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 ...

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In a new study published in Science, researchers analyzed the impacts of free-roaming bison in Yellowstone National Park.

Though believers say that the prophet Moses, Paul the Apostle, and God Himself are the main authors who wrote the Bible, the historical evidence is more complicated. Given its immense reach and ...

“You know, it’s the saddest thing but it seems like everybody my mother ever gets close to dies,” Velma Barfield’s son Ronnie Burke once said, according to the Toronto Sun. “How could the good Lord ...

For 30 years, Jane Hawking was Stephen Hawking's wife and devoted caregiver — until he left her for one of his nurses. In 1963, Jane Wilde learned that her boyfriend, Stephen Hawking, had motor neuron ...

Ed and Lorraine Warren likely need no introduction. The two paranormal investigators have been permanently embedded into the pop culture zeitgeist thanks to the success of The Conjuring franchise. The ...

After burning hundreds of Protestants at the stake in the mid-1500s, Queen Mary I of England became known as "Bloody Mary" — and a chilling legend was born. As the legend goes, Bloody Mary is easy to ...

On the night of December 11, 1964, singer Sam Cooke burst into the main office of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles. He was wearing nothing but a jacket and one shoe. Cooke demanded that the motel ...

These torture devices from the Middle Ages will make you glad you live in modern times. Picture a dark, dank cell. The dripping of water. The skittering of rats. And the tortured moans of the people ...

A child-sized doll dressed in a sailor's suit with alleged supernatural powers, Robert the Doll is now kept under lock and key at the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida. Noticeably ...

While Atlantis may have first been mentioned by the ancient philosopher Plato, interest in “rediscovering” the fabled lost city only truly took off in the late 19th century. Since then, curious minds ...