September 11, 2001 was one of the darkest days in modern American history. In a series of coordinated terrorist attacks, carried out by al-Qaeda, hijacked commercial planes were turned into deadly ...

One of history's most famous — and bloodthirsty — legendary creatures, vampires have terrified human beings for centuries. In 1892, a group of frightened villagers in Exeter, Rhode Island gathered at ...

On Oct. 22, 2013, a ninth grader at Danvers High School in Massachusetts named Philip Chism did the unthinkable. At just 14, he brutalized his 24-year-old math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. The reportedly ...

The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day. In the 12th century B.C.E., Bronze Age civilizations began ...

When her Nicoleño tribe left California's Channel Islands for the mainland, Juana Maria stayed behind for 18 years. The classic 1960 novel Island of the Blue Dolphins still captures the imaginations ...

Whether involving rats, spikes, or boiling oil, the worst execution methods ever invented prove that humans have mastered the art of torture and death. If the last few thousand years of human history ...

If Giulia Tofana's confessions are to be believed, then the lethal potion maker is among the most prolific serial killers in history. Giulia Tofana was a 17th-century professional poisoner who sold ...

Often described as spiritual messengers and attendants of God, Biblically accurate angels sometimes look very different from what you'd expect. In modern times, Biblical angels are almost always ...

The heart attack gun fired a dart made of frozen shellfish toxin that would enter the target's bloodstream and kill them in mere minutes without leaving a trace. In 1975, more than 30 years of almost ...

From ghosts to UFO sightings to a Bigfoot-like creature, legends claim that the Bridgewater Triangle has long been home to a variety of unexplained occurrences. You may be familiar with the Bermuda ...

Brittany Norwood crushed her co-worker Jayna Murray's skull and severed her spinal cord in a brutal 2011 attack now known as the "Lululemon murder." Lululemon Athletica, the company that sells ...

In January 1959, a group of young hikers set off on a journey through the Ural Mountains in then-Soviet Russia. About a month later, all of the hikers were discovered dead and scattered around their ...