A new analysis of a skull found in China has rewritten the history books on when and where modern humans arose.
Many people over the years have reported encounters with a shadowy figure in their bedroom at night.
A boy who collated stories of miracles on his website has been canonized years after his death at the age of just 15.
The attacks are the latest in a long series of incidents involving killer whales over the last few years.
70 years ago, neighborhoods in several big US cities were sprayed with a mysterious chemical compound.
A 32-year-old man from the UK suddenly found that he couldn't get to sleep and has been awake ever since.
A few thousand years from now, some of the human body's less useful adaptations are likely to disappear.
A prize-winning, hypothetical spacecraft could be the key to enabling humans to colonize distant worlds.
In 1955, a family had a strange experience that would become known as the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter.
Conspiracy theorists have perpetuated a rumor in recent years that rewrites the events of the Titanic disaster.
Dennis 'Tink' Bell was a 25-year-old meteorologist who fell down a crevasse in Antarctica back in 1959.
10 years ago, a sighting of a lion in Milwaukee prompted a major city-wide hunt involving hundreds of people.
A new survey carried out on the 100th anniversary of modern quantum mechanics has revealed deep uncertainties.
Airline authorities have been left scratching their heads over exactly what happened to the 83-year-old's remains.
Over 100 years ago, two young girls shocked the world with their photographs of what they claimed were real-life fairies.
Evidence of human cannibalism has been found in fossilized bones dating back 850,000 years.
The case is still regarded as one of the most compelling and chilling cases of poltergeist activity ever recorded.
For years it was believed that sloths were unable to fart - but now this peculiar claim has finally been debunked.
Researchers have sonified the sounds of the Earth's magnetic field reversing 780,000 years ago.
Even today, exactly what happened near Roswell, New Mexico almost eight decades ago remains a mystery.