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Be thankful you don’t live in Buffalo, New York — this week, record snowfalls pummeled the area, leaving some stranded or trapped in their homes, schools, and offices for days. Lifelong Buffalo residents are calling it worse than the Blizzard of 1977, the infamous snowstorm that created snow drifts up to 30 feet high. These photographs show just how intense and crippling this week’s storm has been: The heavy, lake-effect snow (totaling 85 inches in some areas) has led to abandoned vehicles, food shortages, accounts of looting, and at least 7 deaths....

The USS Nevada was found three miles below the surface of the Pacific where it partook in World War II. This is the first time anyone’s seen it since. U.S. Navy/Naval History and Heritage CommandThe USS Nevada off the Atlantic coast of the U.S. on Sept. 17, 1944. The wreck of the U.S. Navy warship Nevada has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean after nearly 72 years underwater. According to Fox News, the World War II battleship was found 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor at a dizzying depth of 15,400 feet....

Experience 1960s San Francisco and the thousands who chased drugs, music, and the hippie dream. In the aftermath of World War II, the United States experienced an unparalleled growth in wealth that facilitated the rise of the American middle class and a rapid increase in the birth rate. However, the generation borne out of this era developed belief systems distinct from those of previous generations, and in many ways, outright rejected many traditional values....

These 65 graves mostly date from the fifth and sixth centuries C.E., the period of the mythical King Arthur — and one of these graves may actually be his. Wikimedia CommonsRuins in Tintagel in Cornwall, England, where some of the royal graves have been identified. Archaeologists have long grappled with a historical mystery: the strange absence of British kings’ graves from post-Roman Britain. Now, new research suggests that up to 65 royal graves from the fifth and sixth centuries have been hiding in plain sight, largely unadorned and tucked within regular cemeteries....

New research shows that the worst European eruption in 200,000 years may have caused an entire race to die out. Did the Neanderthals die out because of one enormously catastrophic supervolcano? New research published in the journal Nature suggests that a massive eruption in Europe may driven the Neanderthals into extinction. Approximately 40,000 years ago, only a handful of Neanderthal communities still roamed Europe. But when the Italian supervolcano Campi Flegrei exploded in the largest eruption that Europe has seen in 200,000 years, it spewed forth more than 70 cubic miles of magma and covered 1....

The indigenous people of South America engage in ayahuasca rituals to this day. This discovery is proof of just how far back its use really goes. Juan V. Abarracin-Jordan and José M. CaprilesThe ancient Bolivian pouch is comprised of three fox snouts sewn together. A 1,000-year-old pouch made from three fox snouts sewn together was discovered in Bolivia to contain some tantalizing surprises. According to National Geographic, the pouch held the world’s earliest evidence of ayahuasca among a plethora of other mind-altering substances and drug paraphernalia....

After years of playing Buffy Davis on the CBS sitcom “Family Affair,” actress Anissa Jones died of a massive overdose at 18-years-old on August 28, 1976. With her blond pigtails and eager smile, Anissa Jones charmed TV audiences in her role as Buffy on Family Affair. But like many child actors, her life began to unravel when the cameras stopped rolling. When the show was abruptly canceled in 1971, Jones — then 13 years old — was eager to turn over a new leaf....

Brianna Alexandra Maitland suddenly disappeared without a trace in March 2004 — and though everyone from a drug gang to a serial killer has been suspected, authorities are still no closer to figuring out what happened. Vermont State PoliceBrianna Maitland vanished after work in Montgomery, Vermont, in November 2004 — and authorities are still chasing down leads. On March 19, 2004, Brianna Maitland left her job as a dishwasher at the Black Lantern Inn in the town of Montgomery, Vermont....

“During one visit ‘Aladdin’ actually made an appearance in front of me.” Uttar Pradesh police/AFP/Getty ImagesA doctor was scammed out of $93,000 by fraudsters who pretended to conjure a genie from a fake ‘Aladdin’s lamp.’ Scammers will come up with just about anything to swindle some money out of the pockets of the innocent. Sometimes these con artists’ tricks are so elaborate that they can convince even the most rational person to step into their trap....

Garrett Augustus Morgan didn’t get his due until after his death in 1963 — despite inventing the modern traffic light and an early version of the gas mask. United States Marine CorpsA portrait of inventor Garrett Morgan. The life of a Black inventor in the Jim Crow era wasn’t easy, but Garrett Morgan shouldered past societal prejudices to pioneer inventions in the early 20th century, many of which we use to this day....

On September 1, 1969, about 40 people in Berkshire County, Massachusetts reported seeing a UFO — and one boy named Thomas Reed claimed that he and his family were taken aboard. In 1969, residents of Berkshire County in Massachusetts went into a panic after multiple people reported seeing a UFO. The furor over the sighting reached far beyond the area and captivated people all over America. In Roswell, New Mexico, a replica of the alleged vessel was even displayed at the International UFO Museum....

On New Year’s Eve in 1812, Theodosia Burr Alston boarded a ship bound for New York to reunite with her father after the death of her child. She never made it. In 1813, America was introduced to a scandal of unprecedented proportions when an ex-Vice President’s daughter was lost at sea. Theodosia Burr Alston was the daughter of third Vice President Aaron Burr — and she was the apple of his eye....

Saddled with deformities that enlarged his head and limbs, Joseph Merrick was turned into a ‘freak show exhibit’ before dying at London Hospital in 1890. Imagine as a new parent having a beautiful and healthy baby boy. Now imagine, at age five, your child’s appearance starts to change in unexpected ways. His once-perfect lips swell up. His pink skin thickens and turns a sickly gray hue. A mysterious lump emerges from his forehead....

After the shooting, she texted her brother to let him know, saying: “I owe em that body.” Jackson County Detention CenterRappers DaBaby and 42 Dugg have offered to put up $40,000 for Tityana Coppage’s $200,000 bond. Those who knew 16-year-old Jason Ugwuh of Kansas City, Missouri, said that he was a smart student and a talented basketball player. Tragically, he was shot and killed in a yet-unsolved homicide on Jan. 10, 2021....

“The best explanation we can come up with is that the owner of the sword was defeated in a battle.” The Historical Museum of Northern JutlandJannick Vestergaard and Henning Nøhr proudly holding the medieval sword they pulled out of a Danish sewer. As pipe layers and engineers, Jannick Vestergaard and Henning Nøhr are likely accustomed to their day-to-day operations in Denmark’s fourth-largest city, Aalborg. So, pulling a medieval sword out of a sewer earlier this month was quite a surprise....

From the Short Tail gang of the 1880s to the Black Spades of the 1970s Bronx, take a peek at New York gangs of the past through these unbelievable photos. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 44 Colorized Photos That Bring The Streets Of Century-Old New York City To Life 27 Bizarre Vintage Photos From The Annals Of New York City History...

Cinema was one of the most important pieces of the Nazi propaganda machine. It fostered hatred and helped lead the path toward war. It helped push the German people to believe in their own racial superiority and thus ultimately helped make atrocities like the Holocaust possible. Share Flipboard Email And yet, Nazi propaganda films still hold a strange place in history — because, politics completely aside, some of these films of hatred and evil were among the greatest purely technical achievements of their time....

On May 31, 2014, sixth graders Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier tried to murder their friend Payton Leutner in the woods of Wisconsin — to please Slender Man. In June 2009, the comedy website Something Awful issued a call for people to submit a modern scary story. Thousands of submissions rolled in, but one story about a mythical creature called Slender Man rippled through the internet thanks to its creepy featureless face and ghostly figure....

Though giant otters have been found before, the species identified in Ethiopia is believed to be the largest ever discovered. Sabine Riffaut and Camille Grohé/Palevoprim/CNRS Université de PoitiersNot only was the otter large, but researchers believe that it likely lived on land. Scientists working in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia have identified a new species of prehistoric otter. Unlike its modern-day kin, this otter, Enhydriodon omoensis, was around 440 pounds....

Researchers traced the man’s ancestry to Sardinia and present-day Turkey — and found that he likely suffered from spinal tuberculosis. Notizie Degli Scavi di AntichitaThe man in question was first discovered in 1933. Nearly one century later, his human genome has been sequenced. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., the 20,000 residents of Pompeii who stood in its shadow were either buried under 23 feet of ash and debris or fled....