Category: Interesting Stories

You probably know a little about the notorious Wild West outlaw known as Billy the Kid, who was born Henry McCarty in 1859 but often went by the alias William Bonney. You may have studied him in a history class and/or became introduced to his exploits in the Young Guns movies from the 1980s. If […]

Nearly half of the American population believes in the existence of intelligent alien life-forms, and about 20 percent of Americans believe they’ve seen a UFO at some point in their lives. Of course, what constitutes a UFO sighting varies widely. Upon close inspection, most are determined to have origins that are quite terrestrial in nature. […]

Mark Dutroux is probably the most hated man in Belgium. He is the small European country’s most notorious serial killer, having murdered at least eleven people during the 1990s. It isn’t the number of victims that makes Dutroux so hated, but the age of his victims and some of the details of his case. Many […]

Do you remember when you were a kid, out playing with your friends, and someone decided to try to dig a hole to China? After digging for a while, you probably got bored, decided to do something else, and forgot all about the endeavor. If you did happen to remember it, you probably realized at […]

Earlier, we learned how most of us were given false information by our grade school teachers when they told us the leaders of Europe believed the earth was flat in the fifteenth century. Thanks to Ptolemy, Columbus knew the world was a sphere and that he wouldn’t fall off as he sailed across the Atlantic […]

Many people consider Stephen King to be the modern master of horror, and for good reason. He has written hundreds of novels, novellas, and short stories that have frightened millions of people. Dozens of his stories have been turned into films, such as the 1984 novel Thinner, which was later turned into a 1996 film […]

Most of you reading this have probably experienced a lightning storm at some point in your life. As the clouds above crash, creating thunder, and the static and charged particles in the air create the lightning that goes with it, most of us are smart enough to find cover, which is why lightning storms claim […]

Since man first began building and living in urban settlements about five thousand years ago, countless cities have come and gone. Many early cities couldn’t keep pace with others that were better equipped for success due to their locations near resources, while some were the victims of warfare. Cities that were destroyed by warfare were […]

If you’re a male college student in the Midwest, be careful the next time you’re out drinking or you might end up the victim of the Smiley Face Killer. According to retired New York City Police detectives, Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte, and St. Cloud State University criminology professor Lee Gilberston, a person (or persons) […]

We’ve all been in a situation where we are in a room and just want to leave. Usually it’s because of the crowd: we don’t feel comfortable around the other people in our company and just want to escape the area. It’s a common situation, but one that doesn’t happen often enough for it to […]