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The Ash Queen
In 1698, the court of King Louis XIV recorded a scandal surrounding Cendrille de Lucigny, a servant girl who rose to marry a baron after attending a masked ball. The story became legend — but the truth was pure gothic tragedy.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Drowned Bride
In 1842, Danish newspapers reported the drowning of a nobleman’s daughter off the coast of Helsingør — her name was Arielle Wulffsen.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Mirror’s Keeper
The Grimm brothers’ “Schneewittchen” was inspired by a true 16th-century Bavarian countess: Maria Sophia von Erthal. But the story told to children omits the most disturbing part.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The White Queen
In northern Norway, a small town called Arendal still holds annual “Winter Lights” ceremonies to honor a queen who supposedly “breathed storms.”
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Red Queen
They said she was beautiful because she loved books. But they never said what kind of books. In the real village of Villeneuve, France, in 1745, there was a young woman named Isabeau de La Fontaine, the daughter of a bankrupt nobleman. While others whispered that she was odd, she spent her nights studying forbidden texts smuggled from the Sorbonne — grimoires on anatomy, alchemy, and metamorphosis.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Guy Who Found a $24 Million Meteorite — and Used It as a Doorstop
In Michigan, a farmer used a heavy metal rock to prop open his barn door. When a geology professor finally checked it, she nearly dropped it.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Couple Who Returned $6.6 Million by Mistake — and Got Arrested Anyway
In 2019, a couple in Pennsylvania woke up to find $120,000 mysteriously deposited in their bank account. They did what anyone in denial might do: they spent it. Fast.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Teen Who Hacked Wall Street — and Made $300,000 Before Breakfast
In 2020, 20-year-old Alexander Kearns discovered a bug in the Robinhood trading app. It let users borrow unlimited money to trade stocks — even if they didn’t have any.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Man Who Found a Painting Worth $100 Million in His Kitchen
In 2019, a French woman decided to sell her house and called in appraisers to value her furniture. Above her cooking space, they found a small dusty painting — saints, angels, the usual.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Guy Who Woke Up With $92 Quadrillion in His Bank Account
In July 2013, Pennsylvania resident Chris Reynolds opened his PayPal app and nearly fainted. His account showed a balance of $92,233,720,368,547,800 — ninety-two quadrillion dollars.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The Man Who Tricked the Stock Market With Math
Jim Simons wasn’t a Wall Street guy. He was a mathematician and former codebreaker for the NSA. In the 1980s, he founded Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that used algorithms instead of intuition.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Writers
The Man Who Found $8 Million in a Dumpster
In 2021, a janitor in New York City stumbled upon a pile of discarded office equipment in an alley behind a bankrupt tech startup.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in BookClub