After being caught with more than half a kilo of cocaine, Tim Allen faced life imprisonment in 1978. So he decided to make a deal — which eventually led to fame and fortune.

Before Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés defeated Moctezuma II in 1521, the Mexica people used these sweat lodges to worship deities related to purification, lust, vice, birth, land, and water.

Famous figures like Salvador Dalí and Audrey Hepburn donned elaborate costumes, dined on green dinner rolls, and wandered through a "hellish" maze at the party hosted by Guy and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild at the Château de Ferrière outside of Paris.

From the 1969 Berkshires UFO incident to the eerie tale of Barney and Betty Hill, these alien abduction stories might even make skeptics believe that the truth is out there.

Captain Lewis Nixon III fought with the 101st Airborne Division's Easy Company alongside Major Dick Winters in historic clashes like D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge.

Kenneth Taylor, an American pilot portrayed in Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, called the movie "a piece of trash; over-sensationalized and completely distorted."

Whether through religion, drugs, or physical coercion, every one of these nine cult leaders assembled a following that was willing to kidnap, kill, or cannibalize in their name.

Charles Manson's first wife, Rosalie Jean Willis, seemed doomed from the start. All three of her children died before she did — while Charles Manson lived to see old age.

The USS Nevada was found three miles below the surface of the Pacific over 70 years after it was scuttled.

Carole Ann Boone met serial killer Ted Bundy in Washington in 1974 and became his wife six years later while he was on trial for murder in Florida.