Mike the headless chicken
In short On 10 September 1945 in Fruita, Colorado, farmer Lloyd Olsen beheaded a young rooster named Mike, who survived
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In short On 10 September 1945 in Fruita, Colorado, farmer Lloyd Olsen beheaded a young rooster named Mike, who survived
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In short In 1996 the Canadian magician and gambler Brian Zembic, known as the Wiz, agreed to get breast implants
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In short On 13 November 1974 Ronald DeFeo Jr., 23, shot dead his parents and four siblings in their sleep
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In short On 1 March 1950 the West Side Baptist Church in Beatrice, Nebraska, was destroyed at 7:25 pm by
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In short Darya Saltykova (1730-1801), a Russian noblewoman widowed in 1755, tortured and killed dozens of serfs on her estate
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In short Blanche Monnier, born in Poitiers in 1849 into a wealthy family, was locked by her mother in a
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In short Kerri Rawson is the daughter of Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, who murdered at least ten people in
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In short On 6 July 2001 in Witten, Germany, Daniel and Manuela Ruda, a married couple of Satanists who saw
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In short Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, opened in 1910 to treat tuberculosis patients and closed in 1961; it
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In short Anneliese Michel was a young German Catholic woman who suffered from epilepsy and psychiatric disorders. Convinced she was
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In short Villa Clara, or Villa Malvasia, is a 17th-century villa in Trebbo di Reno, just outside Bologna. According to
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In short In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, especially Tanzania and Malawi, people with albinism are persecuted: according to some superstitions
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