
Jacob Shelton
Writer
Robert Smalls's Great Escape: How A Slave Stole A Confe...
December 4, 2019
Born into slavery and forced to work as a ship's captain without any of...
Buster Keaton Stunts: GIFs, Videos, And Stories Of His ...
December 3, 2019
Though he's remembered for his death-defying stunts, Buster Keaton was ...
TV Dinners Exist Because They Killed Way Too Many Turke...
November 30, 2019
As ZZ Top once said, "TV dinners, there's nothing else to eat. TV dinne...
The White House Thanksgiving: History Of How Presidents...
November 28, 2019
Thanksgiving has been an American tradition since before the country wa...
The First Thanksgiving: What Happened, When Was It, And...
November 24, 2019
Every kid in America has the bullet points of the first Thanksgiving dr...
D.B. Cooper Hijacked A Plane, Jumped Into A Storm Witho...
November 24, 2019
There are few modern American mysteries that are as arresting as the id...
The Elizabethan Era's Most Horrifying And Disgusting Re...
November 17, 2019
The Elizabethan era began on November 17, 1558, when Queen Elizabeth I ...
Ed Gein: Stories, Trivia, And Facts You Didn't Know Unt...
November 16, 2019
Ed Gein: The Wisconsin cannibal. The hungriest mama's boy of the 20th c...
Rebel Without A Cause: Curse, Trivia, And More
November 13, 2019
Released on October 27, 1955, nearly a month after Dean's fatal car accident on Sep...
The REO Speed Wagon: Ransom E. Olds's Flatbed Truck
November 10, 2019
Before automobiles were an American way of life, automotive daydreamers attemp...
Sex Pistols: Stories, Legends, And Anarchy
November 6, 2019
Their playing may have been questionable, and they may have only recorded one real albu...
Tulsa Race Massacre: What Happened, Why, And The Afterm...
November 3, 2019
Some acts and misdeeds are so horrendous that they're hidden from histo...
Nuremberg Trials: Sentencing, Trivia, Criminals, And Af...
November 1, 2019
The Nuremberg trials of 1946 were some of the most controversial and di...
War of the Worlds: The Original Broadcast, Aftermath, A...
October 30, 2019
As legend has it, Orson Welles's infamous radio adaptation of The War o...
The Jigsaw Halloween Blood Drives Have Saved Over 360,0...
October 29, 2019
Saw, the film series in which piles of unlucky people are killed in iro...
Carl Tanzler's Obsession With Elena de Hoyos Went Way T...
October 27, 2019
True love---or at least, true obsession---conquers all. In this case, i...
This Is How Americans Celebrated Halloween In The Early...
October 25, 2019
While it's always been a little spooky and a lot of fun, Halloween hasn...
Bethlem Hospital: London's Infamous, Horrible, And Terr...
October 22, 2019
Mental institutions and real-life insane asylums of the past were essen...
Devil's Night, Mischief Night, Or Cabbage Night: What D...
October 21, 2019
Mischief Night, Cabbage Night, the pre-Halloween candy fast---depending...
How Telling Ghost Stories Around A Fire Used To Be A Ch...
October 20, 2019
With the nights growing longer and a chill filling the air, is there a ...