Treacle, crushed emeralds, bloodletting, bathing in urine: Wacko cures and medical procedures from the past Strangeness News
That time a strange man accepted the Oscar for the Best Supporting Actress in 1937 meant for Alice Brady Glamour News
The cold-blooded Cocaine Godmother of Colombia invented the motorcycle drive-by shooting that killed her Strangeness News
The real “Sound of Music”: Moody Maria married a man 25 years her senior, the family lost their wealth before WWII, and she sold her autobiography to Hollywood for $9,000 Glamour Lifestyle News
Not being Italian was no obstacle to James Caan, who portrayed Sonny in “The Godfather,” winning “Italian of the Year”–twice News Glamour Vintage Hollywood
Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson,” originally titled “Mrs. Roosevelt” as a tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt, was reworked for “The Graduate” Glamour News
The traveling Sutherland Sisters: Seven women and 37 feet of hair between them Strangeness News Vintage Hollywood
Mystery: Hours before his death, Edgar Allan Poe was found in the gutter, disheveled and raving Strangeness Glamour News
Digital reconstruction reveals an 18th century Scottish woman condemned as a witch–and she has “quite a kind face” News Strangeness
When John Gotti ordered the murder of his boss, “Big Paul” Castellano, outside Sparks Steak House, it became “the hit of the century” Strangeness News Vintage Hollywood
Why questions linger about Natalie Wood’s 1981 drowning death off Catalina Island Vintage Hollywood Glamour Lifestyle News Strangeness
Vinnie Ream won the competition to create a sculpture of Lincoln, but whispers and doubts shadowed her efforts at carving a “man of sorrow” Battlefields Lifestyle News Strangeness