Tallest Professional Fighter in History – Successor of an Ancient Race of Giants?
Gogea Mitu was the tallest Romanian ever recorded in modern history. He had an astounding height of 7.4 feet (close…
The Strange After-Life of Jeremy Bentham
Philosophers tend to be eccentric people. Diogenes lived in a barrel. Socrates would walk up to unsuspecting people in the…
The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula
History is peppered with strange accounts of phantom attackers. These mystery assailants attack, stir up a massive panic, and then…
The Story of Alfonso Rodríguez and his Devil’s Armchair
In 1550, a doctor named Alfonso Rodríguez arrived in the city of Valladolid to teach at the University of Valladolid’s…
Stupid, tall, frail: scientists described Homo sapiens after a thousand years
Scientists at Flinders University and the University of Adelaide have conducted a study of human evolution and concluded that it…
The Sausage Murders: Real Life Horror in Brazil
1864, in an emergent town in the South of Brazil called Porto Alegre (lit. “Happy Harbour”), a crime shocked its…
The Hitchhiker’s Killer: Donald Henry Gaskins
South Carolina’s most feared serial murderer was born on March 13, 1933 in Florence County. He was five-foot, four-inch tall,…
Italian man tears both his eyes out during church
An Italian man tore both of his eyes out in the middle of the priest’s homily at a church near…
The Gruesome Story of Carl Tanzler and His Corpse Bride
Carl Tanzler or sometimes Count Carl von Cosel was a German-born radiologist at the United States Marine Hospital in Key…
The Tombstone of Nancy Luce – The Chicken Lady
Nancy Luce was born at home in West Tisbury on August 23, 1814, the only child of Philip Luce and…