Most historians agree that Plato used the story of the lost city of Atlantis as a cautionary tale, an entirely fabricated allegory illustrating how easily a utopian society could fall from grace.

For fans of the paranormal, Ed and Lorraine Warren likely need no introduction. For years, the Warrens were the world’s most famous paranormal investigators, digging into a range of alleged hauntings ...

At first, there was no sign of anything unusual about US Airways Flight 1549. On January 15, 2009, it took off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City at 3:25 p.m. It was supposed to land in Charlotte ...

What The Children At The Ariel School Saw The Ariel School Phenomenon unfolded on Sept. 16, 1994, in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, a community so small that it was sometimes described as more of a crossroad than a ...

Though the Kraken has long been a fixture in Scandinavian lore, one of the first descriptions of the beast in writing came from Francesco Negri. An Italian priest and travel writer, Negri described ...

As for the rest of America, it got its first real taste of the Navajo legend in 1996. A newspaper story chronicled a Utah family’s traumatizing experience with the supposed creature that included ...

Discover the real story of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug trafficker known as the "Cocaine Godmother" who ruled the Miami underworld in the 1970s and '80s. Known as the “Cocaine Godmother” and ...

Witnesses who've allegedly encountered the Beast of Bray Road describe it as tall and hairy, with glowing eyes, long claws, and the stench of rotting meat. Through the rural community of Elkhorn, ...

At the Hesperus, Moore reported what he’d found. Two more sailors joined the search for the missing men. But the investigation only deepened the Flannan Isle mystery. In the lighthouse, the searchers ...

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 ...

The Ark of the Covenant is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, when God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites to build an ark (a chest) out of “acacia wood” that is “two and a half cubits long, a ...

According to legend, Rome was first established in 753 B.C.E. by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who were the sons of Mars, the god of war. As the city grew in size and power, Rome eventually ...