Graysmith was working at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 when the Zodiac Killer sent an encoded letter to the newspaper.

On April 11, 1986, the FBI tracked two serial bank robbers down to a Miami side street. But when they tried to apprehend the ...

Elisabeth Sherman is a writer living in Jersey City, New Jersey. She holds a Master's in writing from Columbia University, and her work has appeared in Food & Wine, The Guardian, Yahoo, BBC, HuffPost, ...

Archaeologists working in Vergina, Greece have uncovered new artifacts inside Royal Tomb II, long linked to the family of Alexander the Great. The tomb was initially thought to belong to Philip II, ...

While investigating a Stone Age settlement just outside of Varberg, Sweden, archaeologists serendipitously discovered a massive Viking-Age burial ground rife with artifacts. So far, just six percent ...

Amber Morgan is an Editorial Fellow for All That's Interesting. She graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in political science, history, and Russian. Previously, she worked as a ...

Samhain, a word meaning “Summer’s End,” is a Celtic holiday marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the Celtic New Year on November 1. Originally celebrated among ancient Celts in ...

Conducted by Philip Zimbardo in August 1971, the Stanford Prison Experiment revealed how ordinary people could quickly adopt abusive behaviors when given authority and power. Between 1933 and 1934, ...

Archaeologists in Chifeng, China, have excavated an ancient tomb belonging to the Neolithic Hongshan culture that dates back 5,000 years. The Hongshan people, known for their impressive jade and clay ...

Beneath a mysterious, hand-carved structure built into the desert canyon walls in Petra, Jordan, archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb containing 12 skeletons. The structure, known as ...

Throughout the late-1980s, police were baffled by four brutal murders that had taken place in Florida and Texas between 1986 and 1987. Then, in 1990, the husband of Oscar Ray Bolin’s ex-wife called in ...