Why Are Unidentified People Called John or Jane Doe?
From the courts to the morgue, if the government doesn't know someone's name or wants to withhold it, they give them one of these as a placeholder. Why?
2023-09-26 04:55
6 Misconceptions About the Roman Empire
Did Julius Caesar really say “Et tu, Brute?” Did Nero fiddle while Rome burned? What was with the togas? We answer these questions and more.
2023-09-26 04:49
Death & Horror: How BBC’s Controversial Sound Effects Album Became a Surprise Hit
The campaign to ban “Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror” didn’t stop it from becoming the first sound effects album to break the UK Top 100 charts in the 1970s.
2023-09-26 01:25
10 Haunting Dark Tourism Destinations From Around the World
From Auschwitz to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, these dark tourism destinations are fascinating—and definitely not for the faint of heart.
2023-09-26 00:20
Chandrayaan-3: Hopes of Moon lander reawakening dim as India awaits signal
Scientists tell the BBC that chances of of the lander's reawakening are "dimming with each passing hour".
2023-09-25 15:50
Unmarked wartime grave relatives found 83 years on
A family link is traced to Kent for a victim of a World War Two tragedy who was buried in Ayrshire.
2023-09-23 05:46
How UNICEF Transformed Halloween Trick-or-Treating
UNICEF is as big a part of Halloween as a carved pumpkin. Here's how that relationship began.
2023-09-23 03:18
Chandrayaan-3: Indian space agency Isro says no signal yet from Moon lander
Chandrayaan-3 was dormant during lunar night, but the extreme cold could have harmed its batteries.
2023-09-22 23:50
17 Signs That You'd Qualify as a Witch in 1692
Discover whether you are guilty of maleficium and/or would have been accused of practicing witchcraft according to the laws and evidence used during the 1692 Salem Witch Trials.
2023-09-22 02:29
11 Surprising Facts About Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’
Here are the nuts and bolts about Mary Shelley's 200-year-old tale about what can go wrong when people play God.
2023-09-21 04:27
6 Creepy Victorian Ghost Stories to Read Right Now
These stories need no contrivances to create places that are lonely and old, a place where bad things are kept hushed up instead of dealt with.
2023-09-20 03:55
Somerset WWII memorial service remembers Canadian aircrew
The memorial remembers five men who were on a Canadian Wellington Bomber that crashed in Broomfield.
2023-09-20 02:58