Throughout history, people facing extreme peril have reported feeling an invisible presence that helped lead them to safety, a phenomenon known as third man syndrome.

The Bible states that Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, but religious scholars continue to debate the Christian Messiah's exact birthplace, with other candidates including Nazareth and Jerusalem.

Ruins of the 4th-millennium B.C.E settlement at Shakhi Kora in Iraq have revealed the rise of centralized government — and then its sudden and apparently deliberate dismantling.

In 2022, an employee of Poland's Military Museum of Białystok went out for one of his regular swims in the Supraśl River — and came back with an intact sword from the Viking era.

From Isaiah Shoels to Cassie Bernall, go inside the heartbreaking deaths of the Columbine shooting victims who lost their lives on April 20, 1999.

The CIA's Operation Mockingbird was a supposed clandestine program meant to manipulate the American media — and some believe it's still active today.

Edward Winslow was not only a passenger on the Mayflower and one of the first governors of Plymouth Colony, but he also played a crucial role in maintaining relationships with the local Wampanoag people.

Samoset was an Abenaki man who welcomed the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony in March 1621, forging a relationship between the colonists and the Wampanoag people that ultimately led to the first Thanksgiving later that year.

George H. W. Bush was the first U.S. president to formally pardon a turkey, but the heartwarming tradition of sparing birds from the White House holiday table goes back much further than 1989.

Philip Zimbardo conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment to study the dynamics between inmates and prison guards — but it went infamously wrong after just six days.