Before the Soviet Union, there was the Russian Empire, an autocratic regime that was ruled by tsars. By the early 20th century, though, support had decreased significantly for the last tsar, Nicholas ...

Allegedly conducted on the east end of Long Island during the Cold War, Project Montauk was a secret military experiment that used abducted children to develop psychological warfare techniques. The ...

Join us for the History Uncovered podcast, where we explore the uncharted corners of the natural world and the world past. Each Wednesday, we take a deep dive into a topic we haven’t been able to stop ...

The most obvious theory about why people believed in dragons is also the most straightforward: dinosaurs. As BBC’s Science Focus magazine reports, people across Europe and Asia have historically ...

In 1991, the Bonanno family regained their seat on the Commission when Massino was appointed boss following Rastelli’s death. Massino took an isolationist approach to running the family, shutting down ...

The origins of the Gambino crime family are not all that different from those of the Genoveses. In fact, it was Giuseppe Morello’s ally Ignazio Lupo, also known as “Lupo the Wolf,” who started the ...

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

Born in Crawford County, Arkansas, in 1838, Bass Reeves escaped enslavement during the Civil War and found refuge in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). There, he became one of the greatest ...

While the Los Angeles Mafia never rose to the same notoriety as its counterparts in New York and Chicago, the crime family infiltrated Hollywood, had a hand in the growth of Las Vegas, and terrorized ...

After the successful release of The Amityville Horror, which sold more than 10 million copies, many paranormal investigators from across the country traveled to Amityville to explore the notorious ...

The story of one of the world’s most famous mythological creatures emerged from a small corner of Scotland near Inverness. There, rumors have long abounded of a long-necked water beast living in Loch ...

Scandinavian folklore tells of countless legendary creatures, and one of the most famous is the Kraken. Said to be a squid-like monster capable of destroying entire ships, the Kraken may seem like ...