Heaven's Gate And The Mass Suicide Of Its 39 Members.
It was one of the strangest and saddest news headlines of 1997. Inside a San Diego mansion, authorities discovered the remains of 39...
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Will and William West: The Identical Inmates That Showed The Need For Fingerprinting
On May 1, 1903, a man named Will West entered the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth. Like any other new prisoner, West was...
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The Tragic And Ridiculous Story of the Berberovs, a Soviet Family Who Raised Pet Lions at Home
The Berberov family from Baku of Azerbaijan became famous throughout the Soviet Union in the 1970s, holding two pet lions inside their...
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Bonkers Reasons For Divorce That Made US Headlines Between 1910 And 1920
This photo collection shows historic newspaper clippings that feature weird and, sometimes, funny reasons for divorce in the US that made...
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The Two Kashmir Giants Posing With The American Photographer James Ricalton, 1903
The Durbar of 1903 was held in Delhi to celebrate the succession of the British monarch King Edward VII (the great-grandfather of the...
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The Strange Story of Eben Byers, The Man That Drank Radium Until His Jaw Fell Off
Eben Byers could have lived a privileged, enviable life. The son of a rich industrialist, he attended the best schools in the United...
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Japanese Soldier Hiroo Onoda Finally Surrendered Nearly 30 Years After WW2 Ended
Nearly 30 years after the end of the Second World War Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally surrendered in 1974. He had been waging his...
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Doctor Fukushi Masaichi And The Art Of Preserving Tattooed Skin
Tattoos have different meanings across different cultures, running the gamut from sacred art to the mark of criminals. In Japan, tattoos...
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Tarrare, The 18th-Century French Showman Who Ate Everything From Human Flesh To Live Eels
It was the 1790s and Tarrare — born circa 1772 and known only as “Tarrare” — was a soldier in the French Revolutionary Army who was...
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That Time Charlie Chaplin’s Body Was Stolen and Held for Ransom
Charlie Chaplin had ‘em rolling in the aisles. However, his death was far from a laughing matter. You could say he turned in his grave....
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Otto Rahn and the Third Reich’s Hunt for the Holy Grail: Proper Indiana Jones Stuff
In the early days of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler and his inner circle were obsessed with finding the Holy Grail. They believed the...
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The 'Baronet' From Wagga Wagga, Arthur Orton, or Tom Castro, Or Roger Tichborne
The story of the Tichbourne Claimant has all the elements of a Victorian Melodrama, but it illustrates in many ways real life is...
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The Bizarre Plot To Kidnap Abraham Lincoln's Body
On May 4, 1865, after weeks of lying in state and then in repose in twelve cities, the sixteenth president was “laid to rest” inside a...
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Cary Grant And His Experiments With LSD
When we think of the distinguished British actor Cary Grant, one of the most poised and debonair film stars in cinematic history, we...
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How Fidel Castro Survived 638 Very Bizarre Assassination Attempts
In 2006 the former head of Cuban intelligence, Fabian Escalante, told a British documentary team the CIA had tried to kill Fidel Castro...
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The London Beer Flood of 1814
While the concept of a flood of beer filling the streets of your city does not sound frightening at first, the London Beer Flood of 1814...
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Meet Charles Domery,The 18th-Century Polish Soldier Who Ate Literally Anything
History is rife with intriguing individuals who defy traditional human limits and decency. For Charles Domery, also known as Charles...
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A Machine Invented To Fling Babies Out Of Pregnant People (The Blonsky Device)
What if pregnant patients could simply strap themselves to a table, spin at a high speed, and propel the baby out? What could go wrong?...
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Meet Roland the Farter: Medieval England’s Celebrity Flatulist
A manor in Suffolk and a whopping 30 acres (12 hectares) of land was given to a person who was renowned for his ability to gas, quite...
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Adolf Frederick, The Swedish King Who Ate Himself To Death
The Story of Adolf Frederick King Adolf Frederick was born on the 14th of May 1710. He was the son of Christian August and Albertina...
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Charles Harrelson — Woody Harrelson’s Dad Who Worked As A Hitman For Cartels
Sometimes, the most interesting actors come from eccentric parents or broken childhoods. The latter is undoubtedly the case with Woody...
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Sarah Goodridge And One Of The Earliest Examples Of 'Sending Nudes'
It is a painting so seductive, so intriguing, we cannot help but want to know the story behind it. Adding to the seductiveness is the...
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Franz Reichelt; The Man That Died While Testing His Homemade Flying Suit.
They say “pride cometh before the fall.” In few circumstances can this be applied so literally as in the case of parachute inventor Franz...
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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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