After allegedly murdering her husband in 1960, Sharon Kinne shot her lover’s pregnant wife. Then, she evaded justice and escaped to Mexico only to kill again — before vanishing without a trace. Wikimedia CommonsSharon Kinne’s 1960 mugshot, shortly after being booked for the murder of her husband and lover’s pregnant wife. In 1960, Sharon Kinne was living as a bored housewife in the small Missouri town in which she was born....
“She’s so sweet and so naive. She didn’t know what she was getting herself into.” New reports revealed that a girl that went missing in Queens, N.Y. nearly two months ago filed an assault complaint with the NYPD shortly before she disappeared. The New York Daily News reported that 19-year-old Corinna Slusser filed an assault complaint against a man believed to be her pimp on Aug. 28, just two weeks before she was reported missing....
The film was a critical flop for director Danny Boyle and star Leonardo DiCaprio, but while both have moved on, the damage done to Thailand’s Maya Bay has been lasting. Mikel Bilbao/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesTourists in Maya Bay on Phi Phi Leh island in southern Thailand. Over two decades after the release of 20th Century Fox’s The Beach, a Thai court has ordered that the once-idyllic Maya Bay on southern Thailand’s Phi Phi Leh island should be rehabilitated — and the film studio will have to chip in for it....
How Annie Jones attained fame as P.T. Barnum’s “Bearded Lady,” yet still died little more than a circus “freak” in the eyes of the business that chewed her up. Wikimedia CommonsAnnie Jones, the “Bearded Lady.” Bearded women have been a sideshow staple since time immemorial, often billed at the top of any list of circus “freaks.” And Annie Jones, the “Bearded Lady” of P.T. Barnum’s “Greatest Show on Earth,” was one of the most successful bearded ladies of all time....
Pre-Columbian coyote-man statue recovered by Mexico after long dispute, ninja weapon prototypes found in Japan, youngest known Roman amphitheater found in Switzerland. Archaeologists In Mexico Just Recovered The Storied Coyote-Man Of Tacámbaro INAHStanding three and a half feet tall and made entirely of basalt, this storied statue features a coyote-man perched on a throne, in keeping with widespread Mesoamerican depictions of canines as god-like figures. Three decades ago, a stunning coyote-man statue was found among the ruins of Tzintzúntzan, the great capital of the Tarascan civilization....
From googly-eyed fish to mysterious ocean creatures, there’s been no shortage of weird news this year. Jam Press/The Straits TimesAdam Curlykale started tattooing his entire body after he survived cancer. Weird news is always welcome, whether it be for comic relief or simply a story to marvel at. In the age of viral content, these strange stories tend to pick up a ton of traction on the internet. As such, here are the weird, obscure news stories that got the most attention in 2018....
The Ophiocordyceps fungus creates zombie ants by taking over the insect’s brain and controlling its actions. In case the world of insects didn’t freak you out enough already, have we got news for you. There exists, in some species of ant, a particular kind of fungus that turns the ants into zombie-like, mind-controlling insect overlords. Yes, you read that right. Zombie ants, mind-controlling insect overlords. The fungus, known as Ophiocordyceps, appears on the ground in spores....
“We just broke into a dance, we were so happy.” Buried under layers of volcanic ash in Northern Kenya, a skull the size of a lemon was recently uncovered by scientists. It belonged to a baby ape that lived 13 million years ago and is remarkably preserved — complete with impressions of the creature’s brain on the inside and its adult teeth that had yet to grow in. “We’ve been looking for ape fossils for years — this is the first time we’re getting a skull that’s complete,” Isaiah Nengo, the anthropologist who led the discovery, told National Geographic....
When we think of currency today, the first thing that comes to mind is paper, coin, or credit, but the value of money is of course relative depending on where, and when, you’re looking to spend it. Throughout history, food and other surprising items have been used as forms of currency. These four items, for instance, were once considered as valuable in their own way as the money we rely on today....
“The manner in which these dogs were devocalized is concerning on many levels, not the least of which is that it is illegal." Pennsylvania SPCA/FacebookTwo doberman puppies that were rescued by the Pennsylvania SPCA from a breeder that had been performing unlawful debarking procedures. A dog breeder in Lancaster County, Pa. recently had 15 dogs taken from him because he’d performed an illegal debarking procedure on them. Debarking is an extremely cruel method of rendering a dog mute, in this case by shoving a pipe-like object down its throat and damaging its vocal chords until they are totally unusable....
Researchers observed 28 different luminescent signals exchanged between the squids. MBARIHumboldt squids are social animals and communicate with each other through special light pattern visuals under the sea. While they may not talk like we do, animals have their own ways of communicating with their own. Scientists know that cephalopods like octopus and squid produce colorful light displays using pigment cells called chromatophores to communicate. But what remained a mystery was how these colorful patterns would be visible between individual animals, like the Humboldt squid (Dosidicus giga), in the darkness of the deep sea....
“We finally have a ‘smoking gun,’ the first direct evidence of how these animals were hunted.” P. WotjalA close-up of the mammoth rib embedded with a Paleolithic flint fragment. A flint fragment from an early human weapon was discovered in a 25,000-year-old mammoth rib in southern Poland last week, further proving that humans hunted and were perhaps partly responsible for the extinction of the woolly mammoth. Among the remains of at least 110 mammoths (gargantuan creatures that reached three meters tall and weighed some six tons), archaeologists uncovered a rib embedded with a flint arrowhead....
“Better Babies” contests scored children on a 1,000-point scale that was generated based on the racist principles of eugenics. Reuben Saidman/National Media MuseumBabies aligned at a 1938 Better Babies competition. In the early 20th century, visitors flocked to state fairs to gawk at prize-winning livestock, enormous vegetables, delicious pies — and babies. At these so-called Better Babies contests, judges examined and rated infants based on their physical and mental health. Then, they awarded the parents of those babies they deemed to be the fittest....
“The residents used knives to slaughter the crocodiles. The crocodiles were caught and dragged outside and stabbed to death. It was so horrid to see.” Antara/Olha Mulalinda Nearly 300 crocodiles of endangered varieties were recently slaughtered at a breeding ground and sanctuary in Indonesia after a local man was killed by one of the animals a week prior. Immediately following the July 14 funeral of a local man known only as Sugito, who was killed by a crocodile when he entered the sanctuary in Indonesia’s Sorong district, a mob of some 600 angry locals made their way to the breeding pond and killed a total of 292 crocodiles....
While the Nazi war machine ravaged Europe, the war in the Pacific brutalized the soldiers and civilians in World War II’s often overlooked theater. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Inside The Epic Battle Of Okinawa, The Bloodiest Conflict In The Pacific Theater Of World War II Meet Chester W. Nimitz, The Seasick Admiral Who Defeated The Japanese Navy In World War II...
“Something strange is happening, because they’re finishing off all the activists, the people who are doing something for society.” Homero Gómez/TwitterButterfly conservationist Homero Gómez González, who was found dead two weeks ago in a well near El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve. Last week, police discovered the dead body of Homero Gómez González, a local politician and environmental conservationist, inside a well near the prominent Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve where he worked in Mexico....
Clandestine, slippery, and young — John Surratt was the only Confederate co-conspirator who evaded justice after the assassination of President Lincoln. Wikimedia Commons John Surratt in 1867 following his capture in Egypt. John Wilkes Booth, the infamous assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, didn’t act alone. In fact, he was involved with a group of conspirators who would almost all see justice after the death of Lincoln. That is, almost all except John Surratt....
After enduring 17 years of beatings, starvation, and being chained to her bed, Jordan Turpin escaped in 2018 to save her 12 siblings from their abusive parents. @jordan__turpin/InstagramJordan Turpin has nearly 850,000 social media followers after escaping her family’s house of horrors and boldly moving forward with her life. Jordan Turpin appeared to have a happy childhood. After all, the 17-year-old had a dozen siblings and was raised by two seemingly attentive parents....
When two brothers stumbled upon the 500-year-old Inuits in 1972, they thought they’d discovered a recent burial. Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesThis Thule Inuit infant is one of the Qilakitsoq mummies, a 500-year-old corpse so well-preserved that its hair, skin, and nails are all intact. In 1972, eight Qilakitsoq mummies were discovered in two tombs within a rocky crevasse in Greenland. This was, of course, not the first time researchers came across ancient mummies, but these were some of the best-preserved specimens ever found in Greenland....
Everyone seemed to be in on the prank but the bride who was shocked when her brother arrived with a llama and its handlers in tow. Mendl Weinstock Bride Riva Weinstock can’t suppress her exasperation when she sees her brother, Mendl, with the llama he brought as his date. Weddings are complicated family occasions. They often provide the clan’s most mischievous members with an opportunity to cause trouble, so is it any surprise that this woman’s brother brought a llama to her wedding as his date?...
