London in 1886 was a city brimming with contradictions. Gaslight illuminated the streets while fog crept in around Parliament, and in...

Ambrose Bierce lived a life as sharp and uncompromising as the words he put to the page. Born in a log cabin in Ohio in 1842, the tenth...

In the late 1920s, southern California was booming—fields giving way to movie studios, small towns transforming into bustling cities. But...

In the spring of 1935, the quiet English seaside town of Bournemouth was shaken by a crime that became one of the most sensational trials...

In the summer of 1660, the quiet market town of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire became the setting for one of the strangest and most...

On a January afternoon in 1892, the streets of Memphis bore witness to a shocking act of violence. A young woman named Alice Mitchell,...

In the annals of Victorian true crime, few stories captured the public’s imagination like the Tichborne Case. What began as a missing...

In the summer of 1959, a quiet dread began to settle over the backroads of Virginia and Maryland. At first, it was subtle—just headlines...

Nestled in the quiet farmland of York County, Pennsylvania, there’s a place once known only to locals as Rehmeyer’s Hollow. But after the...

It started in the English countryside with a man who claimed to speak for God. In the 1840s, a charismatic former clergyman named Henry...

In the summer of 1826, a bricklayer named William Morgan vanished from Batavia, New York. He didn’t leave a note. He didn’t pack a bag....

In 1887, a young journalist named Nellie Bly took on a daring assignment that would change the course of investigative journalism. She...

In the late 19th century, London was home to many shadows. Among them lurked George Chapman — a man whose life reads like a macabre novel...

In October of 1944, with World War II still raging and the Hollywood Canteen bustling with dancing soldiers and starlets, 20-year-old...

In November 1929, a woman stepped off a ferry onto the small, windswept island of Iona. Dressed in a long black cloak and trailing...

On a bitterly cold morning in January 1889, the quiet stillness of the Vienna Woods was shattered by a scandal that would rock the...

In the summer of 1965, 16-year-old Sylvia Likens and her younger sister Jenny were left in the care of a woman their parents barely knew....

In the quiet town of Klingenberg, Bavaria, a young woman named Anneliese Michel became the center of one of the most disturbing and...

On a warm summer afternoon in 1867, eight-year-old Fanny Adams set off from her home in the quiet Hampshire town of Alton with two other...

In the spring of 1943, four boys were sneaking through the tangled woods near Hagley, Worcestershire, when they stumbled upon something...