Stuff That Happened

They say you can’t outrun your past, but a man named Leonard Rayne Moses managed to do it for nearly 50 years. In today’s video, we’ll look at the story of Moses, including why he was convicted, how he escaped, how he evaded capture for so long and the incredible way that he was finally apprehended. On April 4th, 1968, Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. What followed was a wave of civil unrest across the nation. On April 5th, disturbances erupted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lasted until April 11th. Over 100 businesses were looted or burned and many buildings were set ablaze. During the first day of riots, a 15-year old named Leonard Rayne Moses got involved and was seen outside of a home with a group of youths drawing a white chalk mark on the ground. The following evening, the group returned to the home and threw Molotov Cocktails towards the home, created by filling pop bottles with gasoline taken from an abandoned cars and placing wicks in the b...

  On the morning of May 19th, 1845, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror departed England with a crew of 134 men. Their mission was to become the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage, a sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans which could be used a shortcut when traveling between Europe and Asia. They never returned. What happened to them was a complete mystery for years, but multiple findings over the years, including a document left by the crew, the incredibly well preserved bodies of 3 crew members and the discovery of each ship about 170 years after their departure have shed light on the shocking & horrifying journey these men had to endure. Going all the way back to the days of Christopher Columbus, Europeans had been on the lookout for this potential western shortcut. After hundreds of years of exploration, it was eventually determined that if a passable shortcut did exist, it would have to be through the unexplored Canadian Arctic – an inhospitab...

During the past 100+ years, thousands of people have attempted to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. Most have been experienced climbers who attempted the climb as a part of a team, using supplemental oxygen and following the instructions of an even more experienced guide. Still, there have been many others who preferred to go at it alone – without any help of any kind – and for them, the expedition typically does not end well. Even those who make it to the top alone often die during descent. The first person to successfully make a solo climb of Mt. Everest was Reinhold Messner, one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, and it didn’t happen until 1980, 27 years after Edmund Hillary became the first confirmed person to reach the summit. Maurice Wilson However, 56 years before Messner’s achievement, there was a man who made one of the most insane attempts to reach the summit of Everest in the history of the mountain. His name was Maurice Wilson and his plan was to crash land a...

Any one who has spent significant time studying true crime through books and documentaries has learned about certain people that put absolutely zero value on human life other than their own. Every time we think we’ve finally found the most vile, disgusting sociopath of all time, there’s always some one even worse to learn about in another case. Today, we’ll be discussing the case of one of these kinds of people – and she is one of the worst of the worst – as the judge who sentenced her said, she is in a class all by herself. This person is Stacey Castor and she was more than your typical black widow who murders her husbands for life insurance money – this woman was willing to frame and kill any and every one to protect herself – including her own flesh & blood. Stacey Castor was born as Stacey Daniels in Clay, New York in 1967 and from outward appearances, led a relatively normal life. She met her first husband, Michael Wallace, when she was 17 and they had two daughters togeth...

In almost any situation in the real world where some one is in trouble and needs help, the right thing to do is help them. This is an automatic instinct for most people. If a player gets injured in a baseball game, the trainer comes running out and every one watching is concerned for the player’s well-being. However, there is one place in the world that is so inhospitable, so brutal in its environment, that just making sure that you yourself survive oftentimes takes priority over helping others. This place, of course, is Mt. Everest and there has been many incidents of climbers in serious trouble who needed help, but no one was able to save them. David Sharp One of these climbers was named David Sharp and what happened to him sparked outrage throughout the climbing community. Did over 40 climbers walk right by him as he sat dying, noticing him but opting not to help him so they could continue their quest towards the summit? Or, is there are another explanation as to why nobody wa...

During the winter of 1979, a well-known writer and yoga expert named Marcia Moore mysteriously vanished without a trace, leaving all her belongings behind as well as her husband. The discovery of her body 2 years later offered more questions than answers. Then, about 30 years later, another body was discovered, which turned out to belong to a man who had also gone missing in a strikingly similar case. Unbelievably, the man was Marcia’s son… Marcia Moore was born on May 22nd, 1928 in in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a successful family. Her father, Robert L. Moore, founded the Sheraton Hotel chain, which today operates over 440 hotels around the world. One of her three brothers, Robin Moore, became a successful writer with multiple books rising to the top of Best-Seller lists. Two of them, The Green Berets and The French Connection, were adapted to film. Marcia was also a talented writer but was also deeply into nature. She became an expert in the philosophy of yoga. Her senior...

In 1961, John F. Kennedy proclaimed that we would go to the moon before the end of the decade. His proclamation was inspiring and powerful, but also gave NASA a deadline that would be extremely difficult to meet. America had only recently put the first men in space during Project Mercury. And the difference between entering space and successfully landing on the moon are massive. Space begins at about 73 miles above sea level and the world’s altitude record was a mere 850 miles, set by Gemini 11. The moon is 240,000 miles away from the Earth. In other words, at the time of JFK’s speech, we had made it about .003% of the way to the moon, which by the way, is a moving target that takes near perfect precision to successfully reach. A lunar landing was a task of such enormous complexity that it seemed nearly everything would have to go perfectly in order to accomplish the feat in such a short amount of time. Of course, everything did not go perfectly. There were multiple delays be...