Tag: history

New theory: Man nearly caused human extinction 7,000 years ago. Genetics can reveal many buried secrets. An extramarital dalliance. The…

War Stories: Albert Goering, The Anti-Nazi Brother Of Hermann Albert Goering was born on 9 March 1895 in the Berlin suburb of Friedenau. He…

The Soham Rail Disaster On June 2, 1944, just before D-Day, driver Benjamin Gimbert and his fireman, James Nightall, were in…

The Secret Tomb Of St. Nicholas Researchers believe they may have found the final resting place of St. Nick. A recent…

Vampires in history. While there are many strange and mysterious creatures in the darkest corners of the world, there are…

Second World War Two bombers. The Lancaster is probably the most famous of all the bombers of the Second World…

Mother Nature. Weather happens all the time, and usually we don’t even notice it unless it’s a major inconvenience. That’s…

A new discovery of pterosaur eggs and fossils, found in China, gives us a complete look at the early flying…

Today the Arkansas resort town of Eureka Springs is a quaint, faux-Victorian tourist trap with an abundance of Bible-themed attractions….

The Teapot Dome Scandal. With the exception of Watergate, there has never been a scandal more egregious and with wider…

In Greek Mythology, Atlas was a Titan who was responsible for bearing the weight of the heavens on his shoulders,…

Ares is the god of war and one of the Twelve Olympian Gods and the son of Zeus and Hera. In…

Apollo is one of the most complex and important gods, and is the god of many things, including: music, poetry,…

Persephone’s story actually focuses more on her mother, Demeter, and what happens when Persephone disappears. The young goddess is also the…

The Sirens appearance were that of a combination of a woman and a bird and they sang beautifully. Their exact…

Pegasus is a Mythological Creature described as a beautiful, pure white stallion with wings. He was born from the blood of Medusa. She…

Medusa was a golden haired beauty before she became one of the most popular monsters of Greek Mythology.  She vowed…

Sunken treasure. The company Sea Search Armada found a three-hundred-year-old wreck of a Spanish sailboat (galleon) in the Caribbean Sea…

People who cheat death think that they deserve to keep right on living. To die soon after would be just…

The enormous business of asylums thrived in the 1900’s and almost anybody for any reason whatsoever could be sent to…

Hellfire Club. There’s a certain sort of extraordinarily rich person who has a ton of time and money on their…

People tried to map the Arctic Centuries ago, when people tried to map the Arctic, they weren’t too concerned with what…

Peter Stumpp (alternately spelled Stumpf, Stubbe or Stuppe) was a mid-16th century German farmer who was executed on Halloween in…

Mysterious shipwrecks. We are fascinated by shipwrecks, and it’s easy to see why. First, there’s the idea of sunken treasure,…

Ancient leaders. To say that some ancient leaders were really weird is probably a bit of an understatement. Being really…

Time travel is the one that we want to be real of all mysterious phenomena. The possibilities are endless, and…

Atlantis! The name alone is enough to invoke images of mermaids, bubble cities, sunken ruins, and an ancient, technologically advanced…

Entire countries embarrassed. These mistakes made entire countries blush. If countries were capable of vasodilation, of course. The truth is,…

There are things about ancient Egypt that still can’t be explained. Few civilizations have a more mysterious reputation than ancient Egypt….

The Doomsday Clock. It’s two minutes to midnight. Those words probably make you shiver, just a little bit, because bad…