Mehran Karimi Nasseri, The Man who Lived in an Airport for 18 Years
We’ve all been here: you’ve just landed at the airport after a long, exhausting flight. You’re tired, jetlagged, and all you want to do is …
We’ve all been here: you’ve just landed at the airport after a long, exhausting flight. You’re tired, jetlagged, and all you want to do is …
It was warm the day Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan took off from the Miami Municipal Airport, and the sun was shining. Her Lockheed Electra …
World War II is not really the ideal setting for heartwarming tales, but the story of Wojtek, the soldier bear, is a remarkable exception. Rescued as a …
These days, with the internet being at everyone’s fingertips and almost all transactions, no matter how big or small tracked digitally, pulling off fraud at high levels is nearly …
Settled amid the rough beauty of the outback in Western Australia, Wittenoom is a ghost town with a deadly history. It is around 900 miles away from …
Lobotomies are an outdated form of psychiatric treatment that was intended to cure myriad mental ailments. Doctors would physically alter the brain, changing the way that people could process …
In 2013, a woman’s body was discovered in a water tank in Los Angeles; her disappearance would attract the attention of people around the globe. Elisa Lam …
Faceless technology corporations like Google, Amazon, and Apple are worth billions of dollars and seem like magical, circuit-driven monoliths, seemingly inaccessible to the common man. Most …
At the age of 22, Irma Grese was barely an adult when she was led from her prison cell to be executed. She was a beautiful …
Phineas Gage suffered a head injury that ought to have killed him instantly—but it didn’t. Although he survived a gory accident with an iron rod …