Tag: On the trail of the secret
Mystery: Sherlock Holmes most mysterious case – Society
Of Fritz Goettler The dead man lies in the middle of the room, directly under his bed. The detectives present seem irritated, Inspector Lestrade, Doctor Watson and Sherlock Holmes. Did…
Slavery: The Sadist of New Orleans Society
Of Florian Wave New Orleans has its French Quarter and jazz, its Creole cuisine and Mardi Gras, its voodoo tradition and cemeteries with their opulent mausoleums. And lots of ghosts…
Paris: The mysterious stranger from the Seine – society
For many in Paris around 1900, weekend fun, almost in the style of a fairground attraction, included a stroll with the family to the mortuary, which was on the Quai…
Middle Ages: The mysterious life of Walther von der Vogelweide – Society
Opponents of vaccination and separatists occasionally gather at his feet in Bolzano. It doesn’t bother him, he stands there as he has stood there since 1889, a symbol for a…
Shipwreck in the Baltic Sea: Where are the Tsarina’s paintings? – Company
In the 1970s, while researching sunken ships in the court archives of Turku, once the capital of the Swedish province of Finland, historian Christian Ahlström came across a sea protest…
Film “Dune”: Are there deadly sandworms on earth? – Company
Sandworms are the beginning of all evil, at least in the science fiction saga “Dune”. The US author Frank Herbert achieved cult status with his cycle of novels from 1965…
Crime: How a serial killer expert was exposed as a liar – Society
Haven’t you always wanted to know what makes serial killers tick? How they can turn off any human emotion – when they rape, torment, torture and kill and some then…
Horror Legend: Did the Mysterious Goatman Really Exist? – Company
For decades, bearded Ches McCartney rumbled through the United States in an old car. His rickety vehicle was pulled by several goats, and there are wonderfully picturesque photos of it…
Cinema: Rare Hollywood films lay under an ice hockey rink for years – society
Maybe the treasure won’t work out after all: Big Jim got hit on the head after he found it and therefore forgot where his gold was. Here in wintry Alaska…
World War I: How the English misled German bombers – Society
No fight without a feint, no war without a stratagem, just think of the most famous one, Odysseus and his giant wooden horse, in whose belly the Greeks hid and…