Many Americans are taught that the Pilgrims and Indians gathered for a historic feast at Plymouth in 1621, but the true story of the first Thanksgiving is far more complicated. For as long as anyone ...

The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day. In the 12th century B.C.E., Bronze Age civilizations began ...

Often described as spiritual messengers and attendants of God, Biblically accurate angels sometimes look very different from what you'd expect. In modern times, Biblical angels are almost always ...

“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. After a lighthouse went dark in the wild islands north of Scotland, a ship traveled to the Flannan Isles to ...

For decades, the Saskatoon Police Service engaged in a practice known as “starlight tours.” After picking up Indigenous people on charges ranging from drunkenness to vagrancy, officers would drive ...

On Oct. 22, 2013, a ninth grader at Danvers High School in Massachusetts named Philip Chism did the unthinkable. At just 14, he brutalized his 24-year-old math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. The reportedly ...

Nine years after his conservative family was featured on the ABC show "Wife Swap," Jacob Stockdale fatally shot his mother and brother before attempting to kill himself. The show Wife Swap has a light ...

These Nazi propaganda posters are as repugnant in their message as they are impressive in their artistic craftsmanship. In order to control a population, you must first control the population’s minds.

Mary Vincent was a 15-year-old runaway heading to visit her grandfather in California when she accepted a ride from a man named Lawrence Singleton in September 1978 — and it changed her life forever.

Forty years before the British fought the Nazis, they used history's first concentration camps to commit genocide during the Boer War.

The heart attack gun fired a dart made of frozen shellfish toxin that would enter the target's bloodstream and kill them in mere minutes without leaving a trace. In 1975, more than 30 years of almost ...

In the early 1970s, the Alphabet Murderer stalked Rochester, New York, killing girls who had the same first and last initial – and these horrific crimes remain unsolved to this day. On the afternoon ...