By far Gustave Eiffel’s most well-known work, the Eiffel Tower was designed for the 1889 World’s Fair to celebrate the 100th ...

From back-breaking manual labor to starvation rations, the Soviet Union's gulag camps inflicted horrific abuse upon their 18 million prisoners. During the days of Joseph Stalin, saying one wrong word ...

Join us for the History Uncovered podcast, where we explore the uncharted corners of the natural world and the world past. Each Wednesday, we take a deep dive into a topic we haven’t been able to stop ...

On February 22, 1970, a 14-year-old Australian stowaway named Keith Sapsford snuck into the wheel well of a plane flying from Sydney to Tokyo and fell to his death.

First opened in 1970 and shut down in 2011, the Élan School was the "last resort" for parents of teens with behavioral problems — and allegedly a site of systemic abuse. For some, the idyllic woods of ...

The Saskatoon police perpetrated a series of "starlight tours" in which they drove Indigenous people to the outskirts of the city and left them to freeze to death.

A mythic lost continent that supposedly sank to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, Lemuria was posited as the birthplace of humankind by 19th-century occultists.

Often described as spiritual messengers and attendants of God, Biblically accurate angels sometimes look very different from what you'd expect. In modern times, Biblical angels are almost always ...

Centuries after the first wave of the Black Plague killed nearly half of Europe, we are still left wondering how the deadly plague subsided.

From the Hebrew Yeshua to the Greek Iesous to the Latin Iesus, discover the complex history behind Jesus' real name and how it evolved over the centuries.

The real Annabelle doll reportedly committed a series of attacks in the early 1970s before it was confined in the Occult Museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren in Connecticut. She sits in a glass case ...

Called the 'girl in the box,' Colleen Stan's choice to hitchhike led to seven years of excruciating captivity.