Somewhere between the notoriety levels of the Mothman and the Ogua lies one of the most visually iconic creatures in all of cryptid lore: the Flatwoods Monster.
Although the Pan African congresses had comparatively little political or financial power, they spurred international discussions about racism and colonialism.
People of a certain age recall the bright spot of back-to-school shopping: Back when, finding that perfect metal lunch box could really enhance a child's brand.
Explorer Leif Erikson was the second of three sons of Erik the Red, the Viking who created the first European settlement on Greenland somewhere around 980 CE.
With 1945 came the beginning of the end for Japan's major cities. Tokyo became a focus of America's offensive -- as Japan's capital, and for its construction.
President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, and the U.S. government began forcefully removing Native peoples from their homes in a deadly march.
In the 1960s, serial killer Jack the Stripper terrorized the streets of London and claimed the lives of several sex workers who he left stripped naked.
Polish army captain Witold Pilecki knew they needed information about what was really going on inside the Germans' newly developed work camp, Auschwitz.
John George Haigh, also known as the Acid Bath Killer, was one of the most notorious serial killers in England with a particularly macabre tool in his arsenal.
If America is an open road, then the American counterculture of the 1960s is best described as a bus, hand-painted, loaded, and roaring toward the horizon.
Jens Söering and Elizabeth Haysom met in 1984 while pursuing their undergraduate degrees. Eventually, they were suspects in the murder of Haysom's parents.
A fear of cults was growing in the American psyche, and they found an outlet in the brutal murder of a young Stanford student named Arlis Perry in 1974.
As described in the Old Testament portion of the Bible, Leviathan is a sea creature that fears no one but is feared by all of mankind. What does it symbolize?