Here's How Howard Hughes Made His Fortune During The Depression
The wealthy can be really weird people, and perhaps the prototypical eccentric millionaire was Howard Hughes.
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This Is How The Order Of The Solar Temple Cult Started
As far as cult names go, the International Chivalric Organization of the Solar Tradition (known to its friends simply as the Order of the Solar Temple) has a lot going for it.
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Here's How John Lennon's First Band Turned Into The Beatles
It all started with skiffle. Here's how the Beatles got their name.
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This Is What Little Hercules Is Doing Now
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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What The Final 12 Months Of Chester Bennington's Life Was Like
Chester Bennington was best known for being the lead singer of Linkin Park. For much of his life, he struggled with drug abuse, alcoholism, and deepening depression. This is what the final 12 months of Chester Bennington's life was like.
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How Erik The Red Became A Legend
Erik the Red wasn't a Viking, not really, but he seemed to have a talent for terrorizing people anyway.
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Nicolas Anelka: The Controversial Truth About The Sports Legend
Netflix's new documentary, Anelka: Misunderstood, promotes itself as an in-depth documentary which explores French footballer Nicolas Anelka's "controversial legacy," according to the official description. That's certainly one way to put it.
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The Horrifying Backstory Of Corpsewood Manor
Two lovers, 12,000 doses of LSD, a "pink room," and two bull mastiffs named Beelzebub and Arsinath. Quite a night.
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This Is The Song Rush Played The Most In Concert
Throughout the band's 50-year career, the prog-rock legends in Rush kept fans on their toes with ever-changing setlists. Although the slew of songs always included a handful of crowd-pleasers, the band was known to throw curve balls into their live sets right up until the end.
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The Untold Truth Of Wolfgang Van Halen
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 Truth About Julian Lennon And Sean Lennon's Relationship
John Lennon once said "Sean was the product of love. You (Julian) were the product of a whiskey bottle." What was the Lennon sibling relationship really like?
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Tragic Details About Peter Sellers
Away from the characters of Inspector Clouseau or Chance the Gardener, Peter Sellers was a troubled man. Here are some tragic details about Peter Sellers.
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The Real Reason Chris Tucker Lost Most Of His Money
"Take care of your business, man, and don't listen to people. Do your own business. Be careful who you listen to, 'cause that's the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes." That's a line pulled directly from Chris Tucker's 2015 Netflix stand up comedy special.
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The Sad Reason Peter Green Left Fleetwood Mac
Halfway through Fleetwood Mac's 1970 tour through Europe, Peter Green, lead guitarist, lead singer, and co-founder of the band, announced that he intended to leave the band. The initial reaction of John McVie, Fleetwood Mac's bassist, is recorded on Ultimate Classic Rock as "'Oh sh–!"
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The Untold Truth Of The Attack On Pearl Harbor
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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This Is How Much Money Donald Trump Is Actually Worth
Donald Trump's net worth isn't quite what he makes it out to be, to say the least. Here's what we can determine is actually his wealth.
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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.
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The Truth About Ireland's Most Haunted Mansion
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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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).
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Here's How Depeche Mode Got Their Name
Although its name derives from modern French, there has been an existing layer of controversy surrounding how Depeche Mode got its name.
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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.
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Sirens Might Actually Have Existed. Here's Why
"Sirens have existed for a long time. They're that noise that first responder vehicles make. But what about the classic, mythological sirens?
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of The Doors
The Doors' history, like the era during which they played, was fraught with tension and destruction. This is the tragic real-life story of the Doors.
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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.
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What Happened To Peter Green After He Quit Fleetwood Mac?
The late blues guitarist Peter Green, born Peter Allen Greenbaum, is most often remembered for his early contributions to Fleetwood Mac, years before internal strife and relationship dramas would fuel the band's musical career.
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Creepy Tales Of Hospital Ghosts
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 Tragic Real-Life Story Of Aaron Burr
When we think of Aaron Burr, all we know is that he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But Aaron Burr had a tragic story in his own right.
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