# Sleepwalking
The Detective Who Discovered HE Was the Murderer: Historic Sleepwalking Cases
La Belle Epoque France was shocked and titillated by what had at first seemed to be a run-of-the-mill murder on a beach. It turned out to be anything but: the star detective…
Outlandish and Extravagant Facts from the Gilded Age
The Gilded Age, an 1873 Mark Twain novel that caricatured greedy businessmen and dirty politicians, lent its name to an…
The Fate of the Rockefeller Scion Eaten by Cannibals and Other Macabre History
In 1961, a scion of the Rockefeller family came to a macabre end in New Guinea. For decades, it was…
Romance Through the Ages, Ranked from Sweet to Cringey
Just like today, people’s quest for romance back in the days was often filled with all kinds of awkwardness, with…
Odd Historic Moments that Are Almost too Weird to Handle
History is not always grim, dreary, and serious. For those who bother to look, history has no shortage of bizarre…
Exposing Some of the Meanest and Pettiest Men in History
It is hardly a surprise to anybody to learn that people could be jerks at times. We all know the…
Atypical Deaths of these Historical Figures
Death comes to all, the great and the small. For most, it comes in prosaic and unremarkable ways, meeting death…
A West Virginia Town Applied For Soviet Foreign Aid, and Other Lesser Known American History Facts
Did you know that an American vice president notorious for lacking self-confidence had the daylights scared out of him by…
Here’s How the Original Sleepwalking Killer Escaped the Police, But Only for a Short While
Parasomnias are classified as sleep disorders, and sleepwalking is one of the most common. In most instances, it is harmless,…