History

Historical events, locations, and figures surrounded by unanswered questions, hidden truths, and unexplained circumstances.

Why Wear Purple on Spirit Day: Origins and Meaning

Genesis Kyle -
The early autumn of 2010 brought a wave of tragic news across North America. Headlines were filled with stories...

Why Ada Lovelace Is the World’s First Programmer

Anika Rahman -
To understand how Ada Lovelace became the ada lovelace first computer programmer, you have to look at the tug-of-war...

Why Is St. Francis Patron Saint of Animals? Real History

Anika Rahman -
Before he became a haloed icon, Francis was an ordinary, hard-partying kid named Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone. Born...

Día de los Muertos vs Halloween: Real History & Meaning

Michael Knox -
The Core Philosophy: Running From Ghosts vs Setting the Dinner Table If you boiled both holidays down to a single...

Why Do We Trick-or-Treat? The Celtic Roots of Halloween

Megan Grant -
The Ancient Spark: Samhain and the Celtic New Year To understand why kids walk the streets disguised as ghouls or...

Why Canadian Thanksgiving Is in October: Origins & History

Editorial Team -
Every autumn, millions of Americans find themselves thoroughly confused when their Canadian neighbors start roasting turkeys a whole month...

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Real History vs Netflix

Priya Mehta -
Netflix just dropped Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, turning America's most famous Victorian cold case into a bloody, darkly...

15 Documented Poltergeist Cases and What Really Happened

Editorial Team -
Spooky fires and airborne chairs sound like campfire fiction until you find them recorded in yellowed police logs and...

The Olive Wilkins Case: Woman Who Haunted Her Home

Dan Jacobs -
Most ghost stories begin with a tragedy that ends a life, leaving behind a restless spirit in the shadows....

The Runcorn Poltergeist: 1952’s Flying Furniture Mystery

Megan Grant -
In late August 1952, an ordinary terraced house in northern England became the center of an impossible physical disturbance....

The Dublin Poltergeist: Ireland’s Chatty 1914 Ghost

Dan Jacobs -
Most classic haunted house stories feature chilling moans, rattling chains, or phantom footsteps in the dead of night. Dublin...

The Mackie Poltergeist: Scotland’s 1695 Rerrick Haunting

Megan Grant -
In February 1695, a humble tenant farm named Ring-Croft of Stocking in Rerrick, southwest Scotland, turned into ground zero...