Tag: history

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…

The city of Danzig was home to a lengthy territorial dispute between the Germans and Poles who inhabited it and…

Bomber plane captures U-Boat. On August 27, 1941, U-boat U-570, captained by Kapitanleutnant Hans-Joachim Rahmlow, surfaced off the coast of Iceland. Almost immediately,…

WW2 German Ace escorts crippled B-17 home. Warfare is not really a place for humanity, ethics and morals, but the…

Operation Jericho was an air raid conducted by the RAF with the goal of freeing the captives of the Nazi-held…

Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy parallels. Abraham Lincoln Predicts His Own Death This story is hotly debated as there…

South Korean provocations sparked Korean War. History teachers say that the Korean War began due to the North’s unprovoked invasion of the South….

Hitler feared French admired British. Hitler was no peacenik, but he actually exhibited a very healthy fear of the Anglo-French alliance….

The US Provoked Japan Into War. We have all heard this question a million times: Did the US have advance knowledge of…

The Six-Day-War.  We have previously discussed how the Soviet Union almost invaded Israel during the Six-Day War. We also briefly mentioned that…

China improved Tibet. According to the Chinese, their “liberation” of Tibet in 1950 brought the Tibetans better infrastructure, education, and medical care. Ignoring the bloody…

The ancient Romans were prudes. Popular belief says the ancient Romans indulged in all manner of sexual depravities, but they…

Fanta for Nazi Germany. It’s February 1944 and Berlin is attempting to recover from American aerial bombing. But life and…

This cultist was the father of modern rocketry. On June 17, 1952, a boom rocked Pasadena, California – an explosion…

The Codex Gigas is the largest medieval manuscript in the world. However, it’s what inside that’s remarkable and not the…

Did Colorado Kill Doc Holliday? John Henry “Doc” Holliday’s final words, spoken as he lay dying in the Hotel Glenwood…