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After being dropped off at school by his stepmother early one morning in June 2010, Kyron Horman vanished — and has never been seen or heard from again. Shortly after 8 a.m. on Friday, June 4, 2010, seven-year-old second grader Kyron Horman arrived at Portland’s Skyline Elementary School. It was the day of the science fair and he was setting up his project with the help of his stepmother. Though a fellow student reported seeing him at 9 a....

Mary Jo Kopechne’s death at Chappaquiddick remains murky more than 50 years after she drowned while on a drive with Senator Ted Kennedy. Wikimedia CommonsMary Jo Kopechne pictured in the 1962 Caldwell College yearbook. In the pitch black of a Massachusetts night, an Oldsmobile took a wrong turn on Chappaquiddick Island. A mile down the road, it bumped over the low barrier of a bridge and plunged into the shallow Pocha Pond....

She was the first American woman to spacewalk in 1984. Now, Kathryn Sullivan has made history again. Wikimedia Commons/EYOS ExpeditionsKathryn Sullivan is one of only eight people to reach the Challenger Deep. On June 7, 2020, former NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan became the first woman to plunge 35,853 feet into the deepest known spot in the ocean. Sullivan had already made history as the first American woman to walk in space in 1984....

Grigori Rasputin’s penis was allegedly cut off after his 1916 murder, then later pickled and placed inside a jar that was put on display in a St. Petersburg museum. Wikimedia CommonsLegends persist to this day about Russian mystic Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin’s allegedly severed penis. To this day, Grigori Rasputin remains nothing short of a legend. But despite all the myths and tall tales surrounding the “Mad Monk” of Tsarist Russia, there’s one thing that holds a particularly large place in this story: the fabled fate of Rasputin’s penis....

“Finding Chlamydiae in this environment was completely unexpected… And of course begged the question, what on earth were they doing there?” T. Ettema, et alA sediment coring device at work in the Norwegian-Greenland sea during the expedition. The deepest reaches of the Arctic Ocean contain one of the most desolate environments on our entire planet. It is known as Loki’s Castle, a large field of hydrothermal vents on the sea floor that’s extremely low in oxygen and high in pressure — and a very difficult place for any organisms to survive....

Hulk Hogan bodyslamming André the Giant was heard around the world. But, how did the biggest match in wrestling history come together? After Wrestlemania II in 1986, WWF owner Vince McMahon was on a mission to make Wrestlemania III “Bigger, Better, and Badder.” McMahon had booked the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan and wanted to draw at least 90,000 people. So the only question was, how the hell do you fill up a stadium with that many fans?...

The Wild West might be long gone, but it has left us with a slew of iconic figures that still remain incredibly popular to this day. Lawmen, outlaws, frontiersmen, pioneers, the Old West had it all. If there is something that the West was good at, it was taking a man and making a legend out of him. Billy The Kid Until recently, this was the only known image of one of the most notorious outlaws of the Old West – Billy the Kid....

Though it’s most often associated with the Vikings, the drinking horn has a long history that actually started more than 1,000 years before the vicious warriors ever left Scandinavia. When most people think of a drinking horn, they picture Vikings dressed in fur clothing and battle helmets guzzling mead after a day of raiding villages. While the Norsemen did use drinking horns, the history of the vessel is far more varied — and begins over 1,000 years prior to the Viking Age....

For several generations, humans living in prosperous Western countries have generally had more than enough to eat and no giant predators to fight off. You’d think this would make us calm and happy, but the truth is that the nimble human brain is a problem-solving machine. Deprive it of major problems, and it reacts by either blowing small things out of all proportion or making up problems out of whole cloth....

When the judge handed down Holtzclaw’s verdict, the former Oklahoma police officer wept in disbelief. “How could you do this?” Holtzclaw asked, maintaining his innocence to this day. Daniel Holtzclaw was a small town hero of sorts. Born in Guam on Dec. 10, 1986 to an Oklahoma cop and his Japanese wife, Holtzclaw became a college football star at Eastern Michigan University and nearly made it into the Detroit Lions....

Discover the photos, recipes, and fun facts behind the strange and colorful world of Mardi Gras cocktails, from cake in a glass to the hand grenade. Mardi Gras in New Orleans is one of those cultural events so well-known that few actually really understand it, beyond the superficial, that is. Most people are aware that it takes place on the Tuesday before Lent begins, but few of us realize that that Tuesday is actually just the ending of a celebration that’s been going on in ebbs and flows since early January....

At the start of the Holocaust, the Warsaw ghetto was home to some 350,000 Jews. Afterward, just 11,000. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Disturbing Photos Captured Inside The Jewish Ghettos Of The Holocaust The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: When The Jews Fought Back Against The Nazis Holocaust Photos That Reveal Heartbreaking Tragedy Only Hinted At In The History Books...

These women, charged with everything from theft to murder, are anything but prim and proper — and will still chill you to the bone a century later. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 63 Wild West Mugshots That Prove They Don’t Make Criminals Like They Used To These Colorized Mugshots Show Criminals From The Past As They Really Were...

A Harvard academic believes that humanity is misinterpreting a certain radio signal – and it could be aliens. A Harvard University academic believes humanity may already possess proof that extraterrestrial life exists. Avi Loeb from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics published a paper online this past February claiming that fast radio bursts (FRB), a type of bizarre radio wave discovered in 2007 that researchers cannot explain, may be evidence that aliens exist....

William Bentvena’s death was one of the main plot points in Martin Scorsese’s iconic film about the New York City mafia. Wikimedia CommonsWilliam Bentvena, better known as Billy Batts. Not too much is known about the early life of Billy Batts. He was born in 1921 with the name “William Bentvena” (although even this is up for debate, as he was also known as William Devino) and worked his way up within New York’s Gambino crime family alongside his close friend, John Gotti....

Determined to alleviate his father’s arthritis, Felix Hoffmann made a pain reliever that was safe for everyday use. But then he synthesized something far more potent. Wikimedia Commons Scientist Felix Hoffmann. If not for Felix Hoffmann modern medicine, might be without one of its most well-known over the counter drugs, Aspirin. But without Hoffman, society would also be without heroin, one of its most dangerous illegal drugs. Felix Hoffmann’s Background Felix Hoffmann was born into an industrial family in 1868....

After robbing the victim’s house and stealing his dog, ex-con Jeffrey Parris texted the victim a series of threats — that were sent straight to the police. Alachua County JailJeffrey Parris is a convicted felon who spent nearly three years behind bars for burglary. On Monday afternoon, an unnamed resident of Gainesville, Florida received some alarming news while running errands. Not only had his home been burglarized, but his dog was missing — and the suspect was now demanding $20,000 over text message if he ever wanted to see the dog alive again....

Police believe that 62-year-old Bernard Raymond von Bredow and his 14-year-old daughter were tortured and killed for their four rare Stradivarius violins. Bernard Raymond Von Bredow/FacebookMuseum owner and violin maker Bernard Raymond Von Bredow was killed in Paraguay along with his teenage daughter. On Oct. 21, police in Paraguay came upon a bloody scene in a home just outside the capital of Asunción. A father and his teenage daughter had been tortured and murdered....

The zoo said its 12-foot polar bear Vitus would be the last to go. Wikimedia CommonsGermany’s National Zoo Association estimated that an average zoo in the country currently loses around $545,000 per week. As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the globe, zoos are finding it increasingly difficult to stay afloat. One German zoo isn’t just asking for donations — they might kill some of their animals to survive. According to the BBC, Neumünster Zooz director Verena Kaspari said this “unpleasant” solution of euthanizing some animals so that others could live would be a last resort....

Lowly newspaper reporter John McPhee just wanted to surprise some kids at a Christmas parade, but actually ended up scarring them for life. Flickr/Public DomainJohn McPhee soon became known as the man who killed Santa Claus It started out as a perfect plan. A stuntman dressed as Santa Claus would leap from a plane over the town of Mesa, Ariz., and parachute down into the center of the town’s annual Christmas parade....