Nixon, The CIA & The Plane Crash No One Can Explain
Chicago’s West Lawn neighborhood, where United Airlines Flight 553 crashed in 1972. | William Kelly/ Chicago Tribune What really happened on United Airlines Flight 553? It was a cold, quiet afternoon in…
The Irish Potato Famine Wasn’t Caused By A Fungus
Hulton Archive/Getty Here’s what your high school history teacher didn’t tell you. The Irish Potato Famine was hands down the worst episode of mass starvation in 19th century Europe. After a…
Life Really Does Flash Before Your Eyes In A Near-Death Experience
‘There is lack of time limits…it was like being there for centuries.’ “I had always heard your entire life flashes before your eyes the second before you die,” Kevin Spacey’s…
There Is Life After Death, But Not How You Think
Researchers wonder if their findings could someday help raise the dead. It would be comforting to think that after we die, we live on in some way. Now scientists have evidence…
It Took Decades To Decode This Tombstone
Two dead wives, one mysterious crossword. Mac Armstrong/Flickr What do you do if your wives keep dying on you? Devise a near-uncrackable code to print on their joint tombstone, of…
Death Masks: The Heirloom Nobody Asked For
What did any human do to deserve this? Last summer, my parents took a trip to the homeland: Germany. I was not asked to attend and my only consolation prize was…
History’s Worst Job: Village Sin Eater
Forgive us our trespasses until you puke. A martyr’s work is never easy, but throw eternal damnation and social rejection into the mix and the vocation becomes near impossible. Nobody knew…
What Killed 9 People At The Dyatlov Pass?
57 years later, the mystery of the Russian hikers remains unsolved. Have you ever come across a discarded shoe on the sidewalk and wondered what circumstances led to its abandonment?…
The Dead Outnumber The Living In This Strange Town
Ines Vuckovic/Dose By a very chilling ratio of 833 to 1. Colma, California is your average small town—except for the fact that it’s home to 1.5 million dead bodies and fewer…
The World’s Most Iconic Graveyards Are Haunting, Beautiful & Unexpectedly Cute
At Romania’s Merry Cemetery, death is a laughing matter. Until the Victorian era, dying was a shady business. Church graveyards were the sites of creepy crimes like body-snatching. Plus, prostitutes conducted…
