Most people know the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment. In 1971, a group of student volunteers agreed to act as guards or prisoners for two weeks. The ensuing cruelty of the guards was so ...

Nineteen-year-old Brandon Swanson was on his way home to Marshall, Minnesota for spring break in 2008 when he slid into a ditch and called his parents for help — but he was never seen again.

In the 19th century, the Orphan Train Movement started out as a humanitarian endeavor to pluck children out of the slums of East Coast cities and send them to good homes in the Midwest. There, they ...

Stefan Fritzl was born into a nightmare. His world had no sunlight and no blue sky. In fact, his world was composed of a tiny basement dungeon where his sadistic grandfather, Josef Fritzl, had ...

Archaeologists have officially uncovered the oldest firearm ever found in the continental United States, a 500-year-old bronze cannon. The wall gun is linked to the 16th-century expedition of Spanish ...

During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969. The Manson murders of 1969 brought a nation ...

On August 30, 2013, Bryce Laspisa called his mother to tell her he was pulling off the road to get some sleep before continuing his journey home — but he was never heard from again. In the early ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 65,000-year-old Neanderthal “tar factory” in a cave in Gibraltar. A small hearth found in Vanguard Cave was seemingly once filled with plant material that ...

Before the Maya built their now-iconic pyramids, their predecessors built a network of canals in the wetlands of present-day Belize. And though the latter may not sound as impressive as the former, ...

Locals in the Mexican state of Campeche had always suspected that there were Maya ruins hidden beneath their feet. But it took a curious archaeologist — and a creative usage of LiDAR technology — to ...

Totem poles were first created by several Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest who resided mostly in modern-day Alaska and British Columbia. While the exact origins of totem pole carving are ...