The true story of The Conjuring, namely the Perron family and Enfield haunting, is scarier than the movies themselves.

Born Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez, Richard Ramirez became infamous as the "Night Stalker" after killing 13 people between 1984 and 1985.

From 1992 to 1999, Luis Garavito preyed upon and brutalized as many as 400 children and teenagers across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela — and he’ll be up for parole soon.

Edmund Hillary was the first person to climb Mount Everest, but he couldn't have done it without Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

After Phineas P. Gage took an iron tamping rod through his skull in 1848, his personality changed drastically in a baffling case that helped give birth to modern neuroscience.

With powerful members and mysterious rituals, the Skull and Bones Society has long been associated with sinister conspiracy theories.

Discover the real facts about Christopher Columbus, from the explorers that beat him to the Americas long before 1492 to his notorious boat troubles on the Atlantic.

A team at St. Nicholas Church in Demre, Turkey has found an intriguing shrine beneath the floors, previously unseen due to the tiled floor's intricate mosaic.

Though he's the face of the organization, there's so much more to the Medellín Cartel than just Pablo Escobar.

Bloodletting was used to draw "tainted" blood from a patient, in the hopes that the disease or infection would be extracted out with it.

Though some say the "Falling Man" photo of a 9/11 jumper may depict a man named Jonathan Briley, his true identity remains uncertain.