Midori Naka was a popular stage actress in Japan. She and her troupe were in Hiroshima in August of 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Naka was less than a mile from the blast. She survived the explosion,...

<p>Detroit — Had she regained consciousness a little later, her blood would have been drained and she would have been embalmed. Thankfully, this young woman, named Timesa Beauchamp, who was declared dead, ope...

<p><span style="color: rgb(3, 3, 3);">A man was clearing out his deceased mother’s apartment in Manhattan when he found something gruesome. He found a </span><a href="https://www...

We know that washing our hands is the most powerfu...  ...ten attending births immediately after conducting autopsies , were transmitting “cadaverous particles&rd...

In 1980, 56-year-old coal miner Zigmund Adamski left his home to walk to the store. He never made it there, and police could not find him. There was nothing suspicious in his recent behavior, and he had no known enemies....

The girl in the box: the mysterious crime that shocked Germany https://t.co/uYL7wt1Dxq— The Guardian (@guardian) September 24, 2019 On a Tuesday night in September of 1981, 10-year-old Ursula Herrmann of Eching, G...

Death in Antartica is not that shocking, but usually comes from understandable causes such as cold and starvation among early South Pole explorers, and accidents. Murders are violent, usually due to psychosis from the ex...

Military surgeon Joseph Fleming served with the British Royal Navy aboard a hospital ship during conflicts in Africa. His notes from 1873 related a peculiar case, in which Captain H. V. B. suffered from some unknown illn...

The case of Agnes Bowker illustrates the bizarre lengths that one might go to in order to explain an out-of-wedlock birth in the days when there was no greater shame. In Leicestershire, England, in 1569, Bowker was said...

Matthew Dana was a healthy, 27-year-old local police officer from Tupper Lake. He died on August 6, 2017 at home. Initially, nobody knew what had happened to him and it came as a shock that his life would end so suddenly...