The legend of Atlantis, a sophisticated island civilization said to have sunk into the ocean’s abyss, has intrigued scholars and enthusiasts for millennia. Originating from Plato’s dialogues, the ...

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...

Described in the New Testament of the Bible and other ancient sources, the death of Jesus Christ was a truly agonizing affair. One of the world’s most recognizable images is that of Jesus Christ’s ...

More than 20,000 people have vanished in the stretch of forest between Utqiagvik, Anchorage, and Juneau known as the Alaska Triangle — and some say paranormal forces may be to blame. The Bermuda ...

Discover the real story of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug trafficker known as the "Cocaine Godmother" who ruled the Miami underworld in the 1970s and '80s. Known as the “Cocaine Godmother” and ...

In 2007, a team of archaeologists discovered a tomb near Mantua in the region of Lombardy, Italy. Inside, they found a pair of skeletons lying face to face, their bodies intertwined as if holding each ...

On an otherwise normal day around 1150, residents of the English village of Woolpit made a startling discovery on the edge of town — two small children with green skin. Not only did the children look ...

In September 1994, a strange story emerged from the tiny community of Ruwa in Zimbabwe. There, 62 children at the prestigious Ariel School reported seeing flying silver discs land in a nearby field.

William James Sidis, Marilyn vos Savant, and Leonardo da Vinci have some of the highest IQs in history — but are they really the world's smartest people? Over the years, intelligence quotient tests, ...

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 ...

Scandinavian folklore tells of countless legendary creatures, and one of the most famous is the Kraken. Said to be a squid-like monster capable of destroying entire ships, the Kraken may seem like ...

After World War II, thousands of Nazi war criminals escaped justice with the help of ratlines — which were set up by the Vatican, South American politicians, and sometimes even U.S. spies. As the dust ...