Outsider Art Part One: Henry Darger
History has a cruel and ironic relationship with artists. Somewhere, right now, masterpieces are rotting [...]
The Pathology of Obedience
Obedience is the essential ingredient in our social contract, without which the civilized world would [...]
Project Artichoke
When choosing topics for Dark Distractions, I often find myself desensitized to my research, especially [...]
Serge Voronoff, the Monkey Gland Man
Everyone wants to live forever, and science has long sought to deliver that promise—always staying [...]
Death by Clutter: The Collyer Brothers
We all have that one house in our neighborhood. You know the one—the dwelling so [...]
The Little Albert Experiment
The human mind is both resilient and impressionable, capable of remarkable adaptability yet vulnerable to [...]
Tamam Shud Part Two
If you missed part one, catch up here. It’s December 1948, the dawn of the [...]
Tamam Shud: Part One
Few unsolved mysteries have captivated the public’s imagination like the case of the Somerton Man, [...]
The California Alligator Farm
Before Tiger King shocked the nation into a collective “WTF!?”, there was the California Alligator [...]
3X, The Man Behind the Gun
Long before the Zodiac and the Son of Sam, there was 3X, The Man Behind [...]