On the southern leg of the P.T. Barnum's tour, Anna Haining Swan would meet Martin Van Buren Bates. Soon after, they would enter the record books as the world's tallest couple.

In 1900, the lighthouse keepers on a remote Scottish island vanished. The official report called it an accident. But suspicious clues – and a puzzling logbook – point to a darker explanation.

Often described as spiritual messengers and attendants of God, Biblically accurate angels sometimes look very different from what you'd expect. In modern times, Biblical angels are almost always ...

In the 1970s, hundreds of threatening letters flooded a small Ohio town from an author who claimed to know everyone's secrets.

Over the years, more than 20,000 people have vanished in the region between Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik known as the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." ...

How and why the Liberty Bell cracked is difficult to determine, but there are many theories that explain the origin of the iconic symbol's beloved flaw. Of all the symbols of American independence, ...

An Australian potato farmer from Beech Forest, Victoria, Cliff Young won the 544-mile Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983 at the age of 61.

Starting in ancient times, military leaders punished soldiers for insubordination with decimation, the slaughter of ten percent of a unit.

Starting in the 16th century, some Italian parents had their sons castrated so that they could become castrati, singers with high-pitched voices.

In 1985, David Brown ordered his 14-year-old daughter Cinnamon to murder her stepmother Linda, claiming that Linda was planning to kill him for his money.

King Henry VIII famously married six wives all in an effort to produce male heirs, but only one of his legitimate children was a son who survived past infancy.

Philip Chism was just 14 when he murdered his 24-year-old math teacher Colleen Ritzer at Danvers High School before dumping her corpse behind the school.