By far Gustave Eiffel’s most well-known work, the Eiffel Tower was designed for the 1889 World’s Fair to celebrate the 100th ...

Along with a history of racist wartime propaganda, other forms of hateful posters and political flyers were persistent throughout the 20th century. The infamous white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan ...

From Nephthys, the ancient Egyptian deity who protected mummies, to the Aztec "Lady of the Dead," who continues to play a role in modern festivals, discover history's most fascinating goddesses of ...

In 1900, the lighthouse keepers on a remote Scottish island vanished. The official report called it an accident. But suspicious clues – and a puzzling logbook – point to a darker explanation.

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 ...

In the 1970s, hundreds of threatening letters flooded a small Ohio town from an author who claimed to know everyone's secrets.

Over the years, more than 20,000 people have vanished in the region between Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik known as the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." ...

Myths about Men in Black describe them as government agents or shapeshifting aliens in disguise who threaten witnesses of extraterrestrial phenomena.

According to centuries-old Mexican and Tejano folklore, La Lechuza is a bloodthirsty, shapeshifting owl with the face of an old witch known as a bruja.

Philip Chism was just 14 when he murdered his 24-year-old math teacher Colleen Ritzer at Danvers High School before dumping her corpse behind the school.

Between 1971 and 1973, an unknown serial killer in Rochester, New York strangled three girls who had the same first and last initial in what’s known as the Alphabet Murders.

Government records allegedly showed that Chinese herbalist Li Ching-Yuen was born in 1677, making him 256 years old when he died in 1933, but experts are skeptical.