Jonestown, the site in Guyana where more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978, ...

The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

On this day in history, terrorist attacks devastate London, the Roswell incident sparks UFO paranoia, and Lincoln assassination conspirator Mary Surratt is executed.

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, ...

First described by Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias in 360 B.C.E., the Lost City of Atlantis was a purported civilization near the Strait of Gibraltar that sank into the Atlantic.

Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco built a cocaine trafficking empire in 1970s Miami that flourished until she was finally caught by the DEA in 1985.

The true story of the haunting in Connecticut begins in 1986, when the Snedeker family moved into the historic home at 208 Meriden Avenue. The Snedekers were desperately searching for a home to rent ...

Starting in the 1950s, America's Rust Belt began to suffer from deindustrialization, population loss, and rising crime — and has yet to recover.

An Australian potato farmer from Beech Forest, Victoria, Cliff Young won the 544-mile Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at the age of 61.

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 ...

Sometimes called the "Las Vegas of the ancient world," the sunken settlement of Baiae was one of its era's most hedonistic resort towns for wealthy Roman elites. About 150 miles south of Rome, a ...