Tragedy

Lost in the White Mountains: The tragic story of Emily Sotelo

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.

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⬝ Jul15,2024 7:49am

The Heilbronn-Dachstein tragedy: How a beloved teacher led 13 to their deaths!

The Heilbronn Dachstein accident was an event in April 1954 in which ten students and three teachers from Heilbronn Boys' Middle School of Heilbronn died in a snowstorm on the Dachstein massif in Upper Austria.

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⬝ Jul9,2024 9:54am

The fire of Alexandria, woodcuts by Hermann Göll, 1876. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Library of Alexandria: What we truly lost when this ancient marvel was burned down!

The Library of Alexandria, once a beacon of knowledge in the ancient world, has become shrouded in mystery and legend. Famed for its vast collection of scrolls and its association with great scholars, its destruction is often lamented as a devastating loss for humanity. But the truth about the library's demise is more complex than a single fire.

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⬝ May27,2024 9:38pm

Erik the Red, the fearless Viking explorer who first settled Greenland in 985 CE

Erik Thorvaldsson, famously known as Erik the Red, is recorded in medieval and Icelandic sagas as the pioneer of the fist European colony in Greenland.

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⬝ Mar27,2024 2:07pm

The 1986 disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh is still unsolved

In 1986, a real estate agent named Suzy Lamplugh went missing while she was at work. On the day of her disappearance, she was scheduled to show a client called “Mr. Kipper” around a property. She has remained missing ever since.

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⬝ Mar27,2024 1:34pm

Junko Furuta: She was raped, tortured and murdered in her 40 days of terrible ordeal!

Spurned and enraged, Hiroshi, a ruthless and arrogant bad boy, vowed to annihilate Junko Furuta's life with a ferocity that knew no bounds. His fixation on revenge teetered on the brink of madness, driving him to plot and scheme with unrelenting fervor - yet, time and again, his efforts ended in humiliating defeat. But then, in a chilling twist of fate, Hiroshi's perseverance finally paid off, and he succeeded in unleashing a horror beyond Junko's wildest nightmares.

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⬝ Mar25,2024 3:19pm

These 3 famous ‘disappearances at sea’ have never been solved

Endless speculation ensued. Some theories proposed a mutiny, pirate attack, or a frenzy of sea monsters responsible for these disappearances.

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⬝ Mar22,2024 9:46pm

Unsolved mystery: The chilling disappearance of Mary Shotwell Little

In 1965, 25-year-old Mary Shotwell Little worked as a secretary at the Citizens & Southern Bank in Atlanta, Georgia, and had recently married her husband, Roy Little. On October 14,…

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⬝ Mar22,2024 2:37pm

America’s 13 most haunted places

America is full of mystery and creepy paranormal places. Each state has its own sites to tell the creepy legends and dark pasts about them. And hotels, almost all the…

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⬝ Mar15,2024 8:37pm

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