The unidentified man died after consuming a toxin naturally-produced by the Sonoran Desert toad known as 5-MeO-DMT.Alamy/GettySpanish porn star Nacho Vidal was arrested following his involvement with a man’s death during a toad venom ritual. Three people were arrested following the death of a photographer who inhaled toad venom during a psychedelic ritual in Spain. Among the arrested individuals was 46-year-old porn star Nacho Vidal. According to the Guardian, Vidal and two others were arrested by Spain’s Guardia Civil on May 29, 2020, after a year-long investigation into the man’s death.

The photos were discovered in an album owned by a Jewish-American soldier, but even his family isn't sure how they came into his possession.Yad VashemThe events of Kristallnacht were designed to look spontaneous but were in fact planned in advance. Starting on November 9, 1938, bands of Nazis roamed the streets of Germany and Austria, destroying and ransacking Jewish businesses, houses, and synagogues and brutally attacking anyone they suspected of being Jewish.

Following a long downward spiral that often played out in the public eye, singer Amy Winehouse died tragically in 2011 at the age of just 27.On July 23, 2011, British singer Amy Winehouse was found dead inside her London home. Just 27 years old, she joined the “27 Club” of other music icons, like Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain, who had died tragically at that same young age.

Roy Sullivan was either the luckiest or the unluckiest man in the world, depending on how you look at it.National Park ServiceRoy Sullivan holding his hat, damaged by a lightning bolt. Roy Sullivan was born in Greene County, Va. in 1912. The fourth of eleven children, he grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains and was accustomed to the outdoors. Education wasn’t a priority in his childhood, and he never graduated from high school, but he put his knowledge of the outdoors to good use.

When an aristocratic Englishman came to New York to perform Shakespeare's Macbeth in 1849, anti-English and anti-elite rioters clashed with militia, leaving 22 dead.In 1849, one of the deadliest riots in American history left 22 dead and more than 120 injured in what became known as the Astor Place Riot. The cause was ostensibly a fan rivalry over their favorite Shakespearean actors, but there were deeper elements at play. A Time Of Upheaval Mid-19th-century New York City — also known as the antebellum period — was in the throes of accelerated change.

Once an obscure offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Branch Davidians' Waco compound was raided by the FBI in 1993, leading to the deaths of 76 members.Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Sygma via Getty ImagesThe Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. March 1993. Until 1993, most Americans had never heard of the Branch Davidians. The group of former Seventh-day Adventists lived in seclusion in Waco, Texas, where they spent much of their time studying the Bible.

Between 1999 and 2018, there were dozens of chillingly similar cases of women killed by strangulation in Chicago's South and West sides — and they're all still unsolved.The Unforgotten51 ProjectSome of the victims of the so-called Chicago strangler, whose cases all remain unsolved. Something is very wrong in the Windy City. Since 1999, at least 50 women — mostly Black — have been murdered in a disturbingly similar fashion. But is it the work of a single killer dubbed the “Chicago Strangler?

After a long struggle with drug addiction, Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley died of a speedball overdose on April 5, 2002 — but his body wasn't discovered for two weeks.Layne Staley’s death did not come in a single moment. Rather, the Alice in Chains singer’s tragic demise at the age of just 34 built up over the years, as Staley struggled with a severe addiction to drugs. “I know I’m near death,” Staley said in a heartbreaking interview near the end of his life.

Right: The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the first cell phone ever made commercially available (1984 model). Left: Martin Cooper, the lead inventor of the DynaTAC and the father of the cell phone, in a 2007 reenactment of the very first cell phone call ever made on a DynaTAC prototype in 1973. Image Sources: Wikimedia Commons On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper made a very consequential phone call. Dialing up AT&T’s Joel Engel from midtown Manhattan, Cooper informed Engel that Motorola had beaten AT&T to the punch on a new project they’d both been trying to develop: The world’s very first cell phone.

The motives for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to carry out the Columbine High School massacre had nothing to do with bullying or revenge — and the real truth is even more disturbing.On the morning of Tuesday, April 20, 1999, Columbine High School senior Brooks Brown noted something strange. His on-again-off-again friend Eric Harris had missed morning classes. Even stranger, Harris — a straight-A student — had missed their philosophy exam.