Peter Raubal, Heiner Hochegger, and Alexander, Louis, and Brian Stuart-Houston are all vastly different men. Peter was an engineer; Alexander was a social worker. Louis and Brian run a landscaping ...

The saying goes that a picture is worth a thousand words. That adage is especially true when it comes to the last photos of famous figures. Even if you consider seeking out these kinds of photos to be ...

On November 12, 1966, in Clendenin, West Virginia, a group of gravediggers working in a cemetery spotted something strange. They glanced up from their work as something huge soared over their heads.

During a Boy Scout camping trip in 2001, 13-year-old Cody Clawson got lost in Yellowstone National Park. After spending more than 18 hours in the wilderness, Clawson was rescued by the last person he ...

Lieutenant Colonel John “Mad Jack” Churchill had a motto: “Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed.” He was referring, of course, to the basket-hilted Scottish ...

A European gray wolf may have been spotted in France’s Normandy region in what could be the first appearance of the species in the territory in 100 years. According to local news outlet Francetvinfo, ...

Called "the phone of the wind," this device allows Japanese mourners to leave messages for those who died in the 2011 earthquake. Perched on a hill in Ōtsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, there sits a ...

To this day, actress Sharon Tate remains best remembered for her ghastly murder at the hands of the Manson Family in 1969. But though the horrific end to her story casts a long shadow, she was also a ...

With the South’s defeat at the end of the American Civil War, Black men were given the right to vote for the first time in the nation’s history in 1870, and the addition of their voices in the ...

In 1948, a photo was published of a Chicago woman apparently selling her children — and then she followed through with it. Here’s what happened to the kids afterward. In one of perhaps the most ...

Although it was not always obvious, the downfall of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was a long time coming. The reasons for this were Hitler's aggressive expansionist policies and the ideology of the Nazi ...

While excavating the site of a 2,800-year-old massacre in present-day Iran, archaeologists were surprised to come upon a pair of intertwined skeletons. The skeletons seemed to have died while sharing ...