Stories

From early childhood Laurence Kim Peek displayed abilities that attracted attention from doctors, researchers and educators.

Visitors who reached the hillside village of Baktawng in Mizoram often came for a single reason. They wanted to see the man widely known for heading the largest living family on the planet.

Clinton Road runs through West Milford in Passaic County, New Jersey, from Route 23 near Newfoundland to its northern end by Upper Greenwood Lake.

At the height of Cold War tension the United States explored an unusual military idea. By the early 1960s naval officials were quietly capturing live dolphins to support national security.

In 1986, a twenty year old man from Maine stepped into the forest and vanished so completely that even his own family never filed a missing person report.

When a violent storm tore across Orkney in 1850 and stripped soil from a mound above the Bay of Skaill, villagers saw something that had been hidden for thousands of years.

In the early 1780s, James Price stood at the center of one of the most unusual scientific controversies in Britain.

When Zinaida Portnova left Leningrad in 1941 to stay with her grandmother in the Vitebsk region, she stepped into an area that would soon fall under German occupation.

When Antoine-Augustin Parmentier was captured by Prussian forces during the Seven Years’ War, he was forced to eat what the French called hog feed: potatoes.

From afar, Hashima Island looked like a battleship adrift in the East China Sea.