After suffering from mysterious hallucinations for four days straight, Edgar Allan Poe died of unknown causes in Baltimore at age 40 on October 7, 1849.The eerie tale of how Edgar Allan Poe died is like something out of one of his own stories. The year is 1849. A man is found delirious on the streets of a city in which he does not live, wearing clothes that are not his own, incapable or unwilling to discuss the circumstances under which he arrived.

The pair of sphinxes was just determined to date back over 5,000 years and recently sold for more than $265,000 at auction after spending 15 years in an English garden. Mander Auctioneers The sphinxes are in rather poor condition, having spent 15 years outdoors in England. Fifteen years ago, a homeowner in England paid $407 for pair of sphinxes to spruce up their garden. But the sphinxes were not mere garden ornaments.

Dolores Hart was compared to Grace Kelly and starred opposite Elvis Presley in a blockbuster movie, but she gave up fame at just 24 to live as a nun.It was 1963 and Dolores Hart had the world at her feet. As she nurtured a budding film career, a crowd of ardent admirers grew around her. All of Hart’s blessings were sustained by her fresh, all-American screen presence that blended Ann Margaret and Lauren Bacall.

After a local hiker discovered a stream in Waipio, Hawaii, that reeked of beer, local activists noticed that a nearby drain pipe was leaking alcohol — from a beer distributor across the street. Carroll Cox/EnviroWatchActivists found that the alcohol was leaking from a storm drain beneath — and originated from an alcohol distributor’s warehouse. In October, one hiker in Hawaii found more than he bargained for while trekking through Waipio on the island of Oahu when he noticed the overwhelming smell of beer coming from a small stream.

Led by Abba Kovner, the Nakam group of Jewish vigilantes hatched an audacious plan to kill 6 million Germans as revenge for the Holocaust.Wikimedia CommonsOne-time Nakam leader Abba Kovner with members of the Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah in southern Israel. 1948. For many Jews, the end of World War II was not the end of their war with Nazi Germany. Many felt that the upcoming trial of some prominent Nazis wasn’t enough to account for the crimes of the Holocaust.

In 1995, Rand Gauthier snuck into Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson's mansion to steal a safe that he thought contained jewelry and guns — only to realize that it also held their private sex tape.The Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson sex tape is one of the most famous — or infamous — such videos of all time. But less is known about the man who stole it from them and shared it with the world: Rand Gauthier.

From adventurer to author to activist, John Griffith London led a dramatic life in keeping with his celebrated novels like "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild."Jack London was the kind of man who fully embodied the spirit of the time in which he lived — for better and for worse. London lived the life of a rugged individualist starting at the age of just 14, embarking upon various adventures that would soon inspire his prolific writing career.

Did demonic forces really compel Ronald DeFeo Jr. to murder his entire family one autumn night in 1974? This is the real story of the Amityville Murders and the alleged hauntings that followed.On the night of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. burst through the front door of Henry’s Bar in Amityville, New York, screaming hysterically for help. “You got to help me!” he cried. “I think my mother and father are shot!

On May 25, 1996, Kristin Smart was murdered by her classmate Paul Flores at California Polytechnic State University. He walked free for nearly three decades — until a podcast helped solve the case.Axel Koester/Sygma via Getty ImagesA missing person poster featuring a photograph of Kristin Smart, who vanished in 1996. Kristin Smart disappeared on May 25, 1996, while walking back to her dorm at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California after an off-campus party.

In 1920s Oklahoma, countless Osage Indians were brutally murdered by men determined to steal the riches they'd gained after oil was discovered on their land.In the 1920s, the hills of northeast Oklahoma were soaked in oil — and blood. Though the oil deposits found in the area had made the Osage Native Americans who owned the land rich, tribe members soon began to die at an alarming rate. And they often died in shocking and violent ways.