As one of the world's largest potter's fields, Hart Island is home to over one million unmarked graves. Wikimedia CommonsHart Island from the air. Manhattan Island and the surrounding Boroughs are hardly ever quiet. The city that never sleeps is bustling with people, day in and day out, locals on their way to work and tourists on their way to the see the sights. It can be hard to imagine any place in New York City being quiet or empty, and truly there are few places that fit that description.

Katie Sorensen, a 31-year-old "momfluencer," falsely reported that her two children were the victims of an attempted kidnapping in 2020.motherhoodessentials/InstagramKathleen Sorensen, the woman who falsely claimed her children were the victims of an attempted kidnapping. A court has sentenced 31-year-old “momfluencer” Kathleen Sorensen to 90 days in jail for falsely reporting that a couple had attempted to kidnap her children in 2020. That year, Sorensen and her two young children went to the craft store Michaels.

In the 1960s, Floyd McKissick laid out a plan for a utopian, black-managed town in the American South that he called Soul City. Here's how it happened -- and what became of it.Monica Berra/Vimeo FOR DECADES, Warren County, North Carolina was a site of extraction. Acres upon acres of tobacco plants wrested nutrients from the soil; plantation owners wrung wealth from the labor of slaves. While the plantations eventually shuttered and slavery came to an official close, the county — and others like it — continued to dwindle as many of its residents abandoned it for economic opportunity elsewhere, often in Northern, urban environments.

James Callender published exposés on founding fathers like Alexander Hamilton and publicized reports of Thomas Jefferson's rape of the enslaved Sally Hemings — then he drowned under mysterious circumstances.Early American history was rife with political scandals. Alexander Hamilton had an affair with a woman named Maria Reynolds, then tried to pay her husband hush money. Thomas Jefferson slept with an enslaved woman named Sally Hemings, who bore him several children. These stories, and more, were all first publicized by one person: James Callender.

From an early age, Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone struggled under the weight of his father's last name. So he decided to change it — and then he disappeared to California.Bettmann/Getty ImagesAlbert Francis Capone (middle) receives a baseball signed by Chicago Cub Gabby Hartnett (left) as requested by his father (right). 1931. When an elderly resident of Auburn Lake Trails, California died in 2004, his neighbors were in for a shock. The 85-year-old that they had known as Albert Francis Brown was actually Albert Francis Capone — Al Capone’s son.

Miriam Rodríguez spent years tracking down her daughter's killers, one by one, until she was murdered on Mother's Day in 2017.San Fernando Missing Persons Activists CollectiveMiriam Rodríguez dedicated her life to seeking justice for her daughter, Karen. Until the end of her life, one thing consumed Miriam Rodríguez: justice. Her 20-year-old daughter, Karen, had been abducted and killed by Mexican cartel members in 2014, and Rodríguez became determined to hunt down every one of her daughter’s kidnappers.

This is the oldest fossil of a modern bird ever found.Phillip Krzeminski“Wonderchicken” is considered one of the most important discoveries of its kind. We know that modern birds like chickens and turkeys are actually closely related to dinosaurs. But for some time, scientists have struggled to definitively place when modern birds evolved as we know them — until now. According to Science News, a team of paleontologists has just discovered a 67 million-year-old skull of a chicken-duck hybrid believed to be the oldest modern bird fossil yet known.

Images from the New Horizons spacecraft continue to astound scientists and space enthusiasts alike. Here are our favorite Pluto pictures.Pluto mosaic made from New Horizons LORRI images taken 14 July 2015 from a distance of 80,000 km. Image Source: NASA The dwarf planet is packing some serious beauty. Photos emerging from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft continue to amaze scientists and space enthusiasts alike, revealing more details on our solar system’s itty-bitty misfit.

The pedophile allegedly threatened to upload footage of the attack to the dark web if the victim's family went to the police.Rawalpindi PoliceAfter he was arrested, Sohail Ayaz reportedly confessed to at least 30 child rapes. A former Save the Children worker has been arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan for drugging and raping a 13-year-old boy. According to The Sun, Sohail Ayaz filmed the four-day assault and threatened to upload the footage to the internet should the child’s family go to the police.

The horse was found in full saddle suggesting that it was being prepped to rescue those fleeing the volcanic eruption.Cesare Abbate/ANSA Via APThe remains of a military official’s horse, discovered in Pompeii. Dec. 23, 2018. Awe-inspiring discoveries at the Pompeii archaeological site keep coming with the recent uncovering of a highly well-preserved horse — still harnessed and in its stable. The animal was killed in a flash when the nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.