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33 Vintage Photos From The Golden Era Of Surfing

If the Beach Boys’ hit single “Surfin’ U.S.A.” is an indicator of anything, it’s that surf culture hit the mainstream in America in the 1960s. During the ’60s and ’70s, surf fever was all the rage, especially in California, and it could be seen in the fashion, the art, the music, and most importantly, the attitude.

It was largely thanks to Hawaiian surfers George Freeth and Duke Kahanamoku that surfing first began rising in popularity in the U.S. in the early 1900s. After all, their series of s...
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A Massive Roman Mosaic Was Just Uncovered By A Farmer In Eastern Türkiye

An unsuspecting farmer in Türkiye’s Eastern Anatolia region recently made a groundbreaking discovery: a nearly 1,000-square-foot mosaic from the Late Roman or Early Byzantine period just beneath the dirt. Experts have said it is the only one of its kind to be found in the region.

The vivid pattern features dozens of trees, plants, and animals that were found in ancient Türkiye. Now, work has been done to remove the dirt entirely from the mosaic, revealing it in full for the first time in centur...
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What Is Seppuku And How Was It Carried Out? Newly Translated Samurai Texts Reveal Some Surprising Answers

Translator Eric Shahan recently published English-language versions of four centuries-old texts passed down by the samurai that detail how they carried out the suicide ritual of seppuku. Translated into English for the first time, these texts dispel many Western assumptions about seppuku, including the popular notion of a samurai stabbing himself in the stomach to take his own life.

The texts also reveal new information about the samurai way of life, including how a samurai’s rank could influen...
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How Blogger Amanda Riley Faked Having Cancer For Seven Years — And Scammed Her Followers Out Of $100,000

When Amanda Riley started blogging about her battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2012, many people were touched by her story. A young Christian mother of two based in California, Riley was only in her late 20s when she was diagnosed. Hodgkin’s lymphoma is an aggressive form of cancer, too, so many were sympathetic about her predicament.

Amidst sharing optimistic health updates, discouraging setbacks, and her steadfast faith in God, Riley quickly attracted attention with her blog, which was titled...
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Researchers Just Observed Octopuses And Fish Hunting Together In A Rare Cross-Species Social Group

Octopuses off the southern coast of Israel have formed a fascinating bond with the local fish population, and the two species are now teaming up to track down prey. This strange collaboration has already proven to be beneficial to each aquatic creature, enabling them to hunt more effectively than they could alone.

In an even more surprising display, octopuses have also been seen punching or pushing away fish in the hunting group that are seemingly not carrying their own weight, according to a n...
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Jordan Belfort, The Real 'Wolf Of Wall Street' Whose Life Was Even Wilder Than What Was Portrayed On Screen

Jordan Belfort is best known as the “Wolf of Wall Street,” though many also call him a conman. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Belfort rose to prominence on Wall Street thanks to his brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont, which ran an elaborate “pump and dump” scheme that defrauded investors of more than $110 million.

Before the FBI took Stratton Oakmont down, however, Belfort was riding high. He spent his fortune on a lavish mansion, expensive cars, a massive yacht, and copious amounts of d...
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Archaeologists In Denmark Just Uncovered 50 Exceptionally Well-Preserved Viking Skeletons

Over the past six months, archaeologists have unearthed more than 50 well-preserved Viking skeletons from graves found in Åsum, Denmark, near the city of Odense.

Now, analyses of these skeletons could help to provide new insights into the everyday lives of the Vikings.

The excavation was carried out by archaeologists from the Museum Odense, who announced the discovery in a statement.

“It is truly unusual to find so many well-preserved skeletons at once, like those discovered in Åsum,” said ar...
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11 Bizarre Secret Projects That The U.S. Government Actually Considered — And Sometimes Carried Out

At any given time, there are countless secret government operations underway in the United States. While this has always been going on, covert government projects really started to ramp up in the mid-20th century, especially during World War II and the Cold War, as increasingly advanced technology became more and more commonplace.

With this new technology came new ideas of how it could be used. War was deadlier than it had ever been before — but perhaps a solution could be found to end war once...
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The Story Of The Hachikō Statue, The Monument To The Loyal Dog Who Spent 10 Years Watching For His Dead Owner

Outside of Shibuya Station in Tokyo stands the beloved Hachikō statue, a bronze monument to one of Japan’s most famous dogs. Hachikō the Akita is best remembered for his unwavering loyalty. Every evening, the dog would wait at the train station for his owner, Professor Hidesaburō Ueno, so the two could walk home together.

Unfortunately, Ueno died suddenly from a brain hemorrhage while teaching in May 1925. Hachikō, as always, went to meet his master at Shibuya Station after work — but he never...
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Remains Of Franklin Expedition Captain James Fitzjames Have Been Identified 175 Years After His Tragic Demise In The Arctic

The skeletal remains of James Fitzjames, a member of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition to the Arctic in 1845, have been identified by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University.

Fitzjames served on the HMS Erebus as Sir John Franklin led that ship and the HMS Terror from England in search of the Northwest Passage in May 1845. Tragically, both ships soon met with disaster as they became trapped in ice in the Victoria Strait, near King William Island in present-day Nunavu...
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Archaeologists In Türkiye Unearthed The Sarcophagus Of An Ancient Roman Gladiator

At Ayasuluk Hill in İzmir, Türkiye, archaeologists recently made a remarkable discovery when they unearthed a tomb belonging to a Roman gladiator from the third century C.E.

Just as remarkable, however, was the revelation that the tomb had been reused during the fifth century C.E., with the remains of 12 other people added to it.

The excavation was carried out by Türkiye’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism and led by associate professor Sinan Mimaroğlu of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University. During t...
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Archaeologists In Bulgaria Have Unearthed A Roman Chariot Alongside Several Mysterious Stone Structures

In a first-of-its-kind find in Bulgaria’s Varna Province, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Roman chariot, unearthed remarkably well preserved in a necropolis located between Vetrino and Provadia.

The excavation was headed by researchers from the Regional History Museum, who dated this necropolis mound to the second and third centuries C.E., placing it firmly in the Roman period — a surprise to many archaeologists who initially believed it would be much older.

Previously, researc...
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Homeowner In France Unearths 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons While Renovating His Basement

While renovating his basement, a French homeowner made a macabre discovery in the dirt beneath his house: a human skeleton. The find sparked an archaeological excavation that revealed the presence of 38 graves and 10 sarcophagi dating to the early medieval period.

Experts have long known that there was a cemetery in the area and have even uncovered a few sarcophagi over the centuries, but this is the largest excavation of its kind in the neighborhood. Now, researchers hope that analysis of the...
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Construction At A Los Angeles High School Reveals Millions Of Prehistoric Fossils In A ‘Once-In-A-Century’ Discovery

Construction work at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles has led to a startling discovery: millions of prehistoric fossils that experts are calling the “largest marine bone bed ever found” in California.

The excavation work began in 2022, and in the two years since, archaeologists have discovered three distinct fossil sites, each of which has a remarkable density of remains. The oldest fossils found at these sites are nearly 9 million years old and include the prehistoric remains of numerous a...
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How Three Workers Rushing To Meet A Deadline Caused One Of Japan's Worst Nuclear Accidents

Before the Fukushima disaster of 2011, the Tokaimura nuclear accident was the worst in Japan’s history. On Sept. 30, 1999, a combination of safety shortcuts, human error, and lack of oversight led to a criticality incident that exposed hundreds of people to high levels of radiation — and caused the excruciatingly slow deaths of two employees at the uranium processing facility where the catastrophe occurred.

Three workers at a plant near Tōkai, Japan, were preparing a batch of uranium-enriched f...
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Irish Farmer Digs Up 50-Pound Slab Of Centuries-Old Bog Butter

An Irish farmer recently uncovered an ancient slab of butter by “pure luck” on his Donegal farm.

The nearly 50-pound slab of “bog butter” is currently undated, but historians believe it could date back to the Bronze Age. In any case, this stunning discovery could be one of the largest of its kind ever found on the Emerald Isle.

The ancient slab of butter was found by farmer Micheál Boyle amid ongoing work on his farm at Loughfad, Portnoo. As he told the Irish Examiner, “It was just by pure luc...
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Scientists Say Stone Age Humans May Have Caused The Extinction Of Dwarf Hippos And Elephants In The Mediterranean

Small populations of Stone Age humans might have driven dwarf hippopotamuses and elephants to extinction on the island of Cyprus, according to a new study.

Like other Mediterranean islands, Cyprus was home to tiny species of hippos and elephants following the last Ice Age, but evidence suggests these miniature breeds may have been hunted to the point of extinction when humans arrived.

For a long time, paleontologists believed that the disappearance of these species had nothing to do with human...
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A Fossil Hunter Just Found The Jaw Bones Of An 80-Million-Year-Old 'Sea Monster' In Texas

Scientists recently announced the discovery of several fossils from a massive mosasaur with giant, mushroom-shaped teeth in Texas. Among the finds were two adult jaw fragments that show off the sea beast’s globular teeth — and demonstrate just how powerful this prehistoric creature was.

The creature in question is known as Globidens alabamaensis, a type of mosasaur that once dominated the shallow seas during the Late Cretaceous period (100.5 to 66 million years ago). G. alabamaensis was first d...
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Paleontologists In Japan Just Identified A Tiny New Species Of Dinosaur That Was Related To The Triceratops

Paleontologists in Japan recently announced the discovery of a new Triceratops relative unearthed in the city of Tamba-Sasayama. This small, horned creature was part of a group known as ceratopsians, herbivorous dinosaurs known for their large horns and frilled heads.

The most famous species of ceratopsian is the Triceratops, but this newly discovered species, Sasayamagnomus saegusai (meaning “a small humanoid spirit guarding hidden treasures under the ground of Sasayama”), lacks the characteri...
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Meet The Real-Life Mob Wives Who Were Married To History's Most Infamous Mafiosos, From Al Capone To John Gotti

It’s said that behind every great man is an even greater woman, but it seems the same can apply to men in less pleasant fields of business. Before mob wives were trending on TikTok, the term was more than just an “aesthetic.” These were the women who romantically entangled themselves with some of history’s most infamous gangsters — and they’re not all innocent.

Modern historians have focused a great deal on the Mafia. After all, while the men involved in the organization were criminals, they we...
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44 Images Of Yōkai, The Supernatural Creatures Of Japanese Folklore That Can Be Playful — Or Deadly

It’s difficult to define yōkai in simple terms. Broadly, yōkai are creatures from Japanese folklore. They are widely varied in both appearance and nature, ranging from household objects come to life to demonic, ogre-like creatures. But unlike many creatures of Western folklore — say, a banshee or a wendigo — yōkai often lack specificity in their depictions.

Folklorist Michael Dylan Foster describes a common characteristic of yōkai being their “liminality” or “in-betweenness.” He calls them “cre...
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Life-Sized Statue Of A Temple Guardian From The 13th Century Found At Cambodia’s Banteay Prei Temple

At a remote temple in Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Archaeological Park, researchers have discovered a large sandstone guardian statue buried just under the dirt. The statue, known as a dvarapala, was still in near-complete condition when researchers found it, despite some notable damage.

Archaeologists were clearing rubble from the site at the time of the discovery, and they believe the statue may have been buried when the upper structure of the temple collapsed. As a result, the statue’s body was bro...
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The Butchered Remains Of A Medieval ‘Vampire’ Child Were Just Found In The Garden Of A Former Bishop’s Palace In Poland

Archaeologists from the Lublin Provincial Conservator of Monuments recently announced the discovery of a “vampiric” child burial in the gardens of the Palace of the Uniate Bishops. The palace in Chełm is part of the larger cathedral complex of the Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, constructed during the early 18th century.

As All That’s Interesting has previously reported, “vampire” burials were commonplace in Poland during the medieval and early modern periods, as misconstrued notions...
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Researchers In Norway Just Discovered A 1,300-Year-Old Arrow In A Melting Glacier

Archaeologists just made an “incredible” find on the surface of glacial ice in Norway: a remarkably well-preserved arrow dating back 1,300 years.

This pre-Viking artifact was discovered on the Lendbreen ice patch by a team of researchers from the group Secrets of the Ice, a specialized archaeological program focused on glaciers and ice patches. Archaeologists from the team say they have made a number of exciting discoveries from the melting glaciers.

During a recent expedition at the beginning...
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