In the 1980s and 1990s, the death sentence of a Texas woman named Karla Faye Tucker triggered a worldwide controversy. No one had any doubt about her guilt — in 1983, Tucker had murdered two people ...

Neal Cassady never published a book in his life. Yet he’s considered one of the most prominent figures of the Beat Generation — and a crucial influence on the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Later, when the BBC nature program aired, a cave explorer named Tim Fogg contacted Dr. Evans and explained that he had ...

On November 12, 1966, in Clendenin, West Virginia, a group of gravediggers working in a cemetery spotted something strange. They glanced up from their work as something huge soared over their heads.

From Jack the Ripper to Jeffrey Dahmer, history is full of tales of vicious murderers. However, few of these stories are quite so disturbing as that of Amarjeet Sada, who is widely considered to be ...

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in history, that is fact, but it wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of millions ...

For the first time in history, archaeologists have mapped an entire ancient Roman city using ground-penetrating radar. According to The Guardian, the buried town of Falerii Novi contained a bathhouse, ...

Boston, Massachusetts is the most famous Boston in the U.S., but it’s not the only city to bear this name. In Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley, there was once another Boston. Abandoned in the 1970s and recently ...

The oldest known instance of ritualistic cannabis burning has been discovered on a limestone altar in Israel’s Tel Arad shrine. According to Science News, the cannabis was mixed with animal dung to ...

A new discovery in western India has stunned archaeologists and hinted at the existence of a previously unknown ancient civilization. According to the BBC, a pair of explorers found thousands of rock ...

Patricio Lujan was a young boy in New Mexico in the 1930s when a normal day with his family in Santa Fe was interrupted by the sight of a strange woman near their property. The family watched in ...

In 2023, workers in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland made the chilling discovery of a set of eerily preserved human remains buried deep in a bog. Now, further analysis has revealed that the body belonged to ...