In November 2016, Sherri Papini disappeared while out for a jog in Northern California. She was found three weeks later on a highway about 140 miles away, battered and bruised, and with a story about ...

Sarah Goode was one of several Black women who received patents in the 1880s. The year after Goode submitted the patent ...

Gary, Indiana was once a mecca for America's steel industry in mid-20th century. But decades later, it has become a desolate ghost town. Its declining population and abandoned buildings have lent it ...

LiveScience reports that a team of researchers analyzed ancient remains found at the Cooper’s Ferry archaeological site ...

In 1954, a man allegedly arrived at Haneda Airport in Tokyo with a passport from Taured — a country that doesn't exist. Was he a traveler from another dimension, or just a small-time fraudster trying ...

Two of the biggest teenage actors of the 1980s, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim shared the same first name, were lifelong friends, and co-starred together in a number of hit films, including The Lost ...

In May 1861, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln sent out a national call for volunteers to fight for the Union Army. Many eagerly rose to the occasion, including one unlikely soldier: a nine-year-old boy ...

Today, millions of people around the world use Braille to read and write. But before Braille, visually impaired people struggled to learn complicated systems that had major drawbacks. Until a ...

Since the 2000s, photos of Kenny the “tiger with Down syndrome” have made him an online sensation. Countless people have been captivated by his story, in which “the world’s ugliest tiger” was rescued ...

In the early 1990s, supermodels like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell skyrocketed to fame — but they soon became notorious for their attitudes. For a brief period in the 1990s, supermodels ruled the world ...

In 1967, prosecutor Jim Garrison accused Clay Shaw of conspiring with government agencies to assassinate President John F. Kennedy — but many believe it was all for media attention. Less than a year ...

When the Vikings sailed to Vinland — present-day Newfoundland — over 1,000 years ago, they had multiple women in their midst. One of them, Freydís Eiríksdóttir, carved her name into Norse legend ...