Timeless Tales

For 51 Years, She Carried This in Silence. At 74, She Finally Spoke. This story was written in 1996 by Zinaida Voronina. For more than half a century, she kept her memories locked away—not because they were unimportant, but because they were too heavy to carry out loud. They lived only inside her soul, where they burned quietly. “My name is Zinaida Voronina. I am 74 years old. And today, for the first time in 51 years, I have decided to speak.” For decades, she woke and fell asleep in silence, afraid that if she let even a single word escape, the past would come rushing back and steal her humanity all over again. Now, as time stretched thinner, she felt a responsibility—to make sure this truth did not disappear with her. Her hands trembled as she spoke. Her heart did not. She said this was not just a war story. It was a story about how something as ordinary as a wooden ruler—something meant for schoolchildren—could become an instrument that slowly broke a young girl’s spirit. Be...

Harlem Hellfighters: Rare Photographs of the African American Regiment Renowned for Courage Despite Prejudice, 1917-1918 Soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment stand at attention. The Hellfighters, the infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard, was the most celebrated African American regiment in World War I. The regiment was nicknamed the  Black Rattlers . The nickname  Men of Bronze  (French: Hommes de Bronze) was given to the regiment by the French and  Hell-fighters  (German: Höllenkämpfer) by the Germans. Like their predecessors in the Civil War and successors in the wars that followed, these African American troops fought a war for a country that refused them basic rights – and their bravery stood as a rebuke to racism. Members of the 369th in combat on the Western Front. After years of lobbying by civic leaders from Harlem, Manhattan’s celebrated black neighborhood, Governor Charles Whitman finally formed the all-black unit, first...

For eighty years, the children of a small Dutch town have carried a promise to men they never met — soldiers who crossed an ocean, fell from the sky, and never made it home. In Oosterbeek, near Arnhem, a quiet cemetery rests beneath tall trees and open sky. Row after row of white headstones stretch across the grass — 1,759 in all. Beneath each stone lies an airborne soldier who died in September 1944 during Operation Market Garden, fighting for a bridge and for a freedom they would never live to see. Most were barely older than boys. Some were just eighteen or nineteen. They left home believing they would return by Christmas. Instead, they remained forever in foreign soil. When the war ended and the guns finally went silent, the people of Oosterbeek made a choice. These graves would not become forgotten names. These young men would not vanish into history. And so they placed the responsibility not in monuments or speeches, but in the hands of their children. Since 1945, local sc...

Cheyenne Brando seemed to have it all. She was the daughter of Hollywood royalty Marlon Brando and had a promising career as a model in her own right — but in 1989, her life began spiraling downhill. That August, she crashed a jeep in Tahiti while speeding angrily after an argument with her father. She suffered a broken jaw, an eye laceration, and a torn ear that required reconstructive surgery and threatened her modeling career. Soon after the accident, she found out she was pregnant, and Marlon invited her and her boyfriend, Dag Drollet, to live in his Los Angeles home until the baby was born. There, tragedy struck once more. Cheyenne's older half-brother, Christian Brando fatally shot Drollet in May 1990. Christian claimed that Cheyenne had told him Drollet was physically abusing her and pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors wanted Cheyenne to testify at Christian's trial, but she fled back to Tahiti, where she gave birth and then spent the next few ...

From December 1937 to January 1938, Japanese soldiers raped up to 80,000 and killed at least 200,000 in Nanking, China in one of history's worst — and most overlooked — massacres. From captives being used for bayonet practice to civilians being buried alive in mass graves, victims of the Nanking Massacre suffered unspeakably brutal deaths. Women and children were often raped before they were killed, and some rape victims were sodomized with bamboo sticks and bayonets until they died in agony. Even some pregnant mothers were sliced open. Though many in China expected consequences for these brutal war crimes after World War II ended in 1945, few high-ranking Japanese generals were punished. The Japanese government didn't officially apologize for the Nanking Massacre and other World War II-era atrocities until 1995, and even that relatively recent apologetic stance hasn't been unanimous and universal. In recent decades, dozens of Japanese officials have refused t...

The Disturbing History of Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’: Rare Photographs The story of Japan’s “comfort women” remains one of the most painful and heavily documented examples of wartime exploitation in modern history. Between 1932 and 1945, the Imperial Japanese government created and oversaw a vast system of sexual slavery that stretched across much of Asia and the Pacific. The term “comfort women,” introduced by the Japanese military, was intentionally euphemistic and has long been criticized by scholars for downplaying the magnitude of the crimes committed. Researchers generally agree that the number of women forced into this system reached into the hundreds of thousands, with victims ranging from adult women to girls barely twelve years old. An ethnic Chinese comfort woman being interviewed by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force at Rangoon, 8 August 1945. Most were taken from Korea and China, but survivors have been identified from Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesi...

Police Search Annie Guthrie's Home Late Saturday. Law enforcement officers were observed leaving the home of Annie Guthrie, daughter of missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, while wearing blue gloves and carrying brown bags late Saturday night. The family, including "Today" show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, her sister Annie Guthrie, and brother Camron Guthrie, have been staying at Annie's home several miles from their mother's residence during the investigation.  On Wednesday, the siblings released a video message requesting proof of life from the alleged abductor. In a subsequent video released before the police activity at Annie's home, Savannah Guthrie stated, "We received your message, and we understand... We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her... This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay." The initial ransom note demanded $6 million by 5 p.m. MST on Thursday. ...

Daniel Inouye’s story begins long before the battlefield, in the tightly knit Japanese American community of Honolulu. Born in 1924, he grew up at a time when loyalty was constantly questioned for people who looked like him.  After Pearl Harbor, that suspicion hardened into policy: Japanese Americans were surveilled, excluded, and in many cases imprisoned. Yet when the U.S. Army finally allowed Nisei to enlist, Inouye volunteered without hesitation. He joined the all-Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a unit that would become one of the most decorated in U.S. military history, fighting not for recognition, but to prove, through sacrifice, that their patriotism was unquestionable. In April 1945, in the hills of Tuscany, Inouye led his platoon against entrenched enemy positions that had stalled the Allied advance. Under relentless fire, he pressed forward again and again, directing his men, neutralizing fortified defenses, and refusing evacuation despite devastati...

She trusted him to get her home safe. He was supposed to be her friend. On the night of September 18, 2019, 20-year-old Keeley Bunker went to a concert in Birmingham with friends. Her parents thought she’d be home soon after she even texted to say she would be. Wesley Streete, a close friend she’d known for years, offered her a ride back to Tamworth. She never made it home. The next morning, Keeley’s body was found hidden under branches in a shallow stream. Streete claimed she had slipped and drowned, then changed his story again and again as police uncovered the truth. Forensic evidence showed she had been strangled and Streete had staged the scene to look like an accident. In 2020, he was sentenced to life in prison for m-rder and se-ual assault. Keeley’s family described her as kind, trusting, and full of life. What makes her story so haunting isn’t just what happened, it’s that the person she feared least was the one who ended her life.

When Lululemon employees Jayna Murray and Brittany Norwood performed routine checks on each other's bags at the end of their shift on March 11, 2011, Murray found a pair of leggings that Norwood was attempting to shoplift and took them away. Just after the two left the store, Norwood called Murray and said she'd forgotten her wallet inside and needed Murray to let her back in — and then she brutally stabbed and bludgeoned her to death. In the store's back hallway, Norwood attacked Murray with five different weapons, including a hammer, a knife, a merchandise peg, and a box cutter, leaving 331 separate wounds in an assault that lasted a full 16 minutes. A coroner later found that Murray suffered a crushed skull and a stab wound in the back of her neck so deep that it severed her spinal cord and went all the way through to her brain. Go inside the bloody Lululemon murder that all started over a pair of leggings: https://inter.st/3wvg The Story Of The Gruesome Lululemo...

After inflicting 37 stab wounds upon her boyfriend with a butcher knife, Katherine Knight proceeded to remove John Price's lifeless body's skin and suspend it from a meat hook. Subsequently,  She dismembered his remains and transformed them into a stew accompanied by pumpkin, beets, and zucchini.  The arrival of the police at the crime scene brought forth a horrifying revelation: Knight had been serving this repulsive concoction, composed of Price's deceased body, to his own children and even his dog.

Police say 21-year-old Marissa Doyle was arrested late Saturday night after what authorities called “one of the most unnecessarily creative breakups we’ve ever seen.” According to the report, Marissa admitted she slept with her ex-boyfriend’s cousin “to remind him that loyalty runs in the family — just not his side.” The ex found out, blocked her, and told mutual friends he was “done with her circus.” Marissa responded by creating an entirely new circus. At approximately 11:20 p.m., neighbors reported loud banging, dragging noises, and what one described as “the sound of a crazy person doing construction alone.” When officers arrived, they found Marissa inside her ex’s apartment, having climbed through the doggy door despite being 5’7” and absolutely too tall for it. Inside, she had: super-glued his Xbox controller to the ceiling, glued his sneakers upside down above the bedroom door, glued the remote to the wall, glued his shampoo bottles to the underside of the sink, and was i...

For nearly 20 years, National Geographic Explorer Brent Stirton has documented life inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Virunga National Park, one of the most complex and dangerous conservation areas on Earth. His photographs reveal what it takes to protect some of the world’s last mountain gorillas, capturing moments of loss and determination amid ongoing conflict. Take a closer look at life inside Virunga: An extraordinary look inside the home of some of the world’s last mountain gorillas National Geographic Explorer Brent Stirton has photographed life inside Virunga National Park over the course of nearly two decades—chronicling stories of violence and resilience. Conservation rangers from a Virunga National Park anti-poaching unit work with locals to evacuate the bodies of nine severely endangered mountain gorillas killed in the park. They carry Senkwekwe, a silver-back alpha male, the leader of the group. He and seven females were shot and killed. Exposure  is a...

This photo was taken around the year 2000 in Manila, Philippines. Two friends were out walking late one warm night when they asked a passing stranger to take their picture using a cellphone camera. At the time, nothing seemed unusual. The photo was taken, they thanked the stranger, and they went on their way. Later, when they looked at the image, they noticed something neither of them remembered seeing. A faint, transparent figure appeared beside one of the girls, with what looked like a hand gripping her arm. Not aggressively. Almost casually. According to investigators, no one else was standing close enough to appear in the frame. The low quality of the photo comes from early cellphone cameras, which makes it harder to analyze. Without the original file, it is impossible to rule out editing or manipulation. But if the image is genuine, then this photo captures something extremely unsettling. A moment when neither girl realized they were not alone. Because whatever that hand...

 At 5:40 am on January 7, 2025, Thomas “Duncan” Callens was captured on surveillance video at the Old Bull Market located at 3107 Hwy 72 West, across from the Morris Crum Tire Center in Corinth, Mississippi. Since he wasn’t properly dressed for the weather, the clerk at the store gave Callens a drink, a coat, and a black shirt with yellow writing on it. The clerk also allowed him to charge his phone. Callens left the store on foot about 10 minutes later, and hasn’t been seen since. He was supposed to go duck hunting with family that day but never showed up. He was reported missing the following day after they couldn’t contact him. The Disappearance of Thomas Duncan Callens 38 year old Thomas “Duncan” Callens was last seen in Corinth, Mississippi on the morning of January 7, 2025. He was last seen at the Old Bull Market, located at 3107 Highway 72 West. Disappearance At 5:40 am on January 7, 2025, Thomas “Duncan” Callens was captured on surveillance video at the Old Bull Market loca...