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 ...

Elvis Presley was known for being extremely close with his mother Gladys Presley. When she tragically died of a heart attack in 1958, he would never be the same again. Elvis Presley spent much of his ...

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, ...

Vesna Vulović thought JAT Flight 367 would be like any other. Instead, she found herself falling out of the sky and miraculously surviving.

Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid died in 1881 — or did he escape, vanish, and live on under the name Brushy Bill Roberts in Texas all the way until 1950? In the late 1800s, the American Wild West was ...

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

Forty years before the British fought the Nazis, they used history's first concentration camps to commit genocide during the Boer War.

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.

On March 11, 2011 in Bethesda, Maryland, Brittany Norwood viciously killed her co-worker Jayna Murray over a pair of leggings in what's known as the Lululemon murder.

The 1883 Krakatoa eruption was so intense that it is considered the loudest sound ever, deafening anyone within 10 miles of it.