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

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.

For years, Ed Gein holed up inside his dilapidated home in Plainfield, Wisconsin as he carefully skinned and dismembered his victims to fashion everything from a chair to a bodysuit. When police ...

Many Americans are taught that the Pilgrims and Indians gathered for a historic feast at Plymouth in 1621, but the true story of the first Thanksgiving is far more complicated. For as long as anyone ...

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

In January 1959, a group of young hikers set off on a journey through the Ural Mountains in then-Soviet Russia. About a month later, all of the hikers were discovered dead and scattered around their ...

For decades, the Saskatoon Police Service engaged in a practice known as “starlight tours.” After picking up Indigenous people on charges ranging from drunkenness to vagrancy, officers would drive ...

From ghosts to UFO sightings to a Bigfoot-like creature, legends claim that the Bridgewater Triangle has long been home to a variety of unexplained occurrences. You may be familiar with the Bermuda ...

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 ...

Before the Nazis, there was fascist Italy. Often overshadowed by the other members of the Axis and treated as little more than a footnote in the history of World War II, Italy was actually the world’s ...

These Nazi propaganda posters are as repugnant in their message as they are impressive in their artistic craftsmanship. In order to control a population, you must first control the population’s minds.

The history of piercing goes back at least as far as the oldest human mummy, and has taken many odd but often beautiful turns along the way. Chances are, even if you don’t have a single piercing on ...