Explore popular products from the 1970s that sound completely made up today, from Pet Rocks and mood rings to bizarre toys, strange snacks, and surprisingly futuristic technology.
From murder inns and outlaw gangs to botched executions and frontier feuds, these bizarre Wild West crime stories reveal how strange, violent, and unpredictable life could become.
Behind every man, there’s a great woman—but this went double for "The Queen Mother". Not only did Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon rule through her husband King George VI, but she also oversaw multiple decades of the reign of her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. Yet before that, she’d already experienced a lifetime’s worth of royal scandal. From bedroom gossip that rocked the monarchy to Elizabeth’s high-class feuds, this seemingly stately Queen hid some very dirty laundry.
Most people believe Anne Frank died just before liberation...but historians now think she actually died months earlier in far worse conditions.
From human exhibitions and mummy unwrappings to diving horses and premature baby displays, these strange historical attractions once drew huge crowds but feel deeply unsettling to modern audiences.
Giulia Farnese, throughout her life, found herself in the company of Popes. Born to a noble family in what the world then knew as the Papal States, she got drawn into the political intrigue of the Catholic Church of the era, beginning an affair with one Pope and ensuring the rise of another. And while the holy men were the faces of these games of power, the cunning Giulia pulled the strings from the shadows…
From fairytale wedding to one of history's most infamous divorces.
John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, was a well-connected, high-rolling aristocrat who got away with murder—literally. After a brutal attack, the lord went on the lam, leaving one of the most notorious mysteries in the UK’s history not so much a whodunit…but a “where’d-he-go”? Was his escape aided by his close circle of powerful friends? Did guilt push him to take his own life? Or is he still out there somewhere? The theories are many—so let’s investigate the facts surrounding the vanishing act of Lord Lucan.
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