Native American women have held leadership roles for centuries. Across tribes, women became chiefs, warriors, shamans, and powerful figures in their own right.
Five teenage girls had been raped and murdered. Authorities were dealing with two serial killers in the Los Angeles area, and the killers' MO was gut-wrenching.
The heartless murderer killed so many people in her own family that she ended up earning herself the nicknames "Giggling Granny" and "The Jolly Black Widow."
Asa Earl Carter was a Klansman who wrote a book claiming to have Native ancestry. This is the messed up true story behind Klansman Asa Earl Carter's giant hoax.
If your family has skeletons in the closet, think how many Buckingham Palace has. These are the most bizarre unsolved mysteries of the British royal family.
On that day, 520 people lost their lives, and Japanese Air Lines Flight 123 went down in history as the deadliest single-plane accident in aviation history.
Iceland is famous for its low crime rate. There is only one serial killer in all of Icelandic history, and his reign of terror was over before before the 1600s.
In the quiet, peaceful woods around southwestern Vermont, many believe mysterious, dark forces are responsible for some strange occurrences and disappearances.
Miguel de Cervantes wasn't a genius who instantly found success. His life was marked more often with failure, legal issues, and debt rather than success.
Galileo Galilei is one of the most legendary astronomers of our times, a man whose name is ubiquitous with physics, research and everything in between.
For many Native American nations, the teepee was more than a symbol. It represented a kind of freedom. After all, teepees were the first truly mobile homes.
San Francisco's Emperor Norton is easily one of the most fascinating folks in American history. The strange true story of the man who was Emperor of America.
It was a trial that had everything: celebrity, sex, violence, and betrayal. At the center was a perverse years-long love triangle that began with rape.
So have you ever wondered what it would be like to own your own personal hermit? Those guys who shun society in huts in the woods and grow Gandalfish beards?
Quite a few royals had very short reigns due to unfortunate circumstances. Here are some of the tragic stories behind the shortest reigns in royal history.
Hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives, and the number of forced conversions was also very high, although this offered no guarantee of protection.
New England's puritans introduced what came to be known as "blue laws," which forbade people from participating in various secular activities on Sunday.
The truth about bank robberies in the Wild West is that although they are popular fodder for western movies, there really weren't that many in the early days.
Sometimes presidents get into situations that they didn't see a rational way to get out of, which leads to lies. Others just lie, and not for the greater good.