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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…

Accounts about the life of Captain William Kidd vary. We know that he was born in Scotland in either 1645 or 1654. Almost nothing is…

For over 400 years, bodies hung from the gallows located on the foreshore of the River Thames, in Wapping, London. They were the bodies of…

People have always had a tendency to collect things. In the past, men might collect stamps and women would turn to decorated handkerchiefs. Then there…

Gibbeting is an old form of post-mortem punishment. When a person in England was condemned to the gibbet for murder, smuggling, or stealing, he was…

While reading through a Louisiana newspaper from 1916, I found the story of Willie Zimmer, the boy murderer. A quick Google search showed me that…

The fork, as a tool, was used by the ancient Greeks to remove food from boiling water, but there was no place for the fork…

The origin of the word adultery comes from the Latin word adulterāre and means to corrupt or make impure. We associate this word with marriage…