The Girl Who Refused to Sell Her Soul
The True Story of Sixteen-Year-Old Maggie Hogan in Abilene, Kansas, 1883 In the cattle-dust streets of Abilene, Kansas, in the fall of 1883, a sixteen-year-old …
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The Hangman of Nuremberg
The Disturbing Truth About Master Sergeant John C. Woods He killed 347 people with a rope, and he did it with a smile. Between 1944 …
Lincoln’s Face Told the Story Before History Did
Look at the two photographs side by side. 1861 Abraham Lincoln arrives in Washington for his first inauguration. The face is long, angular, and unmistakably …
The Man Who Was Both a Dwarf and a Giant: The Tragic, True Story of Adam Rainer
In the entire recorded history of medicine, only one human being has ever been officially classified as both a dwarf and a giant during his …
The Twelve-Cent Slave: A Louisiana Secret That Died With the Cypress Trees
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana – October 1844 The auction block that day was almost empty. Rain had turned the yard to red mud, and most …
The Man They Called “The Snake”: The Extraordinary Life of Prince Randian
British Guiana, 1871. In a small village near Georgetown, a boy was born with no arms and no legs (only a head, torso, and a …
White Boy Rick: The Teenager the FBI Turned into a Drug Dealer, Then Buried for Life
Detroit, 1987. Crack was eating the city alive. Drive-by shootings were so common that mothers kept their kids on the floor at night. The police …
The Nursing Home That Defeated Influenza with Towels
Da Nang, Vietnam – late 1976. The influenza arrived without warning, sweeping through the city’s overcrowded nursing homes like fire through dry grass. It was …
The Forgotten Kings of the Sky: When Two Brothers Stayed Aloft for 23 Straight Days
Imagine this: it’s the summer of 1930, and somewhere above the flat Midwestern horizon, a little orange monoplane named Stinson Detroiter called City of Chicago …
The Day a 12-Year-Old Girl Drove a Car to Save Her Puppy (and a Texas Cop Restored Everyone’s Faith in Humanity)
It started like any other sick day. Twelve-year-old Emily Carter was curled up on the couch in her quiet house outside a small town in …