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After Jeffrey Spaide fatally shot two of his neighbors, James Goy and Lisa Goy, he then turned the gun on himself. On the snowy morning of February 1, 2021, three bodies were found in Plains Township, Pennsylvania, in what officials ruled a murder-suicide. The deadly incident in the sleepy town came after a heated argument between neighbors — and it had to do with shoveling snow. At the time, Plains Township was one of several areas in the Northeast to get hit by a massive winter storm, which led to multiple flight cancellations and school closures....

John F. Kennedy’s diary houses some surprising views on world affairs. John F. Kennedy LibraryJohn F. Kennedy in 1944, a year before the diary was written. Before John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States and even before he was a Congressman, he was a newspaper writer. It was 1945 and Kennedy, then 28 years old, was assigned to report in Europe as the continent shakily emerged from World War II....

Jim Hutton and Freddie Mercury enjoyed seven love-filled years together before the latter died of AIDS-related complications on November 24, 1991. Vintage EverydayFreddie Mercury and Jim Hutton remained a couple until the singer’s untimely death in 1991. Jim Hutton’s first meeting with Freddie Mercury in March 1985 was inauspicious, to say the least. In fact, Hutton initially turned Mercury down. But after finally connecting — and despite both plenty of subsequent adversity and a tragic ending to their story — this pairing was, for both men, the relationship of a lifetime....

Kurt Cobain’s suicide note has fueled conspiracy theories since his 1994 death. Read the full text of it here, and decide for yourself what happened to the Nirvana frontman. Kurt Cobain’s death was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the brains with a six-pound Remington 20 gauge shotgun in April 1994. Depressed and drugged out on heroin, the singer barricaded himself in the greenhouse of his Seattle, Washington home — shot up, and shot himself, surrounded by a pair of sunglasses, the cigar box he used to hide his stash, his token American Spirit cigarettes, and of course, one of the most combed over suicide notes in music history....

As birth control is either illegal or unavailable, Manila faces a population crisis that is crippling the city to its very core. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 24Inmates stand on the bars of an overcrowded jail cell at the Navotas Municipal jail, where 492 prisoners await trial in a jail built for less than 100 prisoners....

The 36-year-old brown bear is the only female inmate and the only one serving a life sentence. East2WestNewsEkaterina’s fellow inmates are very fond of her and regularly bring her treats. The prospect of spending the rest of your natural life in prison in Kazakhstan is certainly a grim one, especially when said prison has been described as a “strict regime” penal colony. But for inmates here, a female brown bear named Ekaterina, or Katya, imprisoned alongside them has made their sentences bearable....

Brunhilde Pomsel, among the last surviving witnesses to Adolf Hitler’s final moments, died this past Friday. One of the last surviving links to the Nazis’ inner circle, Brunhilde Pomsel, died this past Friday at her home in Munich at the age of 106. Pomsel served as Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ personal stenographer during World War II and was one of the only survivors of Hitler’s crazed, final days inside his Berlin bunker....

Inside the CIA’s Cold War-era plans for mind control, psychic spies, and one horrifying cat. Dennis Skley/Flickr Most folks might scoff at the idea that the American government would kidnap its own citizens and brainwash them with alternating rounds of torture and LSD — but that’s exactly what the CIA did from 1953 to 1973. The CIA brainwashing project was called MKUltra, and it was enormous. At least hundreds of researchers at 80 institutions spent millions of dollars over the project’s 20-year lifespan, using techniques ranging from sleep deprivation to shock therapy, killing several unwilling test subjects along the way....

We bring you five unsolved serial killings that will leave you cold. A police officer visits a memorial for the West Mesa victims. Unsolved Serial Killings: The Freeway Phantom Source: Wikipedia Beginning in the spring of 1971, only a year and a half after the civil rights riots, Washington, D.C.’s Freeway Phantom haunted the metropolitan area for 16 months, brutally killing six girls, ages 10 to 18. Police know that at least three of them suffered rape and all of them were strangled....

From the greediness of Britney Spears’ dad to the chemical castration of Michael Jackson, these nine true stories of stage parents will leave you revolted. Wikimedia CommonsMacauley Culkin (left), Michael Jackson (center), and Lindsay Lohan (right) all navigated greedy, abusive, or enabling celebrity parents. Whether fame-hungry themselves or eager to defraud their children, the worst stage mothers and celebrity parents all had something in common: exploiting their kids for their own profit....

As Jasmine Richardson’s relationship with her boyfriend Jeremey Steinke grew, so did their heinous plan to massacre her family. In April 2006, in Medicine Hat, Canada, everyone in Jasmine Richardson’s family was killed except her. But her life wasn’t miraculously spared nor was she heartbroken. That’s because the deaths of the Richardson family were the result of a murder at the hands of 12-year-old Jasmine and her 23-year-old boyfriend, Jeremey Steinke....

As space colonization begins to look like more of a reality, the private sector has set its sights on space mining. As space colonization begins to look like more of a reality while finding new sources of mineral wealth on Earth increasingly resembles a fantasy, the private sector has set its sights on space–or more specifically on the Manhattan-sized hunks of rock and metal hurtling through space at 56,000 miles per hour–for future sources of fortune....

Despite his many Union victories in the American Civil War, George Henry Thomas is hardly a household name. Source: Civil War Talk By many accounts George Henry Thomas was one of the greatest military minds in American history. So why isn’t his name mentioned in the same breath as Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, George McArthur or George Patton? Thomas graduated in the same West Point class as William Tecumseh Sherman, and commanded over some triumphant victories that bested his former classmate....

With an arsenal of homemade bread, the anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly mobilized thousands of women like her to champion conservative causes. In the 1960s and ’70s, Phyllis Schlafly brazenly carved a reputation for herself out of male-driven conservative politics, but not as a champion for women’s rights — as an opposer. Schlafly was an effective political operative for the Republican Party and was even once hailed by a right-wing heretic as “the first lady of the conservative movement....

For 30 years, The Troubles tore Northern Ireland apart. These intense images reveal what life was like for those who lived through it. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 33 Photos Of Bloody Sunday, When British Soldiers Shot Down Northern Irish Protesters 1968: The Year America Almost Tore Itself Apart 44 Harrowing Photos Captured Inside The Warsaw Ghetto During The Holocaust...

Devastating Pandemics: The Plague of Athens Starting in 430 B.C. during the Peloponnesian War, the unidentified plague that struck Athens would eventually go on to kill nearly a quarter of the city-state’s population in a very short amount of time before cropping back up again twice in later years and then vanishing altogether. The disease, believed by some to be a form of Typhoid fever, killed a victim so fast that it was unable to truly spread beyond the borders of the city-state, preventing an epidemic from reaching the other major population centers in Greece....

Nikolai Dzhumagaliev earned his nickname “Metal Fang” after being fitted with an unusual set of white metal dentures. My, what nice teeth Nikolai Dzhumagaliev had. After a childhood fight that left him without his front teeth, Dzhumagaliev was given the option to be fitted with dentures. Rather than the traditional plastic resin or porcelain teeth, however, Dzhumagaliev was fitted with teeth made from white metal. All the better to eat people with, of course....

Nazi conspiracy theory disproven, 1960s U.N. murderer unmasked, Hitler’s North American holocaust plans uncovered, mystery of Alexander the Great’s death perhaps solved. DNA Disproves Conspiracy That Hitler’s Deputy Escaped Prison Using A Body Double Wikimedia CommonsRudolf Hess in court during the Nuremberg trials. After more than 70 years, the conspiracy theory that Rudolf Hess was replaced by a body double in jail has been finally debunked by DNA, New Scientist reported....

We don’t usually associate the grim, remorseless world of temporal power with fun and games. The kind of stone-faced power broker who tends to rise through political systems isn’t one who comes immediately to mind when we think about zany hijinks. Which might be the exact reason why pranks pulled on them are that much more fun to watch. Here are three wacky stunts that involved world leaders. Yes, Ban Ki Moon’s Refrigerator Is Running....

These notes shine a light on the complex relationships that slaves had with their masters. ATI Composite After escaping or being liberated, most former slaves were probably more than happy to never speak to their erstwhile masters. After all, what would you say? Though little evidence of this correspondence exists today (at least partially due to the fact that most slaves were illiterate), there are a few examples of slaves reaching out to the people who had once purchased and owned them....