Timeless Tales

Photograph of Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring very shortly before they were m*rdered by followers of Charles Manson. On the evening of August 8, 1969, the air in Benedict Canyon was thick with the scent of jasmine and the low hum of cicadas. Inside 10050 Cielo Drive, the atmosphere was peaceful, a stark contrast to the v*olence that loomed in the shadows of the hills. Sharon Tate, eight-and-a-half months pregnant and radiant despite the summer heat, sat in the living room. Her husband, Roman Polanski, was away in London, and she found comfort in the company of her closest friends.  Among them was Jay Sebring, the pioneering Hollywood hairstylist and Sharon's former fiancé. Their romantic relationship had evolved into a deep, protective platonic bond; Jay remained her confidant and a steady presence in her life. Earlier that night, the group had dined at El Coyote. Now, they were unwinding in the quiet sanctuary of the home. Jay and Sharon chatted about the upcoming birth, their ...

Winter Hunger at Bergen-Belsen: When Food Became a Weapon By the winter of 1944, survival in Bergen-Belsen had narrowed to a single, exhausting ritual: waiting for food. Each day, prisoners were forced into endless lines that stretched across frozen ground. Many stood for hours in the bitter cold—barefoot, wrapped in rags, bodies already weakened by disease and starvation. Snow crept around their feet as they waited, burning through the last energy they had left just to remain standing. When food finally arrived, it was rarely enough. A thin, watery soup—sometimes little more than warm liquid—was ladled out in silence. Often, the supplies ran out before the line ended. Those still waiting were sent away empty-handed, knowing they might not eat at all that day. Some never made it that far. Prisoners collapsed in the lines, their bodies giving up before nourishment reached them. Others died where they stood, hunger finally winning after weeks or months of slow exhaustion. The c...

 Man Who Killed Wife Said He Prefers Prison Over Dealing with Her. An 80-year-old Florida man faces a first-degree murder charge after deputies say he shot his 83-year-old wife to death inside their Orlando home Saturday evening during a fight about taking a cruise. William Elwood Simmons called 911 himself around 5:20 p.m. and reported his wife "was down," according to police accounts. When Orange County sheriff's deputies showed up, Simmons was waiting in the garage and immediately told them, "I do know what happened, I did it." Deputies found Nancy Lee Simmons dead in the kitchen from a single shotgun wound. A shotgun lay on the floor next to a spent shell casing, authorities said. During questioning at the station, Simmons laid it all out, according to the same documents. The couple had been arguing in the kitchen about cruise plans when Nancy started yelling "f— you, you bastard" over and over. He walked to the bedroom closet, grabbed...

 Mom Left 12-Year-Old Dying with Untreated Diabetes. A jury in Evansville, Indiana, convicted a mother of neglecting her diabetic daughter until the girl died at home last year. Ashley Marie Bredhold, 40, was found guilty on two counts of neglect of a dependent resulting in death. The jury came back with the verdict in less than a day. Sentencing is set for March 19, and she could face up to 40 years in prison. Her daughter, Alice Bredhold, was only 12 when she died on July 4, 2024, from diabetic ketoacidosis at the family's home. Alice had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes back in March 2020, and her blood sugar levels had been spiking out of control for a long time. School nurses flagged the problem dozens of times. There were at least 34 high readings since January 2024, with some over 300 and others topping 600. The Department of Child Services stepped in after those alerts, but things didn't improve. Alice's Dexcom monitor had stopped working and fa...

23 year old Tania McGowen, was the mother to a beautiful 5 month old baby boy “Mecca” Tania McGowen starved the five month old baby and ab*sed him for several weeks after his father moved to Texas. A few days before his death, she left the baby in the club house of her apartment community for a few hours, then returned to check on him. However, when she returned there’s video footage of her throwing the baby against the couch and hitting him in his back repeatedly.  SHOW VIDEO CLIP HERE Ms. McGowen was also seen putting a blanket and pillow over her child’s face briefly before walking away. Tania McGowen states that she laid the baby down at 8:00PM on December 10th and later went to check on him at midnight and saw that he appeared to still be sleeping. She then didn’t check on him again until the next day around 2 PM and the baby was cold and unresponsive. Upon arriving to the hospital the child was pronounced dead. He was ONLY 7 pounds at the time of his death. ...

This terrifying photo reveals the moment a woman climbed onto her roof to hide from home intruder only for him to appear behind her. .Police arrived on the scene just minutes after she frantically called police as she hid beneath an eave of the roof. An area blogger snapped a photo just as the intruder, later identified by police as 29-year-old Christian Hicks, lurched onto the roof behind her. Record of the crime scene video  

When six-year-old Beth Thomas appeared in a 1990 HBO documentary titled ‘Child of Rage: A Story of Abuse’ she did so calmly, brutally and with no visible emotion.  Beth had been adopted into a loving home after surviving severe sexual abuse and neglect but she displayed violent behavior so extreme that she talked about wanting to kill her adoptive parents, repeatedly hurt her younger brother, and harmed pets.  One disturbing moment captured on film Beth recounting how she smashed her brother's head against concrete while calmly stating, “I killed him!”  A clinical psychologist diagnosed Beth with reactive attachment disorder, a rare but devastating condition stemming from early trauma and the inability to form emotional bonds with caregivers. Conventional therapy failed until an experimental approach led by therapist Connell Watkins was introduced. Beth was placed in a highly structured environment where she lost nearly all freedom.  She was locked in her r...

This CCTV image shows three year old Kaylee-Jayde Priest standing quietly beside her mother in the hallway of their apartment building. It is one of the last known images of Kaylee before she died later that same day in May 2020. Hours later, Kaylee was found unresponsive in her bedroom. Despite emergency efforts, she was pronounced dead. Medical experts later told the court that her body showed signs of repeated harm and extreme suffering, described as catastrophic. Those responsible were the two people meant to protect her. Her mother, Nicola Priest, and her partner, Callum Redfern, were both charged and found guilty of manslaughter. During the trial, prosecutors revealed messages between the couple that treated harm as discipline. The injuries that ended Kaylee’s life were inflicted in the hours before she died. Instead of calling for urgent help, the adults left the apartment to get food and continued using social media while Kaylee lay injured inside her own home. Kay...

Twenty-five years after grocery store manager Terrence Paquette was stabbed to death, police cracked the case using public DNA database websites and half-guzzled beer cans. DNA from discarded beer cans has led to an arrest in the brutal 1996 murder of Florida convenience store manager Terrence Paquette. His body was found after being stabbed 73 times and his death left police baffled for a quarter-century — until online genealogy databases gave them a lead. The “gruesome” crime scene had yielded blood “all over the store” that didn’t belong to the victim, but a DNA match remained elusive throughout the decades Image: The crime scene on Feb. 3, 1996. The case was reopened again in 2019. This time, officials had the convenience of modern technology on their side. In March 2021, a genetic genealogy expert they enlisted from Florida’s Department of Law Enforcement found some promising leads. They took the sample from the lab, turned it into a data file, and uploaded it to...

This haunting color photograph from February 22, 1945, captures a lone U.S. Marine lying motionless in the black volcanic sand of Iwo Jima, his helmet strap still fastened and his uniform half-covered by ash and grit. The island’s scarred landscape stretches behind him, pocked with craters and shrouded in smoke, a grim testament to the ferocity of the battle that had only just begun.  In that moment of stillness amid chaos, the image freezes the human cost of one of the Pacific War’s most brutal campaigns. Looking at this solitary figure today, it is impossible not to feel the weight of his sacrifice. Have you ever paused to consider the individual stories hidden within the vast numbers of those who never came home? The Battle of Iwo Jima demanded extraordinary courage from every Marine who stepped onto its unforgiving shores. They advanced against entrenched Japanese defenses, enduring relentless machine-gun fire, hidden pillboxes, and terrain that offered no cover. For ...

Mom Tells 11-Year-Old to Walk 19 Miles to School. A 35-year-old San Antonio woman is facing a felony child endangerment charge after police say she told her daughter to hoof it nearly 20 miles to elementary school on her own the morning after a night of drinking and fighting with her boyfriend. According to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office incident report, Lucia Victoria Marie Cruz had been arguing with her boyfriend Tuesday night. She knocked back a full bottle of wine and passed out. Wednesday morning, her 11-year-old tried waking her up for a ride to school. Cruz allegedly brushed her off, said walk it yourself, and went right back to sleep. The girl, who doesn’t have a cell phone, started the trek. About a mile down the road a witness saw the little girl walking alone in the traffic and picked her up, dropping her off with school resource officers. Deputies then headed to the house, where Cruz told them she knew her daughter was out walking the whole 19-mile route. Cr...

In July 2021, a terrifying incident occurred at Sulak Canyon in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Two women were using a popular tourist swing positioned on the edge of a cliff that drops over 6,300 feet. As the swing gained momentum, one of the supporting chains failed, causing the chair to tilt and ejecting both riders over the precipice. The horrifying moment was captured on video by onlookers who watched the women disappear over the edge of the world’s deepest canyon. Miraculously, both women survived the fall. A small wooden landing platform situated just below the cliff’s edge caught them before they could tumble into the massive gorge. The victims escaped with only minor scratches and bruises, but the psychological trauma was immense. Following the viral footage, the Russian Ministry of Tourism ordered safety checks on all similar attractions in the region.  WATCH THE TRAGIC MOMENT HERE Many of these unregulated “extreme” swings were found to be in violation of safet...

Between the ages of four and twelve, Dave Pelzer endured severe abuse at the hands of his mother, Catherine Roerva Pelzer, at their home in Daly City, California. Catherine was an alcoholic who singled out Dave from among his five brothers for increasingly cruel punishments. She referred to him as "it" rather than by his name. The abuse Catherine inflicted included starving Dave for days at a time, forcing him to sleep in the basement or garage, and making him wear the same torn clothing to school. She burned his arm on a gas stove as punishment. She stabbed him in the stomach.  She forced him to drink ammonia. She made him eat his own vomit and feces. She played cruel "games" designed to make him suffer as greatly as possible. On some occasions, she would suddenly treat Dave with love and tenderness before returning to the abuse, leaving him confused and isolated. Dave's father, Stephen Pelzer, a San Francisco firefighter who was also an alcoholic, was l...

Charlotte Lindström was a Swedish model who was in a relationship with Steven Spaliviero, a major drug trafficker who was arrested in May 2007 in Australia after a warehouse full of illegal substances was discovered. In a desperate attempt to prevent her fiancé from being convicted, Charlotte offered $150,000 USD to a hitman to eliminate the key witnesses in the trial and thus free her fiancé. However, the plan fell apart when the supposed hitman turned out to be an undercover police officer, which led to Charlotte being arrested and serving a 4-year prison sentence. EXCLUSIVE: Sydney's 'real life Breaking Bad' drug kingpin finds new love 15 years after making world headlines when his Swedish model fiancee ordered a 'hit' on witnesses before testifying against him Steven Spaliviero was an ecstasy and meth kingpin with massive drug factory Charming strip club owner was caught cooking 44kg of drugs in western Sydney Fell deeply in love and planned to marry Swedis...

A drug trafficker who stole a cartel’s 450-pound cocaine shipment valued at around $6 to $8 million was thrown into the ocean alive as punishment. Yes, the video shows the real 2023 execution of Reinaldo Fuentes Campos (aka Taliban), a Venezuelan trafficker.  He stole a ~450-pound cocaine shipment worth ~$10M from a cartel, who punished him by tying an anchor to him and throwing him alive into the Caribbean Sea near Martinique. Confirmed by multiple reports. 

Man Caught Having... (Explicit Act)... with Dead Deer.  You read that headline right and I don't know how to write a serious story about this. But a driver in Muhlenberg, KY called 911 to report seeing someone having (.... y'all know) with a dead deer on the side of the road. SEE THE UNBELIEVABLE VIDEO When police arrived they found Allen Osborne with his pants down. Deer hair covered his clothes. When he changed at the jail, more hair turned up around his private parts. That's the story.

 BREAKING: The first image of cartel boss "El Mencho" has reportedly leaked online Still unconfirmed. Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes led the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful criminal organizations. He was kil!ed earlier today in a military operation.  The US had a $15 million bounty on him. The man responsible for flooding America with fentanyl stayed faceless for years. Now we might finally see who he was. Source: CNN Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, led the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the most powerful criminal networks in Mexico. The fentanyl crisis has devastated communities in the United States and beyond, leaving behind loss, addiction, and broken families. For years, he operated from the shadows while the damage spread in plain sight. If true, this operation sends a clear message that even the most untouchable figures are not beyond reach. Accountability may take time, but it does not disappear. ...

 The D*ath of Hershall Creachbaum: Summary The incident involves the tragic death of 7-year-old Hershall Creachbaum, a non-verbal child with autism and cerebral palsy. The woman in the photo is his mother, Ashley Johnson. The Timeline May 2025: While Johnson was in the hospital, her boyfriend Michael Kendrick allegedly punched Hershall, causing his d*ath. The Cover-up: Kendrick admitted to hiding the body in a deep freezer and later a suitcase before abandoning the remains near train tracks. July 2025: Kendrick called 911 to stage a fake "kidn*pping." Police quickly uncovered the truth; Hershall had been dead for nearly two months. Current Legal Status (February 2026) The case is active in the Montgomery County court system. Michael Kendrick: Charged with Gross Abuse of a Corpse and Tampering with Evidence ($2 million bond). He is currently trying to have his initial police statements thrown out. Ashley Johnson: Charged with Obstructing Justice and Failure to Rep...

She went to Africa for a medical internship and never returned; 11 years later, her belongings were found at the top of a tree A young Dutch medical student, Sophia Koetsier, traveled to Africa as part of an internship program. The trip was an important step for her career. During the first days, she stayed in regular contact with her family. However, shortly afterward, all communication stopped. Her phone was switched off, messages went unanswered, and she never returned home. Her family reported her missing to the authorities. Local security forces and international agencies launched search operations. The area was combed, witnesses were interviewed, but for a long time no concrete results were found. The case remained open, yet there were no clear developments. Eleven years later, during an inspection in the region, several personal belongings identified as Sophia Koetsier’s were discovered. The items were found hanging from the branches of a tree. A...

On June 10, 1909, nineteen-year-old Emma Sullivan stepped on a rusty nail just one week before her wedding to Thomas Murphy. The nail punctured deeply into her foot. Emma washed the wound with water, wrapped it in cloth, and carried on with her wedding preparations. Too busy to see a doctor, she ignored the pain, determined to focus on the upcoming ceremony.   By June 15, five days after the injury, Emma began to feel stiffness in her jaw. At first, she assumed it was stress from the wedding and thought little of it. But by evening, her jaw had locked completely. The bacteria from the nail had caused tetanus, releasing toxins that attacked her nervous system. Her mother called for a doctor, who immediately recognized the dreaded lockjaw. He knew the disease was almost always fatal once symptoms appeared. Emma would not live to see her wedding day.   On June 16, Thomas visited Emma as her condition worsened. Her body grew rigid, her back arched, and she suffere...

On April 16, 1947, Rudolf Höss was executed in the old field of Auschwitz I, in occupied Poland. As the founder and first commander of the Auschwitz complex, he had overseen one of the largest mass killing systems of the Holocaust during World War II.   After Germany’s defeat, Höss was captured by British forces in 1946. He later testified at the Nuremberg Trials before being tried by the National Supreme Court of Poland.  The court found him guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death.   His execution was carried out beside the ruins of the old Gestapo building, only a few meters from the villa where he had lived with his family while the extermination complex was in operation. The location was deliberately chosen as a symbolic reminder of responsibility.   Although no sentence could restore the lives of more than one million victims murdered at Auschwitz, Höss’ trial and execution marked a significant step in post-war ...

 Mom Strangles Three Children To Death. A Massachusetts woman charged with strangling her three young kids is asking a judge to break her murder trial into two parts so jurors can first decide if she’s guilty and then tackle whether postpartum psychosis and other mental problems made her not responsible. Lindsay Clancy wants the first phase to focus just on whether she killed Cora, who was 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan with an exercise band inside their Duxbury home back in January 2023. If the jury says yes, a second phase would look at if she had a “mental disease or defect” at the time. Clancy is due in Plymouth court later today for a hearing, and her trial is currently set for July. She became a paraplegic after the incident when she allegedly cut her neck and jumped from a second-story window in an attempt to take her own life. Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has already warned the court about the tough logistics of getting her there every day in a whee...