The Louisiana Purchase: Napoleon, eager for money to wage war on Britain, sold the land to U.S.–and a British bank financed the sale Strangeness
Brushy Bill Roberts: He claimed to be Billy the Kid and in 1950 sought a governor’s pardon Strangeness News
More mystery on Amelia Earhart, with rival theories of Japanese capture or a castaway’s lonely death News
Fort Boyard: Built by Napoleon, this stone sea fort was later used as a game show set Abandoned Spaces
When Charles II of Spain died, the autopsy stated that his body “did not contain a single drop of blood” and “his head was full of water” News Strangeness