Images of John F. Kennedy’s assassination hold a permanent place in the American consciousness. Jackie Kennedy’s pink dress. The doomed convertible. The jubilant crowds. It was the moment, in Dallas, ...

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.

Described as a reptilian creature with spines along its back, the Chupacabra is a legendary creature of the American Southwest known for attacking livestock and drinking their blood. Few cryptids are ...

In 1977, journalist Carl Bernstein published an article in Rolling Stone with a serious allegation: that hundreds of American journalists worked cheek by jowl with the Central Intelligence Agency.

In the past century, Las Vegas has transformed from a small train stop in the desert to the "Entertainment Capital of the World" — but how did it happen? The history of Las Vegas as a city starts when ...

Under the code of omertà, anyone who spoke to the police was marked for torture and death — and so were their families. To countless Mafiosi, ‘Ndranghetisti, and Camorristi, the rule by which they ...

In 1973, a young California woman named Sharon Marie Huddle married a man named Joseph James DeAngelo. They would remain married for the next 46 years — during which time he committed a vicious series ...

Is the legend of the Moon-Eyed people proof that Welsh explorers landed in America more than 300 years before Columbus? Cherokee legend is full of incredible tales. But one of the most fantastic — and ...

Reported to have lived 122 years and 164 days, Jeanne Calment was allegedly the longest-living human of all time — despite heavy consumption of chocolate, cigarettes, and red wine. Jeanne Calment ...

Extravagant monuments, spacious parks, modern buildings, and interconnected roads would all seem to indicate a bustling metropolis. But in China, there is an increasing number of uninhabited "ghost" ...

Kendrick Johnson was found dead in January 2013 in a rolled-up gym mat at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia. Was it a terrible accident or something more sinister? On January 11, 2013, the body ...

While chastity belts have become part of our understanding of the Middle Ages, they were likely fabricated by historians during the Renaissance. Medieval men were worried. They were heading off to war ...