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The Poyais Fraud – How Gregor MacGregor Sold a Nonexistent Nation
Gregor MacGregor was born in 1786 in Scotland. He began his life in the military, serving in the British Army…
The Canoe Con – How John Darwin Faked His Death in an Insurance Scam That Fooled the World
John Darwin was born around 1950 or 1951 and grew up in Hartlepool, England. He went to St Francis Xavier's…
Cassie Chadwick Fraud Case – How the Fake Carnegie Heiress Scammed America’s Elite Out of Millions
Cassie Chadwick, whose real name was Elizabeth Bigley, was born on October 10, 1857, in Appin, Canada West—what is now…
The Sleepwatcher of Maine: The Cape Intruder Who Watched His Victims Sleep
In 2005, something strange began happening in the peaceful town of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Families who had always felt safe…
The Heiress Hoax: How Violet Charlesworth Scammed Edwardian Britain With a Fortune That Never Existed
In the early 1900s, a woman named Violet Charlesworth captured the imagination—and suspicion—of people across Britain. She wasn’t a royal,…
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: How a New York Newspaper Fooled the Nation With a Fake Discovery From Space
In August 1835, a New York newspaper called The Sun published a story so strange, so exciting, that it captured…
The Watcher of Westfield – The Unsolved Mystery of 657 Boulevard
In 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus bought what they thought would be their forever home: a beautiful six-bedroom Dutch Colonial-style…
Lucien Rivard: The Jailbreak That Shook Canadian Politics
Lucien Rivard wasn’t just a criminal—he was a character who would go on to shake up Canada’s political world and…
A Boy at War – The Hans-Georg Henke Image That Defined a Generation’s Loss
Hans-Georg Henke was just 15 years old when he became a soldier during one of the darkest times in history—World…
Caught in the Act, Then Turned Into a Goat – Nigeria’s Weirdest Arrest
On January 22, 2009, something very unusual happened in Ilorin, a city in Kwara State, Nigeria. It started like many…