In the grand scheme of things, Grigori Rasputin was a side character in the story of the downfall of Russia's last absolute monarch, Tsar Nicholas II. But the semi-literate Siberian faith healer and mystic, with his ques...

We've posted quite a few stories about arsenic over the past twenty years here at Neatorama because there are so many things to say about the historic poison. However, you might not have been reading this blog that long,...

Robin Duska is a volunteer at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, working on cataloging the museum's bird specimens. She discovered a snow bunting labeled as being found on May 29, 1872, by Emil Bessels...

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Have you always wanted to walk through the Slurm factory, enjoy a donut with The Simpsons or do an alien autopsy of Roger from American Dad? If so, you'll want to head to Hulu's Animayhem activation at this year's San Di...

U.S. President William McKinley was shot in the abdomen at close range in 1901. He was rushed to a clinic where gynecological surgeon Matthew Mann operated on McKinley's wound. The president died eight days later from ne...

Embed from Getty ImagesIn 1984, Wes Craven launc...  ...m Laos. They had no underlying illness, and their autopsies revealed no cause of death. The syndrome was name...

It wasn't until 1840 that James Marsh developed a test to determine if someone had been killed by arsenic, changing forensic science forever. But the idea has been around for a couple of hundred years already. The caree...

Gregor Mendel was a 19th century Augustinian friar and scientist who is often called "the father of genetics." He didn't know about chromosomes or DNA, but he discovered and documented many of the rules of heritability,...

A recent post at AskReddit said, "Autopsy Doctors of Reddit, what was strangest discovery you’ve made while preforming an autopsy?" (sic) Responses came in from medical examiners, autopsy techs, EMTs, pathologists,...