Archetypal golfer by day and professional gambler by the twilight, Thompson, born Alvin Clarence Thomas, was a paradoxical character cloaked in veils of enigma.

Queen Mary I of England, or ‘Bloody Mary’ as she is notoriously known in English history.

The remarkable life of Marie Curie, a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity

A tritone is a musical interval that consists of three whole steps or six semitones, and it divides an octave in half. It's also known as the "devil's interval" because of its dissonant and unresolved nature.

Paradox being a defining feature of the Victorian age, it was a period of unprecedented progress and unimaginable horror

Mother Shipton, born as Ursula Southeil in 1488 in England, was a famous English soothsayer and prophetess known for her strange appearance and her ability to make prophetic statements in a poetic way. Many have questioned the authenticity of Mother Ship...

Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, better known as Baron Gilles de Rais, was a profound figure in the French nobility of the 15th century. Born in 1404, de Rais was a member of aristocratic lineage steeped in wealth and nobility.

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, known as simply 'Rasputin,' stands as one of the most enigmatic, controversial, and mythologised figures in modern history. Born into a simple Russian peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoe, his ascendancy to the...

Pierre Loutrel, also known as Pierrot le Fou or Crazy Pete, emerged as a notorious figure in the annals of French crime during the mid-20th century.

Nestled in the heart of Romania, near the vibrant city of Cluj-Napoca, lies the Hoia Baciu Forest, an area steeped in mystery and whispered to be the most haunted forest in the world.

The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most hopeful and yet perplexing unsolved mysteries in the sphere of ancient manuscripts.

Ahmad Suradji was an Indonesian serial killer who was responsible for the murders of at least 42 women between 1986 and 1997.

Located in Wotten-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, the Ancient Ram Inn is one of Britain's oldest and most haunted buildings.

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, or simply Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi's works were written mostly in Persian, but occasionall...

Commodus, the son of Marcus Aurelius, ascended to the Roman throne in 180 AD and his reign of terror continued until his assassination in 192 AD.