• What Life Was Like For Ancient Celtic Women

    The Celts were unique in the prominence and power they afforded women, who could not only partake in the political realm as rulers and diplomats, but conduct business, own property, have any profession, choose their suitors, and not only fight alongside men in combat — but lead them.

    By Richard Milner August 6th, 2020 Read More
  • This Is How The Church Of Euthanasia Cult Started

    Jerry Springer once said: "Cults are dangerous and not entitled to the protection of religion, not because of what they believe, but because of what they entice their adherents to do." The text is taken from a transcript stored on the website of his interviewees, the Church of Euthanasia.

    By Felix Behr August 5th, 2020 Read More
  • Atlantis Might Actually Have Existed. Here's Why

    Atlantis is one of those words, those places, that's truly a figure to conjure with, a mix of ancient legend and steam-punk possibilities, a sort of tabula rasa for whatever you'd hope humanity to be.

    By Eric Meisfjord August 4th, 2020 Read More
  • The Truth About Dime Novelist Ned Buntline

    If sales are any measure of success, Ned Buntline was very successful indeed. He wrote about what he knew, at first -- seagoing tales, perhaps inspired by his service in the Navy as a young man (a "buntline" is a kind of knot used on ships).

    By Eric Meisfjord August 4th, 2020 Read More
  • These Are The 5 Most Valuable McDonald's Happy Meal Toys Ever

    It's a conundrum. How do you make someone happy? Happy Hogan from the MCU is happy because Jon Favreau gets an executive producer credit no matter what. As for Happy Meals, they took the easy route: include one wad of plastic in every box of salty meat.

    By Tom Meisfjord August 4th, 2020 Read More
  • Here's Why The Creation Of The Post Office Was So Controversial

    It's perfectly reasonable to blame the banal marketing of Silicon Valley for people's inability to differentiate a new way to add middlemen into their lives, and the creation of a truly radical space. The birth of the post office dramatically changed how people access information.

    By Felix Behr August 4th, 2020 Read More
  • What You Didn't Know About The World's Greatest Female Sniper

    Lyudmila Pavlichenko, generally considered the world's most -- "successful" doesn't seem quite right; maybe "effective" -- sniper, killed 309 Germans on the Eastern Front in the earlier days of World War II, defending Russian soil to the best of her abilities.

    By Eric Meisfjord August 3rd, 2020 Read More
  • The Truth About Jimmy Carter's UFO Sighting

    You'll be thrilled to learn that these United States were overseen by a man who claimed to have spotted a flying saucer in Calhoun County, Georgia. The claim, detailed in a remarkably official looking report to the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma, was made by one Jimmy Carter.

    By Tom Meisfjord August 3rd, 2020 Read More
  • The Creepy History Of England's Black Monk House

    When Joe and Jean Pritchard moved into their recently bought 30 East Drive in Pontefract with their two children, 13-year-old Diane and 15-year-old Philip, and Jean's mum Sarah in August 1966, they seemed to have lucked out on a picturesque house in West Yorkshire. But things got creepy, quickly.

    By Felix Behr August 3rd, 2020 Read More
  • The Messed Up Truth About The Louisiana Purchase

    Like much of American history, the story of the Louisiana Purchase is much darker and more complicated than what's taught in schools. It paved the way for the oppression of Native Americans, the expansion of slavery, and even the Civil War. This is the messed up truth about the Louisiana Purchase.

    By Karen Corday August 3rd, 2020 Read More
  • The Crazy True Story Of The Hitler Diaries

    There are plenty of historical records as we get into the modern era, and World War II is no exception. Some things were destroyed in the course of war, but much remained. Yet certainly a tantalizing object would have been the personal diaries of the leader of the Third Reich: Adolf Hitler.

    By Eric Meisfjord August 3rd, 2020 Read More
  • The Crazy True Story Of The Affair Of The Poisons

    The unusual case of the Affair of the Poisons has absolutely everything that an aspiring true crime enthusiast could want: royal scandal, murder most foul, and complicated last names that make you sound smart when you pronounce them correctly.

    By Tom Meisfjord August 3rd, 2020 Read More
  • This Is How The NXIVM Cult Started

    NXIVM. It's spelled like the name of Julius Caesar's spaceship. Unfortunately, it's pronounced "nexium," so when read aloud, it sounds more like a magnesium-based anti-diarrheal. And that's about the nicest thing you can say about them.

    By Tom Meisfjord August 2nd, 2020 Read More
  • How Isaac Newton Caught One Of History's Biggest Counterfeiters

    Sir Isaac Newton may have been one of the greatest physicists of all time. After all, he discovered gravity, during quarantine, in a rather famous event involving an apple tree. But he did have other interesting hobbies, other than math, like busting counterfeiters.

    By Emilia David August 2nd, 2020 Read More
  • Fascinating Discoveries Made In The Jungle

    Archaeologists and explorers have found tons of super cool stuff in the jungle, and seeing it for the first time? That had to be a case of not believing your eyes. Heck, some of this stuff is still hard to believe — but they're all very real. Here are some fascinating discoveries made in the jungle.

    By DB Kelly August 1st, 2020 Read More
  • The Crazy True Story Of The Persian Princess

    The story of the Persian Princess hoax begins in 2000, when a mummy and sarcophagus showed up on the black market, sparking an international argument, lots of confused archaeologists and historians, and a story full of twists and turns. This is the crazy true story of the Persian Princess.

    By Asher Cantrell August 1st, 2020 Read More
  • Times Hamilton Lied To You About History

    The musical Hamilton deserves every bit of its status as cultural phenomenon, but it plays fast and loose with historical fact. Here are a few times Hamilton lied to you about history.

    By Jeff Somers July 31st, 2020 Read More
  • What Life Was Like For Women In Ancient Sparta

    When you read about the people who lived in Greece in ancient times, it's almost always about men. The women in ancient Greece also had rich lives, but how they lived those lives depended on where they were. Women in Sparta, for example, had a lot of freedoms their counterparts in Athens never had.

    By Emilia David July 31st, 2020 Read More
  • What You Never Knew About Rasputin

    Who really was Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin? How can we define him, besides "Russian guy with a sinister stare" and "staple antagonist in comic books and cartoons?"

    By Tom Meisfjord July 31st, 2020 Read More