Jockey Frank Hayes won a horse race at Belmont Park in New York in 1923. What is remarkable is that he was dead at the time. He suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle past the finish line.
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Explore the Malleus Maleficarum, the “Hammer of Witches” that helped fuel witch hunts, torture, and tens of thousands of executions.
The Bloody Benders: Kansas’ Murderous Innkeepers Who Vanished Into Old West Legend
The Bloody Benders lured travelers into a Kansas inn, murdered them, buried them in an orchard, and vanished into Old West legend.
The Murder of William Desmond Taylor: Hollywood’s First Great Unsolved Scandal
Hollywood’s first great unsolved scandal: the 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor, the stars pulled into the mystery, and the clues that still refuse to behave.
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