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The Hellfire Club Was Real. The Devil Was Not Invited.
Sir Francis Dashwood’s monks of Medmenham really did meet, drink and mock religion. The black masses came from the gossips and the novelists, and we can…
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The Illuminati Were Real: The Secret Society Bavaria Raided, Banned and Published
A professor, a baron and a police search. The order’s own papers survive. The question is whether the order did, and who has been telling that story…
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Poveglia: The Truth About the “World’s Most Haunted Island”
Plague pits holding 100,000 bodies, a mad doctor in the bell tower, an island so cursed no one will buy it. Almost none of it is true. The real story is…
Nov 3
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The Silver Giants of Lake Baikal: Anatomy of a Soviet Legend
Seven divers, three dead, and swimmers nearly ten feet tall. We followed the story back to its source, and the trail does not end where you think.
Nov 2
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The Salem Witch Trials and Ergot: Mushroom Madness?
The Salem witch trials, which resulted in several deaths in 1692 in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts, have never been adequately explained.
Oct 31
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Monster in the Village: Petar Blagojevic, the Vampire of Kisiljevo
Of all the things that go bump in the night, few monsters haunt our dreams like the dreaded vampire.
Oct 26
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Overtoun Bridge: Where Dogs Leap to their Deaths
Can there be such a thing as a dog suicide bridge?
Oct 24
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Did Andrew Crosse Create Life in a Lab?
In 1836, inside a remote Somerset laboratory, Andrew Crosse watched tiny, living creatures emerge from an electrified stone submerged in chemical…
Oct 22
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Medicine, Cannibalism and Honey: Who, Or What, Was the Mellified Man?
The human race has always been obsessed with the afterlife and the concept of rebirth.
Oct 19
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The Battle of Guadalete: How Islam Fought its way into Spain
In 711 AD, a battle we cannot even place on a map ended Visigothic Spain. King Roderic died on the field, his army broke, and Tariq ibn Ziyad's Berbers…
Oct 17
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The Beast of Glamis Castle: How Did an Aristocratic Child Become Known as a Monster?
Thomas Lyon-Bowes was born as the heir to one of the noblest titles of Scotland, the first-born child of the 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
Oct 15
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Dead Stoned: Why Was This Man Buried in a Shroud of Marijuana?
As much as anything else, to study human development as a species one must understand human interactions with the world around them, and the animals and…
Oct 12
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