Most people know the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment. In 1971, a group of student volunteers agreed to act as guards or prisoners for two weeks. The ensuing cruelty of the guards was so ...

On August 30, 2013, Bryce Laspisa called his mother to tell her he was pulling off the road to get some sleep before continuing his journey home — but he was never heard from again. In the early ...

Stefan Fritzl was born into a nightmare. His world had no sunlight and no blue sky. In fact, his world was composed of a tiny basement dungeon where his sadistic grandfather, Josef Fritzl, had ...

Archaeologists have officially uncovered the oldest firearm ever found in the continental United States, a 500-year-old bronze cannon. The wall gun is linked to the 16th-century expedition of Spanish ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a 65,000-year-old Neanderthal “tar factory” in a cave in Gibraltar. A small hearth found in Vanguard Cave was seemingly once filled with plant material that ...

Totem poles were first created by several Indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest who resided mostly in modern-day Alaska and British Columbia. While the exact origins of totem pole carving are ...

Before the Maya built their now-iconic pyramids, their predecessors built a network of canals in the wetlands of present-day Belize. And though the latter may not sound as impressive as the former, ...

After the American Civil War, it seemed that the country's great division between the North and the South had finally come to an end. But another division soon became very apparent: the division ...

In July 1989, Patricia Stallings took her three-month-old son, Ryan, to the emergency room after he began vomiting and struggling to breathe. There, doctors found high levels of ethylene glycol, a ...

At the annual meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), a team of archaeologists led by Johns Hopkins University’s Glenn Schwartz presented the remarkable results of their 16-year ...

Eight years ago, in the back of an old cabinet in Amsterdam, a small silver coin was found. It’s roughly the size of a nickel and technically has a silver value of just $1.03. However, there is ...

After murdering at least five women in 1888, Jack the Ripper seemed to disappear without a trace. He left few clues behind, and investigators have spent more than a century puzzling over his identity.