In July 2012, an 11-year-old boy named Liam Corcoran managed to travel from the United Kingdom to Italy without a passport, a boarding pass, or any money.

On April 8, 2018, a routine corporate dividend payout transformed into one of the most expensive keyboard errors in financial history.

In the mid-1850s, a police nightwatchman in Edinburgh acquired a small terrier to accompany him on his shifts.

In the spring of 1991, a highly successful CEO stood before thousands of business leaders and delivered a speech that would instantly cause his multi-million-pound company to collapse.

In the spring of 1806, a strange advertisement in a London newspaper invited the public to see a man weighing 700 pounds (317 kilograms) for the price of one shilling.

A fictional FBI agent flashed her badge on television screens in 1993 and subsequently caused a measurable shift in the demographics of real-world scientific laboratories.

In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, young peasant girls seeking servant work began disappearing within the cold stone walls of Csejte Castle.

Deep within the highly secure vaults of the Bank of England lies an unimaginable fortune in the form of individual pieces of paper.

In October 1869, two workmen digging a well in Cardiff, New York, struck something hard 3 feet (0.91 meters) below the surface.

In the highly structured world of American politics, one presidential candidate stands out by wearing a large rubber boot on his head and carrying a giant toothbrush.