On a flight to Los Angeles, actress Carolyn Jones suddenly became violently ill, barely making it to the restroom before she began vomiting uncontrollably. The terrifying episode marked the beginning of a health crisis she would spend nearly two years fighting in secret. She was rushed to surgery immediately after landing, but the true cause … Read more
In the spring of 1891, in a settlement that appears on no modern map, two sisters lived at the edge of a place called Thorn Ridge Hollow, deep in the mountains of what was then western Virginia. The settlement was isolated, cut off from the outside world for months at a time during hard winters. … Read more
In 1867, the American Civil War had been over for only two years, leaving the nation wounded and struggling to recover. In the rugged, isolated hills of the Missouri Ozarks, most people were simply trying to rebuild their lives. Roads were primitive dirt paths cut through the wilderness, connecting scattered settlements. For travelers, a journey … Read more
Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana was found dead in the basement kitchen of his Oak Park, Illinois home on the night of June 19, 1975, just hours before he was scheduled to testify before the U. S. Senate’s Church Committee about CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. He had been shot seven times with a … Read more
Los Angeles police have finally met with Corey Feldman to hear his allegations of child sexual abuse in Hollywood, but the 54-year-old actor says the conversation left him far from vindicated. Feldman maintains he is no longer interested in protecting the industry’s image — only in protecting his own truth. For decades, the public knew … Read more
A curator at the Virginia Historical Society was cataloging unidentified photographs when a family portrait from the early 1870s stopped her cold. The image showed seven people in formal dress, carefully posed. But when Dr. Sarah Mitchell zoomed in on one of the girls, she saw what had been hidden in plain sight for 150 … Read more
On July 16, 1982, police entered a large stone house in Villanova, Pennsylvania, set well back from the road. Inside, three people had been dead since the previous afternoon. A woman lay in the kitchen in a flowered dress, a straw hat on the floor beside her. A man lay near the top of the … Read more
In the spring of 1975, a 17-year-old girl named Jackie gave birth to a daughter in a Wiltshire County Hospital maternity ward. She had named the baby Hillary. The father, 18-year-old Kevin Jordan, sat beside her, but neither of them would be taking the child home. The adoption papers had been signed before the birth, … Read more
On the 2nd of June 1910, Charles Rolls flew across the English Channel and back without landing, becoming the first man alive to do it and a national hero overnight. Forty days later, on the 12th of July, the tail of his airplane broke away above the cliffs at Bournemouth in front of a summer … Read more
In 2014, Kim Hyun-joong’s carefully built public image began to crumble with alarming speed. Until then, he was known as the romantic face of the hit drama “Boys Over Flowers,” the quiet leader of the K-pop group SS501, and a solo artist with a loyal global fanbase. Then a former girlfriend, widely identified in media … Read more