September 11, 2001 was one of the darkest days in modern American history. In a series of coordinated terrorist attacks, carried out by al-Qaeda, hijacked commercial planes were turned into deadly ...

In a new study published in Science, researchers analyzed the impacts of free-roaming bison in Yellowstone National Park.

Researchers at the British Museum have used an ancient skull to reconstruct what the human face looked like 9,500 years ago. Working from a skull uncovered in Jericho — in the modern-day West Bank — ...

Ed and Lorraine Warren likely need no introduction. The two paranormal investigators have been permanently embedded into the pop culture zeitgeist thanks to the success of The Conjuring franchise. The ...

On Oct. 22, 2013, a ninth grader at Danvers High School in Massachusetts named Philip Chism did the unthinkable. At just 14, he brutalized his 24-year-old math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. The reportedly ...

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 ...

The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day. In the 12th century B.C.E., Bronze Age civilizations began ...

Mary Vincent was a 15-year-old runaway heading to visit her grandfather in California when she accepted a ride from a man named Lawrence Singleton in September 1978 — and it changed her life forever.

A victim of childhood sexual and physical abuse, Jason Vukovich decided to get revenge on sex offenders by becoming a pedophile hunter known as the "Alaskan Avenger." In 2016, Jason Vukovich the ...

First opened in 1970 and shut down in 2011, the Élan School was the "last resort" for parents of teens with behavioral problems — and allegedly a site of systemic abuse. For some, the idyllic woods of ...

“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. After a lighthouse went dark in the wild islands north of Scotland, a ship traveled to the Flannan Isles to ...

In 1983, a 61-year-old Australian potato farmer entered the first ultramarathon between Sydney and Melbourne. Few bet on the farmer winning the race. Not only did Cliff Young have a strange, slow ...