DEATH

The movies make it look easy. But if the future of our world depended on it, could you successfully work to disarm a nuclear bomb?

Everything from a cursed mummy to a steering mistake have been floated as the real causes of the ‘Titanic’ disaster—and some conspiracy theories claim the ship never sank at all.

To create the newest season of ‘True Detective,’ showrunner Issa López went all the way back to 1872. And 1959.

From beer floods to meat showers, history is full of peculiar—and putrid—disasters.

On February 4, 1974, publishing heiress Patty Hearst was taken from her Berkeley, California, apartment—but Hearst is far from the only abduction case to have captured public attention.

Mother Nature can be scary, as these films full of homicidal bunnies, pissed-off piranhas, and one mutated bear prove.

In 1900, the global average life expectancy was around 32 years old. Today, it's 71. How did this happen?

From Celine Dion’s “erotic motorcycle” to the crafty female platypus who faked a pregnancy in order to bust out of the Bronx Zoo, 2023 was full of some pretty great stories.

While the club initially formed as a social group for writers of detective fiction, it did have an official purpose: to uphold a rigid set of standards for crime fiction, and weed out any potential members who wouldn’t agree to meet them.

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The standard traffic practice is under increased scrutiny.

The Great Flood of 1889 killed more than 2000 people, swept away 1600 homes, and caused $17 million in damage. And it wasn’t the last time Johnstown would flood.