On February 4, 2012, Florence Green passed away at the ripe old age of 110. She’d served as an officers’ mess steward with the Women’s Royal Air Force during World War I. It’s believed she was the last surviving veteran of that war and thus, her death marked the end of an era. Preserved Remains…from World…
On February, 14, 1929, seven gangsters were lined up inside a garage on Chicago’s North Side. Seconds later, they were brutally slaughtered in a display of violence that shocked the city to its core. Who was behind the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre? The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre? 83 years ago, Chicago was aflame. Prohibition…
In 1942, U.S. Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson conducted a secret visit of a U.S. military base in Australia. For seventy years, the reason for his visit has remained a mystery. But new evidence suggests a horrific event that led to the death of one soldier and serious injuries to many others. Did members of the 96th…
In the 1840s, strange stories began to emerge about Scotland’s Glamis Castle. Supposedly, the castle contained a secret room which was used to imprison a “monster.” The Monster of Glamis Castle? Although the story varies a bit, one particularly popular version is that the monster was in fact the rightful owner of Glamis Castle. However,…
During his remarkable life, Leonardo da Vinci designed versions of many extraordinary things that we use today – a calculator, a tank, and even a helicopter. But he also designed something that never quite cracked modern society – the monowheel or the one wheeled car. The Dynasphere: Leonardo da Vinci’s Monowheel? In 1932, Dr. John…
A group of scientists at the Space Biosciences Division at NASA recently made an astounding discovery using carbon nanotubes. What is it? And could it be “the most significant breakthrough in medical history?” Carbon Nanotubes & the NASA Biocapsule: The Most Significant Breakthrough in Medical History? Imagine a bundle of carbon nanotubes implanted under your skin….
The last woolly mammoth died off around 1700 BC on Russia’s Wrangel Island. Or did it? The Mysterious Woolly Mammoth Video? Check out this footage of a supposed woolly mammoth. It was supposedly captured last summer by a Russian engineer. According to The Sun, this person was in Siberia at the time, surveying for a…
The Mona Lisa is Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting. Yet, it remains cloaked in secrecy to this day. Who was she? Is it even the original painting? Why was it painted? And how did da Vinci create that strange smile of hers? Mysteries of the Mona Lisa? Many of those mysteries aren’t going away…