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.

Aztec culture remains uniquely fascinating in part due to its various religious practices that tend toward the macabre, including human sacrifice and temples decorated with human skulls. But one of ...

Ryan, a Democratic Representative from California, had made a name for himself as a maverick politician. He once had himself arrested and briefly incarcerated at Folsom State Prison while ...

On May 15, 2010, 16-year-old Kalief Browder was arrested in the Bronx, New York for allegedly stealing a backpack. Police couldn’t find the backpack or any of its contents on Kalief, and the teen ...

Roughly 80 hours before British businessman Richard William Smith perished in the sinking of the Titanic, he asked a friend to send a postcard for him. Smith’s postcard arrived at its destination, ...

Leicester Cathedral, an English church with a history stretching back hundreds of years, has become the focus of a groundbreaking archaeological discovery first made in 2022. While excavating the ...

As the national sport of Japan, sumo wrestling has a long and intricate history. The sport involves wrestlers, called rikishi, attempting to force each other out of a circular ring or make their ...

On May 17, 2001, the last day of Alissa Turney’s junior year of high school, the teen mysteriously vanished from her Arizona home. Earlier that day, her stepfather, Michael Turney, had picked her up ...

At first, the marine ecologists surveying the waters near the Solomon Islands thought they’d found a shipwreck. Then they realized that the hulking shape beneath the water was something much more ...

Archaeologists in Türkiye have made an astonishing discovery in the ancient city of Hadrianopolis: a 1,600-year-old pendant depicting Solomon spearing the Devil while on horseback. This rare artifact, ...

The story of the Ten Commandments is one of the most important in the Bible. Dictated by God to Moses, the directives include the famous principles of honoring one’s parents, not stealing, and ...

Three months after Ryan Borgwardt went missing, authorities have uncovered shocking evidence that suggests he staged his own death and fled to Europe. The 45-year-old kayaker and father of three ...