These Nazi propaganda posters are as repugnant in their message as they are impressive in their artistic craftsmanship. In order to control a population, you must first control the population’s minds.

The heart attack gun fired a dart made of frozen shellfish toxin that would enter the target's bloodstream and kill them in mere minutes without leaving a trace. In 1975, more than 30 years of almost ...

The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day. In the 12th century B.C.E., Bronze Age civilizations began ...

From the 1960s through the 1990s, Romanian-Australian economist Stefan Mandel won the lottery 14 times. Here's how he did it. You have a higher chance of being eaten by a shark, struck by lightning, ...

Many Americans are taught that the Pilgrims and Indians gathered for a historic feast at Plymouth in 1621, but the true story of the first Thanksgiving is far more complicated. For as long as anyone ...

Little is known about the full story of Sally Hemings. Unfortunately, that is the case for the majority of slaves born in America. What we do know of Sally Hemings is preserved mostly in primary ...

“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. After a lighthouse went dark in the wild islands north of Scotland, a ship traveled to the Flannan Isles to ...

The 1920s murder and love-triangle that involved Dolly Oesterreich is strange and sordid even by today’s standards. Walburga ‘Dolly’ Oesterreich was a housewife in her early thirties, married to the ...

In the 1880s, an heir to the vast Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune bought a 10-year-old girl just so he could draw her being eaten by cannibals. James S. Jameson was the great-great-grandson of John ...

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service,” an American veteran named Smedley Butler once wrote, “and during that period, I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big ...

In the early 1970s, the Alphabet Murderer stalked Rochester, New York, killing girls who had the same first and last initial – and these horrific crimes remain unsolved to this day. On the afternoon ...

For decades, the Saskatoon Police Service engaged in a practice known as “starlight tours.” After picking up Indigenous people on charges ranging from drunkenness to vagrancy, officers would drive ...