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“I was sitting at the back of the deck and, yeah … it was bad,” she said before being taken into an ambulance. STR/AFP/Getty ImagesBritish tourist Kay Longstaff exits a Croatian coast guard ship in Pula on Aug. 19, 2018. A woman from the U.K. that was traveling on a cruise ship was miraculously rescued about 10 hours after she fell off the vessel and into the Adriatic Sea. The 46-year-old, identified as Kay Longstaff, fell from the Norwegian Star ship that was traveling to Venice, Italy from Croatia about 60 miles off of Croatia’s coast near midnight on Aug....

The mystery surrounding the death of George Reeves, the original Man of Steel. Photo by ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty ImagesPhyllis Coates and George Reeves in The Adventures of Superman. On June 16, 1959, actress Phyllis Coates was woken up around 4:30 a.m. by a very strange phone call. The woman on the other end of the line was a woman named Toni Mannix. She sounded very disturbed and was hyperventilating as she rasped, “The boy is dead....

Calling himself “Blackbeard,” English pirate Edward Teach terrorized the Caribbean between 1716 and 1718 until he was ultimately beheaded in battle. Wikimedia CommonsAn 18th-century illustration of Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard. In the early 1700s, it took only one word to strike fear into the hearts of men on the high seas: Blackbeard. The notorious pirate, whose real name was Edward Teach, had a ruthless reputation. Nothing good ever happened when his ship Queen Anne’s Revenge appeared on the horizon....

Medical experts are baffled why so many people in the small Kazakhstan town of Kalachi spontaneously fall asleep — sometimes for days at a time. Imagine going about your day-to-day life only to abruptly fall asleep, waking up days or even a week later with no memory of what’s happened. Sound a bit like the plot of a horror movie? In a small town in Kazakhstan, this drama has been playing out for the better part of a year and doctors still can’t explain it....

Out of 28 of the big cats that were tested by researchers, nearly half of them appeared to have been exposed to the plague. PixabayScientists found that cougars at Yellowstone have been infected by the plague for the last 10 years. When the first cougar mysteriously died at Wyoming’s Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in 2006, biologist Howard Quigley didn’t suspect anything unusual as the cause. More of these big cats have died since then....

The wallet contained his Navy ID, pocket instructions for what to do in the event of an atomic bombing, and a recipe for homemade Kahlua. TwitterPaul Grisham and his wife Carole Salazar behold the long-lost wallet. After a 13-month stint working at a science station in Antarctica in 1967, Navy meteorologist Paul Grisham mistakenly left his wallet behind — and it was just returned to him. According to The San Diego Union-Tribune, 91-year-old Paul Grisham was reunited with his billfold after it was discovered wedged behind a locker in McMurdo Station, a United States Antarctic research station....

For the first time ever, researchers have studied a near-complete skeleton of Tupandactylus navigans, a prehistoric flying reptile with a head crest that accounted for nearly half its height. Victor BeccariAn artist’s rendering of what Tupandactylus navigans may have looked like 100 million years ago. In 2013, the Federal Police of Brazil successfully thwarted an illegal fossil trade. The raid of Santos Harbor in São Paulo yielded about 3,000 prehistoric specimens stolen from the Araripe Basin to the north....

Even though 77 hopeful fugitives were caught just two days after trying to escape aboard The Pearl, their daring attempt would inspire abolitionists nationwide. National Parks ServiceThe Pearl Incident was the largest escape attempt made by American slaves in the nation’s history. In 1848, Washington D.C. was a bustling hub of leadership and trade, but it was also a major slave-trading center. The city had dozens of slave pens and markets dedicated to the horrific sale of human beings....

On February 17, 2014, 14-year-old Breck Bednar secretly met 18-year-old Lewis Daynes at his apartment in England. Bednar was found dead the next day. The untimely death of 14-year-old London native Breck Bednar shocked the world in 2014. His murder at the hands of a stranger he met online named Lewis Daynes served as yet another macabre cautionary tale to those socializing on the web. His horrific execution was as shocking as it was senseless....

Sultan Kosen and Jyoti Amge met for the first time and posed for photos despite their almost 6-foot height difference. Hurriyet Daily NewsSultan Kosen and Jyoti Amge pose seem entirely unimpressed by their 6-foot height difference. The world’s tallest man and the world’s shortest woman posed for a photo-op on Saturday, against the backdrop of the Great Sphinx of Giza. The tallest man on earth Sultan Kösen, an 8-foot-3-inch-tall farmer, towered over the diminutive Jyoti Amge, an actress from India, who measures just 2 feet....

Game of Thrones castle for sale, lost Native American city discovered, world’s oldest cheese unearthed. Game Of Thrones Riverrun Castle For Sale In Northern Ireland Maison Real Estate Listen up Game of Thrones superfans: You can now own a piece of the show’s history for a pretty reasonable price. Part of Northern Ireland’s Gosford Castle, which was used for exterior shots of the Riverrun castle on season three of the show, is up for sale starting at just $656,452....

Tim Lee and Tracey Doyle recently hiked up the 1.4-mile high Tikaboo Peak, a mountain 25 miles opposite the mysterious military base, in order to capture the closest ever pictures of Area 51. UFO Seekers/Youtube Youtube UFO hunters recently scaled a mountain in Nevada to get the best pictures of Area 51 ever captured. Tim Lee and Tracey Doyle, UFO hunters who run the popular Youtube channel “UFO Seekers”, recently hiked up the 1....

Beyond persistence and imagination, a writer needs a physical place of inspiration to succeed. Here are 10 writing studios that do just that. No matter his or her genre or style, the one necessity for every writer is an inspired place to imagine and plot a character’s next move. Whether a world famous author or an amateur who has just discovered the worlds one can create with a sequence of letters, the physical places in which a writer writes have a tendency to bleed into the storyline and influence outcomes....

These serial killer quotes from monsters like Ted Bundy and Charles Manson will haunt your nightmares and reveal the darkest depths of human evil. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: The 20 Best Serial Killer Documentaries That Will Chill You To The Bone Meet Carl Panzram, The Most Twisted Serial Killer You’ve Never Heard Of...

The remains of the famed pilot may finally see the light of the day thanks to a new expedition to the island where she may have crash landed. Almost exactly eight decades after Amelia Earhart’s disappearance on July 2, 1937, people around the world are still intrigued by the mystery. What could have happened to the world’s most famous female pilot after her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean? Some think that she was captured by the Japanese, others suspect that her aircraft is buried at the bottom of the ocean....

The Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab was one of the more bizarre toys of all time. Webms/ Wikimedia CommonsThe Gilbert Atomic Energy Laboratory. If you follow the news, you know that from time to time a toy will come out that ends up being a little controversial. Maybe it’s full of easy swallowable parts, or lead paint, or in the case of the infamous lawn darts, heavy metal spikes that kids can throw at each other’s skulls....

Source: BeltLine The world’s earliest gardens were planted to reap medicinal benefits and celebrate the gods. Over time, the purpose of gardens has expanded dramatically, with people growing gardens for a number of functional and not-so-functional reasons. Take a trip with us as we explore six mesmerizing gardens around the world, landing on almost every continent but Antarctica. (And keep your bucket list handy—you will be needing it.) Canada: Butchart Gardens Source: National Geographic...

“We don’t look at abortion as a murder,” a counselor for pregnant women said. “We look at it as a thing that we ended.” Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images Prenatal screening tests for Down syndrome were introduced in Iceland in 2000. Since then, nearly 100% of women who received a positive test for the genetic disorder terminated their pregnancy. This has resulted in Iceland nearly eradicating Down syndrome births, with only one or two children born with the disorder each year, according to a new report from CBS News....

Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 34Soldiers gather on the beach in advance of evacuation. May 1940.© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images 2 of 34British soldiers wait on an improvised pier made out of vehicles in order to evacuate Dunkirk during low tide. June 1940.March Of Time/March Of Time/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images 3 of 34Allied troops, mostly British, wade out to a fleet of military and civilian ships waiting to transport the men to England from Dunkirk....

When country-rock singer Gram Parsons died of an overdose on September 19, 1973, his friends carried out his final wish — by stealing his body and burning it at Joshua Tree National Park. Wikimedia CommonsGram Parsons died from an overdose of morphine and alcohol. Before “classic rock” defined the genre, country music and rock and roll were nearly inseparable from each other. Contemporary artists like Keith Richards believed nobody was more responsible for that fusion than Gram Parsons....