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These colonists likely died decades before the settlements at Jamestown and Plymouth Rock were even established. Archaeologists in Florida recently announced that they have found the remains of several young children buried underneath the last place one might think to look: a wine shop. There will be no police investigation, however. The Florida wine shop happens to be located in St. Augustine, America’s oldest city. And those bones? They’re just about as old as the city is....

“It’s something that we learn at the very beginning of hunter education: After you shoot an animal and approach it, you need to be very careful.” Wikimedia Commons A hunter in California received a nearly fatal dose of karma after he was mauled by a bear he had just shot. On Aug. 24, the unidentified hunter shot a black bear in the Banning Canyon area of Riverside County with a bow and arrow....

Disney’s River Country and Discovery Island theme parks were mysteriously shut down in 2001. To this day, no one knows what exactly happened at what was once “The Happiest Place on Earth.” Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 27 Eerie Photos Of Abandoned Amusement Parks 33 Haunting Photos Of The Abandoned Baltimore Ghetto Haunting Photos From 9 Of The World’s Creepiest Abandoned Hospitals...

In an attempt to find their identity, Jareth Nebula initially transitioned from female to male — but it didn’t suffice. Instagram/Jareth_NebulaJareth Nebula posing in a bathroom. Jareth Nebula transitioned from female to male when they were 29 years old. Unwilling to publicly disclose their birth name, the now-33-year-old’s new legal moniker was inspired by David Bowie’s character, Jareth the Goblin King, from Jim Henson’s 1986 cult-classic fantasy film Labyrinth. The Washington native and barbershop receptionist was disappointed to find that their gender transition didn’t seem to fill that lifelong void which inspired them to go through with it in the first place, Daily Mail reported....

Xi Guangan was paid the equivalent of $282,000 to kill a real estate mogul’s competition. Hesitant to do so, he hired another hitman to do it for him. But the outsourcing didn’t stop there. Nanning Intermediate People’s CourtThe defendants were previously cleared in 2016, as the court excluded evidence gathered through police misconduct. What does a contract killer do when he doesn’t want to do his job? According to the BBC, he gets arrested for repeatedly trying to subcontract his work....

Image Source: YouTube We all have a legacy. Every one of us will eventually pass on, generally hoping to have left the world a slightly better place than it was when we found it. Scientists often epitomize this hope, many of them toiling for decades in obscurity as they work to find answers to humankind’s many problems. In that sense, Thomas Midgley Jr. was a great man and a fine scientist....

When William Leonard Pickard was arrested by the DEA in November 2000, agents allegedly seized enough acid for 400 million trips from his missile silo lab in Kansas. DEAPickard was given two life sentences to be served at the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona. On Nov. 6, 2000, Kansas Highway Patrol pulled over a Buick LaSabre in a routine traffic stop. When the car came to a stop, its driver, 58-year-old Willliam Leonard Pickard ran from the scene and left behind drugs and other paraphernalia....

With few options available to women, Lysol’s advertising as a feminine product made it one of the most popular contraceptive devises around. Most people keep Lysol under their sinks, ready to pull it out to disinfect the countertops or wipe germs off of bathroom surfaces. What most of us probably don’t want to do, is put the disinfectant anywhere in or on our bodies. However, in the early 1900s, Lysol wanted women to do just that....

There are still no answers as to how so many vultures, some endangered, just dropped dead. André Botha/VCFThe strange mass mortality event affected the Hooded vulture, pictured here, the most. A minimum of 648 vultures have been found dead in a Guinea-Bissau nature reserve over the last few weeks. The reason why is still currently eluding experts. Researchers have speculated that this mass death could be a “catastrophic blow” to the reserve, as many species there are verging on extinction as it is....

Even with its green lawns and swimming pools, Los Angeles―and Southern California―is a semi-desert. Dropping a major city into this climate with limited water resources seems ridiculous now, but when LA’s population began to boom in the nineteenth century, its leaders believed that the aquifer supplying the city would last. William Mulholland became the ruthless first superintendent of the then-new Los Angeles Water Department, later the Department of Water and Power (DWP), and later had a famous LA street named after him....

Whether exploring the Arctic or fighting the Nazis, Peter Freuchen did it all. YouTubePeter Freuchen The shortlist of Peter Freuchen’s accomplishments includes escaping an ice cave armed with his bare hands and frozen feces, escaping a death warrant issued by Third Reich officers, and being the fifth person to win the jackpot on the game show The $64,000 Question. However, the life of adventurer/explorer/author/anthropologist Peter Freuchen can hardly be contained in a short list....

The modern world comes with its share of drawbacks, but at least we have dentists. Wikimedia Commons Modern life is hectic and demanding. We all seem to be short on time and stuck with more work than we know how to handle — so much so that from time to time, we might wish we could have lived in a simpler, less stressful age. Back before the days of industrialization, some may think, the world was a more relaxed and open space with fresh air, predictable work patterns, and simple ways of doing things....

The dog was found beneath the pier at Independence Harbor in New Jersey udays after it ran away from its owner in Manhattan. TwitterBear, the Leonberger-Bernese mountain dog mix, escaped from his collar on a trip to the pet store, ran about 30 blocks, and jumped into the Hudson river. On Saturday, Dec. 3rd, a frightened puppy got loose while accompanying his owner to the pet store — then ran a mile-and-a-half and dove into the Hudson River....

“Loss of such unique and charismatic megafauna representative of freshwater ecosystems is a reprehensible and an irreparable loss,” one scientist said. South China Morning PostThe Chinese paddlefish has been declared extinct by scientists. As Earth’s environmental woes grow, another species has been officially declared extinct. The Psephurus gladius, known as the Chinese paddlefish, has lived in the Yangtze River since the age of the dinosaurs. But according to a report by the South China Morning Post, the prehistoric fish species no longer exists....

King receives the National Medal of the Arts from President Barack Obama. Source: arts.gov A few years ago, President Obama draped a National Medal of the Arts around the neck of novelist Stephen King. “One of the most popular and prolific writers of our time,” the President said, “Mr. King combines his remarkable storytelling with his sharp analysis of human nature.” The next day, King took his literary “bling,” as he called it, to Stephen Colbert’s show....

From trying a corpse for perjury to selling the papacy to marry a cousin, Catholicism certainly has had its share of colorful Popes. Pope Formosus (891-896) While Formosus’ pontifical reign is noted more for its brevity than its breadth, it’s the absolute insanity that defined his afterlife that makes him one of the world’s craziest popes. A year following his death, the rather batty Pope Stephen VI ordered Formosus’ desiccated body to be exhumed and put on trial....

The chilling story of the Sodder children, who vanished after their West Virginia home went up in flames in 1945, leaves more questions than answers. The citizens of Fayetteville, West Virginia awoke to tragedy on Christmas Day in 1945. A fire had consumed the home of George and Jennie Sodder, leaving five of the couple’s 10 children dead. Or were they? Before the sun set on that tragic December 25, nagging questions arose about the fire, questions that persist to this day, placing the Sodder children at the center of one of American history’s most infamous unsolved cases....

Mild-mannered Ronald Dominique was overweight with a heart condition and a cane. He moonlit as a bad Patti LaBelle impersonator at the local gay club — and murdered dozens of homeless men. In late 1997, police in the southern parishes of Louisiana began to find bodies. Bodies that had been raped and tortured before they were murdered. For the next nine years, Louisiana police found these bodies scattered along roadsides, floating in bayous, rotting in sugarcane fields, and half-buried in ditches....

Bronze Age wishing well uncovered in Germany, prehistoric Megalodon tooth found in Maryland, Roman house restored in Pompeii. Wishing Well Dating Back 3,000 Years And Filled With Sacrificial Relics Unearthed In Southern Germany Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of MonumentsResearchers uncovered evidence indicating that water levels were extremely low at the time of the well’s construction, suggesting that sacrifices were ritualistically placed inside in hopes of ending the drought and bringing a good harvest....

Karl Wallenda’s final – and tragic – tightrope walk was caught on video in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Getty ImagesKarl Wallenda walks the tightrope. Karl Wallenda had been performing stunts since he was six years old. He was trained to walk on a high wire, cycle across a tightrope, and balance as one of a seven-man pyramid. Rarely was a safety net used. For him, it seemed, nothing was impossible....