Two carved stones in Jordan and Saudi Arabia are etched with accurate to-scale representation of nearby desert kites, which served as a method for hunting herds of wild animals.

For decades, the Toynbee Tiles have been appearing on the streets of Philadelphia and other cities across America bearing bizarre inscriptions — but no one knows who is behind them or what purpose they serve.

The "carefully gathered collection of hands” found in a 3,500-year-old temple may have been exchanged for gold.

Kuchisake onna is said to be a vengeful spirit who covers her disfigured face and asks strangers: "Am I beautiful?" She then attacks them regardless of how they answer.

A 1980s crack kingpin who later became a federal informant, Alpo Martinez was determined to fix his disgraced reputation in Harlem — until he was shot dead there in 2021.

Archaeologists from the nearby Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Eugene, Oregon, identified the tooth and said it is at least 10,000 years old.

Chef and artist Ernst de Witte made a presentation that convinced the Van Gogh Museum's curators to change the name of the Dutch artist's 1887 still life based on the grounds that the allium featured in it had been misidentified.

In 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. fatally shot his parents and four younger siblings in their Long Island home — then blamed the murder spree on demons.

The Ariel Phenomenon took place in September 1994, when more than 60 children at a school in Ruwa, Zimbabwe claimed that a UFO visited them during recess.

For centuries, changelings were said to be fairy offspring left in place of kidnapped children. But the truth is that many kids believed to be these creatures simply had unknown illnesses.

Originating in 16th-century England, the Drunkard's Cloak was a public punishment for drunkenness that involved putting an empty barrel over the guilty party's torso, with holes cut out for their head and arms, and parading them through town to shame them.