Stefan Fritzl was born into a nightmare. His world had no sunlight and no blue sky. In fact, his world was composed of a tiny basement dungeon where his sadistic grandfather, Josef Fritzl, had ...

Archaeologists have officially uncovered the oldest firearm ever found in the continental United States, a 500-year-old bronze cannon. The wall gun is linked to the 16th-century expedition of Spanish ...

In July 1989, Patricia Stallings took her three-month-old son, Ryan, to the emergency room after he began vomiting and struggling to breathe. There, doctors found high levels of ethylene glycol, a ...

In the 19th century, the Orphan Train Movement started out as a humanitarian endeavor to pluck children out of the slums of East Coast cities and send them to good homes in the Midwest. There, they ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 65,000-year-old Neanderthal “tar factory” in a cave in Gibraltar. A small hearth found in Vanguard Cave was seemingly once filled with plant material that ...

During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969. The Manson murders of 1969 brought a nation ...

Before the Maya built their now-iconic pyramids, their predecessors built a network of canals in the wetlands of present-day Belize. And though the latter may not sound as impressive as the former, ...

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 ...

The gunfight at the O.K. Corral has become an iconic event in the untamed history of the Wild West. Lawman Wyatt Earp, his brothers Morgan and Virgil, and his faithful friend Doc Holliday took on a ...