Ötzi the Iceman may have died 5,300 years ago, but the mummy is still bringing forth new life today. A recent study of the microbes in and on Ötzi’s body discovered four strains of yeast that ...

Etta Place was the romantic companion of the Sundance Kid, but little is known about her — including her real name and her ...

South Carolina's Morgan Island has been an object of fascination and fear ever since thousands of rhesus monkeys were ...

On the surface, these popular nursery rhymes may seem lighthearted, but their origin stories might be far darker than you ever imagined. There are certain rhymes that follow us from childhood. Tunes ...

For most people, September 13, 1978 was an ordinary Wednesday. But for Cheryl Bradshaw, the bachelorette on the TV matchmaking show The Dating Game, that day was momentous. From a lineup of “eligible ...

In the early morning hours of November 13, 1974, one Amityville house in Long Island, New York became more than a mere suburban home. Instead, it became a ghastly crime scene, as Ronald DeFeo Jr.

Timothy Treadwell had a passion for bears. After surviving a drug overdose in the late 1980s, he began spending his summers among the wild bears of Alaska, and he attributed his recovery from ...

When Ken McElroy was shot in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses on July 10, 1981, not a single citizen of Skidmore, Missouri called an ambulance or said a word about who was responsible to ...

A pinnacle of self-discipline, Mr. Rogers never smoked or drank. He ate a vegetarian diet for ethical reasons. “I don’t want to eat anything that has a mother,” he said. But was Mr. Rogers in the ...

Despite mountains of evidence, the mystery of what happened to Roland T. Owen in Room 1046 of the Hotel President in Kansas City remains unsolved to this day. On January 2, 1935, at 1:20 p.m., a lone ...

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 ...

On March 21, 1947, an anonymous caller notified New York's 122nd Police Precinct about the smell of decomposition emanating from the dilapidated house at 2078 5th Avenue. It belonged to the Collyer ...