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

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near ...

Her 18-year-old boyfriend shot her parents then used a samurai sword to nearly decapitate her mother and stab her brother.

Simo Häyhä has the most confirmed kills of any sniper on record — and he endured astonishing conditions to earn that title.

Centuries after the first wave of the Black Plague killed nearly half of Europe, we are still left wondering how the deadly plague subsided.

The 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping left 26 children and their school bus driver buried alive until their miraculous escape.

On a remote highway in rural Louisiana, six lawmen awaited Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow on the morning of May 23, 1934. When the infamous criminal duo arrived, the posse shot 130 bullets into their ...

When Ken McElroy was shot in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses, no one called an ambulance or said a word about the shooters to the cops.

Thanks to high mortality rates and the rampant spread of disease, death was everywhere during the Victorian era. So many people came up with creative ways to remember the dead — including Victorian ...

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

Over the years, more than 20,000 people have vanished in the region between Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik known as the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." ...