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THE GREAT STORK DERBY OF TORONTO ($110,000 – $150,000)
On October 31, 1926, a wealthy Canadian lawyer named Charles Vance Millar, died. A 72-year-old bachelor with no children, Millar...
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Aug 27, 20232 min read
THIRSTY ($90,000 – $102,000)
On April 1, 1979, Andreas Mihavecz, an 18-year-old bricklayer's apprentice in Austria, was mistakenly placed in a holding cell following...
Aug 25, 20233 min read
HEY BILLY, SAY CHEESE ($65,000 – $75,000)
In 2010, while browsing at a junk shop in Fresno, California, an old photograph caught Randy Guijarro’s eye. He paid two dollars and...
Aug 16, 20232 min read
TEN% ($60,000 – $75,000)
Once upon a time, 3 men who worked together at a company called Atari, decided to start their own company. On April 1, 1976, they signed...
Aug 15, 20232 min read
HELP, I NEED SOMEBODY ($60,000 – $80,000)
The song ‘Help!’ by the Beatles was written by John Lennon in 1965. It’s ranked 29th on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time!...
Aug 15, 20232 min read
THE STORY OF GOOD MARIA ($60,000 – $80,000)
Maria Swanenburg was born September 9, 1839, in Leiden, Netherlands. She earned the nickname ‘Good Maria’ because of her eagerness to...
Aug 11, 20233 min read
BABY & THE BATH WATER ($83,000 – $95,000)
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Ever wondered how this saying came to be? Well, 500 years ago, daily life was far different...
Aug 8, 20233 min read
THE LEGEND OF MARGORIE McCALL ($175,000 – $187,000)
In 1705, in Lurgan, Ireland, a woman named Margorie McCall took ill and died. Uncertain of what had led to her untimely demise, and how...
Aug 5, 20232 min read
THIS IS A STICK-UP ($85,000 – $90,000+)
A little past midnight on March 18, 1990, two ‘policemen’ pounded on the doors of the Gardner Museum in Boston. They demanded entry,...
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