Sarah Goode was one of several Black women who received patents in the 1880s. The year after Goode submitted the patent ...

Since the 2000s, photos of Kenny the “tiger with Down syndrome” have made him an online sensation. Countless people have been captivated by his story, in which “the world’s ugliest tiger” was rescued ...

Animal trainer Dawn Brancheau worked happily at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, for many years. In her time there, she became a beloved trainer, and her shows with world-famous orcas brought millions of ...

After the Dutch merchant ship Batavia wrecked near Australia in 1629, a mutiny prompted an all-out war that eventually left some 200 people dead. On October 29, 1628, the Dutch East India Company ...

LiveScience reports that a team of researchers analyzed ancient remains found at the Cooper’s Ferry archaeological site ...

Residents along China's Yangtze River are faced with a deadly choice. Villagers can either drink its heavily-polluted waters or shoulder the expense of buying bottled water. With that cost often too ...

The real Annabelle doll reportedly committed a series of attacks in the early 1970s before it was confined in the Occult Museum of Ed and Lorraine Warren in Connecticut. She sits in a glass case ...

In July 1976, dozens of parents in rural Chowchilla, California, faced their worst nightmare when their children went missing. A school bus carrying 26 students mysteriously vanished on the way back ...

After the April 1986 nuclear disaster, a 30-kilometer zone around Chernobyl was completely abandoned. This is what it looks like today. More than 30 years have passed since the 1986 nuclear disaster ...

The shortlist of Peter Freuchen’s accomplishments includes escaping an ice cave armed with his bare hands and frozen feces, escaping a death warrant issued by Third Reich officers, and being the fifth ...

According to Abrahamic religions, after God created the Earth, he made man in the form of Adam and placed him in the Garden of Eden. And although humanity was later expelled from this paradise, some ...