After getting lost while leading a group of gold miners through the Colorado Rockies in the 1870s, Alfred Packer resorted to cannibalism to stay alive — but the exact circumstances of his companions' deaths are unknown.

Before the age of 16, Lori Mattix claimed to have slept with David Bowie and started a relationship with Jimmy Page — and that was just the beginning.

On July 20, 1973, actor and martial arts legend Bruce Lee died in the Kowloon Tong district of Hong Kong at age 32 due to brain swelling known as a cerebral edema.

First discovered in a cave in 1903, Cheddar Man was a dark-skinned, blue-eyed man who lived in Britain 10,000 years ago — but much of his life is a mystery.

At 8 feet, 11 inches tall, Robert Pershing Wadlow was the tallest man in the world. But sadly, this "gentle giant" didn't live long.

On the southern leg of the P.T. Barnum's tour, Anna Haining Swan would meet Martin Van Buren Bates. Soon after, they would enter the record books as the world's tallest couple.

Marco Siffredi was a French snowboarder and mountaineer who had climbed Mount Everest before. But his determination to find the "Holy Grail" of routes proved to be his undoing.

The largest nuclear bomb ever created, Tsar Bomba was detonated by the Soviet Union above the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya on October 31, 1961.

A precursor to the modern American foster care system, the Orphan Train Movement was designed to give impoverished children in cities a better future. Instead, many ended up in the arms of poorly-vetted families seeking free labor.

He became one of the most decorated pigeons of World War I.

In December 2017, August Ames tweeted about her unwillingness to work with men who appeared in gay adult films. Days later, she would take her own life.