Sarah Goode was one of several Black women who received patents in the 1880s. The year after Goode submitted the patent ...

LiveScience reports that a team of researchers analyzed ancient remains found at the Cooper’s Ferry archaeological site ...

Anne Boleyn is arrested for adultery, a charge that was likely false. Boleyn’s husband, King Henry VIII, may have fabricated the accusation to have her beheaded so he could marry his third wife, Jane ...

Around 104 C.E., Pliny the Younger sat down to write a letter. “Though my shocked soul recoils, my tongue shall tell,” he told the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus. Then, Pliny began to describe what ...

If any organized crime group were to embody the core tenets of the mob, the Gambino family would be a sure bet. As one of the “Five Families” of New York City, the Gambino crime family played a ...

Sometime before his death in 19 B.C.E, Latin poet Albius Tibullus described Rome as the “Eternal City” in an elegy. And for hundreds of years, that phrase — Roma urbs aeternus est — rang especially ...

For fans of the paranormal, Ed and Lorraine Warren likely need no introduction. For years, the Warrens were the world’s most famous paranormal investigators, digging into a range of alleged hauntings ...

Jonathan Brandis’ death in 2003 came as a great shock to everyone, both his loved ones and his fans. After all, the former teenage heartthrob was only 27 years old with a seemingly bright acting ...

Following her 2008 escape from the clutches of her father Josef, Elisabeth Fritzl now lives in a remote Austrian hamlet known only as "Village X" with her six children and new husband, Thomas Wagner.

On a January day in 2009, countless New Yorkers glancing out their windows saw an alarming sight: a low-flying passenger plane over the Hudson River. It was not terrorism, as some may have feared.

In parts of Spain, children celebrate Christmas by beating a log until it "poops" out gifts — and that's far from the only unusual holiday tradition that can be found around the world to this day.

“I’ve been observing your house,” read the anonymous letter Mary Gillispie received in 1977, “and I know you have children.” “Stay away from Massie,” the letter ordered. Somehow, someone knew that ...