The object has archaeologists stumped. It’s made with bamboo, a plant that is not native to Switzerland (but was introduced ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

The hoard features historical figures from the time period, such as William the Conqueror, Edward the Confessor, and Harold ...

Linda Napolitano was a typical housewife living in Manhattan with her husband and two children. But everything changed on Nov. 30, 1989, when she claims three gray bipedal creatures abducted her from ...

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 ...

Not long after Carolyn and Roger Perron moved into a new house in Harrisville, Rhode Island along with their five children, the family allegedly began experiencing a series of chilling occurrences ...

Around 1 p.m. on October 20, 1967, Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson saw a seven-foot creature in Bluff Creek, California — and caught their encounter on film. In October 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob ...

On July 2, 1931, a man named Peter Kürten entered the execution courtyard of Klingelputz Prison in Cologne, Germany, flanked by the prison’s priest and psychiatrist. He was on his way to the ...

Genevieve Carlton earned a Ph.D in history from Northwestern University with a focus on early modern Europe and the history of science and medicine before becoming a history professor at the ...

On March 18, 1919, the streets of New Orleans were filled with music. People flooded into crowded jazz bars while makeshift jazz bands cropped up in homes across the city, frantically playing into the ...

From 1994 until 2004, serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis brutally murdered eight women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, committing heinous acts of necrophilia, cannibalism, and dismemberment. He was so ...

In 2010, a man named Larry Ray moved into his daughter’s dorm at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He befriended her roommates, enchanting them with tales about his time in the U.S. Marine Corps and ...