My eight-year-old embraces some interesting sources of truth. We were coming home from the grocery store recently when he asked, "Dad, do you believe in the Bermuda Triangle?"

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"Well, Dad," Jack said with a note of defensiveness, "I believe in it. And I bet you want to know why."

"Yes, Jack. I do."

"Well, I was watching Scooby Doo …"

When Marion Duckworth was in first grade, the Depression had just ended, and talking about anything related to sex—especially sexual abuse—was taboo. So when an older man coaxed her away from her paper dolls one afternoon and fondled her, Marion felt she had to keep her dirty secret to herself. And she did.

Marion didn't tell anyone about the incident until she was 21 and engaged. Her fiancé, ...

Charles Schulz's A Charlie Brown Christmas celebrated its 40th anniversary on December 1, 2005. However, if TV producers had had their way in 1965, the show may not have been aired at all. Executive producer Lee Mendelson says that CBS network executives hated the show when they viewed a rough cut of it in November of that year. "They said it was slow," says Mendelson, who, along with animator Bill ...

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton is a romantic comedy set in the rural town of Frazier's Bottom, West Virginia. Tad Hamilton is a Hollywood heartthrob whose movie career hits an unexpected snag when the media begins to expose his less-than-honorable exploits off camera. In an attempt to restore his image, Tad's manager and agent concoct a brilliant marketing scheme. They come up with a fund-raising contest ...

Less than one month before he died in 1963, C. S. Lewis wrote the following letter to a young girl who wanted to know if any other Narnia books were going to be produced. It turned out to be a fond and fitting farewell to all of his devoted readers.

Dear Ruth, Many thanks for your kind letter, and it was very good of you to write and tell me that you like my books; and what a very good letter you ...

Dan Leach made national headlines with his response to The Passion of the Christ. After seeing the movie, Leach confessed to murdering his girlfriend, Ashley Nichole Wilson. Her death had been ruled a suicide, but Leach admitted to strangling her because she claimed to be pregnant with his child. Not wanting the responsibility, Leach killed her and successfully avoided suspicion, until turning himself ...

On June 17, 1966, two black men strode into the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, and shot three people to death. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a celebrated black boxer, and an acquaintance were falsely charged and wrongly convicted of the murders in a highly publicized and racially charged trial. The fiercely outspoken boxer maintained his claims of innocence and became his own jailhouse lawyer. ...

The Hurricane, with Denzel Washington as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, is based on the real life story of the welterweight boxer's difficult life and his 20-year battle to be set free from being wrongfully imprisoned. One Brooklyn black teenage boy, Lesra, and three white Canadians become interested in Rubin's case and work together to correct a miscarriage of justice.

Once Lesra convinces his ...

A certain CEO was scheduled to speak at an important convention, so he asked one of his employees, Jenkins, to write him a punchy, 20-minute speech.

When the CEO returned from giving the speech at the big event, he was furious. He tore into Jenkins: "What's the idea of writing me a speech that lasted an hour? Half the audience walked out before I finished."

Jenkins was baffled. "I wrote you a 20-minute ...

A woman was working one night in a Honeybaked Ham store. The store was equipped with security cameras, and she was watching the small, black-and-white monitors when she saw a woman come in the store, walk down the handicapped ramp, and go between two shelves. To the clerk's amazement, this woman grabbed a ham off the shelf and stuffed it up her dress. With the ham wedged between her thighs, the woman ...