The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near ...

Though John Adams was old and ill when he died, the curious timing of his demise sparked countless unusual theories.

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

As East Germany begins to construct the Berlin Wall, guards are sent to watch over the temporary line of barbed wire separating the east and the west. One East German guard, Konrad Schumann, takes ...

The origins of the Gambino crime family are not all that different from those of the Genoveses. In fact, it was Giuseppe Morello’s ally Ignazio Lupo, also known as “Lupo the Wolf,” who started the ...

In 1991, the Bonanno family regained their seat on the Commission when Massino was appointed boss following Rastelli’s death. Massino took an isolationist approach to running the family, shutting down ...

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

The history of the Lucchese crime family doesn’t go back quite as far as that of the Genovese and Gambino families. While it was originally formed by members of the Morello gang who had split off, it ...

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, ...

One of the prevailing theories about the Hat Man is that he is a type of “shadow person,” a paranormal being that appears in the periphery of human vision. Shadow people are largely thought to be evil ...

The Hope Diamond first entered the historical record by 1666, when the then-112-carat gem was acquired in India by a French gem merchant named Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. Tavernier had made multiple ...

Indeed, “wyrm” came to serve as a catch-all term for these types of creatures, much like “dragon” does today. It is perhaps best to think of each creature as some variation on the same concept: ...