On Dec. 16, 2000, 31-year-old Mike Williams, a real estate appraiser from Tallahassee, Florida, vanished during what was supposed to be a morning duck hunting trip on Lake Seminole. At first, police ...

You never know what you may find while dumpster diving. Recently, one dumpster diver in New York state came across an especially surprising discovery while rummaging through trash bins in the town of ...

If Ottis Toole’s confessions are to be believed, he may have been one of the deadliest serial killers in modern American history. He and his partner-in-crime, Henry Lee Lucas, claimed that their ...

Norse mythology is full of powerful gods like Odin and Loki. But one of the most powerful was a goddess named Freya, or Freyja. Said to be the goddess of love, sex, fertility, war, and death, Freya ...

For the past 25 years, the Atomic Museum has been trying to ascertain the true identity of the woman in Don English’s famous 1957 photograph of a woman wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit. Widely known ...

An excavation project archaeologists are calling “a game changer” in Motza near the city of Jerusalem, has revealed an expansive 9,000-year-old settlement. According to the Australian Broadcasting ...

In 1873, at least 11 bodies were found on the property of the Bender Inn, a small store and resting place in Labette County, Kansas, for travelers on the Osage Mission Trail that was run by the Bender ...

When the Polish Treasure Hunters Association “Husaria” and the Triglav Historical and Research Association set out to search a forest north of Warsaw on Nov. 3, 2024, they hoped to locate a Roman-era ...

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 ...

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.

Who would have known that seeds from 2,000 years ago would still be able to grow into trees today? This was proven by a team of scientists who were able to grow multiple date palms in Israel by using ...

One incredibly well-preserved 5,600-year-old mummy is now upending much of what we thought we knew about Ancient Egyptian embalming. A new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science ...