Allegedly conducted on the east end of Long Island during the Cold War, Project Montauk was a secret military experiment that used abducted children to develop psychological warfare techniques. The ...

Join us for the History Uncovered podcast, where we explore the uncharted corners of the natural world and the world past. Each Wednesday, we take a deep dive into a topic we haven’t been able to stop ...

The Ark of the Covenant is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, when God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites to build an ark (a chest) out of “acacia wood” that is “two and a half cubits long, a ...

In 1991, the Bonanno family regained their seat on the Commission when Massino was appointed boss following Rastelli’s death. Massino took an isolationist approach to running the family, shutting down ...

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

Born in Crawford County, Arkansas, in 1838, Bass Reeves escaped enslavement during the Civil War and found refuge in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). There, he became one of the greatest ...

Before the Greeks exalted Zeus or the Egyptians praised Osiris, the Sumerians worshipped the Anunnaki. These ancient gods of Mesopotamia had wings, wore horned caps, and possessed the ability to ...

While the Los Angeles Mafia never rose to the same notoriety as its counterparts in New York and Chicago, the crime family infiltrated Hollywood, had a hand in the growth of Las Vegas, and terrorized ...

The story of one of the world’s most famous mythological creatures emerged from a small corner of Scotland near Inverness. There, rumors have long abounded of a long-necked water beast living in Loch ...

When America was "discovered" by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, Viking navigators had already landed on the New World's shores centuries before. The question of who discovered America ...

Scandinavian folklore tells of countless legendary creatures, and one of the most famous is the Kraken. Said to be a squid-like monster capable of destroying entire ships, the Kraken may seem like ...

First described by Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias in 360 B.C.E., the Lost City of Atlantis was a purported civilization near the Strait of Gibraltar that sank into the Atlantic.