In January 2009, 16-year-old Jett Travolta — the son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston — was found unconscious in his hotel bathroom at the Old Bahama Bay resort on Grand Bahama Island. He had ...

The Conjuring, one of the most popular horror franchises in Hollywood history, put Ed Warren and his wife Lorraine on the international stage. Portrayed in the films by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga ...

In the past century, Las Vegas has transformed from a small train stop in the desert to the "Entertainment Capital of the World" — but how did it happen? The history of Las Vegas as a city starts when ...

In January 1996, three young witnesses between the ages of 14 and 22 claimed to have seen something strange in Varginha, Brazil. They said they had seen a small, hairless creature with oily brown skin ...

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 ...

“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. After a lighthouse went dark in the wild islands north of Scotland, a ship traveled to the Flannan Isles to ...

In 1915, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out on an expedition in the Endurance to become the first team to make a land crossing of Antarctica. Their ship would become stuck in the ice and sink, ...

On a frigid night during one of the coldest winters in London’s history, a young poet named Sylvia Plath lay down in front of the oven and turned on the gas. Since then, Sylvia Plath’s death — and her ...

On Oct. 22, 2013, a ninth grader at Danvers High School in Massachusetts named Philip Chism did the unthinkable. At just 14, he brutalized his 24-year-old math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. The reportedly ...

In 1325, the Italian city-states of Bologna and Modena engaged in a short-lived war that allegedly started when Modenese soldiers stole a wooden bucket. During the Medieval period, what we know today ...

When 19-year-old Brandon Swanson crashed his car into a roadside ditch near Minnesota West Community and Technical College in 2008, he naturally called his parents for assistance. As he maintained ...

Go inside the brutal murder of Gabriel Fernandez at the hands of his own mom — and the horrific abuse that preceded his death in May 2013. Often, child abuse happens behind closed doors. But the abuse ...