Was The Real Muffin Man A Serial Killer Who Preyed On Children, The True Story Of Captain Phillips, And More Popular Stories From History Uncovered

[History Uncovered]( [After 75 Years, A Former French Resistance Fighter Just Revealed They Mass Executed German POWs During WWII]( ["It was a terribly hot day. We made them dig their own graves. They were killed and we poured quicklime on them. I remember it smelled of blood. We never spoke of it again."]( [The 'Muffin Man' Song May Have Been A Warning To Kids About A 16th-Century Serial Killer]( [Known as the 'Drury Lane Dicer,' Frederic Thomas Lynwood is rumored to be England's first serial killer — and potentially the inspiration behind the 'Muffin Man' nursery rhyme.]( [The Inscription On A Recently Discovered 1,100-Year-Old Breastplate May Be The Oldest Example Of Cyrillic Text]( ["We have never seen anything like it before."]( [The True Story Of Captain Phillips — And Why It Was Nothing Like What The Tom Hanks Movie Portrayed]( [On April 8, 2009, four Somali pirates took Captain Richard Phillips and the crew of the Maersk Alabama hostage in the real story that inspired the 2013 film "Captain Phillips."]( [Inside The Horrors Of The Mid-Air Lockerbie Bombing, The Deadliest Terrorist Attack In U.K. History]( ["There were bodies over my hedge, they were lying outside the front windows. They were all over the place."]( [The Castrati Had Beautiful Singing Voices — But There's A Tragic Reason Why]( [After the Vatican banned women from singing in church choirs in the 16th century, the castrati became a popular substitute, as these male singers — who were castrated as pre-pubescent boys — maintained their ability to hit high notes.]( [Archaeologists In Spain Just Discovered A 2,000-Year-Old Smiley Face And A Phallus Carved Into A Roman Fort]( [The carvings, found in 2020, depict a face, a phallus, and a cornucopia in what could be vandalism, but archaeologists think was probably ritualistic.]( [Doomed, Damned, And Addicted: 44 Pictures Of Punk's Most Troubled Bad Boy, Sid Vicious]( [One of Sid Vicious' close friends said that the Sex Pistols bassist embodied "everything in punk that was dark, decadent, and nihilistic" — and these pictures prove him right.]( [Archaeologists In Oman Just Unearthed A Neolithic Tomb Containing Dozens Of 7,000-Year-Old Skeletons]( [The tomb appears to date back to between 5000 and 4600 B.C.E., and contains the skeletal remains of at least several dozen individuals.]( [27 Tragic Pictures Of The World Trade Center Bombing, The Largely Forgotten 1993 Attack On The Twin Towers]( [On February 26, 1993, Islamic extremists led by Ramzi Yousef bombed a parking garage underneath the World Trade Center in New York City — a chilling prelude to 9/11.]( [What Happened Today In History]( [The Pequot massacres begin in 1637, John Wayne is born in 1907, and more events from this date in history.]( [Meet The Dalton Gang, The Wild West Outlaws Who Fatefully Tried To Rob Two Banks At Once]( [While Bob and Emmett Dalton headed for First National Bank, Grat Dalton, Dick Broadwell, and Bill Powers headed for Condon Bank, both in Coffeyville, Kansas. But as word spread that they were in town, the townspeople resolved to fight back.]( [Inside The Stunning 700-Year-Old Castle That Lords Over The Spanish Coastline]( [Built in 1311 on the Spanish island of Mallorca, Bellver Castle only fell into enemy hands once — in more than seven centuries.]( [Listen To The Latest History Uncovered Podcast]( [Over the past five episodes, we’ve taken a close look at the tragedy of the RMS Titanic, from its construction to its destruction, and the stories of the crew members and passengers on board in those final, fateful days. And though the journey of the Titanic itself came to an end over one hundred years ago, on April 15, 1912, its story did not.]( [Become An All That's Interesting Member]( [For just $4.99 a month, you'll enjoy All That's Interesting without ads, receive a quarterly letter from the editor, and get exclusive access to premium podcast episodes.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](