Brandon Swanson was on his way home for spring break in May 2008 when he got into a minor car accident and called his parents for help. Then, he suddenly vanished without a trace.Wikimedia CommonsBrandon Swanson disappeared in the early hours of May 14, 2008. His final words to his parents on the phone were a chilling, “Oh s–t!”
When 19-year-old Brandon Swanson crashed his car into a roadside ditch near Minnesota West Community and Technical College in 2008, he naturally called his parents for assistance. Read More...
James II Of Scotland, Who Died From A Backfiring Cannon Public DomainJames II, King of Scots, had a fatal fascination with cannons.
As the King of Scotland, James II was known for his fiery temper, equally fiery facial birthmark, and his interest in weapons of war. But as he prepared to besiege the English-held Roxburgh Castle in 1460, the 29-year-old king’s passion for weaponry proved fatal when a cannon exploded and killed him. Read More...
From its dead bodies serving as guideposts to its most remarkable climbers to its enormous feces problem, these Mount Everest facts are even more fascinating than you could imagine. Everest's first surveyors added two extra feet to their height figure. When British surveyors in the 1850s first calculated Everest's height at exactly 29,000 feet, they assumed people would think it was a round estimate and thus added two extra feet to their total. Read More...
