Most people know the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment. In 1971, a group of student volunteers agreed to act as guards or prisoners for two weeks. The ensuing cruelty of the guards was so ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1623, word reached the settlers of Plymouth Colony that the Wampanoag leader Massasoit had fallen ill. The colonists had struck a peace deal with Massasoit in 1621, and so Pilgrim leader Edward ...

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 ...

The Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet that’s considered to be the oldest map of the world, contains depictions of the Earth as the ancient Mesopotamians understood it. Created around the ...

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 ...

Totem poles were first created by several Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest who resided mostly in modern-day Alaska and British Columbia. While the exact origins of totem pole carving are ...

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 ...

The 3,900-Year-Old Tomb Of An Egyptian Priestess Was Just Found Hidden Behind A Stone Wall 45 Feet Underground ...