The S.K. Pierce Mansion, one of the "most haunted" homes in Massachusetts, was listed for sale for $1.2 million in April 2025 ...

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.

In 1948, a photo was published of a Chicago woman apparently selling her children — and then she followed through with it. Here’s what happened to the kids afterward. In one of perhaps the most ...

Lieutenant Colonel John “Mad Jack” Churchill had a motto: “Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed.” He was referring, of course, to the basket-hilted Scottish ...

The nearly treeless desert region of the Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia contains some of the country’s most significant ancient artworks: a series of Ice Age finger paintings on the limestone ...

After winning a beauty contest when she was 16, Clara Bow went to Hollywood and became a popular actress — but her fairytale story ended in tragedy. Clara Bow was the inimitable “It Girl” of the ...

In the summer of 1518, the dancing plague in the Holy Roman city of Strasbourg saw some 400 people dance uncontrollably for weeks on end — leaving as many as 100 of them dead. On July 14, 1518, a ...

The saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words. That adage is especially true when it comes to the last photos of famous figures. Even if you consider seeking out these kinds of photos to be ...

With the South’s defeat at the end of the American Civil War, Black men were given the right to vote for the first time in the nation’s history in 1870, and the addition of their voices in the ...

The long line of ancient Roman emperors is marked by a strange pattern: Almost every exceptionally brilliant emperor was succeeded by an exceptionally mad one. The benevolent emperor Claudius, who ...

After years of examining a bounty of bones discovered by an amateur fossil hunter on a beach in England, paleontologists have concluded that the fossils belonged to a previously unknown species of ...

More than any other source, Kurt Cobain's journals reveal the music that inspired him and the problems that plagued him.