On January 31, 1976, Marie Elizabeth Spannhake vanished near her home in Chico, California — but it wasn't until 1984 that a woman named Janice Hooker claimed that her husband Cameron had abducted and murdered Spannhake eight years before.

From the 19th-century boomtown of Bodie, California to the real-life "Silent Hill" in Centralia, Pennsylvania, these ghost towns across the U.S. serve as haunting reminders of what life was like there before they were abandoned.

It was only thanks to Kerstin Fritzl's sudden illness that she, her mother Elisabeth, and two of her siblings were finally able to escape from their basement prison in 2008.

Archaeologists excavating at Zorita de los Canes, a 9th-century hilltop castle in Guadalajara, Spain, recently unearthed the remains of a woman alongside an order of medieval warrior monks.

The bronze bust of Caligula was cast 2,000 years ago and gifted to the British writer Horace Walpole in 1767, but it seemingly vanished after it was purchased by a collector in the mid-19th century.

Devin McIntosh of the London-based parkour group was attempting to jump from one rooftop toward another building's facade when some of the stone broke off, sending him to the ground with a hurt ankle.

The six stone sewing needles are roughly 9,000 years old and were discovered along the shore of Lake Xiada Co in western Tibet.

Historians generally pinpoint 476 C.E. as the fall of Rome, but the western Roman empire had been slowly collapsing for centuries — and the eastern Roman empire endured for another millennium.

Buried rivets alerted archaeologists to the presence of the ship, which may have been used in the burial of Viking king Bjørn Farmann.

Despite having little formal education, horse rancher Christopher Michael Langan has an IQ of between 195 and 210 and often lays claim to the title of smartest man alive.