Phyllis Penzo completely forgot that she'd agreed to choose lottery numbers with one of her regular customers in lieu of a tip — until Robert Cunningham walked back into Sal's Pizzeria with a $6 million winning ticket in March 1984.

Constructed near Prague in the 13th century, Houska Castle has housed mad scientists, Nazis, and perhaps even demons.

On August 11, 2014, Robin Williams died by suicide in Paradise Cay, California. An autopsy later showed that he had Lewy body dementia — a debilitating brain disease.

Often abandoned by their parents or forced to escape abusive situations, these feral children grew up in the wild and in some cases were literally raised by animals.

When fishermen found Manfred Fritz Bajorat inside his yacht as it was drifting in the Philippine Sea in 2016, his body was completely mummified right in the very spot where he died.

Robert Blake and Bonny Lee Bakley had been married for just five months when she was fatally shot while sitting in his car in May 2001. Though he was arrested for her murder, he was ultimately acquitted due to a lack of evidence.

Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two young children in August 2018 because he wanted to be with Nichol Kessinger, a woman he recently met at work.

From underground tunnels and coconut rafts to dummy heads and toy guns, these are the ingenious plots behind the world's greatest prison escapes.

All 129 members of the Franklin Expedition perished while icebound in the Canadian Arctic between 1846 and 1848, and some of them seemingly turned to cannibalism as starvation set in.

Also known as Bruddah Iz, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole captivated people across the globe with his rendition of "Over The Rainbow" before dying in June 1997.

Malcolm Shabazz spent much of his youth in and out of prison, and just as he was beginning a career of activism like his grandfather, he was murdered in Mexico City at age 28.

Leona "Candy" Stevens lied to a judge to help keep Charles Manson out of jail, then married him and gave birth to their son before she divorced him on grounds of "cruelty" in 1963.