Prehistoric wooden spears found decades ago in Schöningen, Germany were once thought to be around 300,000 years old. It was thus believed that they were made by an early human ancestor known as Homo ...

The 2002 film Catch Me If You Can follows Frank Abagnale Jr. as he poses as a pilot, doctor, and lawyer, makes millions off of fake checks, spends years running from the FBI, and then agrees to work ...

During a Boy Scout camping trip in 2001, 13-year-old Cody Clawson got lost in Yellowstone National Park. After spending more than 18 hours in the wilderness, Clawson was rescued by the last person he ...

Although it was not always obvious, the downfall of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was a long time coming. The reasons for this were Hitler's aggressive expansionist policies and the ideology of the Nazi ...

The Gruesome Story Of Takahiro Shiraishi, Japan’s ‘Twitter Killer’ Who Found His Victims Online ...

Peter Raubal, Heiner Hochegger, and Alexander, Louis, and Brian Stuart-Houston are all vastly different men. Peter was an engineer; Alexander was a social worker. Louis and Brian run a landscaping ...

Stunt performer Ryan Dunn was just 34 years old when he died in a fiery car crash in Pennsylvania in June 2011 — and the details were nothing short of horrific. Around 3 a.m. on June 20, 2011, Ryan ...

What Was The Great Depression? In late October 1929, U.S. stock market values sharply declined, eventually culminating in what historians refer to as the "Great Crash." A number of factors led to the ...

On November 12, 1966, in Clendenin, West Virginia, a group of gravediggers working in a cemetery spotted something strange. They glanced up from their work as something huge soared over their heads.

To this day, actress Sharon Tate remains best remembered for her ghastly murder at the hands of the Manson Family in 1969. But though the horrific end to her story casts a long shadow, she was also a ...

Go inside the complicated history of when the Bible was written and the ongoing debates about the authorship of the Christian holy book. It’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible.