Microsoft Files Patent for Technology That Could Resurrect Dead Loved Ones as Chat Bots
Anyone who’s seen the 'Black Mirror’ season 2 episode 'Be Right Back' might have mixed feelings about Microsoft’s fledgling technology.
Anyone who’s seen the 'Black Mirror’ season 2 episode 'Be Right Back' might have mixed feelings about Microsoft’s fledgling technology.
The house where Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were discovered bludgeoned with an ax is in need of a new owner.
Beneath the ornate Capitol Rotunda is a drafty crypt with 40 Doric columns, a dozen statues, and zero human remains.
Alexine Tinné's quests to find the source of the Nile River and cross the Sahara Desert were no luxury holiday.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows has long promoted goodwill among all, but its disbanded lodges had a habit of leaving behind human remains for the new occupants to discover.
"RIP" has a pretty obvious meaning, but some tombstone symbols—like a corn husk or a camel—can be a little puzzling.
While 'The Conjuring' films, 'The Amityville Horror,' and 'The Haunting In Connecticut' brought paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren fame, the question of who they were behind the films remains as interesting as ever.
According to local lore, Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, Scotland, is haunted by the malevolent ghost of Lord Advocate George "Bluidy" Mackenzie.
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Drew Barrymore recently corroborated this epic Hollywood legend, but it’s still highly questionable.
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Many have long believed that Italian painter Raphael’s excessive philandering led to his untimely death.
Robert Berger tried to avoid a jail sentence by forging a death certificate. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as the Office of Vital Statistics and Regsitry.
Between 1907 and 1915, Coney Island's Rough Rider-themed roller coaster killed seven people in two separate incidents.
Documents discovered by researchers show that a meteorite killed one man and paralyzed another in modern-day Iraq more than a century ago.
Jeremy Bentham’s auto-icon, consisting of a wax head and a foam body built around his actual skeleton, has been moved to a new location in its London home.
Strange powder at the crime scene, rumors about Harvard’s drug crowd, and other red herrings created an investigation rife with dead ends.
In the 1940s, sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen used their unassuming profile as teenagers to ambush and kill Nazis in the Netherlands.
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The idea of cats devouring their dead owners is no urban legend. A new paper documented these savage creatures dining out on human flesh.
At age 55, Theodore Roosevelt embarked on an Amazonian jungle trek along the River of Doubt, where he very nearly lost his life. It was, in many ways, the icing on the cake of a life brimming with near-death experiences. He had close encounters with wild
Washington state will soon be home to the world’s first human composting facility. The process, which will cost about $5500, will turn a human body into one cubic yard of nutrient-rich soil.
Sorry, JFK conspiracy theorists—the National Archives has made it clear that this doesn’t mean his case is reopened.
In 1908, Mary Farmer came up with a plan to steal her landlord's home. The crime was brutal enough to make her the second woman executed by electric chair in New York's history.