For two weeks in the summer of 1969, Charles Manson and his "family" went on one of the most ruthless murder rampages America has ever seen.The Manson Murders of 1969 brought a nation entrenched in hippiedom and free love to its knees. Where there was once hope for a brighter future, there was now a black hole of despair and literal disbelief. The slaughter of Hollywood elites — in their own beds and homes — by devotees to cult leader Charles Manson was simply too perplexing to process. Read More...
Santa Claus is based on a real man named St. Nicholas who lived in the third century, but the generous monk also spawned countless other legends of Santa-like figures.Most children in the United States grow up with a very clear idea of who Santa Claus is and what he looks like. Legends of Santa around the world describe him as jolly, rosy-cheeked, and endowed with powers that allow him to visit every house in one night to deliver Christmas presents. Read More...
For 42 years, Hoffa's disappearance has spurred innumerable conspiracy theories and urban legends. Have we now solved the mystery once and for all?Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesJimmy Hoffa at the Teamster’s Union Convention in Florida. October 1957.
The mystery of what happened to union leader Jimmy Hoffa has baffled the public ever since his disappearance from a Michigan parking lot 42 years ago.
Now, CBS Detroit reports that James Buccellato, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northern Arizona University, has a new theory that Hoffa was murdered at a home in Bloomfield Hills near where he disappeared on July 30, 1975. Read More...
