In 1876 chunks of raw meat fell from the sky in rural Kentucky. Eyewitnesses panicked scientists investigated and the explanation turned out to be stranger and more ordinary than expected. The Kentucky Meat Shower explained.

In 1908 an unidentified drifter reportedly died after eating bookbinding paste in Goldfield Nevada. Buried with a blunt epitaph his grave remains one of the town’s strangest and most debated stories.

Where do today’s mixologists really get their ideas. From 1920s hangover cures to swinging sixties Pernod obsessions, these digitised cocktail books reveal that modern bar culture has very deep roots indeed.

Otto Rahn believed medieval myth could reveal hidden history. Funded by Heinrich Himmler, he searched for the Holy Grail, served the SS, and died frozen in the Alps on 13th March, 1939. A disturbing story of myth, power, and compromise.

Bettie Page was the most photographed woman of the 1950s and a reluctant symbol of sexual freedom. Behind the iconic fringe was a life shaped by censorship, faith, mental illness and a fame she never fully controlled.

Exploding cigars, poisoned wetsuits, Mafia hitmen and secret memos. Declassified records reveal how the CIA repeatedly tried and failed to kill Fidel Castro, exposing a strange Cold War world where obsession often replaced strategy.