Jonestown, the site in Guyana where more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978, ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near ...

Join us for the History Uncovered podcast, where we explore the uncharted corners of the natural world and the world past. Each Wednesday, we take a deep dive into a topic we haven’t been able to stop ...

Called the 'girl in the box,' Colleen Stan's choice to hitchhike led to seven years of excruciating captivity.

Centuries after the first wave of the Black Plague killed nearly half of Europe, we are still left wondering how the deadly plague subsided.

Blood eagle sacrifices of the Vikings ritually executed a victim who was kept alive while his ribs were cut and lungs pulled out of his back.

On a remote highway in rural Louisiana, six lawmen awaited Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow on the morning of May 23, 1934. When the infamous criminal duo arrived, the posse shot 130 bullets into their ...

From the Hebrew Yeshua to the Greek Iesous to the Latin Iesus, discover the complex history behind Jesus' real name and how it evolved over the centuries.

A mythic lost continent that supposedly sank to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, Lemuria was posited as the birthplace of humankind by 19th-century occultists.

In fact, most historians doubt that the chastity belt existed at all. Rather, it seems to have been a metaphor or a joke. So, what is a chastity belt? What Was The Chastity Belt?

Bimini Road is an underwater rock formation located off the coast of North Bimini island in the Bahamas — and some people believe that it leads to the lost city of Atlantis.