On June 29, 1892, in the town of Necochea, located in the southeast of Argentina in the province of Buenos Aires, two young children were di...
Arthur Upfield is one Australia's most underrated writers. His literary contributions often remain overshadowed by the brilliance of his...
When a person is on the toilet, moving bowels, they are in a particularly vulnerable position. They are exposing parts of their body that ar...
It is paradoxical that a former delinquent with a colorful life ends up being the creator and director of the French police; even more so if...
In the early 19th century, arsenic was most widely used to kill rats and insufferable husbands alike. The chemical element was odorless and ...
About sixty miles southeast of Budapest, on the River Tisza, lies a quiet little village with a horrible past. It was here in Nagyrev, a cen...
The streets of London have witnessed some of the strangest men come and go over the years. From commoners like Theodore Hook, who halted the...
On the morning of 17 June 1939, a crowd gathered outside the doors of the Saint-Pierre prison, in the center of Versailles. They had come to...
The Sri Lankan sports authority has a problem. Their athletes keep disappearing. They go to foreign countries to take part in sporting event...
At the corner of South Lowe Avenue and West 63rd Street in Englewood, Chicago, where now stands a drab, two story building of the United Sta...
There have been quite a few cases where people claimed to have survived without food. These people call themselves “breatharians” for they p...
Killing someone takes a lot of wickedness backed by an equal amount of temerity, none of which was lacking in Tony Marino, Joseph "Red...
An illustration of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson that appeared in a stamp printed in Alderney, circa 2009. Photo: Olga Popova/Shutterstoc...
The Ardwell House East Lodge sits right on the edge of A716 that runs along the east coast of the Rhins of Galloway, in southern Scotland. L...
The Imperial Shrine of Yasukuni, in Chiyoda, Tokyo, is a beautiful spiritual place for remembering those who died in service for Japan. As m...
In 2005, a Michigan State law professor published a paper in a law journal where he described a way to commit the perfect crime and get away...
A two-hour bumpy ride from Uyuni across Bolivia’s high plains will take you to the small town of San Vicente. At the entrance to this remote...
This question, which appears in the form of a graffiti on a towering brick obelisk in Hagley in Worcestershire, England, has been haunting t...
Moored at Bataviawerf, in Lelystad, in the Netherlands, is an authentic replica of a 17th-century ship named Batavia that once belonged to t...
One of the most impressive and controversial memorial to the Holocaust is located near Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood ...
