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In October 1872, Captain Benjamin Briggs was busy preparing for his maiden voyage on board the newly refitted Mary Celeste. He and the other members of the consortium, including James H. Winchester who was the main shareholder, had paid out $10,000 (approx. $265,000 today) to drastically increase her size and add a new deck. His…
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When her son, Walter, failed to return home on March 10th, 1928, after taking a trip to the cinema, Christine Ida Collins would begin a heart-breaking and lifelong search for him whilst also battling a LAPD Captain who was willing to go to extremes to save his and his department’s reputation. As the day began…
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Ta-sekhet-ma’at, translating to ‘The Great Field’, is known to us today as the Valley of the Kings. Here, on November 26th, 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter would be the first person to look upon the tomb of Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. ‘With trembling hands I made a tiny breach in the upper left-hand corner. Darkness…
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Countess Elizabeth Bathory de Ecsed was a Hungarian Countess and alleged serial killer, who earned the monikers of Blood Countess and Countess Dracula after being accused of the torture and murders of up to 600 girls and young women throughout her kingdom between 1590 and 1610. But was Elizabeth really the monster she was purported…
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On November 24th 1971 a man calling himself Dan Cooper paid cash for a one way ticket on Flight 305, a short thirty minute journey north to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Around ten minutes into the flight, just after 3pm, Mr Cooper handed a note to Florence Schaffner, one of the six crew members aboard.…
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At around 10pm on Christmas Eve 1945, in Fayetteville, West Virginia, Jennie Sodder granted six of her nine children permission to stay up late; the oldest daughter, Marion (19) had purchased some toys for three of her younger sisters as a Christmas surprise causing great excitement. Eliciting promises firstly from her sons Maurice (14) and…
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