Stories

Born shortly after the American Civil War, a young girl from Tennessee possessed a rare physical condition that turned her into a nationwide sensation.

Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald looked at a single red paperclip and decided to trade it for a house.

This medical anomaly transformed her into one of the most famous dime museum attractions of the 19th century, known nationwide as the “Ohio Big Foot Girl.”

Thirty-five-year-old Alice Pike approached the store register with a cart packed full of merchandise and a highly unusual method of payment.

Timothy Dexter was an 18th-century leatherworker who defied all conventional financial logic to become one of the wealthiest men in Massachusetts.

Pulling fresh potatoes from the dirt while picking ripe cherry tomatoes from the exact same plant sounds like a science fiction movie plot. However, agricultural science has made this a verifiable reality.

Out of nearly one thousand Nobel laureates since 1901, exactly two individuals have voluntarily declined the most famous award on Earth.

On the evening of October 11, 1973, forty-five-year-old Charles Hickson and his seventeen-year-old relative Calvin Parker were fishing off a pier on the west bank of the Pascagoula River in Jackson County, Mississippi.

During the golden age of American circuses, one performer captivated audiences by locking himself in a steel cage with twenty-seven lions.