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The pirates from history rarely died peaceful deaths. They lived their lives in violence and treachery, and often died in battle or at the end…

The General Slocum was a side wheel passenger steamboat with a hull built out of white oak and yellow pine. On June 15, 1904, over…

The Windsor Hotel was built in Manhattan, New York in 1873. It was a luxury hotel for the rich and elite who preferred to lived…

On January 28, 1922, shortly after 9 pm, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, DC collapsed under the heavy weight of snow. The…

In 1921, a fire broke out at the Hotel Colonial in Hoboken, New Jersey. Eleven lives were tragically ended. The burned bodies were taken to…

Light as a Feather, stiff as a board is a levitation game played by kids and teenagers during sleepovers and parties, or whenever they want…

Nellie Byers, a 24 year old school teacher from Grant County, Kansas, left the school house shortly after 4pm on October 22, 1915. She made…

Crocodile Mummies According to the Smithsonian, ancient Egyptians hunted crocodiles for the sole purpose of turning them into mummies. That’s right. In ancient Egypt, embalmers…

Impalement was a torturous form of execution. There were several ways in which our ancestors impaled people, and research shows that Vlad the Impaler used…

Blackbeard is probably one of the most recognizable names in the history of pirates, but his career as a captain on a pirate ship was…