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History
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Today’s Google Doodle Has A South African Flavour
08 Apr 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Googling your own name is one thing, but you know you’ve left a mark when the daily Google Doodle is dedicated to your achievements.
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An SA Ship, An Actress, And A Sailor Feature In Notorious Murder Trial
30 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Actress Gay Gibson boarded the cruise liner ‘Durban Castle’ in South Africa in October of 1947, not knowing that she would never reach her destination.
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Vampire Killing Kit Now On The SA Market
25 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
If you’d like to get your hands on an antique vampire hunting kit, there’s one up for sale in South Africa.
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Ever Heard The Story Of The ‘Female Saint Patrick’?
17 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Over the years, we’ve come to accept that St. Patrick banished snakes from Ireland, but that’s not the only falsehood in the history of a day celebrated around the world.
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Witches, Talking Sacks, And Ghosts – This Entire Island Hallucinated For Over Two Years [Video]
16 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
Myth and folklore are passed on from one generation to the next, but when an entire island is confirming having seen the supernatural it goes beyond fireside stories.
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‘Booty Call’ And ‘Frenemies’ – Seven Common Slang Terms With Weird Hidden Histories
11 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
A few of the words or terms that would usually be followed by “as the kids are saying” actually date back a long, long way.
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Inside The Great Mystery Of The Oxford Picture Gallery Heist
10 Mar 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
It has been almost a year since thieves broke into the Oxford Picture Gallery, making off with three paintings, and never to be seen again.
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These Guys Reckon The FBI Stole Their Treasure
09 Mar 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dennis and Kem Parada own a treasure-hunting company called Finders Keepers, and they’re adamant the FBI is screwing them over.
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Items From Paul Kruger’s ‘Missing Hoard’ Now Up For Auction
26 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
The mystery of the missing ‘Kruger Millions’ has been, to some degree, solved, and the gold wasn’t where treasure hunters thought it was.
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Heartwarming Story Behind 200 Mysterious Photos Found At A Dutch Flea Market
24 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
In 2008, Jennifer Skupin found two boxes of slides at a flea market. 13 years later, she’s finally solved the mystery of where they came from.
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Another Layer Of Intrigue Added To Bizarre History Of ‘The Scream’
23 Feb 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s artwork, ‘The Scream’, is known the world over, although its fame isn’t without a degree of controversy.
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An Interesting Look At The History Of The Toyi-Toyi [Video]
03 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
The toyi-toyi is a huge part of South African culture, but it didn’t originate here, and it wasn’t always used for protest action.
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Archaeologists Brewed “Pretty Good Beer” From 3 000-Year-Old Yeast
14 Dec 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Archaeologists brewed a beer from ancient yeast, and let people taste it, saying that “as long as no one died from it” it would be a success.
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It Took Them 51 Years To Break The Zodiac Killer’s Secret Coded Message [Video]
14 Dec 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
A trio of codebreakers has cracked a cipher sent to the San Francisco Bay Area Press, by the Zodiac Killer, in 1969.
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The Crazy Story That Led To The Nobel Prizes
10 Dec 2020 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
He was an interesting cat, old Alfred Nobel – the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite and other more powerful explosives and who also founded the Nobel Prizes. But why did he do it?
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They Just Found This Radical Rock Art From 12 600 Years Ago [Video]
03 Dec 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Archaeologists have uncovered a massive collection of rock paintings produced towards the end of the Ice Age by some of the earliest people to live in western Amazonia.
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Biggest Scientific Fraud Of The Past 50 Years, According To Scientists
24 Nov 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Unlike in many other fields, scientific fraud is almost certain to get found out in the long run. Over the past 50 years, some whoppers have been exposed.
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Real Story Behind Island Community That Inspired ‘The Beach’
17 Nov 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The 2000 film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, has become a cult classic over the years. Turns out there are some hard to ignore parallels to a real island community.
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Botched Statue Restoration May Be The Worst Yet [Images]
12 Nov 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Residents of Palencia, Spain, were horrified after a statue on a building lining the town’s main street was left severely disfigured by a mysterious restorer.
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They May Have Finally Figured Out Why Van Gogh Cut Off His Ear
04 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Numerous theories have done the rounds on why Vincent Van Gogh took a knife to his ear, with the most recent pointing to the bottle.
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Remarkable Video Of Titanic Crew Member Describing How He Survived
28 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Frank Prentice was in his early twenties when he signed up to work on the Titanic. The story of how he survived the ship’s sinking is well worth a watch.
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Bizarre Stories Behind Four Of History’s Most Famous Curses
20 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
You’ve probably heard about most of these famous curses before, but perhaps you didn’t know how they got started.
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They Call This Guy ‘The Last Nazi Hunter’
20 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
72-year-old Efraim Zuroff has made it his life’s work to put Nazis behind bars, and he’s not done yet.
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BOOM: They Exploded A WWII Bomb In A Canal [Videos]
15 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Big explosions always tend to fascinate people, but it’s the history behind ‘Tallboy’, the bomb that exploded on Tuesday afternoon in a canal near the Polish port city of Swinoujscie, that makes this one interesting.
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Tourist ‘Cursed’ After Stealing Artefacts From Pompeii
13 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Pompeii has become a major tourist attraction, although some people tend to take more than just their photos home with them.
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The Wild History Behind Why Gin Is Flavoured With Juniper Berries
12 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Flavouring gin with juniper berries was a decision more than 2 000 years in the making, and not without a few interesting theories thrown into the mix.
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The Going Rate For A T. Rex Skeleton Has Gone Up Substantially
08 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons don’t come up on auction all that often, which is just one of the reasons why Stan went for such a hefty fee.
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We Finally Know How Massive A Megalodon Shark Really Was
04 Sep 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Whilst the existence of the ancient megalodon shark has been widely reported, the exact size and scale of the shark’s features have been shrouded in mystery.
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So, About That ‘Fake’ Rembrandt Stashed Away In The Basement
02 Sep 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
An art museum in Oxford banished a Rembrandt painting to the basement in 1981, declaring it a fake. Fast forward nearly four decades, and things have changed.
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Three Lessons From History On Why We Shouldn’t Rush A COVID-19 Vaccine
01 Sep 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
History tells us that while a COVID-19 vaccine would be timely, scientists shouldn’t jump the gun before sending one out into the world.
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