When Woody Harrelson was a child, his father seemed like a normal dad. But by the time Woody was an adult, Charles Harrelson was a twice-incarcerated contract killer.

Melinda Loveless, the 16-year-old mastermind behind Shanda Sharer's murder, wanted to kill her because she thought Sharer had "stolen" her girlfriend.

In 1949, priests performed an exorcism on a boy referred to as "Roland Doe" in a chilling ordeal that became the real-life inspiration for The Exorcist.

Just 45 minutes after arriving at a California hospital on February 19, 1994, Gloria Ramirez was pronounced dead — but strange fumes from her body made 23 medical staff sick.

For decades, scientists offered theories about the fabled sunken continent of Lemuria in the Indian Ocean. But in 2013, researchers uncovered evidence that it may have actually existed.

John "Junior" Gotti joined the Mafia in 1988, became the youngest capo in Gambino family history by the time he was 26, took over as acting boss in 1991 — and then walked away from it all.

With World War II nearing its end in the early months of 1945, hundreds of Japanese soldiers perished during the Ramree Island crocodile attack — the deadliest in recorded history.

Only living into her mid-20s, Ankhesenamun became the Queen of Egypt during the 18th Dynasty when she married King Tut.

Between 1979 and 1981, at least 28 children and young adults were murdered across Atlanta. Was Wayne Williams their killer?

Mr. Rogers always wore long-sleeve sweaters, which made some people convinced he was hiding tattoos underneath them.

For more than a century, Danvers State Hospital supposedly offered humane medical treatment to patients confined to the psychiatric facility — but the reality was far darker.

After the release of the short film Submission, which criticized the treatment of women in Islam, Theo van Gogh attracted the ire of Mohammed Bouyeri — who took deadly revenge on November 2, 2004.