Posts from "September, 2015"

Lord Lucan

LordLucan

John Bingham, known as Lord Lucan, was a charismatic noble with expensive tastes and a gambling habit who separated from his wife in 1972 and lost custody of his children in 1973. On November 7th, 1974 someone killed the children’s nanny and attacked Binghams’s wife. The Lord was heard from briefly the following day and then disappeared. Where did he go?

Some of Our Research:
The Lucan wiki
The kitten theory
The official Lucan website

Who was Peter Bergmann

peter_begmann

A man calling himself Peter Bergmann showed up in the Irish coastal town of Sligo in June 2009. Over the following 3 days he carefully erased all evidence of his identity, after which point his body was found on a beach north of town, dead of unknown causes.

Some of Our Research:
From the local paper
COD
Watch the movie

Frederick A. Cook

Frederick_Cook

Frederick Cook claimed to be the first man to climb to the peak of Mt. McKinley in 1906, in 1909 he claimed to have made it to the North Pole in the spring of 1908. Arctic explorer Robert Peary launched a campaign against Cook and soon no one believed he had done it. In the last several decades people retracing their steps have begun wonder if he really did it. Was Cook really successful or was he a great fraud?

Some of Our Research:
All about Cook
The Smithsonian looks again
An outsiders review