LONGFORM

The first dramatization of the ‘Titanic’ wreck featured a survivor playing a fictionalized version of herself and a love interest named Jack.

Some believe that tuning our music to 432 Hz rather than 440 will make it sound better—and make us feel better. What gives?

In 1981, 58-year-old Polly Melton went for a hike in a well-traveled national park. She never returned.

Geraldo Rivera promised to dig deep in Al Capone’s hotel hideout on Chicago’s South Side back in 1986—here’s the oral history of how it all really went down.

Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to destroy the industry.

For the past century, the quest to break the Beale Ciphers has attracted the military, computer scientists, and conspiracy theorists. All have failed.

A Mormon teenager traveling through the American Southwest in the mid-19th century was abducted by Native Americans. Her life was never the same.

On January 30, 1925, Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins went underground—and didn’t come out. The epic effort to rescue him gripped national headlines and transformed into a battle between heroism and folly, selflessness and selfishness, life and death.

The game of familiar faces has surprising connections to Anne Frank and fidget toys.

What began as a routine renovation revealed Harvard's history of body snatching.

In 1908, a playboy made a bet he could walk around the world without being identified. Then things got weird.

Lucy walked on her own two feet. Scientists weren’t expecting that.