The recovery team encountered a disturbing scene: the boat floating at an angle, its windows broken, and bridge obliterated as though it had been struck.
Somewhere outside of Berkley, Massachusetts lies a 40-ton boulder that wouldn't seem remarkable at a glance but actually holds a centuries-old mystery.
Ships sink, ships get lost, or break apart in storms. And in a few cases throughout history, the fate of the voyage has turned out to be an enduring mystery.
It seemed likely that in the spring of 1947, 22-year-old Christina Kettlewell — also sometimes called the "eight-day bride" — had everything to look forward to.
Milton "Doc" Noss was a traveling doctor who accidentally discovered an extensive cave network laden with gold and historical artifacts — or so he claimed.
The Victorian-style Hotel Del Coronado, opened in 1888, has gained a reputation for being haunted and for its supernatural guests that refuse to check out.
It's a distinction likely no one would want. Both terrible and fascinating, Roy Cleveland Sullivan holds the world record for "Most lightning strikes survived."
People of science don't know everything there is to understand about how glass becomes, well, glass. In particular, they're curious about the glass phase.
She was called the Virgin Queen and was cast as a monarch who eschewed love in favor of giving her attention to the task of ruling England and Ireland.
Everything was going fine until a week into the tiger shark's residency when out from the shark came a rat, bird, and — to everyone's horror — an intact arm.
For years, scientists and doctors were baffled as to what could be causing residents of an isolated town in Kazakhstan to fall asleep, sometimes for weeks.
In 1709, people across Europe were faced with below-freezing temperatures that just didn't break. Here's why the deadly Great Frost of 1709 is still a mystery.
Restaurant worker Jack J. Wurm was walking along the beach near San Francisco when he noticed a bottle floating in the surf with a bit of paper tucked inside.
Besides the messed up aftermath of WWII and its complicated legacy, there are several things from this worldwide conflict that remain pretty mysterious.