James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician[3][4][5] and scientific skeptic[6][7][8] who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.[9] He was the […]
The Jamestown Colony
The Jamestown[a] settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James […]
The Atari Video Game Burial
The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site, undertaken by American video […]
Gregor MacGregor
General Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 – 4 December 1845) was a Scottish soldier, adventurer, and confidence trickster who attempted from 1821 to 1837 […]
Lucia Cole
Lucia Cole is a persona crafted by an online user who managed to fool several online publications into running stories […]
The Spiderman of Denver
Theodore Edward Coneys (November 10, 1882 – May 16, 1967), known by the nickname “Denver Spiderman”, an American drifter who committed a murder in 1941 and […]