A story about some guys who got confused on a roadtrip… or did they?
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Sharp Objects
Bombas
Promo Code: Sideways
Amazing coincidences
Sometimes things just seem to lucky to be random chance but are they?
The Madden Curse
John Madden Football (now Madden NFL) hit consoles in 1988. The “curse” began when it began featuring players on the cover. Does this game really have the power to destroy players’ careers, or is it just a lot of audibles?
Some of Our Research:
The cursed
What Snopes has to say
Statistics are great
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Grove Collaborative
Rebecca Zahau, suicide or murder?
Officially Rebecca Zahau committed suicide on July 13th, 2011. A strange a cryptic message was painted at the scene and her hands and feet were bound using intricate knots. Did this woman truly take her life in a complex and well-planned way, or did someone stage it to look that?
Some of Our Research:
Max’s accident
The reenactment videos
External evidence reviews
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American Made the Movie
Did Elizabeth I have a child?
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When Queen Elizabeth I of England died in 1603, the Tudor line of monarchs ended. Though a lot of people have speculated that maybe it didn’t quite… Did Elizabeth I have a child?
Some of Our Research:
Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley-Historical edition
Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley-Daily Mail edition
Dude looks like a lady?
Area 51 Broadcast Interruption
On September 11, 1997, on Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM show, a frantic caller claiming to be a recent employee at Area 51 made some startling revelations. A few minutes into the call, the Coast to Coast AM broadcast is mysteriously disrupted. Seventeen years later, a man calls a different show called Fade to Black, claiming to have made the whole thing up. Was the call really a hoax? And if so, what took out the broadcast?
Some of Our Research:
The original call
17 years later
Area 51 law suit
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