In 1960, at the height of the Cold War era, the US Army developed a secret program named Project Iceworm aimed at constructing a network of movable nuclear missile launch sites beneath the Greenland ice sheet.
Project Iceworm 1960: The Secret Nuclear Tunnels Under Greenland
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Project Iceworm 1960: The Secret Nuclear Tunnels Under Greenland

Operation Lunik: The CIA’s Plan To Steal A Soviet Spacecraft in 1959
The Lunik Plot was a CIA operation during the Cold War in which a Soviet Union spacecraft was hijacked at a train station.
Operation Lunik: The CIA's Plan To Steal A Soviet Spacecraft

Walt Disney Was a Secret FBI Informant in 1936
Walt Disney Was a Secret FBI Informant working with the J. Edgar Hoover administration from 1936 onwards. He produced numerous films at the request of the FBI

‘McNamara’s Morons’: The Folly of American Foreign Policy
The year was 1966. America was at war with Vietnam. Casualties were high on both sides. On America’s end, African Americans suffered disproportionately high casualty rates in Vietnam. In 1965 alone they comprised 14.1% of total combat deaths when they only comprised approximately 11% of the total U.S. population in the same year.
McNamara’s Morons: The Folly of American Foreign Policy
FBI Files

Escape from Alcatraz 1962: a Daring True Story
On the evening of June 11th, 1962, three dangerous criminals broke out of a maximum-security prison known as Alcatraz, sometimes referred to as The Rock, an island located in San Francisco Bay (US). They made their way off the island on a boat that they had constructed themselves out of stolen raincoats.
Escape from Alcatraz 1962: a Daring True Story

Walt Disney Was a Secret FBI Informant in 1936
Walt Disney Was a Secret FBI Informant working with the J. Edgar Hoover administration from 1936 onwards. He produced numerous films at the request of the FBI
CIA Files

Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA’s Spy Cats of the 1960s
Operation Acoustic Kitty was a 1960s-era CIA project launched by the Directorate for Scientific & Technical Affairs that sought to utilize cats for espionage missions, with plans to monitor the Kremlin and Soviet embassies and record communications between buildings in the region.
Operation Acoustic Kitty: The CIA’s Spy Cats of the 1960s

Operation Lunik: The CIA’s Plan To Steal A Soviet Spacecraft in 1959
The Lunik Plot was a CIA operation during the Cold War in which a Soviet Union spacecraft was hijacked at a train station.
Operation Lunik: The CIA's Plan To Steal A Soviet Spacecraft
Blood Practices

2000 Years of Death By Elephant
Elephants were often used as a symbol of royal authority and were often employed to torment captives in public executions.
2000 Years of Death By Elephant

Ritual Sacrifices in Mesopotamia Culture – 3100 BC
In ancient Mesopotamia, human sacrifice was considered an ordinary practice that was to be followed by its residents. The Royal Cemetery of Ur is host some of the most magnificent series of tombs where we can see the evidence of how human sacrifice was practiced there by the people.
Ritual Sacrifices in Mesopotamia Culture - 3100 BC

Human Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient China
The ceremonial slaughter practices of human beings to give tribute to Gods, supernatural entities, and forefathers is what human ritual sacrifice is all about. While these brutal killings have occurred in numerous civilizations throughout history, ancient Chinese culture was unique due to the intensity with which it occurred, and the hordes of people massacred.
Human Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient China

The Green Children of Woolpit: Possible Explanations of a 12th Century Tale
The Green Children of Woolpit is a Medieval British folk tale that has come down to us all the way from the 12th century AD. The legend comes from a small...

Runny Nose: A Korean Folktale
Myths and Legends from the Far East are sometimes vastly different from those in the Western World.
Runny Nose: A Korean Folktale

The 3 Secrets of Our Lady of Fátima
The story of Our Lady of Fátima begins in a small Portuguese town by the same name. In 1916, three small children were tending their sheep in the fields when they witnessed three apparitions of an Angel
The 3 Secrets of Our Lady of Fátima

Aristeas: The Greek Time Traveler 700 BC
There have been hundreds of claims over the centuries from people claiming that they have been able to Time travel, either to the past or to the future.
Aristeas: The Greek Time Traveler