Kathy Benjamin

1 month ago | grunge.com | Kathy Benjamin

Adolf Hitler's life is certainly one of the most minutely analyzed of any person in history. Everything from his childhood to his military service to his dream of being an artist has been poured over by historians. And those were all things that took place before he ever even joined the Nazi Party, let alone took over Germany. There is seemingly not a moment of his time after he became Führer that is unaccounted for or contains even a little bit of mystery.

1 month ago | grunge.com | Kathy Benjamin

Millions of men were sent to fight in Vietnam during the 1960s and '70s. The war was incredibly controversial, and over 58,000 American troops died fighting that losing battle. Since the whole thing was such a quagmire, there are plenty of things about the Vietnam War that don't make sense. However, one of the most perplexing questions is why anyone who was starting out in their career as a professional athlete or an actor sign up to fight instead?

1 month ago | grunge.com | Kathy Benjamin

Anyone who has walked around a major metropolis like New York City knows that you don't have to look far to find someone predicting the end of the world is imminent. But while unknown street preachers might scream about the apocalypse at pedestrians every day, it is less common for someone who is already well-known to put their name on an end of the world prophecy. After all, everyone who ever made one of those predictions in the past has been wrong ... at least as of this writing.

1 month ago | grunge.com | Kathy Benjamin

Rock stars tend to live large and do some pretty crazy things. That can happen when you are surrounded by fans and money and mind-altering substances all the time. The combination of those things also means that rock stars have a tendency to die in big, weird, or unexpected ways. AdvertisementSome of the most bizarre rock star deaths ever just so happened to occur to musicians who were big in the 1970s.

1 month ago | grunge.com | Kathy Benjamin

Jim Jones started his infamous cult, the Peoples Temple, in Indiana in the 1950s before moving it to San Francisco in the early '70s. While originally preaching progressive ideas, especially racial harmony and equality, it became something very twisted. In 1974, Jones decided his congregation should move to an isolated jungle location in the South American country of Guyana. He called the small compound that his followers carved out Jonestown.