History

No matter where you come from, you must have heard about Marilyn Monroe. Breathtakingly beautiful, she was found dead at her residence in 1962, when she was just 36 years old. Lying naked on her bed with a telephone receiver in one hand and a bottle of Nembutal lying empty nearby, her death was soon ruled as a suicide. But if it were a suicide,...

The 2008 Noida double murder case is filled with several theories and allegations which are too bizarre to believe in. The case revolved around the murder of Aarushi Talwar and another murder investigated to happen on the same night of her in-house living servant, Hemraj Banjade. The Aarushi Talwar case received a lot of criticism in terms of the investigation conducted, as most of...

In 1917, during World War I in a rural town, 70,000 people gathered to witness the appearance of the Virgin Mary. What exactly happened that nearly 70,000 people gathered to witness that particular event? The Backstory This event took place in the small town of Fatima in Ourem.  On the 13th of May 1917, 10-year-old Lucia dos Santos played with her two younger cousins in...

Back in the 20th century, a plane was flying over Peru, near the town of Nazca. In the dull and dry landscape of the desert, shapes and lines came into view. They did not seem to be natural and could only be visualized from a certain height. This was the first time the Nazca Lines were seen in recent history. What is Nazca Lines? The Nazca...

Ever wondered how dark can a night truly turn out to be? A night of tragedies and chilling incidents. Such a night was experienced by the people of Bhopal around 36 years back from 2nd to 3rd December night in 1984 and is known as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, considered the world’s worst industrial disaster by The Atlantic. The night took the lives of...