We all love a good mystery. Here’s one where some people wear lead masks on their faces and die. Enjoy “The Lead Masks Case (Portuguese: Caso das Máscaras de Chumbo) was a series of events which led to the death of two Brazilian electronic technicians, Manoel Pereira da Cruz and […]
For this video we’re taking a trip down under the sea. And staying there… “The nuclear-powered Oscar-class submarine Kursk (Russian: Project 949A Антей Atomnaya Podvodnaya Lodka “Kursk” (APL “Kursk”)) sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea, during the first major Russian naval exercise in more […]
Sometimes you just gotta get the boys together and escape communism. “In 1950, CSA became the world’s first victim of a mass hijacking. Three Czechoslovak Douglas DC-3 airliners flown to an American airbase in Erding, near Munich, stirred the world on both sides of the “burnt through” Iron Curtain and […]
What’s better than winning a war? Well, not much really… But what’s better than losing a war? Pretending it never happened and continuing fighting! “Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo, 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World […]
Can you really steal an aircraft and fly it straight to the White House? No, but back in the seventies you could! They were better times… “On February 17, 1974, U.S. Army Private Robert K. Preston took off in a stolen Bell UH-1B Iroquois “Huey” helicopter from Tipton Field, Maryland, […]
There were other humans before us, and even some at the same time as us. Now, Homo sapien is the only human left. But who were the others? “A number of varieties of Homo are grouped into the broad category of archaic humans in the period that precedes and is […]
No, it’s not from a movie – this couple really did rig their farmhouse with a shotgun door trap. And a burglar really triggered it! “Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W.2d 657 (Iowa 1971), was a court case decided by the Iowa Supreme Court, in which two homeowners (Edward and Bertha […]
A fascinating tale of deception, guilt and madness at sea. Unusually, it was all captured in logbooks and tapes, but the man behind them all disappeared forever. “Donald Charles Alfred Crowhurst (1932 – July 1969) was a British businessman and amateur sailor who died while competing in the Sunday Times […]
We hear about “Stockholm Syndrome” a lot (despite it being a fairly rare condition, and not actually officially recognized as a disorder), but did you know the reason it’s called “Stockholm Syndrome” originates from a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden? “The Norrmalmstorg robbery was a bank robbery and hostage crisis […]
The final episode in the series takes a look at the last tips of the book, and how to evade capture. “You will learn how to escape a locked trunk, make an improvised Taser, trick facial recognition software, prevent tracking, evade a kidnapping, elude an active shooter, rappel down the […]
