The Mysterious Death Of Danny Casolaro, The Journalist Who May Have Been Killed For Getting Too Close To The Truth Jessica O'Connor 5 months ago On August 10, 1991, employees at the Sheraton Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia found freelance journalist Danny Casolaro dead in room 517 — but who killed him? ncG1vNJzZmiZnKHBqa3TrKCnrJWnsrTAyKeeZ5ufonyiwdOhpqtnmprAtLXCmmSom5%2Bju7C%2B
As one of the most ruthless villains of the Wild West, John Joel Glanton and his gang terrorized the Apache for cash throughout the 1840s. For a time in the early years of the Mexican republic, scalps became the basis of a grisly trade for men like John Joel Glanton.
As much as we’ve romanticized the American West for the opportunities it symbolized, the frontier was also the backdrop for some of the most horrific and violent stories in American history.
Kirk Anderson said that Joyce McKinney tied him to a bed for three days and raped him repeatedly. She said that wasn't possible. What was the truth?Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; PA Images via Getty ImagesIn what’s known as the “Manacled Mormon case,” Joyce McKinney kidnapped and raped missionary Kirk Anderson in Devon, England in September 1977.
One autumn day in 1977, the police in Devon, England, got an unusual call for help.
The sarcophagi found under Notre Dame come from different eras, and the older of the two contains the remains of a man with an oddly deformed skull. LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty ImagesOne of the two sarcophagi discovered beneath Notre Dame in Paris.
In 2019, people across the world watched in horror as fire consumed the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. But the tragedy has produced unexpected archaeological delights.
While preparing for the site’s restoration, experts came across two ancient sarcophagi — and one set of the remains has them scratching their heads.
CIMAvax treats non-small cell lung cancer, which accounts for 80 to 85 percent of diagnoses.STR/AFP/Getty Images
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved a clinical trial for a lung cancer vaccine, brought to the U.S. by an ostensibly unlikely source: Cuba.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the FDA authorized initial trials for the lung cancer drug CIMAvax at a press conference this past Wednesday. Roswell Park Cancer Institute will conduct the trials in partnership with CIMAvax’s namesake, Cuba’s Centro de Inmunologia Molecular (CIM), in Buffalo, New York.
Valeria Lukyanova and Justin Jedlica have spent untold dollars to look like real-life Ken and Barbie dolls — and they've caused plenty of controversy along the way.Like it or not, Barbie and Ken’s exaggerated proportions have shaped popular conceptions of physical beauty for decades. This has led some to go to extreme lengths to turn themselves into human dolls — or even the real-life Barbie and Ken. Two such people are Valeria Lukyanova and Justin Jedlica.
The Godfather of the Guadalajara Cartel, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo spent 18 years growing his empire. But the brutal murder of an undercover DEA agent who infiltrated his cartel would be his downfall.He’s been hailed as “El Padrino” and he’s fascinated many thanks to his complex portrayal in Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico. But Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo is far from innocent. The Godfather of the Guadalajara Cartel has written as much in his own prison diary, published by Gatopardo magazine in 2009 under the headline “Diaries of the Boss of Bosses.
Using a new method, researchers found mysterious "ghost" DNA in West African Yoruba population. Wikimedia CommonsYoruba men playing instruments.
Way before homo sapiens were the only human species walking the earth, other protohuman species existed. While several studies have found the DNA of ancient populations in modern humans, primarily Neanderthals and Denisovans, we lack findings of DNA from African-dwelling ancient hominids in modern humans. That’s because we haven’t been able to access archaic genomes of African populations.
In 2017, historians thought that they'd hit the jackpot with this collection of Nazi artifacts. Two years later, they were revealed to be fakes.Twitter/APSome of the items uncovered in the 2017 raid of Argentina’s largest-ever stash of Nazi artifacts. Two years later, they were revealed to be fakes.
In 2017, what was thought to be the largest collection of Nazi artifacts in Argentina’s history was discovered in a suburb of Buenos Aires.
The Roman villa in Oxfordshire, England likely served both a cultural and spiritual role in the area between the 1st and 5th centuries given the sheer amount of artifacts found there.Red River Archaeology GroupAn aerial view of the Roman villa in Oxfordshire, England.
While excavating the site of a future home development in Oxfordshire, England, archaeologists uncovered the ruins of an impressive Roman villa complex. The villa featured two massive structures, ornate designs, and examples of Roman architectural ingenuity.