Linda Napolitano claimed that three aliens abducted her from her Manhattan apartment and beamed her into their ship on November 30, 1989. Her story was allegedly corroborated by 23 witnesses — but even some of the most staunch alien believers are skeptical.

In 2019, amateur metal detectorists in England's Chew Valley uncovered a hoard of 2,584 silver coins dating to between 1066 and 1068 — and now it's officially the most valuable treasure ever found in the United Kingdom.

In 1972, Arthur Shawcross confessed to killing two children in Watertown, New York. Though he was sentenced to 25 years in prison, he only served 15 — and he soon started killing again.

In 2023, Brian Cleary was browsing the National Library of Ireland when he uncovered a Bram Stoker short story called "Gibbet Hill" that's been lost since it was published in a Dublin newspaper in 1890.

From Resident Evil to Five Nights at Freddy's, these scary video games left players horrified by their eerie settings and haunting characters.

A team of researchers from the Amazônia Revelada project uncovered an 18th-century Portuguese settlement and several other archaeological sites in the Amazon rainforest using LiDAR technology.

The temple was dedicated to Dushara, a supreme god of the Nabataean civilization, which thrived in northern Arabia from the fourth century B.C.E. until it was annexed by the Roman Empire in 106 C.E.

Since Marie Laveau, the famed Voodoo priestess of 19th-century New Orleans, died in 1881, visitors have flocked to her tomb to honor her legacy in the historic city.

Because Celtic burials like these were often extremely large, they tended to attract grave robbers almost immediately, meaning that archaeologists have rarely found them intact.

While investigating Royal Tomb II in Vergina, Greece, researchers discovered several artifacts they believe once belonged to Alexander the Great, sparking a reevaluation of who might be buried in the tomb.

Celebrated between October 31 and November 1, Samhain is a pagan harvest festival during which the spirits of the dead are said to walk among the living — and it inspired many of the Halloween traditions we practice today.