"Chopper" Read was a mob enforcer and contract killer who prided himself on only bringing harm to fellow criminals — then he became a bestselling author while still behind bars after writing a memoir about his deadly exploits.

Shannon Hoon was just 28 when he overdosed on cocaine in his band's tour bus after a years-long struggle with addiction.

Thousands of Indigenous artifacts found along the Rappahannock River provide physical evidence of the villages written about by English explorer John Smith in 1608.

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco was the epicenter of the hippie movement — offering psychedelic shops, lively music, and plenty of free love.

A Great Emu War in Australia, a "meat shower" in Kentucky, and a medieval trial involving the exhumed corpse of a pope are just a few of the strangest events from history.

A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have caused lower temperatures in Europe, thereby forcing Europeans to import more grain from the Black Sea — inadvertently introducing the plague to overcrowded medieval cities.

Despite building a guarded compound in Mexico City to protect himself, Leon Trotsky was killed in August 1940 by Ramón Mercader, a Soviet agent who pretended to be one of Trotsky's followers.

This latest research suggests that Aboriginal Australians and New Guineans have the longest unbroken ancestry of any group outside of Africa.

Former Nation of Islam member Thomas Hagan admitted to killing Malcolm X, but experts think he had help from other NOI members — and perhaps law enforcement.

Chonthirat Sakulkoo was suffering from extremely low blood sugar, which caused her to become so unresponsive that she appeared dead.