Sumner Redstone became the CEO of National Amusements, Inc. in 1967, and their already prominent hold on the entertainment industry got some extra oomph thanks to his belief that, basically, content providers would come and go, but the content itself would always be in demand.
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It's a story that seems more at home in a psychological horror film than in the real world, and first hand accounts of the events involved feel unsettlingly removed from reality. But the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons are a matter of record. Weird, weird record.
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Sonic Youth members Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore took rock romance a step further by having the band completely break up due to a messy divorce.
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If there's one piece of music everyone can recognize, it's the drum fill in Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight. But what is the rest of the song about?
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When the going gets dangerous, at least MI6's highest-functioning sociopath can still be counted on to lock and load, utilizing that classic firearm that we've all come to associate with James Bond: a .25 ACP Beretta with a skeleton grip.
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Mail workers and dogs usually don't mix. But at some point, the United States Postal Office (USPS) adopted a dog as its mascot. If you thought the USPS, already America's favorite government agency, couldn't endear itself more to people, you thought wrong.
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On August 9th, 2020, the WWE released a statement confirming that James Harris, better known by his in-ring persona Kamala, had passed away at age 70.
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If you, like many people, believe the United States were visited by extraterrestrial life on July 14th, 2001, there are questions you'll have to ask yourself.
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On May 26th 2020, Ken Monkhouse had passed away over the holiday weekend due to a heart attack.
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Alternative rockers Radiohead made headlines in early 2018 when it was revealed that the five-piece sued pop prodigy Lana Del Ray. However, Radiohead may not be the first to use the catchy tune.
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They say you can't take it with you, but that's obviously not true. A number of famous people have chosen to be buried with utterly bizarre items.
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It's probably not unusual for people to think of Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash. Great love story, great subplot for Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix in 2005's Walk the Line.
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Richard Sandrak was a child body builder whose physique made him a viral sensation in the early aughts. This is what "Little Hercules" is doing now.
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Wolfgang Van Halen was all of 16 years old the year he stepped into Dad's work environment to replace long-time Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony.
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The 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was the impetus for bringing the country into World War II. Here's what you don't know about the devastating attack.
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Ireland is full of haunted places -- from haunted castles to a cursed military fort. But none of them are as haunted as Loftus Hall.
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From Civil War ghosts to asylum inmates, people believe some hospitals have admitted patients that never left. Here are some creepy tales of hospital ghosts.
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The Lubbock UFO sighting doesn't have debris. But it does have witnesses and, depending on who you believe, photographic evidence of -- something. Flying.
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Anthony Wilford Brimley was a bona fide acting legend, and the owner of the most majestic mustache this side of Sam Elliott. While he never established himself as a leading man, he made his name as one of nature's great supporting actors, and tended to elevate any project he appeared in.
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Death is the most unavoidable part of life. That might sound like a dramatic statement, but it's just a factual one.
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Churches can be creepy and the spirit world can also make churches magnets for ghostly activity. Here are some creepy tales of haunted churches.
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One multi-eyed monster of Japan, however, was self-named and real: the Monster with 21 Faces (and presumably 42 eyes).
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Anybody who's anybody has seen a UFO. And in 1957, right around the time that Sputnik II took flight and the Space Race went full swing, just about everyone in the town of Levelland, Texas saw one ... or, at least, the ones who were awake did. It was pretty late.
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The shadow of misery and death haunts a lot of prisons, such that the ghosts of inmates reportedly stick around. Here are some creepy tales of prison ghosts.
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How did this American tradition get started, anyway? It goes back further than you think.
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Power pop hit "Closing Time" by American rock band Semisonic checks all the boxes for a novelty hit: an infectious melody, an easy-to-memorize chorus and a meditative double-meaning, much deeper than you might imagine.
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How do you know that a person is possessed?
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