Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

A true crime specialist, Neil Patmore served as a police officer in the UK for nine years, and a private investigator for three years before becoming a writer. Steven Pennell became known as the ...

According to The Guardian, Sullenberger had hit birds three or four times in his career as a pilot, but on those occasions, the strikes hadn’t even dented the plane.This felt different. The whine of ...

This is when Blanco became known as “The Godmother.” Blanco found an ingenious way to smuggle cocaine into New York. She had young women fly on planes with cocaine hidden in their bras and underwear, ...

The New England Society For Psychic Research. 1952 was a big year for Ed and Lorraine Warren.That year, the (in)famous demonologists founded the New England Society for Psychic Research — and their ...

One of history's most famous — and bloodthirsty — legendary creatures, vampires have terrified human beings for centuries. In 1892, a group of frightened villagers in Exeter, Rhode Island gathered at ...

On February 22, 1970, 14-year-old Keith Sapsford made a tragic choice to become a stowaway. Desperate for adventure, the Australian teen snuck onto the tarmac at Sydney Airport and hid in the wheel ...

Though the Kraken has long been a fixture in Scandinavian lore, one of the first descriptions of the beast in writing came from Francesco Negri.An Italian priest and travel writer, Negri described the ...

So, what is a Skinwalker? As The Navajo-English Dictionary explains that the “Skinwalker” has been translated from the Navajo yee naaldlooshii.This literally means “by means of it, it goes on all ...

At the Hesperus, Moore reported what he’d found.Two more sailors joined the search for the missing men. But the investigation only deepened the Flannan Isle mystery. In the lighthouse, the searchers ...

First described by Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias in 360 B.C.E., the Lost City of Atlantis was a purported civilization near the Strait of Gibraltar that sank into the Atlantic.

The Ark of the Covenant is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, when God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites to build an ark (a chest) out of “acacia wood” that is “two and a half cubits long, a ...