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Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Philosopher Eaten Alive by Dogs While Immobilized in a Cow Dung Body Cast
When Surrounded US Marines Requested Ammunition and Got Tootsie Rolls Instead
Leslie Harvey: The Rocker Electrocuted to Death Live Onstage
WWII’s Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, History’s Sole Rocket-Propelled Fighter
King Charles III’s Prophet Muhammad Ancestry
Chin Shi Huangdi’s Death: The Emperor Who Poisoned Himself Seeking Immortality Drugs
The 1974 White House Helicopter Incident: When a Disturbed Army Private Landed a Stolen Huey on the White House Lawn
Stalin’s Soviet Millionaires: High Rollers in the Communist ‘Workers’ Paradise’
“Tell Them I Said Something!” – Pancho Villa’s Last Words
The Hammersmith Ghost Hysteria: A Public Panic that Led to a Landmark Murder Case
The Shrigley Abduction: When New Zealand’s Founder Kidnapped and Coerced a 15 y.o. Heiress Into Marriage
The Tycoon and the Teenager: When Actress Jane Greer Rejected His Advances, Howard Hughes Bought a Studio to Wreck Her Career
Shinichi Fujimura: The Rock Star Archaeologist Exposed as Archaeology’s Biggest Fraud
Arrhichion of Phigalia: The Ancient Athlete Who Was Crowned Olympic Champion Despite Being Dead
The Norrmalmstorg Robbery: The Bungled Bank Robbery that Birthed Stockholm Syndrome
The Flying Gang and Republic of Pirates: When Pirates Took Over the Bahamas
Wealthy Heiress Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army: From Kidnapped Rich Girl to Radical Revolutionary
The Monaghan Lunatic Asylum Soviet: The Irish Asylum that Raised a Red Flag and Declared a Soviet
The Great Molasses Flood: When Boston Was Engulfed in a Sticky Tsunami
Himmler’s Family After WWII: The Alternate Moral Universe of a ‘Nazi Princess’
Ten Cent Beer Night Riot: The Worst Promotion in American Sports History
When Britain Turned on its Recent WWII Ally and Destroyed an Anchored French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir
The Shroud of Turin: A Medieval Forgery and One of History’s Most Resilient Hoaxes
Zeuxis, the Ancient Greek Painter Who Laughed Himself to Death
The 1855 Toronto Clown Riot, Sparked by Clowns Beating Up Firefighters in a Brothel Brawl
Michael Fagan: The Disturbed Man Who Broke Into Queen Elizabeth II’s Bedroom
WWII Battle of Los Angeles Panic: The Night LA Was Engulfed by Hysteria and Wild Antiaircraft Firing
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte: The Napoleonic French Marshal Who Became King of Sweden
George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence: The Royal Executed by Drowning in a Barrel of Wine
Saint Lawrence, Patron Saint of Comedians, Cracked Jokes During His Execution
The Donation of Constantine: History’s Most Impactful Forgery
The Immovable Ladder that Stayed Put in a Church for Three Centuries
Shady Nineteenth Century Archaeologist Eugene Boban and the Crystal Skulls Hoax
When Santa Beat Up a Priest: The Not So Nice Side of Saint Nick
Assassin Bonnier de La Chappelle Went Before a Firing Squad Believing its Bullets Were Blanks
How Hitler’s Rejection from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts Shaped His Worldview
The Bizarre Case of Mitsuyasu Maeno: Japanese Porn Star Who Flew a Kamikaze Plane Into a Yakuza Boss’ House to Protest an American Corruption Scandal
The Lovable Tramp’s Kinky Side: The Scandals That Got Charlie Chaplin De Facto Deported from the US
Matthew Hopkins, the Self-Proclaimed ‘Witch Finder General’ Who Got Dozens of Innocents Executed for Witchcraft
Corporal Wojtek the Bear: World War II’s Furriest Soldier
The Zveno Project: The Soviet Flying Aircraft Carrier
The ‘Dynamite Fiend’: Conman, Confederate Spy, and Mass Murderer Alexander Keith Jr.
Meowing Nuns: The Weird Mass Hysteria that Swept a Medieval Convent
Arms Dealer Basil Zaharoff: The Modern Era’s First ‘Merchant of Death’
Farouk of Egypt: The ‘Pickpocket King’ Who Stole Winston Churchill’s Watch
Holy Dong! Fascinus: The Flying Roman Phallic God
Dance Marathons: From Cheerful Events in the Roaring Twenties, to Sad Spectacles in the Great Depression
Vlad the Impaler, the Real Life Dracula, Did Far Worse Than Suck People’s Blood
Dromomania: The Uncontrollable Travel Phenomenon That Swept Nineteenth Century France
The Man Who Laughed Himself to Death Watching ‘The Goodies’
Ishinosuke Uwano, the Missing Japanese Holdout Who Resurfaced 61 Years After WWII Ended
The Vulture War: When Naturalists Fought Over How Buzzards Find Food
Einstein’s Miracle Year: He Revolutionized Science in a Few Months When He Was Twenty Six
The Great Cheese Riot: Fighting Soldiers With Wheels of Cheese
The Weird Maharajas Who Helped the British Control India
Petr Mikhailovich Borisov, the Soviet Scientist Who Wanted to Melt the Arctic Ice Cap
Bruce Carr Left Base in a USAAF P-51, and Returned in a German Fw 190
America’s Wilderness Could Have Been Full of Wild Elephants if Not for Abraham Lincoln
Cacareco: The Rhinoceros That Won an Election
Ferrante I: The King Who Displayed His Mummified Enemies in an Exhibit
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