Known as the "Sea Waif," Terry Jo Duperrault spent more than three days adrift at sea until she was found.

While on an expedition along the Congo River in 1888, James Jameson traded six cloth handkerchiefs for an enslaved girl, handed her over to cannibals, and then sketched the gruesome scene that unfolded in front of him.

The largest impact event in Earth's recorded history, the Tunguska explosion occurred in the skies above Russia on June 30, 1908, causing massive destruction.

After Raymond Robinson was disfigured in a childhood accident, people who saw him walking along dark Pennsylvania roads at night began spreading rumors of "Charlie No-Face" who appeared on isolated highways, sparking an urban legend that endures to this day.

Researchers were able to determine that the sword dates back to 850 to 950 AD and was likely owned by a Viking swordsman.

The permafrost of Siberia has the perfect conditions to preserve biological specimens for tens of thousands of years.

Anneliese Michel was subjected to 67 exorcisms that ultimately left her dead on July 1, 1976 at the age of just 23.

Robert Berdella earned the nickname the "Kansas City Butcher" because of the chilling way he tortured, murdered, and dismembered the six men he killed between 1984 and 1987.

On June 11, 1962, inmates Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin, and John Anglin became the only men to ever escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary — but nobody knows if they made it out of San Francisco Bay alive.

The leader of the notorious Kelly Gang, Ned Kelly was an Australian outlaw who became a folk hero after wearing makeshift iron armor and getting in a fatal shootout with police in June 1880.