Who Was Dennis Rader’s Wife, Paula? Married 34 Years Before Learning Her Husband Was The BTK Killer
Paula Dietz spent 34 years of marriage with Dennis Rader, aka the notorious ‘BTK Killer’. She had no idea that behind the dutiful husband mask, …
Lichtenberg Figures: The Fractal Patterns of Lightning Strike Scars
Being struck by lightning is both dangerous and terrifying—and often fatal. In some cases, the electrical discharge leaves behind a striking, tattoo-like pattern on the …
Giants in Aztec Mythology
The ancient Aztec civilization of Mesoamerica had many myths, including stories about huge beings that walked the earth in the beginning. People believed that these …
U.S. seals Saddam’s final hiding place
U.S. engineers have sealed the underground bunker where Saddam Hussein was captured to prevent it from becoming a tourist attraction, the military said on Saturday. …
Aogashima: Japan’s Volcanic Enclave – A Journey to the Edge of the World
Aogashima: Japan’s Volcanic Enclave – A Journey to the Edge of the World Nestled in the vast Philippine Sea, Aogashima is a volcanic …
The Night Billy Idol Had to Be Tranquilized in Bangkok
(And Why It’s Still the Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Escape Story Ever Told) Picture this: it’s 1989. “White Wedding” and “Rebel Yell” are still on …
New documentary explores mystery of Titanic’s ‘Unknown Child’
Days after the Titanic hit an iceberg, a Canadian morgue ship was dispatched to the North Atlantic where sailors were confronted with a grisly sight: …
The king of the jungle: Archive pictures from George V’s hunting trip in India in 1911 show him posing alongside the tigers and rhinos he had killed
These remarkable photos of King George V hunting show just how much social attitudes can change in 100 years. The King’s hunting party killed 60 …
Filled with feces and mistreated: the terrible case of the young woman locked in her room for 25 years by her family
Humanity went through a very difficult 2020 amid a pandemic that killed more than 360,000 people worldwide and forced a highly complex measure: lockdowns for …
Eisenhower at Ohrdruf: The Day a Soldier Became History’s Witness
April 12, 1945 –Ohrdruf-Nord, sub-camp of Buchenwald, Germany The wind carried the smell first: sweet-rot, lime, and smoke that would not wash out of uniforms …