Archaeologists say stone-made hand axes are a pretty common find. But researchers were stunned when they found that a prehistoric hand ax unearthed in Ethiopia had been carved out of the thigh bone of ...

After reading about the tragic death of Carl McCunn, discover the story of Chris McCandless, the man whose death in the ...

There’s a wedding gown store in Chihuahua, Mexico that’s been famous for almost 100 years. But not for the reason you might suspect. For decades, people flocked to the store to look at a mannequin ...

The stories of Gisella Perl and Stanislawa Leszczyńska highlight one vital aspect of human nature: Our ability to persevere and care for others in even the most harrowing and cruel of circumstances.

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, ...

Teddy Roosevelt, Helen Keller, and other revered historical figures who supported the eugenics movement at the height of its pre-WWII popularity.

“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. After a lighthouse went dark in the wild islands north of Scotland, a ship traveled to the Flannan Isles to ...

On Oct. 22, 2013, a ninth grader at Danvers High School in Massachusetts named Philip Chism did the unthinkable. At just 14, he brutalized his 24-year-old math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. The reportedly ...

Often described as spiritual messengers and attendants of God, Biblically accurate angels sometimes look very different from what you'd expect. In modern times, Biblical angels are almost always ...

Brittany Norwood crushed her co-worker Jayna Murray's skull and severed her spinal cord in a brutal 2011 attack now known as the "Lululemon murder." Lululemon Athletica, the company that sells ...

One man's 1930 anti-marijuana propaganda campaign started a panic that would last for decades — and still isn't over.

The mummified dog was a shocking find for the loggers, who were working on cutting the tree into pieces and almost turned it into mulch. There are some things loggers expect to come across when ...