By far Gustave Eiffel’s most well-known work, the Eiffel Tower was designed for the 1889 World’s Fair to celebrate the 100th ...

From back-breaking manual labor to starvation rations, the Soviet Union's gulag camps inflicted horrific abuse upon their 18 million prisoners. During the days of Joseph Stalin, saying one wrong word ...

Centuries after the first wave of the Black Plague killed nearly half of Europe, we are still left wondering how the deadly plague subsided.

The real Annabelle doll reportedly committed a series of attacks in the early 1970s before it was confined in the Occult Museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren in Connecticut. She sits in a glass case ...

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Her 18-year-old boyfriend shot her parents then used a samurai sword to nearly decapitate her mother and stab her brother.

A mythic lost continent that supposedly sank to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, Lemuria was posited as the birthplace of humankind by 19th-century occultists.

Elisabeth Fritzl spent 24 years in captivity, confined to a cellar and repeatedly tortured at the hands of her own father.

On February 22, 1970, a 14-year-old Australian stowaway named Keith Sapsford snuck into the wheel well of a plane flying from Sydney to Tokyo and fell to his death.

The 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping left 26 children and their school bus driver buried alive until their miraculous escape.

Over the years, more than 20,000 people have vanished in the region between Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik known as the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." ...

From the Hebrew Yeshua to the Greek Iesous to the Latin Iesus, discover the complex history behind Jesus' real name and how it evolved over the centuries.