John White, the governor of Roanoke Colony in Virginia, was there when the first English child—his granddaughter, Virginia Dare—was born in the Americas. Shortly after her birth on Aug. 18, 1587, ...

A growing number of unexplained disappearances involving retired Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials who travelled abroad has prompted China to impose strict new curbs on foreign travel, exposing ...

A SPATE of mysterious disappearances has sparked fresh fears of “witchcraft murders” after a Brit tourist vanished on a ...

For me, the most compelling stories are the ones with no answers, and the true story of Nome, Alaska, proves that truth can be stranger than fiction. Over the years, roughly two dozen people from Nome ...

If the most recent ratings for true-crime documentaries are any indicator, we've always loved a good "whodunit." A recent study from Boston University found that those who follow true crime will often ...