Wives wanted sign posted on log cabin. Taken at Apgar, at the foot of Lake McDonald. From left to right: Bill Daucks, Frank Geduhn (Forest Service ranger before Glacier National Park was established), Esli Apgar (in doorway of cabin), and (Harvey) Dimon Apgar. Geduhn holds a cat and a dog sits between Esli and Dimon…

This photo does indeed depict U.S. servicemen raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi after capturing it during the Battle of Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945. However, that version of events obscures the fact that this was not the first, but actually the second, flag raising atop that hill that day, in addition to…

It’s not surprising that this infamous 1934 photo purported to depict the Loch Ness Monster is a confirmed hoax; what is surprising is exactly who the target of that hoax was. The perpetrator was U.K. hunter Marmaduke Wetherell, who’d been hired to track down the monster by London’s Daily Mail the year before. When the…