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

More than 300 years ago, a Portuguese ship carrying treasure, important religious figures, and hundreds of enslaved Africans was attacked by pirates. From that point on, the exact fate of the ship, ...

Join us for the History Uncovered podcast, where we explore the uncharted corners of the natural world and the world past. Each Wednesday, we take a deep dive into a topic we haven’t been able to stop ...

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...

The real Annabelle doll reportedly committed a series of attacks in the early 1970s before it was confined in the Occult Museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren in Connecticut. She sits in a glass case ...

Bimini Road is an underwater rock formation located off the coast of North Bimini island in the Bahamas — and some people believe that it leads to the lost city of Atlantis.

A mythic lost continent that supposedly sank to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, Lemuria was posited as the birthplace of humankind by 19th-century occultists.

From the original Pentateuch to the New Testament, the real story of who wrote the Bible is a complex tale involving many authors over hundreds of years.

Called the 'girl in the box,' Colleen Stan's choice to hitchhike led to seven years of excruciating captivity.

In fact, most historians doubt that the chastity belt existed at all. Rather, it seems to have been a metaphor or a joke. So, what is a chastity belt? What Was The Chastity Belt?

On March 11, 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland, Brittany Norwood viciously killed her co-worker Jayna Murray over a pair of leggings in what's known as the Lululemon murder.

They decorated their planes with flowers and painted their lips with navigational pencils — then struck fear into the hearts of the Nazis.