Later, when the BBC nature program aired, a cave explorer named Tim Fogg contacted Dr. Evans and explained that he had spotted similar spiders in caverns across Ireland and Northern Ireland. Fogg ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, the death sentence of a Texas woman named Karla Faye Tucker triggered a worldwide controversy. No one had any doubt about her guilt — in 1983, Tucker had murdered two people ...

Neal Cassady never published a book in his life. Yet he’s considered one of the most prominent figures of the Beat Generation — and a crucial influence on the work of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Boston, Massachusetts is the most famous Boston in the U.S., but it’s not the only city to bear this name. In Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley, there was once another Boston. Abandoned in the 1970s and recently ...

Patricio Lujan was a young boy in New Mexico in the 1930s when a normal day with his family in Santa Fe was interrupted by the sight of a strange woman near their property. The family watched in ...

On November 12, 1966, in Clendenin, West Virginia, a group of gravediggers working in a cemetery spotted something strange. They glanced up from their work as something huge soared over their heads.

Described as a reptilian creature with spines along its back, the Chupacabra is a legendary creature of the American Southwest known for attacking livestock and drinking their blood. Few cryptids are ...

On the night of April 14, 1912, one of the worst — and possibly most famous — maritime accidents in history occurred when the British passenger ship RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the North ...

From Jack the Ripper to Jeffrey Dahmer, history is full of tales of vicious murderers. However, few of these stories are quite so disturbing as that of Amarjeet Sada, who is widely considered to be ...

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. At this moment in history, that is fact, but it wasn’t always the case. Hundreds of millions ...

A new discovery in western India has stunned archaeologists and hinted at the existence of a previously unknown ancient civilization. According to the BBC, a pair of explorers found thousands of rock ...