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 ...

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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 ...

In fact, most historians doubt that the chastity belt existed at all. Rather, it seems to have been a metaphor or a joke. So, what is a chastity belt? What Was The Chastity Belt?

Simo Häyhä has the most confirmed kills of any sniper on record — and he endured astonishing conditions to earn that title.

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.

On March 16, 1991, Latasha Harlins went to a grocery store to buy a bottle of orange juice — but the store's owner Soon Ja Du assumed she was stealing it and shot her in the back of the head. On a ...

The 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping left 26 children and their school bus driver buried alive until their miraculous escape.