His story is one of the most familiar of all English folk tales — the leader of a band of merry renegades, who corrects society’s injustices by stealing from the rich to give to the [...]
The Shroud of Turin has long mystified the world, pitting the faithful against science. Is the ghostly image impressed on a burial cloth truly Jesus? A 1988 radiocarbon test dated it to between 1260 and [...]
Its very name conjures up horrific images of torture, persecution, and corruption of power. We’ll unravel the twisted history of “The Inquisition”, a special court established by Pope Gregory IX in 1231 to root out [...]
The bastion of some of the most top-secret activities in the world, Area 51 is literally impenetrable. It was the original testing site for the atomic bomb and then a high-security aero-engineering cluster. But here [...]
November 13, 1974. The idyllic Long Island town of Amityville sleeps peacefully. At about 3:15 a.m., using a high-powered hunting rifle, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo, Jr., systematically murders his entire family in their beds. Troubling questions [...]