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The Ship That Wasn’t There: Investigating the Legend of the SS Ourang Medan
In the sweltering waters of the Strait of Malacca, sometime around 1947, a distress call crackled across the radios of passing ships. The message was short, chilling, and unforgettable: “All…
Women & LGBTQ+ people take up guns during Trump’s reign: ‘We need to protect ourselves’ amid rising threats
A few days into Trump’s renewed presidency, Ashley Parten, a 38-year-old Black bisexual woman from Georgia, recalled a chilling moment…
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What you need to know about the Sandeshkhali land-grabbing and sexual harassment scandal
When state officials visited Sandeshkhali, they were violently attacked by the local…
The Marilyn Sheppard Murder Was a 1954 Ohio Nightmare That Became a Supreme Court Warning About Media Trials
In the early hours of July 4, 1954, the sun rose over…
The Keddie Cabin Murders: What Was Left in That Room
On the morning of April 12, 1981, a 14-year-old girl walked into…
Blake and Mary Jo Hadley
July 16, 2011, was an unremarkable morning in St Lucie, Florida. 54-year-old…
How to sneak your sex toys past airport security without dying of embarrassment
Woman mortified after Canada airport security mistakes her power bank for an…
When will India see an end to domestic violence against women?
A married man flayed his wife, exposing her veins and intestines, beheaded…
Peter the Great Turned His Court into a Drunk “Holy Club” That Bullied an Entire Empire
Inside the parties where Russia’s tsar crowned a fake pope, forced dwarfs to marry, and used vodka as a kind of state religion.
In 1998, Lenny Dirickson was having breakfast with his son when a stranger showed up, asking about a horse Lenny supposedly had for sale. Lenny left with the man but never came back. It was later discovered that Lenny had never mentioned having a horse for sale.
Leonard Dirickson and his 16-year-old son, Jared, had just finished breakfast around 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 14, 1998, when…
Reena Virk, 14, Was Beaten by Teenagers in 1997. What Happened Next Became One of Canada’s Most Notorious Youth Crimes
“Slain Teen Chose Bad Friends” would be a headline strewn across newspapers in Canada in November 1997, as the country…
Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
Igor Suprunyuk, Viktor Sayenko, and Alexander Hanzha were all born in the early months of 1988. They came from largely…
America’s Unknown Child: The Boy in the Box Mystery
The day Philadelphia lost its innocence It was February 25, 1957, when a young man walking through a weedy lot…
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Necklacing was a brutal vigilante justice method by anti-apartheid mobs, punishing suspected informants and collaborators by setting a gasoline-filled tire ablaze around their necks
What do you get when desperation meets mob justice? A burning necklace…
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