At the age of 16, Robin Lee Graham had set sail from southern California on his 24-foot sloop, the Dove. He planned to ...

The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day.

Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid died in 1881 — or did he escape, vanish, and live on under the name Brushy Bill Roberts in Texas all the way until 1950? In the late 1800s, the American Wild West was ...

The 19th-century Persian royal "Princess Qajar" never existed, but Fatemeh Khanum "Esmat al-Dowleh" and Zahra Khanum "Taj al-Saltaneh" certainly did.

No one witnessed Jeff Buckley’s death. On May 29, 1997, in Memphis, Tennessee, the singer who is now famous for his rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” waded fully clothed into a channel of the ...

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." ...

In 1900, the lighthouse keepers on a remote Scottish island vanished. The official report called it an accident. But suspicious clues – and a puzzling logbook – point to a darker explanation.

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.

The Saskatoon police perpetrated a series of "starlight tours" in which they drove Indigenous people to the outskirts of the city and left them to freeze to death.

From powerful priestesses to demonic masters of the occult, the history of witches is a story of the dangers of being a woman in a male dominated world. A fearsome being of fairytale and myth, the ...

The Piri Reis map was created in 1513, 260 years before James Cook discovered Antarctica. So why was it on this world map?

It was supposed to be a pleasant lakeside camping trip. Four teenagers set out on a sweetheart’s getaway with the intent of roughing it in a single tent perched on the banks of a serene lake. But by ...