A young boy’s passion — and his distraction in school — ended up turning into the job of his young lifetime. Doodle Boy/InstagramJoe Whale doodling...
“It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had pulsing red light on top and a bank of blue lights underneath....
After her brother was nearly buried alive, 18th-century Englishwoman Hannah Beswick feared a similar fate — so her doctor mummified her and displayed her blackened...
The German battleship Tirpitz was the largest ever built by a European power but proved too costly to risk in an actual battle. The British...
When the Grauballe Man was discovered accidentally, his corpse was so well-preserved that it was initially believed he’d been dead for only 65 years —...
The woman with 14-inch biceps made history as an athlete, but Violette Morris was defamed by a sexist government and rumors of Nazi collaboration. In...
As a sperm donor, Ed Houben has helped conceive 106 children on his way to earning the title of “Europe’s most virile man.” Ed Houben/FacebookEd...
Check out these 11 strange news stories from the past year, like an accidental nine-hour LSD trip or a Spiderman-loving kid bringing heroin to school....
A year after his wife’s disappearance, the Dutch crime author showed his publisher a grisly manuscript that consequently turned him into a cult celeb of...
When Franz Jägerstätter saw the evil of the Nazi regime all around him, he refused to become complicit in its crimes. Wikimedia CommonsFranz Jägerstätter Based...
