While many people crave for fame and fortune, there are some who, having tasted each, prefer to revert to anonymity. Rick Rojatt, The Human Fly, is someone in this category. He appeared seemingly out of ...
“It’s said that once you’ve seen a green flash, you’ll never go wrong in matters of the heart.” Ever since Jules Verne included the green flash phenomenon in his popular science-fiction novels, myths about it ...
What happens when you return from where no man has ever gone before? You must toe the bureaucratic line and go through customs. In 2009, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service website marked the ...
Researchers, over the years, have been on the lookout for the link between humans and apes. When Oliver appeared in the public eye, they publicized him as exactly that—a humanzee—a hybrid between a human and ...
About 21 miles off the Brazilian coast lies the Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as Snake Island. It is an island infested with snakes. Snake Island measures around 106 acres, and from sea level, the ...
A dictatorship in the authoritarian rule of one person or one party over a nation. It has been a common type of governance throughout human history, with kings, queens, chieftains, and suchlike setting down the ...
On the east side of Phoenix in Arizona lies the spectacular range of the Superstition Mountains that straddle the Tonto National Forest and the Superstition Wilderness area. They are bound on three sides by U.S. ...
The Time Pyramid, known in the German language as Zeitpyramide, is a public artwork project that has been a work-in-progress in the German town of Wemding since 1993. Manfred Laber, a local artist, conceived the ...
Solifugae are strange-looking creatures and, despite many studies, there is still much about their physical attributes and behaviours that we don’t know. The name solifugae has Latin roots and means those that run away from ...
The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is a ghost that several people claim to have sighted in Raynham Hall, a famous manor house in Norfolk, England. Apparently, it is the unhappy spirit of Dorothy Walpole, ...
