Authorities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines say they have discovered an abandoned boat and the remains of 11 people along ...

A vessel containing the remains of 11 people 'in an advanced state of decomposition' were discovered on an island in the ...

What's potentially even creepier, however, are abandoned islands. As eerie as they are, however, these ruins of twelve deserted islands have some pretty interesting backstories. These islands all ...

Hashima Island in Japan had 5,000 inhabitants at its peak, but it was left abandoned after its coal deposit ran out in the '70s. The Mitsubishi Corporation turned coal-rich Hashima Island into a ...

Far from the dark chaos imagined in fiction, the true story of six Tongan boys stranded on the abandoned island of ‘Ata after a shipwreck revealed resilience, cooperation, and hope in the face ...

The Guano Islands Act of 1856 enabled the seizure of unclaimed islands rich in the sought-after fertilizer. Ultimately, the United States annexed nearly 100 of these islands in the Pacific and the ...