On the evening of June 7, 2023, Umar Abdullah, a 36-year-old resident of Tampa Bay, Florida, returned to his apartment with his wife, Samira, and their 10-month-old daughter after a trip to Ohio. As soon as they entered their home, they were met with a strange, unfamiliar smell. It wasn’t the smell of rotten food […]
The disappearance of Tom and Jackie Hawks shocked the coastal community of Newport Beach, California, in 2004. Their story is a haunting tale of betrayal and violence on the high seas, orchestrated by individuals they once trusted. Tom, a retired probation officer, and Jackie, his devoted wife, were preparing to sell their beloved yacht, the
On the afternoon of July 13, 1994, a man woke up in a ditch on the side of the road. Confused and disoriented, he felt pain in the back of his head and noticed bruises around his wrists. As he struggled to understand his situation, an older man named Steve approached him and helped him
In the early hours of August 27, 2000, the calm waters off the northeast coast of Queensland, Australia, transformed into a scene of horror and tragedy. Sam Watts, a seasoned fisherman, and his crewmate Michael Edwards were among the six crew members on a commercial fishing vessel when the sea turned treacherous. As the boat
The Mysterious Sight On the morning of August 16, 1942, a woman named Ida Ruby was riding her horse along a dirt path near a beach just south of San Francisco, California. During the week, Ida worked as a telephone operator, but it was a Sunday, so she had time off. She cherished her weekends,
A 48-year-old 6’6″ hiker named Mike Turner stopped briefly on August 2, 1998, pulled his bottle from his rucksack, and took a sip. Mike was standing among a stand of trees in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness, a region of Wyoming, at an elevation of roughly 11,000 feet. Undoubtedly, one of the world’s most visually arresting locations
At the break of dawn, just before the sun rose on April 12th, 1990, Nathan Neesmith, a 31-year-old man, pressed down on the gas pedal of the fishing vessel he was piloting near the Georgia shoreline. He expected the boat to surge forward, but it barely moved, crawling at a fraction of the speed he
You are not flesh on bones; you are a thought, meaning a factory whose machinery is the mind and whose product is thought. Why are we different from each other? We vary in our faces, heights, complexions, etc., but what is the biggest difference? It’s our thoughts, which constitute our mindset. What is the first
For a while, psychologists talked about three bad personality traits called the “dark triad”: narcissism, being like Machiavelli, and psychopathy. But lately, experts are saying we should add another one called sadism. So now, instead of just three, we’re talking about four bad traits in psychology. In this blog, we’ll talk about four specific qualities
Dark psychology is all about how some people try to control and manipulate others. Normally, psychology is about understanding why people do what they do. But dark psychology is specifically about the sneaky and harmful ways some people try to control others. It looks at how these people use tricks and tactics to make others
