The Mapinguari, the one-eyed giant of the Amazon
A hairy cyclops with a mouth on its belly, or a surviving giant sloth? The legend of the Mapinguari and David Oren’s hunt in the Amazon.
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The Dancing Plague of 1518, What Really Happened in Strasbourg
In the summer of 1518, dozens of people in Strasbourg danced for days and couldn’t stop. The archive records, the chronicles, the St Vitus pilgrimage, the disputed death toll and the theories, from mass hysteria to ergot.
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Beasts of Satan, the true story of Italy’s Satanic metal murders
Between 1998 and 2004 a group of young men from the province of Varese, bound by metal, drugs and home-made Satanism, killed three people and drove a fourth to suicide. The full story of Italy’s Beasts of Satan: the murders, a father’s six-year search, the confession that broke the case, the trials and the theories never proved.
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The Devil’s Door of Turin, the door that appeared overnight
On Via XX Settembre in Turin there is a door with the face of the devil. They say it appeared overnight, and behind it lie a murdered dancer and an officer walled up alive.
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Friday, November 13, 2026, the day science predicted the end of the world
A doomsday date is going viral: Friday, November 13, 2026. It comes from a real 1960 paper in Science by physicist Heinz von Foerster. Here’s what it said and why it won’t happen.
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The Iron Maiden of Nuremberg, the medieval torture that probably never existed
The spiked iron coffin is the most famous medieval torture device in the world. But no record mentions it before the 18th century: this is how the legend was born.
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Sarah Scazzi, the Avetrana murder
On 26 August 2010, 15-year-old Sarah Scazzi left home in Avetrana, southern Italy, and never came back. The story of the case, the final verdicts and what the Avetrana murder revealed about the media and about all of us.
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The Sedlec Ossuary, the Bone Church of Kutná Hora
A chandelier made from every bone in the human body, pyramids of skulls and a noble coat of arms built from skeletons: the true story, legends and long restoration of the Sedlec Ossuary, resting place of tens of thousands of people.
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Stingy Jack, the man who tricked the Devil, the true story of the Halloween jack-o’-lantern
Before the pumpkin there was a turnip, and before that a man refused by both Heaven and Hell. The legend of Stingy Jack, will-o’-the-wisps and Italy’s pumpkins of the dead.
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The Masakichi statue, the baffling manifestation of a cursed love
In short Hananuma Masakichi (1832-1895) was a Japanese sculptor of hyper-realistic dolls. According to legend, convinced he was dying of
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Aileen Wuornos
In short Aileen Wuornos (1956-2002) killed seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990, clients who had picked her up
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Deaths live on air, when TV broadcast the end
In short Some deaths have reached our screens live: journalist Christine Chubbuck in 1974, politician R. Budd Dwyer in 1987,
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