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A few years earlier, Cecil Smith offered up a dazzling show of raw talent that put him on the map, driving the herd down the 300-yard-long field at the Detroit Polo Club toward the goal posts. Three opponents galloped behind him, doing their best to cover the young phenom and stop the drive. But Detroit’s polo set had never faced a horseman—an honest to God cowboy—like Cecil, and he was hellbent on getting that ball. He telegraphed his demand to his pony, which seemed to leap 10 feet sideways, astonishing the pursuing players. In the stands, the film star Will Rogers, a polo player from humble roots himself, marveled at the skill of the player who so obviously must have had one heck of a story to get as far as he had from home.
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Skylab, America’s first space station, was the largest spacecraft in history at that point. But six years into Skylab’s orbit, catastrophe loomed, as “unanticipated atmospheric turbulence” began pulling the then-unmanned craft toward earth.
The Institute for PsychoEnergetics in Brookline, Massachusetts, a grass-roots, private organization, hatched an ambitious plan. The group hoped to stop Skylab from crashing into the earth by using psychokinesis.
Skeptics laughed at the Skylab’s telekinetic hopefuls, but scientists and officials from a wide swath of government agencies were seriously studying the potential of psychokinesis. By the 2000s, those studies ignited into a race to contain what some called the most powerful weapon in the world: Brainwaves.
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Stepping out of the island’s only gas station, Benke noticed a flyer hanging on the wall, and did a double take. Across the top of the page in large bold type, the flyer read “MISSING” along with a pixelated photo of a small, stark-white cat named Vail.
This was not unusual. House cats get out, get lost, and usually don’t get found. Benke’s confusion over this particular flyer stemmed from what was printed just below the photo of the 5-pound Doll Face Persian: “$10,000 REWARD for Vail’s safe return home.” trulyadventure.us/lost-on-su…
Great to see TYLENOL MURDERS on Variety's best of 2025 list! @nowitsfunny @MatthewPearl @jonhousman @Variety variety.com/lists/best-true-…
A fantastic watch about this infamous "unsolved" crime.
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Grant Williams stepped out of his SUV and walked through the snow and hail to the middle of the basketball court in the Stapleton projects to see the new Wu-Tang Clan “W” emblem painted at its center. On the benches, which used to line the courtyard inside Stapleton, he and Ghostface once sold crack. On those same benches, the two gathered the raw material for what would become one of the most heralded rap careers in the genre’s history. Their rise in the hip-hop world was both improbable and unprecedented.
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Grateful for this thoughtful and insightful review by @JuliaMKlein for @BostonGlobe of my new novel #TheAward, which is out next Tuesday from @HarperCollins! bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/a…
The Award, the new book from @MatthewPearl, pits writer against writer in a "propulsive literary satire". A NYT pick as well, check it out! shorturl.at/81BLf
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Hollywood producer Boris Morros was famous for his wild antics, but even he might not have believed the outrageous scheme he was about to hatch in this flamingo-pink booth. Across from him sat Vasily Zarubin, the KGB’s top spy in America. The Soviet intelligence officer peered over the table at Boris, glass of vodka in hand. “What about taking my men into your company?” he said.
It was Hollywood’s Technicolor age. For this clandestine lunch in February of 1943, Zarubin had chosen the showiest restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard. Perino’s was famous for its crab legs and pink décor, and more so for its glamorous clientele. Bette Davis had her own booth. So did mobster Bugsy Siegel. It was a curious location, then, to hatch an espionage scheme. Then again, even communist spies liked to hobnob.trulyadventure.us/counterspy
Isidore Liseux, 37, clenched the delicate, fading manuscript written in ancient Latin. The French bibliophile and collector had rummaged through the small bookstore near Regent’s Park in London, on the lookout for hidden gems among rare editions of poetry and theology. He hardly expected to stumble on a mystery, a work copied by hand, that had been considered by the Church as too dangerous to ever be published. trulyhorror.com/the-demonolo… @nickripatrazone
“Danielle,” grandma said, “this is not just a road trip. We are going to go see your mom.”
When I was in middle school, my mother entered the Witness Protection Program, and it was considered too dangerous and difficult in her case to bring two children. She had already gradually grown removed from the daily aspects of parenting, and overnight she became a stranger. We didn’t know where she was living, and she had a new name that I would never recognize. My mother had vanished.
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The Tylenol Murders is the #1 show on Netflix, and in the USA.
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Ben Hecht, 19, was hustling his way as a reporter for the Chicago Daily Journal, when the city editor, Eddie Mahoney, called for him, with a tip on a story that he wanted Ben to follow up on.
Ben listened as Eddie explained. According to the tip, the Antichrist–the Devil’s child, Satan incarnate–had been born right there in Chicago.
Ben was incredulous, but he had to prove himself, even if tasked with the impossible, something that seemed straight out of scripture rather than a newsroom. For the next six weeks, he would become consumed along with investigators from all walks of life, divided between those determined to spotlight destructive superstitions and those convinced they had a narrowing window of time to stop ultimate evil from being unleashed.
This is the never-before-told true story said to have inspired Rosemary’s Baby.
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When I was in middle school, my mother entered the Witness Protection Program and, overnight, she became a stranger. But a month after I graduated high school, my grandma had a surprise for me.
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Ben Hecht, 19, was hustling his way as a reporter for the Chicago Daily Journal, when the city editor, Eddie Mahoney, called for him, with a tip on a story that he wanted Ben to follow up on.
Ben listened as Eddie explained. According to the tip, the Antichrist–the Devil’s child, Satan incarnate–had been born right there in Chicago.
Ben was incredulous, but he had to prove himself, even if tasked with the impossible, something that seemed straight out of scripture rather than a newsroom. For the next six weeks, he would become consumed along with investigators from all walks of life, divided between those determined to spotlight destructive superstitions and those convinced they had a narrowing window of time to stop ultimate evil from being unleashed.
This is the never-before-told true story said to have inspired Rosemary’s Baby.
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The Tylenol Murders is the #1 show in Canada!
Now streaming on Netflix!
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