first in the women’s division of the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:31:56 on April 21, 1980. She was...
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The Daily Mail, Lord Rothermere And Their Fondness For Hitler.
The first viscount Rothermere assumed control of the Daily Mail following the death of his brother Lord Northcliffe in 1922. Together...
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These Volkswagen Beetles Converted Into “Bug Campers”
Volkswagen Beetles have skittered across roads since the 1930’s – but in the 1970s, a company transformed these iconic cars into adorable...
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The Strange Life Of Timothy Dexter, Accidental Millionaire and Disappointed With His Own Funeral.
What drives the world’s most successful business people? Is it greed? Ambition? Or ego? Perhaps a mix of all three? In the strange case...
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Christmas Cards Created By Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí’s artistic talent and craftsmanship knew no bounds. Whether he tried his hand at painting, drawing, photography, sculpture,...
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