From 1994 until 2004, serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis brutally murdered eight women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, committing heinous acts of necrophilia, cannibalism, and dismemberment. He was so ...

After the American Civil War, it seemed that the country's great division between the North and the South had finally come to an end. But another division soon became very apparent: the division ...

Nineteen-year-old Brandon Swanson was on his way home to Marshall, Minnesota for spring break in 2008 when he slid into a ditch and called his parents for help — but he was never seen again.

The Spanish War of Succession begins in Europe. After Charles II of Spain died without an heir, several monarchs declared their right to the throne, sparking a conflict that would last 15 years.

When Viktor Bout saw an opportunity to build a business in the early days of the Soviet Union’s collapse, he took it. Soon, he would be known as the “Merchant of Death.” By the early 1990s, Bout had ...

“Don’t forget today,” General George E. Pickett cried to his troops on July 3, 1863, “that you are from Old Virginia!” With that, three brigades of 5,400 Confederate soldiers from Virginia poured ...

During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969. The Manson murders of 1969 brought a nation ...

Archaeologists at an Ecuadorian historical site have revealed that two individuals they unearthed were infants that had “helmets” made from the skulls of other children wrapped around their heads.

Italian authorities were recently alerted to photos of ancient Etruscan artifacts circulating online, including sarcophagi, urns, and funerary objects. The images highly suggested the items had been ...

On Dec. 11, 1945, 32-year-old Frances Brown was discovered savagely murdered in her apartment at the Pine Grove Hotel on Chicago’s North Side, a bread knife lodged in her neck. Scrawled on her living ...

Linda Napolitano was a typical housewife living in Manhattan with her husband and two children. But everything changed on Nov. 30, 1989, when she claims three gray bipedal creatures abducted her from ...

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.