Jonestown, the site in Guyana where more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978, ...

More than 300 years ago, a Portuguese ship carrying treasure, important religious figures, and hundreds of enslaved Africans ...

In 1900, the lighthouse keepers on a remote Scottish island vanished. The official report called it an accident. But suspicious clues – and a puzzling logbook – point to a darker explanation.

These photos of the Dyatlov Pass Incident document the days leading up to the mysterious deaths of nine young hikers — and the investigation into their gruesome deaths.

Eben Byers began drinking radium-infused water that his doctor prescribed for an arm injury in 1927 — but within three years, his bones were disintegrating. Eben Byers could have lived a privileged, ...

The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day.

Thanks to high mortality rates and the rampant spread of disease, death was everywhere during the Victorian era. So many people came up with creative ways to remember the dead — including Victorian ...

Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid died in 1881 — or did he escape, vanish, and live on under the name Brushy Bill Roberts in Texas all the way until 1950? In the late 1800s, the American Wild West was ...

On September 29, 1978, 15-year-old Mary Vincent accepted a ride from Lawrence Singleton, who then kidnapped her, raped her, and cut off both her arms.

The 1883 Krakatoa eruption was so intense that it is considered the loudest sound ever, deafening anyone within 10 miles of it.

The Saskatoon police perpetrated a series of "starlight tours" in which they drove Indigenous people to the outskirts of the city and left them to freeze to death.

Vesna Vulović thought JAT Flight 367 would be like any other. Instead, she found herself falling out of the sky and miraculously surviving.