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While en route to Nashville after playing a benefit concert in Kansas City, Patsy Cline died when her plane nose-dived into the Tennessee wilderness on March 5, 1963. Shortly before Patsy Cline’s death in a grisly plane crash, the country music star made an eerie prediction. “I’ve had two bad [accidents],” she said to a fellow singer. “The third one will either be a charm or it’ll kill me.” A week later, Cline climbed into a tiny Piper PA-24 Comanche aircraft after a show in Kansas City, Kansas....

Though the Osage Nation tried to raise funds to buy the sacred Picture Cave themselves, they were outbid. Selkirk Auctioneers & AppraisersThe Osage tribe considers Picture Cave a holy site. For the Osage Nation, Picture Cave was invaluable. But Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers found a price. For $2.2 million, they sold the cave and its surrounding land — which the tribe calls the “womb of the universe” — to the highest bidder....

For five years across 2008 to 2019, marine experts at Isla Guadalupe have spotted sucker marks and scars on a total of 14 great white sharks. Becerril-García et al. 2020A great white shark with the type of scarring observed between 2008 and 2019. According to a newly released study, marine scientists have found evidence that suggests great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the Pacific Ocean are being attacked by gigantic squids....

Researchers first noticed the phenomenon in 2016. They thought it was a one-off until they found that 10 percent of the rocks on the Portuguese island of Madeira were fused with bits of plastic. Ignacio GestosoWhen Ignacio Gestoso first spotted this phenomenon in 2016, he thought it was an anomaly — until extensive research proved otherwise. Ignacio Gestoso and his team first spotted the “plasticrust” phenomenon in Madeira, Portugal in 2016....

The remedy to California’s drought-stricken lands or just the world’s biggest ball pit? See for yourself how shade balls are making a huge impact. From the pictures, it’s hard to tell whether California has dreamed up some creative ways to conserve water, or is just super intent on creating the world’s largest ball pit. (For the record, the drought-stricken state is doing a little of both.) This week, municipal workers dumped the final 20,000 shade balls into the Los Angeles Reservoir, transforming the body of water into a sea of floating black spheres....

Researchers found that people may avoid certain pro-environmental behaviors simply because they don’t want to break from gender norms Wikimedia CommonsResearchers found that men were likely to avoid performing certain eco-friendly tasks, like carrying reusable totes, because they didn’t want to seem like a homosexual. With all the progress that appears to be happening in society when it comes to gender equality, we still hang on to an archaic understanding of gender....

How many people did Ted Bundy kill? We may never know the full extent of Bundy’s heinous crimes, but we can share the tales of the women who we know crossed his path. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty ImagesTed Bundy during his trial in 1978. Most people have heard of Ted Bundy, the infamous serial killer who murdered dozens of young women. He’s recently enjoyed a spike in interest after the release of the 2019 film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile....

Steven Spielberg may have given us a glimpse into the astounding world of dinosaurs, but there are quite a few more weird dinosaurs you need to see. The Weirdest Dinosaurs: Pliosaurs The pliosaur was a marine reptile that haunted the oceans throughout the late Jurassic period. The bizarre beast had a short neck, huge jaw and a massive skeleton – 8 feet of which accounted for just its head – and is considered one of the most powerful killing machines of its age....

Feel what it’s like to be in space as Helen Sharman, the world’s most unlikeliest astronaut, shares her beautiful space dreams in this stunning video. How does it feel to be in space? So very few people can actually answer that question. And even those who can answer it probably can’t truly convey a satisfying answer to the rest of us–surely, the experience is, in a word, indescribable. It’s fitting, then, that perhaps the best, most vivid description of being in space (the stunningly animated video above) should come from the world’s unlikeliest astronaut–the astronaut most like the rest of us....

With a strange body that has both herbivore and carnivore features, the Chilesaurus has baffled scientists — until now. A new analysis of a recently discovered “Frankenstein” dinosaur has revealed it to be the all-important missing link between disparate dinosaur species. This week, archaeologists studying the bone structure of Chilesaurus diegosuarezi have concluded that the bizarre dinosaur was not an odd member of the theropod group, but instead an odd member of the ornithischia group of dinosaurs....

In the back of our minds, we know we’re going to die. But what does it look like just before it happens? These death photos reveal how mundane the end can look. Somewhere in the back of our minds, we all know we’re going to die. Even further back in our minds, we have a vague understanding that death can happen to us at any moment, though the millions of moments that have already passed without incident may give us false optimism....

Most people know who Rosa Parks is — here are four other women in the Civil Rights Movement whose names you should know. Express Newspapers/L360/Getty ImagesYoung women at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. Many forget that when Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat in a Montgomery, Alabama bus, this was not the first time she had done so. People likewise forget that she was not the first African-American woman to stand her ground in a public transportation setting — and that Parks was but one star among a constellation of African-American women who helped lead the movement for equality and the end of segregation in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond....

From engineering marvels like Tower Bridge to the horrific slums that housed the city’s poor, here’s what London really looked like during the Victorian era. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Colorized Images That Capture The Endless Brutality Of World War II’s Eastern Front The Legend Of Spring-Heeled Jack, The Victorian Demon Who Terrorized London...

Over the course of four wars in six decades, Adrian Carton de Wiart proved himself to be the most badass soldier of all time. Wikimedia CommonsAdrian Carton de Wiart. 1944. Adrian Carton de Wiart may be the most unkillable soldier to ever live. For most soldiers, the loss of their left eye and left hand would be enough to force them to retire from battlefield service. Not so for Belgian-born British Army officer Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart....

Easy Eddie O’Hare’s criminal dealings with infamous crime boss Al Capone ultimately ended in his murder. But Eddie’s son, Butch, became a flying ace who rewrote his family’s legacy. WikimediaEdward “Butch” O’Hare, his father Edward “Easy Eddie” O’Hare, and Al Capone. Edward J. O’Hare, commonly known as Easy Eddie, helped nab notorious mobster Al Capone at his own expense. The ambitious man had hoped to pass on his lifestyle to his son, Edward “Butch” O’Hare, who later became a flying ace in World War II....

Previous records claim he was 250 pounds, but on Tuesday he was reported to be just 160 – so maybe he just hadn’t found time to shop yet. New York PostTobias Smith A Florida man’s wild attempt to escape police was brought to an end when his own pants betrayed him and fell, tripping him. Tobias Smith was driving an unregistered car on Tuesday in Daytona Beach when the debacle began....

It’s nearly impossible to estimate how many galgo dogs are killed in Spain annually, although experts say it’s as many as 100,000. Wikimedia CommonsGalgo They’re used for hunting and then simply thrown away. This is the story of the Spanish galgo, the dogs that are killed at a rate of 100,000 or more per year once their masters are done with them. In recent years, however, the world has finally started to take notice....

In 1995, Rand Gauthier snuck into Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson’s mansion to steal a safe that he thought contained jewelry and guns — only to realize that it also held their private sex tape. The Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson sex tape is one of the most famous — or infamous — such videos of all time. But less is known about the man who stole it from them and shared it with the world: Rand Gauthier....

Annie Ferguson recalls her time serving in the British Auxiliary during WWII and helping bring down the Nazi regime. Annie Ferguson was just 19 years old when she joined the British war efforts in 1942. “I remember when I joined up and I thought I suppose I’ll have to wait for the next few weeks or months, but two weeks was all I had to wait,” she remembered. Ferguson, who was born in Scotland and now resides in New South Wales, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that she was not afraid during her time in the heavily armed war zones, despite being a female in a male-dominated space....

Once she got him in the car, she told him “he would never be coming home.” San Juan County Adult Detention CenterKristen Aragon Police have arrested two women who drove from New Mexico all the way to Oklahoma in order to kidnap and sexually assault a 14-year-old boy they’d met on Xbox LIVE. Following the arrest on April 17, authorities in Farmington, N.M. have charged 35-year-old Kristen Aragon and 29-year-old Melissa Goelz with felony kidnapping while the former also faces charges of lewd acts with a minor, reported local KFOR news....