They Buried A Brand-New Car For 50 Years. Then Nobody Wanted The Car They Found
In 1957, Tulsa, Oklahoma, buried a brand-new Plymouth Belvedere beneath the courthouse lawn and promised to open it exactly 50 years later. The gold-and-white coupe had only…
They Went Into A Cave Looking For Gold. Then A Flood Trapped Them Underground
For more than a week, rescuers in Laos had been searching a flooded cave for seven men who disappeared after heavy rain triggered flash flooding and landslides….
He Spent $3,000 on Pudding. Then He Collected 1.25 Million Airline Miles
In 1999, David Phillips was doing something millions of Americans do every week: walking through a grocery store looking for a good deal. Then he noticed a…
A Student Asked One Question. It Nearly Saved a New York Skyscraper From Disaster
In 1978, a Princeton student asked a simple question about a brand-new New York skyscraper: what happens if the wind hits it from the wrong direction? The…
They Planned to Spend $4.5 Trillion on a Futuristic City. Then the Dream Started Shrinking
Saudi Arabia wanted to build a city unlike anything humanity had ever attempted: a 170-kilometer-long structure of mirrored glass, 500 meters high and designed to house 9…
He Traded From His Parents’ Bedroom. Then the U.S. Market Crashed
On May 6, 2010, the U.S. stock market suddenly went into free fall. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged about 600 points in minutes, while roughly $1…
A Small-Town Cop Saw the Cars. Then He Accidentally Exposed the Mafia
On a November afternoon in 1957, a small-town police sergeant noticed something that did not make sense. Expensive cars with license plates from across the country were…
The Airbag Was Supposed to Save Your Life. It Could Explode Instead
An airbag is supposed to be one of the safest things inside a car. In a serious crash, it is meant to inflate in milliseconds and create…
They Stole an Empress’s Jewel. Then the Museum Displayed a Fake for 10 Years
In the summer of 1998, one of Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s famous diamond stars disappeared from an exhibition at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. The theft itself was…
The Plaid Phenomenon: How Alicia Silverstone and Cher Horowitz Redefined an Era
When Clueless arrived in theaters in 1995, few could have predicted just how deeply it would embed itself in American pop culture. Directed by Amy Heckerling, the…