If you told me three years ago, when I was spending 40 hours a week working for someone else, giving up most of my spare time writing words that people would never read, that I would manage to save $70,000 in one year by doing absolutely nothing, I wouldn’t have…

The 1970s were a time of bad hair cuts, flares, and the horrific case of the murder of three children at a summer camp. — Camp Scott was a four hundred acre camp, with children arriving from all over the state to attend. Children as young as seven would spend weeks of the summer there — for some it was their first time away from home. In June 1977, around 100 young girls arrived at…

How one shocking family secret led to murder. — If you married your childhood sweetheart, then perhaps you already know everything about them, and their past. If you met your other half as an adult, then how can you ever really know all about them. What if they are hiding something terrible from their past? In 2004, Charlie Brandt…

Sometimes you need to look closer to see what’s going on underneath the surface — The last couple of years has plunged many people into isolation as we battle daily to keep on top of the pandemic. It’s created fear, frustration and loneliness. Undoubtedly, it caused some to become more introverted, and for some, it’s had a huge negative impact on their mental health. Despite…

But do we risk a not guilty verdict if she gets it? — Although COVID-19 has dominated the news for the past two years, in the background, the world was also waiting on the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, and in 2021 we finally got it. Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? Ghislaine Maxwell was born 25 December 1961, in France, but was raised in Oxford, England. …

Adele will be back on UK soil for a brief show at the Brits, and will be popping along to see Graham Norton while she’s here, so why are so many people up in arms about it? — Adele just announced through her Twitter that she is going to be performing at the Brit Awards 2022, and seemed delighted to do so. …

and how you might see ghosts while giving birth — When you get pregnant, people like to tell you all the fun stuff. The snacks you can eat and get away with. The queue jumping for the public toilet. The fact your boobs get huge and you ‘glow’. Pregnancy, however, is not all fun and games, and for anyone who…

And why perhaps it’s time to cut them out of your life — As we move through life, entering and leaving different relationships, we have no choice but to cross paths with toxic people. They exist in every walk of life, but that’s not to say that we have to put up with them. …

The terrifying true story of Ed Kemper — one of America’s worst serial killers — Edmund Emil Kemper III was born in Burbank, California on December 18, 1948, the middle child to Clarnell and Edmund Emil II. Young Ed was big from birth, weighing in at 13 pounds when he was born — he would eventually become a towering giant of a man. When Ed…