How Georgia Tann Stole And Sold 5,000 Babies In The Black Market
This post was originally published on this siteFrom 1924 to 1950, Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Children’s Home Society stole and sold an estimated 5,000 […]
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35 Extinct Animals That Should Be Cloned Back Into Existence
This post was originally published on this site 1 of 36 Quagga Quagga are an extinct subspecies of plains zebra that lived in South Africa […]
Lili Elbe’s Tragic Life As A Transgender Pioneer
This post was originally published on this siteLili Elbe was born Einar Wegener, and spent her entire life trying to choose between the man she […]
44 Photos Of African Kingdoms Just Before European Colonialists Stormed In — And Just After
This post was originally published on this siteRarely-seen photos of African kingdoms taken just before and after European colonialists launched a wave of terror that […]
The Sad And Short Life Of Stuart Sutcliffe — The Fifth Beatle
This post was originally published on this siteThere was a time when Stuart Sutcliffe, before he quit and tragically died, made the Beatles an actual […]
Inside Manuela Escobar’s Life As A Drug Kingpin’s Daughter
This post was originally published on this siteManuela Escobar lives under an assumed name, and in constant fear that someone will someday realize who she […]
The Horror Story Of Elisabeth Fritzl — Who Spent 24 Years In Her Father’s Prison
This post was originally published on this siteElisabeth Fritzl spent 24 years in captivity, confined to a makeshift cellar and repeatedly tortured at the hands […]
The Cold-Blooded Revenge Of Buford Pusser
This post was originally published on this siteWhen his wife was killed, Buford Pusser went from a cop hell-bent on fighting crime, to a man […]
Disturbing Photos Captured Inside The Jewish Ghettos Of The Holocaust
This post was originally published on this siteBefore the concentration camps, the Nazis’ victims endured another kind of hell inside the walls of the Jewish […]
Brenda Ann Spencer Shot Up A School. Her Reason? “I Don’t Like Mondays”
This post was originally published on this siteWhen asked by a reporter why she fired 30 rounds into a schoolyard, Brenda Ann Spencer’s answer was […]
Chris McCandless Went Into The Wild In 1992 And Never Came Out
This post was originally published on this siteChris McCandless was an ambitious young man who insisted on trekking into the wilds of Alaska on his […]
When Exotic Animals Were Turned Into Furniture
This post was originally published on this siteThe craze for animal furniture came from the work of Rowland Ward, who was a talented taxidermist whose […]
How The New York Blackout Of 1977 Tore A Crumbling City Apart
This post was originally published on this siteDuring the New York blackout of 1977, an entire city went dark, only to be lit up by […]
The Horrifying History Of The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
This post was originally published on this siteThe Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was supposed to be a place of peace and restoration, but it soon devolved […]
What U.S. Soldiers Saw When They First Liberated A Nazi Concentration Camp
This post was originally published on this siteThis is what it looked like when U.S. soldiers say when they liberated the Dachau concentration camp, freeing […]
The Bizarre, Accidental Death Of Clement Vallandigham
This post was originally published on this siteClement Vallandigham was in the middle of demonstrating how another man might have accidentally killed himself — then […]
The Gruesome Crimes Of Albert Fish, The Brooklyn Vampire
This post was originally published on this siteAlbert Fish confessed to a hundred crimes after his arrest, each one of them more depraved than the […]
Inside Andersonville Prison, The Civil War’s Most Brutal POW Camp
This post was originally published on this siteExperience photos and stories from inside Andersonville prison, one of the most brutal POW camps in modern history. […]
The 19th Century’s Highest-Paid Piano Player Was A Blind Slave
This post was originally published on this siteWith Beethoven-like precision, even while blind, Tom Wiggins was able to master a piece of music after hearing […]
Dramatic Footage Of Kamikaze Pilots In Action [VIDEO]
This post was originally published on this siteInsane footage from the Battle of Okinawa shows just how reckless and terrifying kamikaze pilots were. [embedded content] […]
Heartbreaking Jacob Riis Photographs From How The Other Half Lives And Beyond
This post was originally published on this siteThese heartbreaking Jacob Riis photographs from How the Other Half Lives and elsewhere changed America forever. 1 of […]
Meet Miep Gies — The Woman Who Hid Anne Frank And Gave Her Diary To The World
This post was originally published on this siteMiep Gies hid the Frank family for years, helped them survive, and even saved Anne Frank’s diary from […]
31 Child Labor Photos That Expose The Ugly History Of American Coal
This post was originally published on this siteThis industry was built on their backs. These heartbreaking images reveal their story. 1 of 32 15-year-old Vance […]
The Overlooked Story Of The SS Eastland Disaster
This post was originally published on this siteRelive the horror of the 1915 SS Eastland disaster that killed 844 people and wouldn’t have happened at […]
Viking Sex Slaves – The Dirty Secret Behind The Founding Of Iceland
This post was originally published on this siteGiven the genetics of Iceland and the nature of the people who settled it, it’s possible that a […]