On April 20, 1989, 37-year-old Patricia Meehan crashed her car near Circle, Montana and disappeared into a nearby field. Since then, she's allegedly been sighted over 5,000 times, but her ultimate fate remains a mystery.

On September 15, 2001, Balbir Singh Sodhi was planting flowers outside of his Arizona gas station to honor the victims of 9/11 when he was fatally shot from behind by Frank Roque because he was wearing a turban.

Stories about Hy-Brasil have circulated for centuries — and some even claim to have seen and visited the legendary island off Ireland's western coast.

Sometimes known as "Elissa" or "Alashiya," Dido was the first ruler of Carthage in Greco-Roman legend — but her life ended with suicide.

Susan Cabot struggled with her mental health during her final years, and when she attacked her son, Timothy Scott Roman, in 1986, he defended himself and ended up killing her.

Girolamo Savonarola's denunciations of luxury during the Renaissance drew the ire of the Catholic Church, which had him excommunicated, tortured, hanged, and burned in 1498.

After a shipwreck off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 1904, Carl Emil Pettersson married the princess of Tabar Island and was eventually crowned the king.

Though Sean Flynn briefly pursued an acting career like his famous father, he realized that wartime photojournalism was his real passion — and tragically, it would also be his undoing.

From the Portrait of Madame X to Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, John Singer Sargent's paintings and illustrations show why he's considered a virtuoso artist.

After moving to Los Angeles, Sessue Hayakawa became interested in acting and starred in his debut silent film in 1914 — and soon became the first Asian leading man in Hollywood.