Meet The Pooch Just Named "The World's Ugliest Dog," 13 Of The Eeriest Ghost Towns In America, And More From All That's Interesting

[A Pekingese Named Wild Thang Was Just Crowned The World's Ugliest Dog]( [Wild Thang, an eight-year-old Pekingese from Oregon, finally won first place in the World's Ugliest Dog contest after competing for five years and coming in second three times.]( [A Tourist From Kazakhstan Was Just Arrested For Carving His Name Into An Ancient House In Pompeii]( [The tourist from Kazakhstan carved the letters "ALI" into a plaster wall at the House of Ceii before authorities stopped him, and now he will have to pay for repairs to the ancient structure.]( [Inside 13 American Ghost Towns And The Eerie Stories Behind Them]( [These 13 ghost towns range from old mining settlements like Goldfield, Arizona to villages abandoned because of a "monster" like Portlock, Alaska.]( [500-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Fossils Have Been Unearthed In Morocco — And They're Almost Perfectly Preserved]( [The trilobites were preserved thanks to the volcanic ash they were buried in — and they've now been nicknamed the "Pompeii trilobites."]( [The Little-Known Story Of Kerstin Fritzl, The Oldest Daughter Of Elisabeth Fritzl And Her Abusive Father]( [It was only thanks to Kerstin Fritzl's sudden illness that she, her mother Elisabeth, and two of her siblings were finally able to escape from their basement prison in 2008.]( [Pablo Escobar's Drug Submarine Found Off Coast Of Colombia]( [Investigators believe that the sub could provide information on the location of Escobar's infamous missing fortune.]( [This Newly Discovered Horned Dinosaur Is The 'Largest And Most Ornate' Of Its Kind Ever Found]( [The Lokiceratops rangiformis, whose relatives include the Triceratops, roamed what is now North America over 78 million years ago.]( [The Disturbing Story Of Maribel Ramos, The Army Veteran Murdered By Her Obsessive Roommate]( [In May 2013, 55-year-old KC Joy murdered Maribel Ramos after she rejected his advances and asked him to move out.]( [Scientists In South Africa Just Discovered The World's Oldest Termite Mounds — And They've Been Active For 34,000 Years]( [Scientists studying termite mounds in Namaqualand, South Africa discovered that they date back over 34,000 years.]( [Soon-Yi Previn Was Adopted By Actress Mia Farrow — Then She Married Farrow's Boyfriend Woody Allen]( [Soon-Yi Previn was 21 when she and 56-year-old Woody Allen began their relationship.]( [Mammoth 'Graveyard' In Siberia Was Likely Created By Humans For Ivory And Bone Tool Production]( [The site of a massive collection of mammoth bones in eastern Siberia shows that humans and mammoths interacted for nearly 800 years.]( ['Stay Off My Mountain': Inside The Infamous True Story Of The Ruby Ridge Siege]( [After Randy Weaver was caught illegally selling weapons in 1992, federal agents planned to arrest him at his home in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. But he had no intention of going quietly.]( [Oregon Officials Won't Blow Up Their Recently Beached Whale Carcass — And Repeat The Mistake They Made In 1970]( [When a dead whale washed ashore on an Oregon beach in late May, it called to mind an incident in 1970 when the state detonated a beached whale with dynamite. This time, however, the state parks department was adamant: "History isn't repeating itself."]( [Underwater Photos Reveal Sunken German U-Boat From WW2 In Never-Before-Seen Detail]( [The Nazi submarine was found in 2006 and is believed to have been sunk in March 1945 when it hit a mine nine miles off the coast of Cornwall.]( [Why The Real Story Of Nadine Caridi And Jordan Belfort Is Even Wilder Than What 'The Wolf Of Wall Street' Portrayed]( [Nadine Caridi was a 22-year-old model when she met stockbroker Jordan Belfort at a party in the Hamptons, and they were engaged six months later — but their 14-year marriage was marked by accusations of infidelity and drug addiction.]( [A Washington, D.C. Woman Bought A Vase At A Thrift Store For $3.99 — Then Discovered It Was An Ancient Maya Artifact]( [Five years ago, Anna Lee Dozier purchased a vase from the clearance shelf of a Maryland thrift store — then she learned it was actually crafted by the Maya 2,000 years ago.]( [Become An All That's Interesting Member]( [For just $4.99 a month, you'll enjoy all our content without ads, receive a quarterly letter from the editor, and get exclusive access to premium podcast episodes.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Web Version]( [All That's Interesting On Instagram]( [All That's Interesting On Facebook](