In Celtic mythology, the Cailleach is a powerful goddess associated with winter and storms — but also with creation myths.

Farmer Khaled al-Shahat was working his land in Behbeit El-Hagar when he found two heads that once sat atop statues of ...

Stull Cemetery, located in the tiny town of Stull, Kansas, has long been associated with paranormal activity and the devil.

In today’s world, the idiom “running the gauntlet” is often used to describe when someone is facing extenuating circumstances, sharp criticism, and trials and tribulations. But, before it became ...

After reading about the 7,000-year-old burial found during school construction in Germany, discover nine of the world’s oldest human-made structures and the histories behind them. Then, learn about ...

Go inside seven chilling cases of phrogging, from Pamela Anderson's stalker to the murderous Denver Spider Man. For many people, the idea that a stranger could be living in your home without your ...

At the foot of Mount Fuji, the highest mountain peak in Japan, sprawls a forest called Aokigahara. For many years, the shadowy woodland was known as the “Sea of Trees.” But in recent decades, it has ...

Before they could even walk or talk, Daisy and Violet Hilton were put on display. Conjoined twins born in 1908, they were a curiosity in their hometown of Brighton, England, and visitors came in ...

From the Emancipation Proclamation to the end of the Civil War to the 13th Amendment, go inside the real story of how slavery was abolished in the United States. Slavery was a fact of life in the ...

The founding fathers’ religion wasn’t always worn on their sleeves. Looking back, it’s quite difficult to tell where some of our nation’s great leaders fell on the religious scale. Deism was popular ...

Mary Vincent was a 15-year-old runaway heading to visit her grandfather in California when she accepted a ride from a man named Lawrence Singleton in September 1978 — and it changed her life forever.

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...