Inside The Haunting Findings Of The Stanford Prison Experiment, Why The Truth About The Jonestown Massacre Is Far More Disturbing Than Anything You Learned, And More

[History Uncovered]( [27 Stunning Photos Of Lana Turner, The Blonde Bombshell Of Golden Age Hollywood]( [One of Old Hollywood's brightest stars, actress Lana Turner was known for her glamorous style — and her scandalous personal life.]( [Inside The Stanford Prison Experiment That Revealed The Darkest Depths Of Human Psychology]( [Conducted by Philip Zimbardo in August 1971, the Stanford Prison Experiment revealed how ordinary people could quickly adopt abusive behaviors when given authority and power.]( ['What Happens In Vegas Stays In Vegas': Inside The Degenerate History Of 'Sin City']( [When Las Vegas was founded in 1905, it was nothing more than a stopover town for trains traveling between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles — but when gambling was legalized in 1931, the city quickly exploded into the "Entertainment Capital of the World."]( [The Tragedy Of The Jonestown Massacre, Modern History's Largest Mass Murder-Suicide]( [On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones instructed over 900 members of the Peoples Temple to take their own lives by drinking poison — and forcing anyone who resisted at gunpoint.]( [How Jesse James Went From A Civil War Bandit To An American Folk Legend]( [Wild West outlaws have been depicted by Hollywood as hardy vigilantes out for justice, but ex-Confederate guerilla Jesse James was anything but a hero.]( [Long-Lost Portrait Of Henry VIII Discovered In The Background Of A Photo Shared On X]( [Commissioned by local politician Ralph Sheldon in the 1590s, the portrait was just one of a series of 22 paintings that have largely vanished from the historical record.]( ['Black Bird' Is Based On A True Story — But The Real Events Were Even More Disturbing Than The Show]( [The miniseries Black Bird follows how inmate-turned-FBI operative Jimmy Keene goes undercover to get a confession from Larry Hall, who was suspected of killing up to 40 women — and the story is shockingly true.]( [Archaeologists In Colonial Williamsburg Just Uncovered The Foundation Of An 'Affluent' 17th-Century Home]( [Archaeologists in Williamsburg, Virginia, unearthed the foundation of a home dating back to 1660 and artifacts that belonged to an affluent colonial family.]( [How White Flight Took Off Across American Cities — And Never Truly Ended]( [Some Black Americans who tried to leave cities for the suburbs were met with violent resistance. When just one Black family tried to move into the suburb of Cicero, Illinois in 1951, they were driven out by a mob of 4,000 white protestors who set their property on fire.]( [Archaeologists In Italy Just Discovered The 2,700-Year-Old Tomb Of An Ancient Noble Filled With 150 Artifacts]( [A tomb belonging to a Piceni noble from the 7th century B.C.E. was discovered in Corinaldo, Italy, alongside grave goods like a chariot and a helmet.]( [The True Story Of Gianni Versace's Death By Serial Killer Andrew Cunanan]( [Beginning in April 1997, Andrew Cunanan began a cross-country killing spree that left at least five people dead before he took his own life in Miami on July 23, 1997.]( [A Vacationer Just Stumbled Upon An Ancient Roman Sarcophagus Inexplicably Sitting On A Bulgarian Beach]( [A vacationer in Varna, Bulgaria stumbled upon a Roman sarcophagus at a beach along the Black Sea that may date back to the 2nd century C.E.]( [Archaeologists Discovered A Mural Of A 'Western Man' With Blonde Hair And A Beard In An 8th-Century Tang Dynasty Tomb]( [Belonging to a man who died in Taiyuan in 736 C.E., the tomb is filled with vivid murals of daily life as well as a mysterious "Western man."]( [Meet The 'Wickedest Man In The World' Who Horrified 20th-Century Britain]( [English mystic, novelist, mountaineer, and magician Aleister Crowley rejected his upper-class Christian upbringing and explored the darkest corners of occultism.]( [Archaeologists In Rome May Have Just Found The Historic Medieval Palace Where The Popes Lived Before The Vatican]( [The vast estate known as the Patriarchio served as the home of the pope for nearly a millennium before it was abandoned in the 14th century.]( [Inside The Real-Life Crimes, Parties, And Drug-Fueled Exploits That Inspired 'The Wolf Of Wall Street']( [The 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street is based on the true story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort and his associates at Stratton Oakmont — but the real events behind the movie are even wilder than what was on screen.]( [Listen To The History Uncovered Podcast]( [When a deadly epidemic hit the remote town of Nome in the winter of 1925, a group of mushers and sled dogs risked their lives to save the town — with Balto standing out from the pack.]( [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]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](