On May 31, 2014, 12-year-old Anissa Weier and her friend Morgan Geyser carried out a disturbing plot to stab their 6th-grade classmate Payton Leutner — because they thought it would make the fictional monster Slender Man happy.

Discovered at the site of a future film studio, the collection of 16th- and 17th-century clothing highlights the important role Toruń played as a cultural hub at the time.

Madison Bergmann, a 24-year-old teacher at River Crest Elementary School in Hudson, Wisconsin, was allegedly "obsessed" with her fifth-grade student.

As portrayed in the Tom Hanks-led film Captain Phillips, Abduwali Muse and three other Somali pirates hijacked the Maersk Alabama and kidnapped its captain. But Muse’s story was far more complicated than it appeared onscreen.

About 50 years after it was intentionally flooded, extreme heat and low rainfall have revealed the forgotten town of Pantabangan in the Philippines.

In 1994, Serge Monast claimed that NASA and the United Nations were trying to abolish traditional religions and national identities — so they could create a totalitarian one-world government.

Using LiDAR technology, archaeologists found that prehistoric monuments across County Wicklow may have served as routes to guide spirits to the afterlife.

Starting at least 7,000 years ago, prehistoric humans in the Arabian Desert used the Umm Jirsan cave as shelter from the blistering heat of the arid landscape above.

Now recognized as the deepest blue hole on Earth at a depth of 1,378 feet, the Taam Ja' ocean sinkhole located in Mexico's Chetumal Bay has surpassed the competition by hundreds of feet — and experts still don't know how deep it goes.

Better known as "Bugsy," celebrity gangster Benjamin Siegel ran criminal rackets in New York and Los Angeles before creating Las Vegas as we know it.

In 360 B.C.E., Plato wrote that Atlantis was once a powerful civilization — but the gods sent earthquakes to destroy the island nation when its people became greedy and proud.