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Under the guise of adopting and caring for them in loving homes, Amelia Dyer killed between 300 and 400 babies in Victorian England. In Victorian England in the 1800s, unmarried…

Most people have seen classic horror films like Psycho (1960), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). But what many may not know is that the terrifying villains in these three…

In August 1587, a group of 115 English settlers arrived at Roanoke Island off the coast of what we now call North Carolina. A mere three years later, they had…

The incident that happened on August 19, 1961 in the Swedish city of Lusecil (len Vestra-Gotaland). A private Volvo PV544 car registered in Stockholm was parked outside the telephone exchange…

The Westport Murders were a series of 16 murders committed between November 1827 and 31 October 1828 in the area around West Port Street in Edinburgh by Irish immigrants William…

A child-sized doll dressed in a sailor’s suit with alleged supernatural powers, Robert the Doll is now kept under lock and key at the Fort East Martello Museum in Key…

In June 1924, a British mountaineer named George Leigh Mallory and a young engineering student named Andrew “Sandy” Irvine set off for the summit of Mount Everest and disappeared—two more casualties of a peak…

Almost 100 years ago in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a warrior died at the hands of an enemy. His head was cut off, boiled, and shrunk into a war trophy. After…

In 1939, workers at a beachfront hotel to the south of Rome accidentally discovered the mutilated skull of a Neanderthal in a long-sealed cave underneath the property. At the time,…

The discovery redefines the city of Lucerne’s history and suggests that the area was settled 2,000 years earlier than previously assumed. For centuries, sprawling Lake Lucerne in Switzerland concealed a…