Along with a history of racist wartime propaganda, other forms of hateful posters and political flyers were persistent throughout the 20th century. The infamous white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan ...

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

First opened in 1970 and shut down in 2011, the Élan School was the "last resort" for parents of teens with behavioral problems — and allegedly a site of systemic abuse. For some, the idyllic woods of ...

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.

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.

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

According to centuries-old Mexican and Tejano folklore, La Lechuza is a bloodthirsty, shapeshifting owl with the face of an old witch known as a bruja.

Fourteen years before the fateful maiden voyage of the Titanic, a small town writer predicted the whole thing.

More On The Curious Cubic Houses Of Rotterdam Completing the tilted design, the walls and windows are all angled at 54.7 degrees, providing excellent views of the surrounding area. The only drawback – ...

From the 1960s through the 1990s, Romanian-Australian economist Stefan Mandel won the lottery 14 times. Here's how he did it.

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.