How the rape and murder of 28-Year-Old Kitty Genovese 50 years ago became the most misunderstood crime in American history
One of America's most infamous crimes is the murder of Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bar manager, which occurred 50 years...
Animals speaking: Origins of a bizarre Christmas legend
Christmas has quite a few weird legends and traditions in addition to gravity-defying reindeer. Some bizarre Christmas myths are even...
Spontanous Combustion: The Curious Case of Mary Hardy Reeser
Pansy Carpenter, a native of St. Petersburg, went to deliver a telegram to her tenant, Mary Hardy Reeser, 67, on the...
For helping hundreds of women fleeing violent husbands, a serial killer was praised as a “heroine.”
In 17th-century Italy, women did not have easy lives. If you weren't stuck in an unhappy marriage, you might be...
Atlanta: Authorities Still Mystified by House that Seeped Blood
In her Atlanta home, 77-year-old Minnie Winston was bathing on the evening, of September 8, 1987. Stepping out of the...
The Mystery of Kentucky’s ‘Meat Shower’
In Kentucky in March of 1876, chunks of raw meat began to fall from the sky. A farmer's wife who...
The 50-year-old unsolved mystery of the Circleville Letters
A mysterious and unidentified source wrote and sent out a series of unmarked letters in the 1970s in the little...
The world of Appalachia’s mysterious and magical Granny Witches
Granny witches are an unusual species. They have roots deeper than cedars. They're as old as the Appalachian hills they...
It’s been 77 years and still no one knows what happened to the Sodder children of West Virginia
A billboard in Fayetteville, West Virginia, once featured black-and-white photographs of five children with dark hair and solemn eyes. Their...
Bigfoot was investigated by federal agents. Here is what they discovered.
Legends of enormous, ape-like monsters have been told all across the globe. The American version has been called "Bigfoot" since...