Robert Landsburg and the Mount St. Helens Eruption
On May 18th, 1980, the sun broke across the Cascade Mountains in Washington State at 5:36 a.m. to reveal a calm and cool morning. For …
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Marina Chapman, The Girl who was Raised by Monkeys
What if everything in your predictable future was changed in a single moment? That’s what happened to Marina Chapman. She was being a kid, and …
The Mysterious Death of Alfred Loewenstein
In 1928, Alfred Leonard Loewenstein was the third richest man in the world, sitting on a fortune worth around £12 million (£929 million today). Wherever …
The Mysterious Case of the Yuba County Five
In February 1978, a group of friends from Yuba City, California, were getting ready to travel to Chico, a town just an hour away, to …
How Betty Lou Oliver Survived a Plane Crash and 1,000-ft Fall on the Same Day
July 28th 1945, was set to be another ordinary day for the residents of New York. In the fog of World War II, its citizens …
Bonnie and Clyde: The Story of America’s Most Notorious Killer Couple
Murder, robberies, police chases, and prison escapes sound more like an action movie plot than a real-life story. However, the true tale of the crime …
The Strange Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
The unexplained vanishing of a young aspiring pilot has become one of the most famous mysteries in Australian history. More than 40 years later, his …
Stanislav Petrov, the Man who Saved the World
In a bunker in a high-security military base south of Moscow, Soviet Air Defence Forces Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov had one of the most nerve-wracking …
Harrison Okene, The Man who Survived for 3 Days on the Sea Floor
It’s not very often, or at all, that a man can survive sixty hours in the depths of the Ocean and live to tell the …
The Tragic Disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan
As Tom and Eileen Lonergan thumbed through holiday guides and maps, their fingers delicately met on the same destination. A few days later, the pair …