Early one January morning in 2015, a knock on the door brought Bobby and Cheryl Love’s lives crashing down. “It was like I was in a movie — a Lifetime movie,” Cheryl described, and rightfully so: What happened when she opened the door sounds like something from a bad noir film. She didn’t notice how many cops there were until they were streaming past her and into the house. A stunned Cheryl watched as they…
The happenings of the last few hundred years have been well documented and corroborated, but what about those of the hundreds of years before then — or the thousands before that? With the truth of the distant past so delicately balanced on what little information we have, all it takes is a single revelation to completely rewrite history. For centuries, one common belief about a Mesoamerican society was held as absolute truth, shaping the study and understanding…
Anyone who says they enjoy doing chores is either lying or hasn’t ever spent their Sunday working through a mountain of limp, reeking laundry. Joy just seems to wilt and shrink into oblivion in the face of around-the-house efforts, and the worst of it is, the work never goes away. The list of dour duties has plagued us for far too long. As soon as you make your bed and take a nap to recharge,…
No matter how many centuries pass here on Earth, we’ll always be obsessed with space. Every galactic discovery leads to more questions than answers, and these questions take astronomical amounts of money and time to investigate. Because of this, many perplexing mysteries about our solar system alone have gone unanswered. Until now. Due to the lack of funding for space research, even theories are considered scientific breakthroughs nowadays, and scientists may have just shed light…
From the blossoming trees along the avenue to the chirping birds outside your window, you have Mother Nature to thank for most of the beauty you see around you. You also have her to thank for many of the most terrifying natural phenomena in the world. Harsh and unforgiving, this Turkmen desert features a natural aberration that’s been attracting attention for decades. While the bold and daring travel thousands of miles just to get a…
When Isaac Wright Jr. was handcuffed and shoved into the back of a police car, he didn’t worry too much. He knew he didn’t commit the crime authorities were accusing him of — or any crime for that matter. He was going to be a free man. But the second he set foot into the courtroom, Issac learned that he was not facing a fair trial; in fact, he’d walked face first into a grand…
Relic hunters and history lovers, hold onto your hats! There’s nothing more exciting than venturing out into the wilderness with a metal detector and discovering buried treasure just inches underground. Old war bullets, historic tools, and ancient coins lie waiting right under your nose. Years of study, however, suggested these three South Carolina men would need something larger than a metal detector. Guided by mapping equipment, excavators, and a distant memory, they believed they were…
Sometimes it feels like we know everything there is to know about the world. But then scientists make a breakthrough: we see gravitational waves for the first time, as we did in 2017. We learn giant squids are, in fact, real (even that took ’til 2004). In the past decade we even learned how to modify our own genes. Understanding ourselves and the past is not a task limited to the experts, however; a 12…
Rescue teams don’t hold out a lot of hope when someone goes missing in an icy Alaskan forest. Few outcomes look promising. Did he freeze to death? Was he attacked by a bear? Each possibility is worse than the former. So when a diligent team of Alaskan State Troopers received a call about a missing person, Tyson Steele, they knew the odds of a successful mission were low. A certain clue seen in the snow,…
Image: via Twitter/Julie Grant It’s a cold morning in Pennsylvania, and contractors are hard at work outside a Pittsburgh home. But when they look beneath the deck of the century-old property, they discover something sinister buried in the dirt. For decades, a strange mystery has haunted the neighborhood – and now the grim truth has finally been revealed. Image: YouTube/CBS Pittsburgh Built at the beginning of the 20th century, the two-story, red-brick house sits on Black Street…