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

Starting in the 1920s, Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis — but her work was anything but charitable. In fact, many of the babies she placed in homes around the country ...

The heart attack gun fired a dart made of frozen shellfish toxin that would enter the target's bloodstream and kill them in mere minutes without leaving a trace. In 1975, more than 30 years of almost ...

Nine years after his conservative family was featured on the ABC show "Wife Swap," Jacob Stockdale fatally shot his mother and brother before attempting to kill himself. The show Wife Swap has a light ...

“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. After a lighthouse went dark in the wild islands north of Scotland, a ship traveled to the Flannan Isles to ...

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 ...

Often described as spiritual messengers and attendants of God, Biblically accurate angels sometimes look very different from what you'd expect. In modern times, Biblical angels are almost always ...

What does it mean to be sane? How reliably can even medical professionals distinguish the sane from the insane? Psychologist Dr. David Rosenhan of Stanford University had long been interested in these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brittany Norwood crushed her co-worker Jayna Murray's skull and severed her spinal cord in a brutal 2011 attack now known as the "Lululemon murder." Lululemon Athletica, the company that sells ...

Automats were efficient vending machine-style restaurants that signaled to many Americans that the future in dining had arrived. So what happened to them? At the turn of the century, New Yorkers ...