Genene Jones is alleged to have killed as many as 60 children while working as a pediatric nurse in Texas in the 1980s. She almost gained her freedom in 2...

Researchers have concluded that this 1,000-year-old sword belonged to a warrior of the Islamic Al-Andalus kingdom that ruled Spain between the 8th and 11t...

Two female skeletons were found that displayed signs of horseback riding and archery, activities associated with military training.

Lili Elbe was born Einar Wegener, and spent her entire life trying to choose between the man she was born as and the woman she wanted to become.

Sylvester Graham once said of white bread, "It is an evil to eat such vile stuff."

After writing the bible of the hippie movement, he almost single-handedly invented the New Age subculture and popularized yoga in the West.

Victims were brainwashed and instructed to write down every thought they had for review.

In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin deported thousands of prisoners to a gulag with so little food that it would soon become known as "Cannibal Island."

Researchers identified the date when Vikings were living at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland as the year 1021 based on wood fragments.

Mary Brown faces felony charges for cutting off the 62-year-old man's right foot.