Most historians agree that Plato used the story of the lost city of Atlantis as a cautionary tale, an entirely fabricated allegory illustrating how easily a utopian society could fall from grace.

As East Germany begins to construct the Berlin Wall, guards are sent to watch over the temporary line of barbed wire separating the east and the west. One East German guard, Konrad Schumann, takes ...

William James Sidis, Marilyn vos Savant, and Leonardo da Vinci have some of the highest IQs in history — but are they really the world's smartest people? Over the years, intelligence quotient tests, ...

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 ...

In Timaeus, Plato described Atlantis as having once been “larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the ...

Discover the real story of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug trafficker known as the "Cocaine Godmother" who ruled the Miami underworld in the 1970s and '80s. Known as the “Cocaine Godmother” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

At first, there was no sign of anything unusual about US Airways Flight 1549. On January 15, 2009, it took off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City at 3:25 p.m. It was supposed to land in Charlotte ...

No matter how you slice it, pizza is one of the world’s most popular foods. By some accounts, it is the most popular dish around the globe, and whether you prefer Chicago-style deep dish pizza or a ...

Would you ever consider castrating your son so he could have a singing career? While it might seem unfathomable today, this was a popular option for many Italian parents up until the 19th century.

The origins of the Gambino crime family are not all that different from those of the Genoveses. In fact, it was Giuseppe Morello’s ally Ignazio Lupo, also known as “Lupo the Wolf,” who started the ...