Discover here stories from the weird, odd and unusual things. Sometimes creepy, sometimes tragic, but all that’s very interesting.
The June 1962 Alcatraz escape was a prison break from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security facility located on an island in San Francisco Bay, undertaken by inmates Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin. The three men were able…
In 1955, a boat's entire crew of 25 completely disappeared even though the boat itself didn't actually sink!
Over the past few centuries, there are twelve infamous places on Earth where humans have disappeared unexplainably. Probably no navigation system was able to handle it, and those unfortunate people…
A girl got on the train one night and saw there were seven rows of empty seats except the last one. Since being a little shy, she sat opposite a woman…
Mountaineering is inherently a risky endeavor. Beginners, cautious and risk-averse, start with smaller summits. They work their way up, skill by skill, to the more daunting and vertical challenges. Yet, even the less foreboding peaks can be treacherous.
25 years after Kristin Smart went missing, a prime suspect was charged with murder.
If you’ve ever read Jack Ketchum’s “The Girl Next Door,” you may not know that the novel was loosely based on the horrific story of Sylvia Likens. While the 16-year-old…
Terry Wallis is an American man living in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas who on June 11, 2003, regained awareness after spending 19 years in a coma. Terry Wallis was…
Examining all three kinds of bog body reveals that they are part of a millennia-long, deep-rooted tradition.
Before the modern medical knowledge of coma, what did ancient people do to a person in coma? Did they bury them alive or something similar?
