Culture

The story of Shadow Lantry and inmates proves that interesting crime in history stories don't always come from hundreds of years ago. And sometimes true crime contains criminals, but not necessarily any intent to do harm. Read on for our…

The German military encountered many terrifying weapons on the Eastern Front, yet few enemy units earned the legendary reputation of the Soviet "Night Witches." Flying obsolete aircraft and attacking under cover of darkness, these women…

Forget the horned helmets. Forget the blond warriors. The word "Viking" wasn't really about who you were. According to many historians, it described what you did. It referred to someone who went raiding or trading by sea. It wasn't a…

This week's interesting person from history is James Bedford. People think of him as the "Adam" of the cryonics movement. Back in January of 1967, he became the first human to enter cryopreservation right after legal death. He didn't just…

John Cadbury, the man behind the brand most people know well, fits our series on interesting people in history. Not so much for what he did, but in how his family took an unusual idea for its time and turned it into something much bigger.…

Mary Fields, AKA Stagecoach Mary fits right into our series of interesting folks from history because she was larger than life and right out there. She never fit the picture of a proper19th century woman. Read on to find out…

Bizarre news arrived recently when someone stole a Maurizio Cattelan duct‑taped banana over the May 30 weekend in 2026. The fruit hung on a wall at the Centre Pompidou‑Metz in France. And notably, art lovers were distracted from the…

Carlos Santana slots neatly into our series on interesting famous folks. But in 1969, possibly few people realized how deep he really was. They saw the birth of a rock star at Woodstock. But to this day, people still sit. Midnight…

Jack Parsons didn't treat magic like a casual hobby. By day he helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and played a key role in early American rocketry. At night though, he ran the Agape Lodge. The Occult Side The lodge was the…

England, 1332, a woman named Ela Fitzpayne lived in a manor near the Welsh border. She had a husband. Some land. A priest she should not have been sleeping with. And the story escalated from there. Which is why we chose this for our…

David Walliams, popular as a UK children's author and a beloved TV personality, fell from grace. And that's not unusual in the land of entertainment: cue Ellen DeGeneres. But what's really going on with him? Read on for our take on it.…

Content writers have a problem. And no, it's not about using AI to write articles. It's about how the detectors work. And as they've evolved, they've become a huge headache. Read on for a few examples. A Recent Example Recently, I…