The S.K. Pierce Mansion, one of the "most haunted" homes in Massachusetts, was listed for sale for $1.2 million in April 2025 ...

Frida Kahlo’s personal style and distinct artwork have made her one of the most recognizable artists of the 20th century. Kahlo’s art deftly blended her personal reflections and her deepest ...

On July 2, 1996, news broke that supermodel Margaux Hemingway died of an intentional overdose at 42 years old. In the last years of her life, her decades-long career had been marred by a public ...

In 1725, a Russian peasant gave birth for the first time. That alone would not be worth noting – except that she purportedly went on to have 26 more pregnancies. In all, Valentina Vassilyev is ...

The long line of ancient Roman emperors is marked by a strange pattern: Almost every exceptionally brilliant emperor was succeeded by an exceptionally mad one. The benevolent emperor Claudius, who ...

More than any other source, Kurt Cobain's journals reveal the music that inspired him and the problems that plagued him.

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As a self-described protégé of legendary film director Francis Ford Coppola, Victor Salva has long been one of the most controversial directors in Hollywood. His debut feature film, Clownhouse, ...

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Go inside the complicated history of when the Bible was written and the ongoing debates about the authorship of the Christian holy book. It’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible.

Bradbury then went home and immediately wrote The Next In Line, a bone-chilling short story about malevolent supernatural forces. Look through the gallery above to see the Guanajuato mummies that so ...