"The worst thing I did was fall in love with a married man," Judith Campbell Exner confessed years after the affair: "I kept my secret out of fear."

The mysterious Flying Dutchman has been spotted at sea since the late 1700s. However, there's more science than ghosts at work.

Giles Corey and his wife Martha were already outsiders in the farming village of Salem, Massachusetts when they were accused of witchcraft. They subsequently faced a torturous fate.

Ingesting just two to four berries from Atropa belladonna can kill a child. Ten to 20 berries can kill an adult.

David Kaczynski felt he had no choice but to turn his beloved older brother over to the FBI, who as the Unabomber, killed three people over a 17-year span — and injured many more.

Created by a disgruntled pirate radio broadcaster named Paddy Roy Bates in 1967, Sealand is an unrecognized micronation in the North Sea with its own constitution, national flag, and passport.

When Woody Harrelson was a kid, his father was just a normal dad. But by the time Woody was an adult, Charles Harrelson was a twice-incarcerated hitman.

At 2.5 inches with stubby legs and a squeaky-toy squeal, you've seen or heard nothing like the desert rain frog.

Born into slavery, Bill Richmond managed to get to England where the free man became the country's biggest and potentially first, African-American athletic celeb.

Clandestine, slippery, and young — John Surratt was the only co-conspirator who evaded justice after the assassination of President Lincoln.