obsession
Couldn't stop, wouldn't stop, didn't see why anyone would ask.
The Witch of Wall Street
What kind of woman eats cold oatmeal for lunch, sleeps with a revolver tied to her hand, and gets a personal visit from J.P. Morgan asking for financial advice?
The Man Who Only Seemed Dead
Every night for years, Hans Christian Andersen left a note on his bedside table that read: "I only appear to be dead."
The Man Who Called for a Fictional Doctor
A man who had invented 2,472 people died asking one of them to save him.
The Man Who Died in a Meeting
He grafted a human tooth onto a rooster's head to see what would happen. It grew.
The Man Who Found a Taste for Digging
When the council rehoused him on the top floor of a tower block, it was specifically to discourage tunnelling.
The Boy Who Kept Scorpions in Matchboxes
The zoo that once refused to hire him now sends its directors to the training academy he built.
The Woman Who Covered the World in Polka Dots
She sent fourteen unsolicited watercolors to a stranger in rural Japan. That stranger was Georgia O'Keeffe, and she wrote back.
The Man Who Moved a Castle for a Girl Who Never Came
He never let anyone watch him work.
The Woman Who Built a Maze
Every child who has ever ridden the Haunted Mansion passed through her grief and never knew.
The Raven That Wrote Two Masterpieces
A paint-eating raven died, got stuffed, and ended up inspiring two of the most famous works in English literature — from two different writers.
The Postman Who Built a Palace
He tripped on a stone in 1879 and spent the next thirty-three years building a palace out of the ones he found on the way home.
The Old Man Mad About Painting
The most quintessentially Japanese artwork ever made was painted with a color Japan had banned.