Syphilis, the revenge of the New World, ravaged civilisation for centuries, causing purple ulcers that ate away to the bone. Only caught through sex, it proved an embarrassment to the priests and even one pope who caught it...

The Story of Syphilis

The King of Chocolate

Up in the mountains of Pakistan live a tribe with an unusual way of communicating.

The Kissing Tribe

I discovered some unusual cave paintings in Egypt suggesting a new theory of evolution...

The Tale of Tails

3 demons hold a contest to steal what is most important to humanity...

The Three Thieving Demons

An Amazonian tribe with no word in their language for 'to lie'....

The Inichua - the Amazonian Tribe That Believed Everything

He was just a hobo staring into the flames of a burning oil drum in a lonely square one Christmas Eve.

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