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While she was busy teaching, Sonia Sutcliffe’s husband Peter Sutcliffe was terrorizing British women as the Yorkshire Ripper between 1975 and 1980. Peter Sutcliffe murdered at least 13 women during his infamous 1970s killing spree in Britain. Known as the “Yorkshire Ripper,” he managed to evade authorities for years before finally being apprehended. His wife Sonia Sutcliffe, meanwhile, had absolutely no idea that her husband was a serial killer. Indeed, when he wasn’t spying on prostitutes on the streets of Leeds and Bradford, Sutcliffe was establishing a seemingly decent life of his own, including finding a wife....

Since being discovered in 1926, the Nazca Lines have inspired countless theories about their origin. Are they extraterrestrial, a message from ancient civilizations, or something more sinister? Some 250 miles south of Lima, Peru, not far from the shores of the Pacific Ocean, there is a great arid plane — the site of one of the world’s oldest mysteries. Across 170 square miles of flat earth, the hard red soil is broken only by a series of strange furrows....

“I was searching for the perfect mate,” Nannie Doss told police, after she was arrested for murdering her husbands. “The real romance in life.” Bettmann/Getty ImagesAfter confessing to the murders of four or her five husbands, Nannie Doss leaves the county attorney’s office and heads to jail. Nannie Doss seemed like a sweet lady. She smiled and laughed all the time. She married, had four children, and spent time with her grandchildren....

Hoping to humiliate women in politics, a group of men jokingly nominated Susanna Salter for mayor of a Kansas town in 1887. But they didn’t expect her to win. Wikimedia Commons/Kansas Historical SocietyBefore Susanna Salter became America’s first female mayor, she was a temperance activist. Her husband (right) was enormously proud of her accomplishments. On April 4, 1887, a young woman named Susanna Salter was nominated for mayor of Argonia, Kansas....

The U.S. officially recognizes the Armenian Genocide, divers uncover a sunken Swiss village, and researchers discover Viking artifacts in an Icelandic cave. A Century After 1.5 Million Were Killed, The U.S. Officially Acknowledges The Armenian Genocide Wikimedia CommonsArmenian leader Vahan Papazian looks out over the remains of the dead at Deir ez-Zor. In 1943, in the midst of the Holocaust, Polish legal scholar Raphael Lemkin coined the word “genocide” to describe what the Ottomans had done to the Armenians between 1915 and 1917....

“This couple should be utterly ashamed of themselves, not showing off and snogging for the cameras.” FacebookTrophy hunters Darren and Carolyn Carter refused to engage in the discourse surrounding this controversial photo, arguing the topic is “too political.” Trophy hunting isn’t usually thought of as an honorable endeavor. And when a trophy hunting couple poses with their kill while sharing a kiss, that only makes things worse. According to The Independent, that is exactly what a married couple from Edmonton, Canada did after shooting a lion dead while trophy hunting in South Africa....

One of Brazil’s last uncontacted tribes, gangs of pre-gentrification Brooklyn, Nat Geo photos of the year, Ohio’s forgotten class, New York during the Great Depression. Meet One Of Brazil’s Last Uncontacted Tribes We live in an epoch where documentation of daily life has become not just hobby but social necessity. Thus, the thought that there exists populations that do not do so — and what’s more, whose very existence others have not documented — seems highly unlikely if not unreal....

These vintage phrenology diagrams from 1902 claim to reveal which head shapes indicate which personality traits — and what passed for medical science a century ago. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Vintage Cigarette Ads That Are Now Hilariously, Tragically Absurd Absurd Nazi Propaganda Photos With Their Original Captions The Most Absurd Fad Diets In The World...

“The plane actually lost power and went zero AC [air conditioning], and then now we’ve got the doors open and one kid is puking, and people are just losing their minds,” one passenger said. People are pissed at airlines. Just to recap, we’ve got the the doctor being brutally dragged out of his seat, the the couple being kicked off the plane while on the way to their own wedding, the the flying of a mechanically unsafe plane 23 times, and the in-flight death of a famous large rabbit....

Though born and wedded royal, the life of Tsarina Alexandra proved to be anything but charmed. Alexandra Feodorovna was born Princess Victoria Alix Helena Louise Beatrice in Darmstadt, Germany, on June 6, 1872. Her royal ties to England’s Queen Victoria as her granddaughter gave her clout in Europe and she enjoyed all the trappings of a charmed life. Unfortunately, her life would become inextricably tied to the future of the Russian government and nation at large....

On a Wednesday radio show, HUD Secretary Ben Carson implied that being poor is a choice. Ben Carson — the man in charge of a federal department meant to help those in poverty — just said that poverty, something that 43 million Americans experience, “is a state of mind.” The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shared his theory on a Tuesday talk show. “I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind,” he told friend and radio host Armstrong Williams....

Higher melanin levels are turning Chernobyl’s tree frogs pitch-black — and also protecting them from the harmful effects of radiation. DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty ImagesA dog in the ghost town of Pripyat near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. In 1986, disaster struck reactor four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, releasing an unprecedented amount of radioactive material that wreaked havoc on both the environment and the surrounding human population. But more than three decades after the Chernobyl disaster, Phys....

The director of a Texas nature reserve has found at least 30 dolls on a stretch of Texas shoreline — and they just keep coming. MissionAransasNERR/YouTubeJace Tunnell, director of the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve, chronicles the group’s finds on YouTube. The Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in Texas brings scientists and policymakers together to protect regional flora, fauna, and water quality. According to the Houston Chronicle, however, they’re currently busied by something less organic — creepy dolls that keep washing ashore....

On October 30, 1982, Dominique Ellen Dunne was brutally strangled by her ex-boyfriend John Thomas Sweeney. He only served three and a half years for the crime. Dominique Dunne had all the ingredients necessary to be a Hollywood superstar. Pretty, talented, and with an enviable resumé, Dunne’s star was on the rise with roles in such films as Poltergeist and Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker. But on Oct. 30, 1982, Dunne was attacked by her ex-boyfriend, and subsequently fell into a coma....

See Francis Frith’s pioneering photos of the Middle East of the 19th century. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 34The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt, 1858.Wikimedia Commons/Francis Frith 2 of 34Grand Abu Simbel Temple, Nubia, southern Egypt, 1857.The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Francis Frith 3 of 34The pyramids of Sakkara, Egypt, 1858....

How did Marilyn Monroe die? Initially deemed a “probable suicide,” questions about a mysterious bruise, lack of evidence, and political motives mounted so heavily that the investigation was reopened in 1982. In the pre-dawn hours of August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe’s housekeeper Eunice Murray and her psychiatrist Ralph Greenson noticed she’d become unresponsive inside the bedroom of her house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles....

Throughout the early 20th century, St. Louis, Missouri, was among the most progressive and prosperous towns in America. So what turned the Gateway City into a crime-ridden ghost town? Until the 1950s, St. Louis, Missouri was a bustling hub of industry. Given its location along the Mississippi River, the Gateway City was relatively tolerant and diverse, and so it became a safe destination for African-Americans during the Great Migration from 1910 to 1970....

After they were abandoned by the rest of their expedition in 1910, Ejnar Mikkelsen and one inexperienced crewmate were forced to spend 28 months alone in the Arctic wilds of Greenland. In 1909, Danish polar explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen set out on a mission to recover the lost maps and journals of a doomed Arctic expedition to the northeast coast of Greenland. But it would take him three years for him to make it back home....

Jack Unterweger went to prison for murder, then found fame as an author — before strangling several women to death in Austria and Los Angeles between 1990 and 1991. Throughout the 1980s, Jack Unterweger was a model prisoner. He was living proof that, no matter what deeds one committed, it was never too late to turn things around. After a life of crime including sexual assault and murder, Unterweger finally saw the light while serving his life sentence for that 1976 killing....

After leading France from the brink of defeat during the Hundred Years’ War, Joan of Arc was captured and put on trial for heresy by the English — then burned at the stake. Wikimedia CommonsJoan of Arc’s Death at the Stake by Hermann Stilke. German, 1843. Hermitage Museum. Joan of Arc didn’t set out to become a martyr. But as the teenage French warrior faced death at the hands of her persecutors in the English-occupied town of Rouen, France on May 30, 1431, she surely came to accept that unenviable honor....