A wealthy London merchant who once attended a French royal coronation deliberately chose to spend the rest of his life refusing to wash.

In the summer of 1917, two young cousins living in the English village of Cottingley borrowed a camera and returned with a photograph that captured the world’s attention.

In 17th-century France, a teenager disguised in men’s clothing broke into a convent, stole a deceased nun’s body, and set a room ablaze to escape with the woman she loved.

A catastrophic event shattered the earth 13,000 years ago, wiping out massive animals and plunging the planet into a 1,200-year mini ice age.

In the late sixteenth century, the Russian justice system carried out one of the most unusual criminal sentences in history.

In 1986, a Long Island bar bouncer operating under the pseudonym Eric Hart achieved a near-perfect score on the Mega Test, an untimed high-IQ examination.

Nine-year-old Kade Lovell from St. Cloud, Minnesota, lined up at the St. Francis Franny Flyer 5K race in Sartell on a rainy, thunderous morning.

In 1986, a minor 75-cent billing anomaly on a university computer network sparked the first documented hunt for an international cyber spy.

Medical history contains rare accounts of a phenomenon known as coffin birth, or postmortem fetal extrusion.

In 1984, leaders of the major narcotics syndicate in Colombia proposed an unprecedented deal to the national government.