She was, on many accounts, poised to be a teen superstar. But her fame and her life were tragically cut short after a deranged fan did the unthinkable. Robert John Bardo, 19, found Schaeffer's West Hollywood home and fatally shot the 21-year-old actress on July 18, 1989.
Read MoreBill Hicks once joked that in the event of a nuclear apocalypse, he could only imagine two things surviving: cockroaches and Keith Richards. The joke is that the legendary debauchery that has defined Keith's very public lifestyle should have surely killed him by now.
Read MoreThe legend of a mythical city of gold originated when 16th-century conquistadors first encountered Central and South America. Inspired by the gold-centered rituals of the Colombian Muisca people, Francisco Pizarro, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Lope de Aguirre all searched for El Dorado, the city of gold.
Read MoreFunk legend Rick James once said, "cocaine is a hell of a drug," and you can believe he had the wild stories to back up such a sagacious claim -- like the time he lit himself on fire.
Read MoreGuerrilla leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara has a remarkable legacy: many people look at his face and can remember who he was or simply celebrate his life with memorabilia or T-shirts that feature him. However, there are dark secrets about him that aren't as well-known or spoken about.
Read MoreIf ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut's claim to the title of rarest N64 game fails to surprise because you simply haven't heard of it, the reason for its rarity may still raise an eyebrow.
Read MoreLet's take a moment to find out Bruce Lee's real fighting ability, with a fantasy fight that pits him against the (physically) biggest of all action stars of recent years: Steven Seagal.
Read MoreMusician Eric Clapton is perceived to be one of the most legendary musicians of our times. While his guitar playing skills are top notch, his personality and outspoken nature have sometimes been in the news for the wrong reasons.
Read MoreWhen a van in which she was a passenger accidentally struck and killed a Honduran boy who shared her last name, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes saw a connection.
Read MoreAfter a series of gags concerning her famous lateness that culminates in the later ironic "the Late Marilyn Monroe", she brought the fundraiser for John F. Kennedy's early birthday celebrations to its conclusion. Singing Happy Birthday to JFK, Marilyn Monroe stole the night.
Read MoreFollowing the crash and the subsequent press coverage, the album became the band's second platinum record and reached number five on the U.S. album chart. But given the increased focus on the band, some spooky details surrounding Street Survivors surfaced in the media, sparking conspiracies.
Read MoreNew Hampshire-born Connie Converse is considered to be the first modern singer-songwriter. She settled among the beatniks and bohemians in New York City's Greenwich Village in the 1950s, writing hauntingly raw lyrics over guitar melodies.
Read MoreThe Bruderhof (German for "place of brothers") is a pacifist, socialist Christian movement that began in Germany in 1920. Its founder, Eberhard Arnold, was inspired by a cultural and educational campaign started in 1896 called the German Youth Movement.
Read MoreAccording to Bill Alexander, Bob Ross "betrayed me. I invented 'wet on wet.' I trained him and he is copying me -- what bothers me is not just that he betrayed me, but that he thinks he can do it better."
Read MoreFamed Scottish explorer David Livingstone a complex man who left an outsized mark on history. These are the adventures of Dr. Livingstone explained.
Read MoreThe epic song that Ultimate Guitar posits as a contender for the first heavy metal song ever was written as a love song from Adam to Eve. The mystery behind the slurred lyrics gave the song the right kind of controversy it needed to stand out in the world of 1960s psychedelic rock.
Read MoreAction Park embodied the laissez faire attitude toward health and safety that defined childhood memories from the 1970s and '80s.
Read MoreHistory's 3-part miniseries Grant details the life of 18th president and celebrated Union general Ulysses S. Grant. However, the series isn't always accurate.
Read MoreWhile they seem ubiquitous now, police departments are a relatively modern invention. The police as we know them did not really come into being until after the passage of the Metropolitan Police Act in England in 1829.
Read MoreFolks might think the band had just two iterations, changing into its final form when five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald joined, but Ultimate Classic Rock tracked the Doobie Brothers' lineup changes over the decades and counted up to 17.
Read MoreCross waves occur when wind blows two opposing sets of wave forms towards each other at an oblique angle -- diagonal, or 45-degree. The waves collide, but do not cancel each other out, as they would if they hit head-on. Instead, they pass through.
Read MoreDesi Arnaz Jr. might not ring a bell at all to the younger generations, but being the child of a famous couple keeps you in the spotlight -- and being in the spotlight often means trouble.
Read MoreWhen singer Thom Yorke calls one of the band's own songs the most "hopeless" out of anything they've ever written, that's a sign that there's some seriously heavy, tragic, and horrifically mournful music at hand.
Read MoreAn Australian team set out to create a model of what humanity would look like if it had evolved to survive car crashes. The results are a little jarring.
Read MoreToday, we'll take a look at the time the mob went after Steven Seagal.
Read MoreMarriages sometimes change more than lives. They change history. They might have started out as love affairs, political alliances, or arrangements, but they all had a major impact on the world. Here are some marriages that changed the course of history.
Read MoreWilliams, told how she "gathered some old blokes who were ex-carpenters and builders, and a group of women that would get creative, and we started it up in my garage and carport." From there a small community of 50 to 60 people would show up on Wednesdays to construct and decorate coffins.
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