Scott Mazza articles

EXPERIENCE

I’d just gotten out of a relationship, and my friends “surprised” me with a blind date. But when I walked in the door and saw her, my blood ran cold.

EXPERIENCE

I’d just gotten out of a relationship, and my friends “surprised” me with a blind date. But when I walked in the door and saw her, my blood ran cold.

EXPERIENCE

These people reveal the darkest secrets that they ever hid from people—or the shocking secrets they wish they'd never found out.

THINGS

Toward the end of Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock spliced in a frame of a skull on top of Norman Bates’s smiling face, confounding viewers who caught the split-second clip.

PEOPLE

Queen Anne was pregnant 17 times in 17 years, but only one child survived past two. Now, researchers believe she had Hughes syndrome.

THINGS

Revenge is a dish best served cold, but over time, it has seen many forms. These are examples of history's greatest acts of vengeance.

PEOPLE

Hugh Grant has been making women swoon since Four Weddings and a Funeral, but few people know the actor’s dark history.

THINGS

The Cold War had several shady projects, but nothing was more terrifying than the CIA's dossier.

PLACES

In 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a huge cloud of carbon dioxide suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock who lived near the lake.



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