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A jackrabbit with antelope horns, the fabled jackalope has captivated the American West since the 1930s — but is this animal actually real? Photo by Found Image Holdings/Corbis via Getty ImagesA jackalope, or a rabbit with horns, from a 1960s “photo”. Half-antelope, half-jackrabbit, the enigmatic jackalope darts through stories of American folklore. The creature is purported to have the body of a rabbit and the horns of an antelope. Legend states that this horned rabbit is elusive, powerful, and able to carry a tune....

The Delaney sisters are craniopagus twins — a condition that occurs once every 2.5 million births. They’ve now been separated. At ten months old, sisters Abby and Erin Delaney had still never seen each other’s faces. The girls from North Carolina are craniopagus twins — meaning that they’re connected at the cranium. This is the least common type of conjoined twins, only occurring in about one in every 2.5 million births....

The bottle contained human teeth, fish hooks, and a mysterious liquid. It was found during roof repairs on the former home of Angeline Tubbs — a so-called witch of the 18th century. BBCProduction of this type of bottle began in the 1830s, long after Angeline Tubbs left England. You won’t find the meaning of life at the bottom of a pint glass, but you might discover a bottle from the 1800s used to ward off witch spells near a bar....

Legend has it that Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, after an overeager fan punched him in the gut and caused his appendix to rupture. But the two events may not have been linked. Harry Houdini defied the impossible throughout a mystifying career that still makes him a household name today. From swallowing needles a score at a time to pulling himself out of a whale carcass, to his famous “Chinese Water Torture Cell” escapes, Houdini dazzled millions with his stunts....

“I saw a child run crying, I did not think I was facing the worst tragedy of my life,” one eyewitness said. An Italian family perished earlier this week when they fell into a 1,800-degree volcano. The Mirror reports that the family was vacationing at the Solfatara volcano, located near the town of Pozzuoli, to the west of Naples. The family, who traveled from their home in Turin to visit the volcano, may have gotten off path after following their 11-year-old son, who had wandered toward the volcano....

The celebrated British actor claimed to have served in a number of secret organizations during World War II, but some have accused him of exaggerating his role. By the time Christopher Lee died at the age of 93 in 2015, he’d left his mark on the world. As an actor, Lee made more than 275 movies and brought classic villains like Dracula to life. But Christopher Lee’s military career seems even more impressive than his filmography....

Source: New York Daily News There was a time when all Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted to do was finish her freakin’ dissertation. The year was 1969. The place, Wellesley College. Hillary Rodham was not just trying to finish her senior thesis, but also prepare to speak at her graduation: the first student to be asked to do so in the university’s history. Even at twenty-two, there was something about her that made people pay attention....

White supremacist Thomas Blanton was the last survivor of the three Ku Klux Klan members who were convicted for the attack. Alabama Department of Corrections via APThomas Blanton, who was one of three KKK members convicted for bombing a Black church in Alabama, died in prison. On Sept. 15, 1963, a bomb tore through the 16th Street Baptist Church, a predominantly African American church in Birmingham, Alabama. Inside the church, a group of young Black girls was preparing for their youth program....

In 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez brutally murdered their parents in their Beverly Hills home. Then, they made shocking allegations of abuse in court. Ted Soqui/Sygma via Getty ImagesThe infamous Menendez brothers, Erik and Lyle Menendez, pictured in court in 1994. When Jose and Kitty Menendez were killed in Beverly Hills on a summer night in 1989, their violent deaths shocked Los Angeles. But their brutal murder was just the beginning....

From Jay-Z to Oprah Winfrey, these Black billionaires all overcame incredible odds to get to where they are today. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for NAACP Image AwardsMedia mogul Oprah Winfrey is one of six Black billionaires out of the 615 total billionaires in America. After Forbes released their annual Billionaires List in 2020, a revelation emerged: Out of the 615 billionaires in America, just seven of them are African American. Only one of those six Black billionaires is a woman....

Unity Valkyrie Mitford moved to Germany in 1933 to get next to Adolf Hitler — and managed to become one of his closest admirers. National Portrait GalleryUnity Valkyrie Mitford fell in love with Adolf Hitler at a young age. A virulent anti-Semite, she embraced his ideology even as Germany and Great Britain careened toward war. Though Unity Mitford was born to British nobility and was related to Winston Churchill through his wife, she was an outspoken fascist enamored with Adolf Hitler....

The couple are believed to have fallen into a crevice. One day in 1942, Francine and Marcelin Dumoulin left their mountain home to milk their cows. Neither would ever see their home — or their seven children — again. 75 years later, authorities suspect two “perfectly preserved” bodies uncovered on a melting Swiss ski resort likely belong to the long-missing couple. “The bodies were lying near each other,” the Les Diablerets resort director Bernhard Tschannen told Swiss media outlet Le Matin....

After a multiple murder and decapitation, boys were made to eat a victim’s flesh in what is just the latest instance of cartel cannibalism. STR/AFP/Getty ImagesA bus believed to have been burned in central Mexico by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel during a clash between the gang and authorities. May 1, 2015. On May 22, members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) on motorcycles raided a car dealership in the Mexican state of Tabasco and killed five people, decapitating some....

Sometimes a big story gets lost only because its unfortunate timing pits it in a competition for our attention with another, much larger story elsewhere. The headlines we read do not appear out of nowhere; rather, they stand at the end of a long chain of newsroom deliberation and strategy. Some stories get picked up and spread around the world, while others dwindle for lack of attention. Sometimes the day’s main story is so big, so dramatic, and so loud that it drowns out many smaller stories that would have been enough to lead the news by themselves if they had happened at any other time....

With buildings dating back to 9,000 BCE, these are some of the world’s oldest structures that have stood the test of time. Wikimedia Commons During the Neolithic Age, a period that lasted from around 9,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE, the world looked dramatically different. With the gradual development of agriculture, formerly nomadic societies began to settle, and temporary encampments gave way to permanent homes and buildings carved into bedrock and erected from massive stones....

“To lose a completely healthy animal would be an oddity… To lose five young, very healthy, in great shape, perfect bulls that are all basically the same age… that is so outside the bounds of normal.” Anna King/NW News Network Investigators and residents are mystified by the bizarre killings of at least five bulls this year. The first of the killings came in the middle of the summer. The deflated corpse of a dead Hereford bull was found in a ravine in eastern Oregon, and the details of its death — tongue and sex organs cleanly cut off, no drop of blood left — bewildered local authorities....

Unlike conventional robots, soft robots like this one mimic the way living organisms move and adapt to their surroundings. Robotics and Biology LaboratorySoft robots like the one above (not part of the current study) can mimic the way living organisms move and adapt in a way rigid robots cannot. Researchers have not only created a soft, flexible robot that’s able to respond to its environment on its own — they did it using the ancient art of origami....

“Chimpanzees eat insects, but we did not know that they catch and use them to treat their wounds.” Ozouga Chimpanzee ProjectThe study involved monitoring a group of 45 chimpanzees over the course of 15 months. From bears and deer to pregnant elephants, the world is flush with animals that can treat themselves for various medical issues. While chimpanzees have long been noted to eat leaves that protect their guts from parasites, they’ve now been observed treating their wounds with insects — for the very first time....

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now 16 times larger than previously expected, making it roughly three times the size of France. CNNScientists pull ghost nets from the Pacific Ocean near the garbage patch. In 1997, oceanographer Charles Moore was sailing between Southern California and Hawaii when he came across a horrifying sight. “I was confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of plastic,” he said. “In the week it took to cross the subtropical high, no matter what time of day I looked, plastic debris was floating everywhere: bottles, bottle caps, wrappers, fragments....

A look inside how punk music emerged from the depths of 1970s and 1980s New York City in twenty-seven candid photographs. In the mid-1970s, a new incarnation of rock emerged in juxtaposition to the opulent and carnival-like music that had dominated the decade so far. It was punk rock, a music fast on pace and low on instrumentation with an anti-authoritarian ethos at its core. Punk’s geographical center could be found in New York City neighborhoods like the Lower East Side and the Bowery, which white flight and deindustrialization had left for dead....