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

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near ...

An Australian potato farmer from Beech Forest, Victoria, Cliff Young won the 544-mile Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at the age of 61.

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.

Over the years, more than 20,000 people have vanished in the region between Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik known as the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." ...

Starting in the 16th century, some Italian parents had their sons castrated so that they could become castrati, singers with high-pitched voices.

Philip Chism was just 14 when he murdered his 24-year-old math teacher Colleen Ritzer at Danvers High School before dumping her corpse behind the school.

Juana Maria initially lived on the island with her son, but after he died in a fishing accident, she was left completely on her own.

First opened in 1970 and shut down in 2011, the Élan School was the "last resort" for parents of teens with behavioral problems — and allegedly a site of systemic abuse. For some, the idyllic woods of ...

These bizarre and seemingly unbelievable coincidences in history will leave you wondering "what were the chances?" Coincidences that seem too strange to be true happen more than we think. The Law of ...

From declarations of love and remembrances of old friends to hilarious insults directed at locals, the Pompeii graffiti preserved since 79 A.D. is a raunchy sight.