Utterly interesting

In 1942 at Fort Meade, the slight and scholarly Francois d’Eliscu ordered Rangers to charge him with fixed bayonets. Seconds later they were disarmed and pinned with a simple sash cord. Rejecting sporting rules, he taught ruthless, practical hand to hand combat that reshaped American military training during the Second World War.

In the 1960s, a Chicago bellhop claimed he could project images from his mind onto Polaroid film. Psychiatrists believed him. Magicians called it a trick. The strange case of Ted Serios still raises questions about belief, evidence and illusion.

Born into Hitler’s inner circle, Martin Adolf Bormann was raised as a committed young Nazi. After the war he converted to Catholicism, became a priest and missionary, and later spoke publicly about the crimes of the Third Reich. A life shaped by belief rupture and reckoning.