History
Léo Major, a one eyed Canadian, took on an army alone in WWII
War stories love that moment when a lone soldier slips into an occupied city, fools an entire garrison, and walks out at dawn as the unexpected hero. Most films treat that as fantasy. In April 1945, in the Dutch city…
Monster Study at University of Iowa turned 22 orphans into subjects in a 1939 stuttering experiment
Monster Study began in 1939 inside the Iowa Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home in Davenport, Iowa. Graduate student Mary Tudor, working under speech pathologist Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa, sought to determine whether the way children were labeled…
1972 Andes plane crash survivors explain why cannibalism was their only option
When Nando Parrado opened his eyes, his first thought was simple: I’m dead. The fuselage had slammed into a frozen slope at nearly 12,000 feet, its tail and wings ripped away. His head throbbed, blood filled his mouth, and the…