Occurring just twelve days before the end of the war, the loss of the USS Indianapolis to torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-58 represented the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy. The event has been dramatized and eulogized, perhaps most famously in a chilling scene from the 1975 film Jaws. But in the face of mistakes and incompetence came self-sacrifice and heroism that deserves to be remembered.
Fiction is fiction, but sometimes it is also fact. THG investigates the true history behind three Gothic Horror Classics: The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.