Stefan Fritzl was born into a nightmare. His world had no sunlight and no blue sky. In fact, his world was composed of a tiny basement dungeon where his sadistic grandfather, Josef Fritzl, had ...

Archaeologists have officially uncovered the oldest firearm ever found in the continental United States, a 500-year-old bronze cannon. The wall gun is linked to the 16th-century expedition of Spanish ...

In July 1989, Patricia Stallings took her three-month-old son, Ryan, to the emergency room after he began vomiting and struggling to breathe. There, doctors found high levels of ethylene glycol, a ...

Before the Maya built their now-iconic pyramids, their predecessors built a network of canals in the wetlands of present-day Belize. And though the latter may not sound as impressive as the former, ...

In the 19th century, the Orphan Train Movement started out as a humanitarian endeavor to pluck children out of the slums of East Coast cities and send them to good homes in the Midwest. There, they ...

During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969. The Manson murders of 1969 brought a nation ...

On Dec. 11, 1945, 32-year-old Frances Brown was discovered savagely murdered in her apartment at the Pine Grove Hotel on Chicago’s North Side, a bread knife lodged in her neck. Scrawled on her living ...

Nineteen-year-old Brandon Swanson was on his way home to Marshall, Minnesota for spring break in 2008 when he slid into a ditch and called his parents for help — but he was never seen again.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 65,000-year-old Neanderthal “tar factory” in a cave in Gibraltar. A small hearth found in Vanguard Cave was seemingly once filled with plant material that ...

“Don’t forget today,” General George E. Pickett cried to his troops on July 3, 1863, “that you are from Old Virginia!” With that, three brigades of 5,400 Confederate soldiers from Virginia poured ...

Archaeologists at an Ecuadorian historical site have revealed that two individuals they unearthed were infants that had “helmets” made from the skulls of other children wrapped around their heads.

Eight years ago, in the back of an old cabinet in Amsterdam, a small silver coin was found. It’s roughly the size of a nickel and technically has a silver value of just $1.03. However, there is ...