Empress Maria Alexandrovna lived every royal’s worst nightmare. In 1880, assassins attempted to murder her entire family. But that wasn’t even the worst part.
Mary Mallon unknowingly infected people with typhoid fever, earning her the infamous name “Typhoid Mary”—but was she the victim or the villain of this story?
When The Santa Clause first came out, a line in the movie has Tim Allen mentioning a specific 1-800 phone number. At the request of her grandchildren, a grandmother called the number—and was absolutely horrified.
Pier Angeli’s fairy tale died with her greatest love, James Dean. But when authorities searched Dean’s house—they found evidence that led them straight to Angeli.
In his memoirs, Sir Laurence Olivier confessed to having a brief affair with a close friend—but the letters that he hid in an abandoned barn revealed an even racier truth.