As the water level of Lake Mead has dropped to its lowest point in 85 years, visitors have discovered the skeletal remains of two people whose corpses once rested below the surface. Alex Stephens/Bureau of ReclamationLake Mead with a portion of the Hoover Dam visible on March 2, 2018, when the water level was 1,088 feet. Since then, the surface has dropped another 33 feet and revealed two corpses.
When the Hoover Dam created Lake Mead out of the Colorado River in 1936, it opened up a sprawling recreational area and boaters’ paradise just 30 miles east of Las Vegas.
Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai’s main thoroughfare, in 1990. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons
You’re probably aware that Dubai is home to the tallest building in the world (as this dizzying Burj Khalifa video demonstrates) and that its urban planning is a marvel of modern civic engineering. Even still, you’re probably not aware just how much this one-of-a-kind metropolis has grown in recent decades.
In 1960, Dubai was nothing more than a regional trading center with one hotel and 40,000 people.
Dan Broderick and Linda Kolkena were happy newlyweds — until his ex-wife Betty Broderick shot them dead in a jealous rage.Linda Kolkena was an aspiring mom and housewife, and she had found love in lawyer Dan Broderick while working as his secretary at his San Diego law firm in 1983.
But Dan was a married man, and his subsequent divorce to be with Kolkena saw them both killed on Nov. 5, 1989, when his spurned ex-wife Betty Broderick shot them in their bed.
Known as the "eighth wonder of the world," the Amber Room at the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg was looted by the Nazis and disappeared forever in 1943.Андрей Андреевич Зеест/Wikimedia Commons The Amber Room in 1917. This is the only known color picture of the original Amber Room.
The fate of the Amber Room in Catherine Palace outside of St. Petersburg, Russia, is one of Europe’s most enduring mysteries. The Amber Room was once the jewel of the Romanov’s luxurious summer residence and was covered in amber, gems, and gold leaf from floor to ceiling.
The footage captured in April 2023 shows bizarre figures and shadows in a family's backyard in Las Vegas, and crime scene analyst Scott Roder says it may be proof that extraterrestrial beings exist. In April 2023, a family in Las Vegas called the police to report that aliens had landed in their backyard. YouTube/Angel KenmoreAngel Kenmore and his family walking into their backyard to investigate the potential alien sighting.
Footage from that night shows Angel Kenmore and several others walking into the yard to investigate and then fleeing after coming face-to-face with what they claim were extraterrestrials.