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.
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.
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.
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.
In 2003, Las Vegas entertainer Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy) was brutally bitten by his co-star, a white tiger named Montecore.
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.
George Gorman's encounter is one of the most well-documented UFO cases thanks to all the witnesses.
Max Factor was a cosmetics pioneer who rose from rags to riches and became famous around the world.
In 1907 two massive sections of the bridge snapped off and plunged over 300 feet into the Saint Lawrence River.
In 1859 a semi-retired train conductor named Edwin Drake engineered the world's first successful oil drilling operation.
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.
In 1835 the New York Sun published the first of six articles detailing the amazing discovery of life on the moon.
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.
An Austrian girl was held captive for 8 years by a creepy loner named Wolfgang Priklopil.
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 detailed accounts from this famous encounter are extraordinary in that they come from a wide range of sources and remain convincingly consistent.
The exiled Russian Bolshevik was assassinated by a Soviet agent named Ramon Mercader.