How New York City's Doyers Street became the deadliest street in American history, known forever as The Bloody Angle.Image Source: Flickr
New York City has always been inextricably linked with its gangs. In simply reading that sentence, you’re likely already remembering images from Gangs of New York, The Godfather, The Warriors and on and on. But what you’re probably not picturing is a strange little 200-yard stretch called Doyers Street, one of the few streets in Manhattan bent at a nearly 90-degree angle — and one of the bloodiest streets in American history. Read More...
Long before Walter White dissolved bodies in bathtubs, John George Haigh used sulphuric acid to cover up his crimes.YouTubeJohn George Haigh, also known as the “Acid Bath Murderer.”
In February of 1949, police raided a warehouse on Leopold Road in West Sussex, owned by John George Haigh. Inside, they found several 40-gallon drums and containers of concentrated sulphuric acid. Outside, they found 28 pounds of melted human body fat, part of a human foot, human gallstones, and part of a denture. Read More...
From archaic toilet paper to moats made of feces, using the bathroom in the Middle Ages was no picnic.For those familiar with an outhouse, the medieval toilet is its massive stone-built predecessor. Relegated to the private alcoves of a fort, medieval toilets were nothing but openings that led into a latrine or castle moat below.
Designed mainly with function in mind, the medieval toilet was otherwise known as a garderobe or privy chamber and was often located on several floors of most castles and no bigger than the restroom of a modern-day coffee shop. Read More...
