Timeless Tales

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...

 Accused Murderer, Former American Idol Contestant, Cries Like Baby at Court Hearing. Caleb Flynn, the 39-year-old worship pastor, and former American Idol contestant, is officially charged for killing his wife in their Tipp City, Ohio house. Ashley Flynn, 37, a substitute teacher and beloved volleyball coach, was found dead early on February 16th with at least one gunshot wound to the head. Cops say the couple's two young daughters were asleep in the house the whole time. Flynn dialed 911 right after 2:30 that morning. He told the dispatcher a burglar had broken in and shot his wife, mentioning two shots to the head and blood all over the place. He also noted the garage door was wide open. Investigators later determined the scene had been staged to look like a home invasion gone bad. Court documents say a 9mm handgun was used. Flynn was arrested on Thursday. During his video court appearance the next morning from Miami County Jail, Flynn held back tears. He told the judg...

 The final image of Baby Face Nelson—cold, still, and lifeless in the Cook County Morgue—is a haunting contrast to the fury he carried in life. Once known for his boyish grin and blazing temper, Nelson was anything but innocent. A key figure in the violent rise of Depression-era outlaws, he left behind a trail of blood, bullets, and bank vaults emptied under fire. But by November 1934, the law had caught up. After a brutal gunfight near Barrington, Illinois, that left two federal agents dead and Nelson riddled with bullets, the man who once thrived in chaos was finally silent. Laid out in the morgue, stripped of legend and life, his youthful features gave one last eerie echo of the nickname that followed him like a curse. He wasn’t the slick gangster of newspapers anymore—just a body, marked by violence and weighed down by history. Federal agents stood just feet away, studying the lifeless form of the man who had once shot his way through ambushes, always choosing fight over...

It was 2:27AM on June 18, 1982, when police in Harrisonburg, Virginia, received an unsettling call from 20-year-old Kelly Dove. A young mother of one, Kelly was working the night shift at the Imperial gas station on South Main Street when she reported receiving an “obscene” phone call that left her feeling alarmed. Calm but clearly uneasy, she asked officers to come to the station to check on a man she had seen loitering outside earlier that night. “This guy came in earlier,” Kelly explained during the call. “He was kind of dressed improperly, but I kind of ignored him. I think it was that guy because he drove through the parking lot a few seconds before I got the call. Could you, you know, have somebody kinda keep an eye out on me?” Kelly’s mother, Rachel, later said of the call: “She sounds nervous, but not panicky nervous.” Kelly believed the man, whose behaviour had unsettled her, might have been the caller. Moments after she hung up, she made another call to the polic...

The Babi Yar massacre remains one of the most haunting crimes of the Holocaust — not hidden behind walls or barbed wire, but carried out in the open air, beneath the same sky the city lived under every day. It happened within sight of homes. Within reach of ordinary streets. Close enough that life continued nearby, even as thousands disappeared. In September 1941, after Nazi Germany captured Kyiv, explosions damaged several German military sites. The occupiers answered not with investigation, but with blame. Not with justice, but with revenge. They chose a familiar target. The city’s Jewish families. On September 28, notices appeared on walls and fences across Kyiv. All Jews were ordered to report the next morning with documents, money, and warm clothing. The words sounded official. Calm. Practical. Relocation. Resettlement. Work. Nothing that sounded like danger. So people prepared carefully. Parents dressed their children in extra layers against the cold. Elderly men tied thei...

Sabine Dardenne was abducted in May 1996 in Belgium by Marc Dutroux and held captive for approximately 80 days before being rescued in August 1996 during a police search. She later testified during the Dutroux trial and published her memoir I Choose to Live. This article discusses real events in a non-graphic, awareness-focused manner Sabine Dardenne — The Girl Who Refused to Disappear In May 1996, Sabine Dardenne was an ordinary Belgian schoolgirl. She rode her bicycle. She followed familiar streets. She trusted the morning. Then one man stopped her. Within minutes, her life split into before and after. She was taken to a house and locked inside a concealed underground space. No windows. No daylight. No sense of time. The world moved forward above her — unaware. Isolation can do something dangerous. It can erase identity. But Sabine made a silent decision. She would not disappear. She repeated her family’s names in her mind. She rehearsed memories. She spoke when she could — no...

Early radiation treatments using X-rays and radium were widely practiced in the 1910s–1920s, often with limited safety knowledge. Archival medical photographs from that era document primitive positioning devices and prolonged exposure sessions When Radiation Was an Experiment In the early 1920s, cancer treatment was still closer to guesswork than precision. Doctors had discovered that X-rays — invisible, powerful waves of energy — could damage tumors. But they did not yet fully understand dosage limits, long-term effects, or safe exposure levels. Inside small hospital rooms, heavy mechanical devices hummed. Thick wires connected to bulky radiation tubes. Patients were positioned carefully, often using slings, straps, or rigid supports to keep them still during long sessions. There were no CT scans. No digital imaging. No protective protocols refined by decades of research. Everything depended on observation and handwritten notes. Physicians measured distances manually. They e...