When Helen Jewett was found dead from hatchet wounds to the head inside the brothel where she worked in 1836, the newspapers went wild with...
For 4,000 years, people in western Mongolia have used eagles to hunt small mammals — though only 10 women still uphold the practice. Leo Thomas/InstagramZamanbol,...
A young boy’s passion — and his distraction in school — ended up turning into the job of his young lifetime. Doodle Boy/InstagramJoe Whale doodling...
When the headless body was found, experts estimated he died within the last decade. They were off by about half a century. DNA Doe ProjectNo...
Kurt Cobain’s suicide note has fueled conspiracy theories since his 1994 death. Read the full text of it here, and decide for yourself what happened...
Zinaida Portnova was a typical teenager in Belarus, but when the Nazis invaded in 1941, she became a deadly Soviet resistance fighter who would be...
After a black barmaid named Hattie Carroll was killed by a drunken white man, Bob Dylan turned her story into a protest song. The Baltimore...
The woman with 14-inch biceps made history as an athlete, but Violette Morris was defamed by a sexist government and rumors of Nazi collaboration. In...
From a 40,000-year-old wolf head preserved in Siberian ice to the first black hole ever fully visualized, this year’s best science pictures left us astounded....
Ever since he discovered music created by concentration camp prisoners in 1988, Francesco Lotoro has been working tirelessly to revive every single musical note left...
