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Nellie Bly was the journalist who exposed the horrific conditions at lunatic asylums—but few people know the most terrifying part of her time inside.

Agatha Christie had been missing for 11 days when the police found her. Christie gave one interview about her disappearance—and the holes in her story revealed her darkest secret.

Mark Twain actually predicted the most horrible tragedy of his entire life in a dream—and he ended up blaming himself for it.

When Toni Morrison met her husband Harold, she was immediately taken with his good looks and brilliant mind. They married in 1958—but soon after, Harold dealt her an absolutely cold-hearted betrayal.

Although Count Dracula strikes fear into our mortal hearts, we sleep easy at night believing he’s just a work of fiction—but Bram Stoker’s original preface to the novel reveals an even darker truth.

Mary Shelley’s husband Percy was only 29 when he tragically drowned in a sailing accident. Heartbroken and inconsolable, the widowed Mary kept a macabre and bizarre keepsake of her one true love.