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

More than 300 years ago, a Portuguese ship carrying treasure, important religious figures, and hundreds of enslaved Africans ...

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, ...

Did demonic forces really compel Ronald DeFeo Jr. to murder his entire family one autumn night in 1974? This is the real story of the Amityville Murders and the alleged hauntings that followed.

The real Annabelle doll reportedly committed a series of attacks in the early 1970s before it was confined in the Occult Museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren in Connecticut. She sits in a glass case ...

Elisabeth Fritzl spent 24 years in captivity, confined to a cellar and repeatedly tortured at the hands of her own father.

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

Thanks to high mortality rates and the rampant spread of disease, death was everywhere during the Victorian era. So many people came up with creative ways to remember the dead — including Victorian ...

From the original Pentateuch to the New Testament, the real story of who wrote the Bible is a complex tale involving many authors over hundreds of years.

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.

Also called Yuletide, the Pagan celebration of the winter solstice known as Yule was observed by ancient Germanic peoples for hundreds of years.

There have been over 200 climbing deaths at Everest and many of the bodies remain to serve as a grave reminder for those who follow.