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Seles Vs Graf: the tennis rivalry that nearly ended in murder in 1993
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Chris Eason / Stacey Warnke Wed 28 October 2026 23:00, UK Emma Raducanu, one of the most famous names in British sports, was in the middle of a tennis match against Karolina Muchova in Dubai when the strangest thing happened. At first, it just seemed like the game was getting a little ahead of Raducanu. She was slower off the mark than normal, and Muchova pulled ahead. Then the Englishwoman was struggling to serve, before she called a time-out and went over to the umpire.
The night Iggy Pop invaded the UK in 1972 and invented English punk
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Michael Markos / Original Posters Wed 28 October 2026 21:00, UK When people talk about the gigs that shaped UK punk, only one concert ever gets talked about and fair enough, it probably should. The Sex Pistols at the Manchester Free Trade Hall is one of those shows that proves time travel will never exist. After all, it was almost completely empty.
The Mob, the Brothers and $100,000,000: The terrifying reality of life as a fugitive
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Interpol Wed 28 October 2026 19:00, UK The Aydin brothers must have thought they were built for a life of crime, because at first, they quite literally made out like bandits. Mehmet and Faith Aydin were arguably the most notorious people in Turkey in March 2018. They were already famous, having been the brains behind Farm Bank, a browser video game with the neat hook of “what if Farmville was a Ponzi Scheme”.
Ted Bundy linked to 1973 murder of a teenage girl through new DNA testing
Wed 28 October 2026 11:23, UK Authorities in Utah have used new DNA testing techniques to investigate the murder of a 17-year-old girl whose body was found in 1973, unveiling a new link to notorious serial killer Ted Bundy in the process. Melissa Ann Smith was found dead on October 27th, 1974, with signs of rape and torture. For the next 52 years, the case remained cold until DNA evidence linked Smith to one of the most notorious serial killers in the history of American crime.
The Devil Baby of Hull House: mass hysteria in the heart of Chicago
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Public Domain Wed 28 October 2026 2:50, UK It’s like something out of a Samuel Beckett play. The year is 1913 and you’ve recently had a baby in a Chicago tenement. Barely weeks have gone by and, considering that World War I was looming on the horizon, the next day is never guaranteed for a newborn. Then all your neighbours start turning up. This should be perfect.
The Fresno Nightcrawler: The most bizarre of all cryptids
Credit: Dangerous Minds / YouTube Still Tue 27 October 2026 20:45, UK So, part of the reason that the “study” of cryptids remains such a popular pursuit from Fresno to France is the fact that most of these baffling creatures that fly in the face of everything we know about science are as terrifying as they are strange. Bigfoot speaks for itself. An eight foot tall beast that can rip you limb from limb, then take you back to its family for mealtime.
Dan Burros: the KKK member revealed to be Jewish in 1965
Credit: Dangerous Minds / John Peterson for The Evening Journal / Public Domain Tue 27 October 2026 18:16, UK When people are bigots, it’s a common comeback to say that they’re members of that community with a back case of self-loathing fuelling their hatred. As the story of KKK member and Nazi Dan Burros shows, it’s a story that is true more often than you’d think. The most common example of it is basically a meme now.
Kylian Mbappé apologises for meme that saw Real Madrid matches pulled from broadcast in China
Tue 27 October 2026 13:22, UK CCTV, the state broadcasting channel in China, has suspended matches featuring Real Madrid and France striker Kylian Mbappé over his reaction to a meme comparing him to Mao Zedong.
What made punk rockers fall for swing dancing in the late 1990s?
4 days ago The skies overhead are remaining clear as our stable pattern holds tough in our region, and visibility is mostly clear at the surface. We have a few isolated patches of fog in our eastern counties, but most of our heavier fog is kept to the Charleston area. As the sun rises, this fog will clear …
Why did punks suddenly love swing dancing in the 1990s?
Credit: Dangerous Minds / YouTube Stills Mon 26 October 2026 19:00, UK The 1990s began with an incredible amount of promise, mainly because the alternative explosion went far beyond the world of punk rock alone. Seemingly everywhere you looked, the underground was going overground. Sure, you had Nirvana in the world of rock music, but you also had Gangsta Rap becoming one of the biggest music genres in pop, with the Wu-Tang Clan just around the corner.
Christ of the Coal Mines: The heartbreaking years Vincent Van Gogh spent as a preacher
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Google Art Project / Van Gogh Museum Mon 26 October 2026 17:30, UK Vincent Van Gogh spent his life searching for transcendence and the most obvious way we can see that today is through his art. His paintings are clearly the work of someone who was trying desperately hard to see the true beauty of the world. The kind hiding just out of sight but desperate to burst through. The kind that all of us are attuned to but may go our entire lives without actually seeing.
Nicki Minaj floated as new White House Press Secretary as Trump praises her “beautiful ass”
Mon 26 October 2026 9:53, UK Hip-hop star Nicki Minaj has been floated as as a surprise pick for the Trump Administration’s new Press Secretary after interactions with several key members of the White House over social media this weekend. The position has been a poisoned chalice in recent years, with six being hired in total across Trump’s two non-consecutive terms in office.
The New York City Draft Riots: the protest that turned into a lynching in 1863
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Public Domain Sun 25 October 2026 23:00, UK There’s an argument to be made that being assassinated was the single greatest thing that could happen to the reputation of Abraham Lincoln. Few things prove this quite as bleakly as the New York City Draft Riots. In July 1863, the Civil War was halfway through, and the fighting was at its fiercest.
Weegee: the crime photographer who spoke to the dead
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Weegee Sun 25 October 2026 20:00, UK Information travels faster than ever these days, but during American prohibition, the non-stop onslaught of horrifying crime news might have felt like a primer for our current internet-assisted age. Because, seriously, you could not look away for a moment without some journalist bursting into a printing press wailing, “Stop the presses” because they had some atrocity or another discovered three blocks from their house.
Nell Gwyn: how the 1600s gave us the first ever sex symbol
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Public Domain Sun 25 October 2026 18:30, UK King Charles II probably had some idea just how far-reaching the consequences of his Restoration Act in 1660 had been, but he probably couldn’t have possibly foreseen that it would be partially responsible for the creation of the “sex symbol” concept.
Black Widow: The unsung pioneers of 1960s heavy metal camp
3 hours ago Stories about the end of the world are rarely just about watching civilization collapse. They’re about what people try to save, what they’re willing to do to survive, and whether anything better can grow from the ruins. That’s why apocalyptic fiction can be harrowing, absurd, or even comforting. No …
Black Widow: the unsung pioneers of heavy metal camp
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Black Widow Sun 25 October 2026 17:00, UK We all know the story by now. Struggling blues band Earth spot a line around the block at a cinema near their rehearsal studio. Since it was for a scary movie, they thought, why not try scary music and rebrand as Black Sabbath, inventing heavy metal. Cocaine dealers the world over sat up a little straighter without knowing why, simply feeling that something wonderful had just happened. It’s a neat story.
The Newgate Calendar: how executions invented mass media
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Public Domain Sun 25 October 2026 14:00, UK In this era of pop culture and mass media, we really have no excuse to be bored anymore. With internet access, there is basically a limitless supply of stuff to take in. Any work of fiction? Out there, if you know where to look. Any kind of music? Even if you keep it strictly legal, YouTube has hours of the best musicians in the world playing live at the peak of their powers.
The Art of Murder: the woman made into a statue by a psychopath
Credit: Dangerous MInds / Jazikin Nava Sat 24 October 2026 23:00, UK Before her shocking murder, Joyce Wishart really thought that the worst part of her life was over when she upped sticks to Sarasota, Florida, in order to open up an art gallery. Wishart had just arrived in town after a profoundly difficult divorce.
The disgusting truth behind Gibby Haynes 1985 Jimmy Carter encounter
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Department of Defense / Press Sat 24 October 2026 20:00, UK God bless Jimmy Carter, from his cotton socks to his big, bleeding heart. You were too honest to run a hot dog stand, let alone the United States of America. Georgia’s only president has a bizarre cultural legacy. He’s the byword for lame-duck, ineffectual presidencies, but despite that (or perhaps partially because of it), you’d struggle to find anyone who has a seething, visceral hatred for him.
The disgusting truth behind Gibby Haynes 1985 Jimmy Carter encounter
5 hours ago Dancers at the band’s Hollywood Bowl concert this week wore outfits that appeared nearly identical to the cheerleaders’ iconic white and blue uniforms, a court filing said. The parent company of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is taking legal action against My Chemical Romance after the band …
The 2013 movie promoted by Mia Goth, Uma Thurman and Willem Dafoe’s orgasm
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Nordisk Film Sat 24 October 2026 18:30, UK In 2013, Lars Von Trier was in deep, deep trouble, despite his previous two films being some of the most controversial and successful in his long movie career. Those films, 2009’s Antichrist and Melancholia, had a seismic impact on the independent film scene, especially the former.
The Mass Transit Incident: How pro wrestling nearly killed a 17-year-old boy in the ring
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Robert Newsome / WWE Sat 24 October 2026 17:00, UK As much as they might want you to think it, professional wrestling isn’t simply the WWE. They might have spent decades trying to turn an entire art form into a monopoly, and several would claim that they’re successfully done so, at least until AEW showed up and complicated the conversation somewhat. However, wrestling is bigger than that for reasons both good and bad.
The 2005 murder that made Margo McDaid an artist
Credit: Dangerous Minds / YouTube Still Sat 24 October 2026 14:00, UK For decades, Margo McDaid was convinced that art was just something you did to get through the day. Growing up in Ireland, her childhood was surrounded by women who seemingly always created things while going about their lives. Her mother was barely seen without her knitting in her hands. Her grandmother was constantly baking bread, a habit she’d gotten into while providing for her 11 children and never quite got rid of.
The Vampire of Barcelona: The horrifying story of Enriqueta Marti
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Public Domain Fri 23 October 2026 23:00, UK It is always weird when serial killers responsible for grotesque crimes get names from the press, like The Vampire of Barcelona, that are seemingly picked straight out of a comic book. After all, these people are evil. I don’t use that word lightly, but serial killers are pretty much the dictionary definition of the term, and I don’t think it’s controversial to say it.
The 1993 movie that saw a 15-year-old Alicia Silverstone legally separate from her parents
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Warner Bros. Fri 23 October 2026 21:00, UK If you ever think that Hollywood makes its teen idols grow up too young, spare a thought for Alicia Silverstone. Young movie stars today don’t have it easy, but her story is a reminder that it was a lot worse not too long ago. Picture the scene. It’s the early 1990s, and Hollywood has been thriving on erotic thrillers like Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction for years.
The video game whose makers were sentenced to 45,000 years in prison
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Interpol / Farm Bank Fri 23 October 2026 19:00, UK A video game is a tough thing to boil down. People have ideas of the medium. Several, in fact. The truth is, however, that the age of a video game being something you boot up on a PC or console to kill a couple of hours blasting aliens in is well and truly done. A video game can basically be anything today. On a positive note, that opens up artistic possibilities that are truly exciting.
Palmer Luckey raies $200,000,000 to genetically engineer dogs for war
Fri 23 October 2026 15:35, UK Palmer Luckey of Anduril is teaming with Ben Lamm of Colossal Biosciences to launch Warhound, a startup dedicated to genetically engineering and cloning dogs for service in war, police work and first responder work. Speaking to Wired, Lamm explained that the project was twofold. One part of the project would oversee the genetic engineering and cloning of the ideal dogs for war, and the other would develop tech for them to use on battlefields.
Just Eat halts AI menu images trial after jacket potato disaster
Fri 23 October 2026 15:27, UK Food delivery app Just Eat has halted a trial period where restaurants without images on their menu would have AI images generated instead, after several bizarre misunderstandings went viral. Due to the AI used for the project not having a solid enough understanding of food terms used in the UK, several images went live that sparked confusion and ridicule across social media, causing the company to shut down the project within days of it going live.
German game designer livestreams his own suicide
Fri 23 October 2026 9:41, UK German influencer and video game designer Manuel Otto has reportedly died by suicide, which, according to his friends and the streaming platform Twitch, he livestreamed. He was 30 years old. Otto made his name when he was a 14-year-old high school student with a video game he designed himself called Stick Run. The game, in which players control a stick figure navigating an obstacle course, has since been played by an estimated 43 million people.
The incredible photography career of Ken Russell
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Reijo Koskinen / Lehtikuva Thu 22 October 2026 23:00, UK Women In Love. The Devils. Tommy. Lisztomania. Salome’s Last Dance. Only two things connect these movies. The fact that none of them can be considered ordinary, and the fact that all of them were directed by Ken Russell. The Southampton native became a cult hero for creating films that were reviled and beloved in pretty much equal measure for being kaleidoscopic visions of excess and creativity.
Korn: How bringing corpses home shaped Jonathan Davis
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Pitpony.photography Thu 22 October 2026 21:00, UK Even in the bizarre world of late 1990s heavy metal, Korn were baffling. If that sounds like a judgment on them, it truly isn’t. If anything, it’s a good thing. They’re quite simply one of the most bizarre bands to become one of the biggest of their generation. A band of genuine outsiders who made music that stood out even in the nu-metal era, they came through.
In 1924, the ‘Los Angeles Times’ ran a story about lizard people living under the city
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Original Scan Thu 22 October 2026 19:00, UK Urban legends aren’t meant to be covered by mainstream media outlets. It’s why they’re, y’know, urban. However, maybe it’s fitting that one of them was covered by a media outlet in Los Angeles, of all places. The City of Angels is, after all, a place where reality is fake and fakeness is reality. They’re one and the same, however you look at it.
Donald Trump says Google CEO stopped him from renaming Atlantic Ocean
Thu 22 October 2026 17:04, UK During a rally in South Carolina, United States President Donald Trump said that the CEO of Google stopped him from continuing his recent trend of renaming bodies of water, with either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean his next target.
From BBL to 666: The porn star who set up a devil-worshipping cult
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Sabrina Sabrok Thu 22 October 2026 17:00, UK Being a porn star is much like being in any other form of entertainment; you’ve got to find your hook. Not like that. Well, actually, maybe exactly like that. After all, to be a great band, you’ve got to do more than write good songs. To be an actor, you’ve got to do more than just act well. Hell, to be a decent tailor, you’ve got to do a little more than simply know your linens from your tweeds. You get the picture.
Police officer arrested for impersonating man he found dead in 2022
Credit: Broward County Sherrifs Office Thu 22 October 2026 12:46, UK On October 20th, an officer with the police department of Lauderhill, Florida, was arrested for assuming the identity of a man he’d found dead during a welfare check in 2022 and renovating his house. 35-year-old Brian Louis Sguros was part of a group of officers sent to check on 71-year-old Dennis West at his home back in July 2022.
Woman involved in deadly car crash accused of searching porn site while driving
Thu 22 October 2026 10:06, UK A California woman who was involved in a car crash that killed another person has been charged with felony after officials accused her of accessing a porn website directly before the incident. On June 12th, 44-year-old Christine Chao was involved in a car crash that sent her vehicle, along with two others, off the road in Juab County, Utah.
From Bohemia to Bob Dylan: The queer, radically left wing origins of the Gaslight Cafe
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Bent Rej / Public Domain Wed 21 October 2026 23:00, UK Age removes context from everything and New York City folk scene around the Gaslight Cafe is no different. We think of it now, and most people vaguely familiar with the scene will think of a group of precocious, mostly white men in jumpers. One half will be reading intense, inexplicable poetry. The other half will be wassailing about their “bonny lass over the sea” with their jug band.
Flirty Fishing: The Christian cult, formed in 1968, who recruited with sex
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Daniella Mestyanek Young Wed 21 October 2026 21:00, UK For a cult that called themselves The Children of God, they didn’t really care for that many Christian ideals. Which, in a vacuum, isn’t much of a problem, strange as that sounds. Any Christian will tell you that it’s important to have an active relationship with your faith and not just blindly follow what people tell you to do.
The truth behind Jack Nicholson “warning” Heath Ledger about The Joker before his 2008 death
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Warner Bros. Wed 21 October 2026 19:00, UK Trust me, I’m a comic book nerd who was there at the time; people hated the idea of Heath Ledger playing The Joker. When reports broke that the two actors being considered for the role were Ledger and Paul Bettany, people were desperate for it to be the Englishman. Ledger was seen as this pretty boy teen idol who could never embody the seriousness, danger and fear factor of the clown who fights Batman.
‘Snakes on a Plane: Japan’: Snakes cause chaos and cancellation on Japanese flight
Credit: Alexandru-Bogdan Ghita / Jan Kopřiva Wed 21 October 2026 16:27, UK A flight in Japan was cancelled following the discovery of a snake hiding on a plane that was minutes away from being boarded, with officials unable to explain how the reptilian passenger arrived on the aircraft. According to Kyodo News, a mechanic at Fukuoka airport was prepping a Japan Air Commuter craft for takeoff at around 1pm on October 20th. The flight had been due to leave at 12.50pm, but pre-flight checks overran.
Virginia man arrested for taping his wife to a chair to watch a football game
Wed 21 October 2026 9:25, UK A Virginia man was arrested on October 11th for the crime of allegedly taping his wife to a chair for nearly an hour, watching a football game while she struggled in the basement of their home.
Fritz Kreisler: the most successful fraud in classical music
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Library of Congress / Public Domain Tue 20 October 2026 23:00, UK Whether it’s in music, literature, film or any other form of art, hustle culture will make frauds of us all. That’s not even the worst thing it’ll do to us if our terminally fucked work-life balance doesn’t get sorted out by powerful people any time soon.
How ‘Final Fantasy VII’ inspired an abusive cult in 2002
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Reddit / Original Promo Tue 20 October 2026 21:00, UK The most fervent, cult-like fans of the Final Fantasy series are most to those who need an escape from their real life, which means that it appeals most to people who are, for one reason or another, incredibly vulnerable.
How a Pakistani sweetshop left 33 people dead in 2016
11 hours ago The visit, Marco Rubio's second to India this year, comes as ties remain strained over the Trump administration’s tariffs, immigration policy and outreach to archrival Pakistan. MUMBAI — Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in India on Tuesday for talks aimed at easing the intensifying pressure on …
A moment on the lips: How a 2016 sweetshop left 33 people dead in two weeks
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Mikael Seegen / Mustafa akın Tue 20 October 2026 19:00, UK In April 2016, Umar Hayat became a grandfather. Needless to say, he was dead excited. He and his immediate family organised a celebration welcoming the newborn into the world that he threw on April 17th. This being a party thrown in Pakistan, the Punjab province of Karor Lal Esan, to be precise, the guest list was extensive. Thus, Hayat and his family brought in a metric ton of food to feed everyone.
North Korea posts photo showing Kim Jong Un alive amid death rumours
Credit: Korean Central News Agency Tue 20 October 2026 12:28, UK After an unverified report of his death went viral on social media, the state media of North Korea has posted a set of photos depicting Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un seemingly alive and well as recently as this past Monday.
The brutal 1999 horror movie disguised as a rom-com
Credit: Dangerous Minds / BFI Mon 19 October 2026 23:00, UK Dear reader, when was the last time that a horror movie truly shocked you? To be clear, I don’t really mean in terms of content.The Terrifier movies might feature salt and bleach poured on scalped heads. In A Violent Nature might feature someone’s head being pulled off through their chest. Marty Supreme might get comfortably grosser than both of them by featuring that chief dickhead from Shark Tank in a major role.
The lucid dreaming cult based around having sex with a Harry Potter character
Credit: Dangerous Minds / Warner Bros Mon 19 October 2026 21:00, UK In a world where a cult can snatch you up before you’ve even realised it, be careful what you joke about. You might just end up believing it. I know that sounds like the height of millennial pearl clutching, but look at the last 15 years of online radicalisation. It all stems from the meme culture of proudly not taking anything seriously and thinking that everything is fair game for joking about.
‘This is Hardcore’: How porn inspired Pulp’s most divisive album in 1998
Credit: Far Out / Album Cover / Alexander Krivitskiy Mon 19 October 2026 19:00, UK Anyone who knows the slightest thing about Pulp beyond the ‘Common People’ dance knows that they were one of the most weirdly horny bands in 1990s rock. It wasn’t something that came to light by putting two and two together by comparing interview asides with specific lyrics of B-side tracks and looking at their music videos in the right light. Pulp, and frontman Jarvis Cocker in particular, were fascinated by sex.
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