The myth of Albert Pike: Did a 19th-century freemason really predict World War 3 between Islam and Zionism? |

[ad_1] The alleged 1871 Pike letter, addressed to Giuseppe Mazzini, supposedly predicted three world wars; no original manuscript has ever surfaced/ AI Illustration In August 1871, according to a story that refuses to fade, a senior American Freemason sat down and mapped out the next century of human conflict. Albert Pike, a Confederate general turned […]

Jack the Ripper solved? DNA on a shawl points to a Polish 19th-century immigrant; experts say it can’t be |

[ad_1] DNA taken from a shawl allegedly found beside Catherine Eddowes sparked claims it links Jack the Ripper to a Polish 19th-century suspect/ Image: Russel Edwards, The Independent There are very few unsolved mysteries that still grip people the way Jack the Ripper does. In the autumn of 1888, a still-unidentified serial killer stalked the […]