Stella Walsh grew up in the early 20th century caught between two worlds: that of her Polish birthplace and her American upbringing. She was a talented athlete, but could not compete for the USA team in the Olympics beca...

The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Canoramic Bathroom Reader.(Image credit: redditor jueskin)You watched your bag get loaded onto the plane, and then it was gone. What happened to it? LOST IN SPACEAft...

In 1979, George Miller released a low-budget film in Australia called Mad Max that set profitability records and began a worldwide franchise of four movies (and one on the way). If you know anything about the first Mad M...

Young woman was found dead in a park in Seville, Spain. Police thought she died of a drug overdose and released the crime scene. That’s when Carmen Moreno stepped in. She had worked cleaning up the park for many ye...

When fruit dies in mysterious ways The Food Surgeon is there to help make sense of it all, using his forensic skills to get to the bottom of important cases like “who aced the apple?” or “how did the ba...

Neatorama is proud to bring you a guest post from Ernie Smith, the editor of Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. In another life, he ran ShortFormBlog.Abraham Lincoln may be the gre...

Image: Wellcome Images via Wikimedia CommonsNeatorama's own Miss Cellania presents us with this historical look at arsenic as a murder weapon; specifically, how women used the substance to do away with their enemies. And...

Death could come at anytime -or anywhere. Here are some folks who met death while on the toilet or because of the toilet, from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Attack of the Factoids.WHO: Roman emperor, Elagabalus WHEN...

Cliff Pickover's new book is Death and the Afterli...  ...as funeral rites, heaven and hell, reincarnation, autopsies , ghosts, premature burial, cryonics, abortion, os...

The following is a Whodunit by Hy Conrad. These mysteries are from The Little Giant® Book of Whodunits by Hy Conrad and Matt LaFleur. Can you solve the mystery before you read the solution? (Image credit: Gregory "S...