“True crime” as a genre has exploded in recent years, which is a sociologically interesting topic, but also just a clear indicator that people like to hear about unusual and sometimes morbid events.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the defining features of the past is that we know what happened. It’s how things work, with the way that we move through ...

Few things grip the human imagination quite like a civilization that was once great - building cities, writing laws, trading across continents - and then simply disappeared. Not conquered, not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern science has transformed how we study the past, allowing researchers to extract DNA from ancient bones, map buried cities ...

Scores of people were imprisoned and executed during the infamous Salem witch trials of the 1600s. Investigators examine the era's rampant anti-witch sentiment from a scientific viewpoint, testing ...

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) - A University of South Dakota anthropology professor's book challenging the image of a heroic Lt. Col. George Custer fighting American Indian warriors on a Montana battlefield ...

Editors’ note: “Unsolved Histories: What Happened to Flight 293” is a podcast that is about three intersecting stories that Seattle-based historian Feliks Banel has been investigating. It’s a mystery ...

One of the most bizarre unsolved homicides in Northumberland County turns 120 years old next month. For more than a century, the mystery of the Shamokin Head has intrigued residents since it first ...

History Channel’s popular series “History’s Greatest Mysteries” investigates a wide range of historical mysteries like the Titanic, Roswell, John Wilkes Booth and more and is returning with their ...