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In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the ...

In 1957, police arrested Ed Gein in connection with the disappearance of hardware store owner Bernice Worden. When they entered his farmhouse, they uncovered a scene of madness they could barely ...