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Buried in Junk - The Collyer Brothers

23/4/2015

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Homer and Langley Collyer were reclusive brothers who lived in a four storey brownstone building in Harlem.

They were also hoarders, paranoid, yet very inventive.

Eventually their hoarding, reclusive ways would kill them both and their deaths would become a public spectacle.


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Karen Silkwood

22/11/2014

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Karen Silkwood was an activist who raised concerns and investigated health and safety practices of workers at a nuclear facility.

Silkwood became famous after dying in a car crash - a crash many consider suspicious as Silkwood was about to go public with her findings...


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Anne Boleyn

20/9/2014

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Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was the first English Queen to be publicly executed, only three years after her coronation.

Five hundred years after her death, her tragic tale is still the subject of historians and the inspiration for films.


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Tollund Man

5/9/2014

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The Tollund Man is probably the most well-preserved body from pre-historic times in the world.

Discovered in a peat bog in Denmark, this man, who they believe was sacrificed to the gods, has given modern day historians a rare glimpse into life in the early Iron Age.


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The Elephant Man

15/8/2014

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Joseph Merrick was born in Leicester, England in 1862 as a perfectly healthy baby boy.

He died 27 years later in London Hospital having become world-famous as the severely-deformed "Elephant Man."

His brief life was a medical marvel and a ‘side show’ attraction.



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Edgar Allan Poe

8/8/2014

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“And so, being young and dipped in folly. I fell in love with melancholy”

Known for his dark and macabre writing, Edgar Allan Poe lived up to his literary reputation by dying a very strange and unusual death, aged 40, in the year 1849, leaving an unsolved mystery.


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James Dean and "Little Bastard"

9/3/2014

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Almost 60 years ago Hollywood star James Dean was killed while driving his Porsche 550 Spyder, cutting short a promising career.

He left behind a legacy of teenage rebellion and angst, but there are many who believe he also left a sinister curse, bestowed on the car he died in.


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Burke and Hare

7/3/2014

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Between 1827 and 1828 William Burke and William Hare murdered at least 16 people to provide fresh bodies to the local anatomy school.

Had they not gotten so cocky, it may have been quite lucrative, as each body fetched approximately £10, a large sum for those days.


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Shanti Devi

5/3/2014

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At about four years of age Shanti Devi began to share details from a previous life.

Eventually, her past life family was located and Shanti Devi's memories - including many personal and intimate secrets - were confirmed by these family members from another life.


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Jean Donovan

7/2/2014

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Jean Donovan was an American lay missionary who was brutally raped and murdered, along with three Religious Sisters – Dorothy Kazel, Maura Clarke and Ita Ford - in El Salvador.

They were killed by a military death squad, while volunteering to do charity work during the civil war there.


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