In 1945, Billy Sianis and his beer-drinking goat were kicked out of a World Series game between the hometown Cubs and the Detroit Tigers. The curse Sianis muttered would haunt the Cubs for over 70 years.
Grizzly Deaths
After over a dozen summers living amongst the bears, Timothy Treadwell (A.K.A Grizzly Man) and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenardwas were killed and eaten by a grizzly.
New Jersey Explodes
In 1918 a massive explosion rocked the area around Morgan, New Jersey as an ammunition plant blew up. Fires and secondary explosions would continue for another 3 days as over 100 were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed.
Horn & Montecore
In 2003, Las Vegas entertainer Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy) was brutally bitten by his co-star, a white tiger named Montecore.
Snail Compass
In 1851 a Frenchman named Jacques Toussaint Benoit performed a demonstration of the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass. This was an imaginative contraption that he hoped would prove that snails were able to communicate telepathically.
Alien Dogfight
George Gorman's encounter is one of the most well-documented UFO cases thanks to all the witnesses.
Scared to Death
Max Factor was a cosmetics pioneer who rose from rags to riches and became famous around the world.
Quebec Bridge
In 1907 two massive sections of the bridge snapped off and plunged over 300 feet into the Saint Lawrence River.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
In 1996 Richard Jewell saved countless lives while working as a security guard during the Atlanta Olympics. A suspicious package he discovered contained the largest pipe-bomb in American history.
Manolete
On the day he died, the greatest matdor faced a venerable opponent descended from a deadly line of Miura bulls.
Crazy Drake
In 1859 a semi-retired train conductor named Edwin Drake engineered the world's first successful oil drilling operation.
The Exploding Casino
It was the biggest homemade bomb explosion in U.S. history until the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Death by Cornflake
Lon Chaney is most remembered for his iconic roles as Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and as Erik in The Phantom of the Opera.
Creatures on the Moon
In 1835 the New York Sun published the first of six articles detailing the amazing discovery of life on the moon.
Death of a Bigot
George Lincoln Rockwell was the founder of the American Nazi Party. He believed that all blacks should be shipped back to Africa and that all the Jews should be sterilized.
Captain Webb
In 1875, an Englshman named Captain Matthew Webb became the first man to successfully swim across the Engilsh Channel. It was one of his many heroic feats.
3,096 Days in the Cellar
An Austrian girl was held captive for 8 years by a creepy loner named Wolfgang Priklopil.
The Marichal Incident
One of the most infamous brawls in baseball history happened at Candlestick Park during a game between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Hopkinsville Goblins
The detailed accounts from this famous encounter are extraordinary in that they come from a wide range of sources and remain convincingly consistent.
Trotsky Gets the Axe
The exiled Russian Bolshevik was assassinated by a Soviet agent named Ramon Mercader.