The most interesting, convoluted, compelling and wierd web site I've seen in a long long time is Sam Sloan's Home Page. I'll see if I can summarize:

Sam Sloan was born into a well-off family in Lynchburg, Virginia. His mother was a psychiatrist, and his father a prominent lawyer. Sam was gifted academically, and was an excellent chess player. He went on to become a professional mathematician and computer scientist. Sam traveled around the world, and apparently changed is name to "Mohhamed Ismail Sloan" for a while. He married frequently. He managed to enter Afghanastan the day after the 1978 coup, where he was eventually arrested. He escaped from jail, and somehow met one of his wives, Honzagool, who was from somewhere in the Hindu-Kush mountains. They had a child, Shamema Honagool Sloan. Apparently they decided to give her an Islamic upbringing. At some point they came to America and apparently lived in Virginia. Sam's father was prone to drink, and after a few he would often tell a story about $50 million worth of GM stock that had been in the family since 1913. Everyone liked that story, including a handful of lawyers and judges who were associates of Mr Sloan. They conspired, so the story says, to aquire this money. In conspiracy with these lawyers, a woman endeered herself to Mr Sloan, and married him shortly before his death. Immediately upon his death, they sued to acuire the $50 million, which apparently had never existed. Meanwhile, the Sloan family had employed a pair of radically conservative Falwell Baptists (the Roberts) to babysit Shamema. These Baptists fell in love with the child, and couldn't accept that she would be raised into the Muslim faith. They wanted to see her grow up Christian, and hoped that their influence would make that happen. As the litigation intensified over the vaporous $50 million, the Sloans decided to evade the problem by fleeing the country and traveling to Thailand. Sam's mother (Mrs Sloan) went with them. The already comlicated story becomes much more complicated at this point. Sloan's brother Chreighton, purportedly in conspiracy with the interested lawyers, obtains stewardship over Mrs Sloan by claiming she has Alzheimer's disease. Her bank accounts were frozen by the court. Suddenly the Roberts appeared in Thailand and began stalking the Sloan family. Presumably bankrolled by the lawyers' conspiracy, the Roberts succeeded in covertly removing Mrs Roberts from Thailand and transporting her to Virginia, where she was placed in a mental hospital of ill repute. She was overmedicated and unable to speak until her death. To escape the reach of the now well-funded Roberts, Sloan and his wife and children fled once again to the United Arab Emirates. The Roberts pursued them there, and eventually succeeded in kidnapping Shamema. They brought Shamena back to Virginia to give her a good Christian upbringing. The lawyers' consortium hoped that this would bring Sloan -- and his $50 million -- back into their jurisdiction. Sloan made every effort to recover his daughter, but the Virginia courts tolerated the Roberts' custody of his child. The matter is now predominantly under the control of the conspiring lawyers, who now sit as judges. Meanwhile, Shamema has grown up. Upon turning 18, she left Virginia and joined the marines. She restored communications with her father, while distancing herself from her captors of ten years. Shamema is now free from her abductors, but Sam Sloan seeks justice for those who conspired to abduct her. His current effort is to have them prosecuted for kidnapping in a New York jurisdiction, where Shamema was born. He fights an impossible battle against otherwise upstanding citizens shielded by untouchable corrupt public officials.

That's the best I've been able to figure out. Reading the site is a bit like knowing the man in person. Every link is another random bit that you might catch in conversation. I don't know whether any of it is true, but it sure makes a powerful story. On his site, Sloan also manages to weave in the FBI, the Pope, and an international chess conspiracy. The site is worth many hours of head-scratching amazement and amusement.