From darker skin to baldness, tech advances unveil Ötzi the Iceman's true physical attributes post-DNA contamination.
The USS Stein monster incident occurred in November 1978, when an unidentified creature emerged from the sea and damaged the ship.
The Chandeleur Islands are a chain of uninhabited barrier islands located in the Gulf of Mexico, 50 miles east of New Orleans. Here an amateur archaeologist made a fascinating discovery – the 12,000-year-old lost city submerged in water.
It is said that Gribshunden sank in 1495 after catching fire while in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Ronneby in southeastern Sweden; but the actual cause of her fate is still unknown. She is one of the best-preserved wrecks from the late medieval period.
On September 20, 1994, 22-year-old Candy Belt and 18-year-old Gloria Ross were found dead in a Oak Grove massage parlor where they worked. Almost three decades have passed, the double murder case still remains unsolved.
Archaeologists have unearthed a number of pottery drain pipes at a Neolithic site of Longshan Culture dating back more than 4,000 years and believe they form China's earliest and most complete urban drainage system.
Dancing plague of 1518 is an event in which hundreds of citizens of Strasbourg inexplicably danced for weeks, some even to their deaths.
Like modern humans, Neanderthal made and used bone tools for their daily needs.
DNA evidence from Spanish settlements indicates that cattle were imported from Africa early in colonization.
When the West End Baptist Church of Nebraska exploded in 1950, no one was injured because every single member of the choir was coincidentally late in arriving for practice that evening.