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

More than 300 years ago, a Portuguese ship carrying treasure, important religious figures, and hundreds of enslaved Africans ...

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, ...

After a catastrophic bird strike, pilot Sully Sullenberger landed in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009 — saving everyone onboard.

Between 1971 and 1973, an unknown serial killer in Rochester, New York strangled three girls who had the same first and last initial in what’s known as the Alphabet Murders.

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

Philip Chism was just 14 when he murdered his 24-year-old math teacher Colleen Ritzer at Danvers High School before dumping her corpse behind the school.

In the decades since the scandal broke, Kathryn Bolkovac worries little has been done to hold the company accountable.

Starting in the 16th century, some Italian parents had their sons castrated so that they could become castrati, singers with high-pitched voices.

These bizarre and seemingly unbelievable coincidences in history will leave you wondering "what were the chances?" Coincidences that seem too strange to be true happen more than we think. The Law of ...

A 200-square-mile area in southeastern Massachusetts, the Bridgewater Triangle has long been known as a vortex of unexplained phenomena.

Juana Maria initially lived on the island with her son, but after he died in a fishing accident, she was left completely on her own.