Why is Friday the 13th Considered Unlucky?
Today, people around the globe will feel uneasy about getting out of bed, leaving their homes, or going about their normal daily routines, all because of a superstition.
Today, people around the globe will feel uneasy about getting out of bed, leaving their homes, or going about their normal daily routines, all because of a superstition.
For the past century, the quest to break the Beale Ciphers has attracted the military, computer scientists, and conspiracy theorists. All have failed.
Does a mysterious beast really patrol one of Scotland’s deepest lakes? You be the judge.
Did the great poet really build a tomb for a household pest?
It was one of the most sensational thefts in modern history.
Most of what you know about the Pony Express is probably myth. . Here are 11 things you might not have known about the amazing delivery service.
Whether you attend a church service, decorate eggs, or devour Peeps, no Easter celebration is complete without a visit from the Easter Bunny.
In Wilt Chamberlain's 1991 book, 'A View From Above,' the basketball great claimed to have slept with 20,000 different women during his life. Let's check his math on the basketball legend's most famous statistic.
He did, however, have another embarrassing—and very real—bathtub incident.
St. Nick brings the gifts. Krampus brings the pain. Here are some things you might not have known about Santa's demonic companion.
After testing evidence collected from the Tibetan Plateau and from museum collections, they found the biological root of the Yeti legends to be local bears.
The world’s only flying mammal isn’t nearly as bad as our fears make it out to be. Here are seven misconceptions about bats, as well as explanations of what really goes on in the batcave.
From myths to literature to giant squid, here's how some of our favorite eerie creatures and legends got their start.
Spilling pepper, complimenting a baby, and cutting your fingernails after dark are just a few of the things that will earn you bad luck around the world.
Just because the creatures are mythical doesn't mean there aren't hunting regulations.
Trackers are looking for “information leading to ... a bona fide Bigfoot."
In many cases, you can predict the color of an egg based not on the hen's feather coloring, but by their earlobe coloring.
Crocker Land was all but a phantom—one that famed explorer Robert E. Peary had invented out of the thin Arctic air.
“Ireland” may be the most popular answer given when someone is asked about where leprechauns supposedly roam, but Portland, Oregon has its very own population of little green-clad Irishmen, too.
The remains are commonly believed to be elaborate pieces of faux-taxidermy created for entertainment purposes at Edo Period carnivals called Misemonos.
"My life contains freedom, adventure, unpredictability, and the chance of one of the world’s greatest discoveries."
On December 24, 1955, the red telephone at the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center started to ring. When they picked up the phone, a little girl asked an unexpected question: “Are you really Santa Claus?”
For everyone who didn't make it on the "nice" list.
Sasquatch might want to steer clear of Texas.