Peoples

Karolina Olsson was born in Oknö near Mönsterås, Sweden, on the 29 October 1861, the second-eldest of five children, her siblings were all brothers. Karolina became known...

This year saw the 30th anniversary of the death of one of the most influential writers of all time, the iconic Philip K. Dick. Although virtually...

More than half a century after his death, the story of Nikola Tesla continues to fascinate and generate speculation about what-might-have-been had he been understood and dealt...

The story Ann Andrews tells in “Jason, My Indigo Child” (Wild Flower Press, 2005) begins with a bang in July of 1987 on the...

Tesla later went public with his claim that he was receiving extraterrestrial voice transmissions and was subjected to the usual humiliating ridicule that greets UFO witnesses today...

Armin Meiwes is a German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via the Internet. After Meiwes...

Joyce Carol Vincent (15 October 1965 – c. December 2003) was a British woman whose death went unnoticed for more than two years as her corpse lay...

Johann Conrad Dippel: The original Frankenstein He was born at Castle Frankenstein near Darmstadt, and therefore once (at his school) the addendum Franckensteinensis and once (at his...

Frane Selak is a Croatian music teacher who has escaped death seven times, and afterward won the lottery in 2003, prompting journalists to dub him "the world's...

The strangest case in the long history of Nottingham’s General Hospital is perhaps that of Katherine (Kitty) Hudson. Kitty was the 9th patient to be admitted to...