Discover the real stories of calamities, disappearances, and other inexplicable events that have unfolded inside the Bermuda Triangle, the infamous section of the western North Atlantic that's left experts baffled for decades.According to legend, in 1881 a ship called the Ellen Austin was sailing from Liverpool to the United States when it encountered an abandoned vessel. Opting to salvage the ship and its cargo, the captain sent over a small band of men to commandeer it.

As both the head of Boston’s infamous Winter Hill Gang and an FBI informant, Whitey Bulger made countless enemies — so it came as no surprise when he was killed in grisly fashion in 2018.Wikimedia CommonsA 2011 mugshot of Whitey Bulger. James “Whitey” Bulger’s death at the hands of his fellow inmates was a long time coming. Throughout the late 20th century, Bulger led the Winter Hill Gang, a Boston-based crime organization responsible for murders, racketeering, fixing horse races, and drug and arms trafficking.

Even though trailblazing mathematician Katherine Johnson helped put some of the first astronauts into space in the 1960s, she didn't get her due until decades later.NASA/Donaldson Collection/Getty ImagesKatherine Johnson at her desk while working for NASA in 1962. When Katherine Johnson retired from NASA in 1986, she capped off an astonishing career as one of the most invaluable “computers” in the history of the agency. Starting in the 1950s, her invaluable mathematical calculations had helped push NASA’s space exploration to untold heights.

Discover the full story behind the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy, from the initial plan that fell through to the other attacks that happened the night the president died.On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd decided to take a carriage ride. The last few years had been hard on the presidential couple. Not only had Lincoln been consumed by the Civil War, which was finally dragging to an end after four bloody years of fighting and the deaths of some 600,000 American soldiers, but the Lincolns were still reeling from a personal tragedy as well.

As a leader of a children's club, Anatoly Slivko had access to an endless supply of victims to hang and satisfy his sexual urges. YouTubeAnatoly Slivko Like the BTK Killer and John Wayne Gacy, Anatoly Slivko seemed like a normal man. On the outside, the married father of two was a man devoted to his family. On the inside, something was eating away at his soul, morphing him into a living breathing monster.

Scientists were surprised to find that the Tsimané people in Bolivia experience less brain atrophy than Westerners since the tribe has no access to modern medicine. Tsimané Health and Life History Project TeamA member of the Tsimané tribe in Bolivia. The secret to good health may lie deep in the Bolivian Amazon. There, researchers have discovered that people of the Tsimané tribe have remarkably healthier hearts and brains than Westerners. Scientists already had a clue that the Tsimané, a tribe of about 16,000, had excellent health.

Incisions made by Neanderthals on this prehistoric bear bone seem to be deliberate and non-utilitarian, suggesting they are an early example of symbolic art.T. Gąsior, Płonka et alThe 130,000-year-old bear bone that was carved by Neanderthals. At first glance, this prehistoric bear bone seems worse for the wear. Etched into its sides are marks that look like cuts, perhaps made by some sort of claw or possibly just damaged over the millennia.

These sharks mapped more than 35,500 square miles of seagrass, which has extraordinary carbon-storing properties that scientists hope will help fight climate change.Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty ImagesTiger sharks are among the largest apex predators in the sea. A group of seven tiger sharks employed by the American ocean conservation nonprofit Beneath the Waves have recently accomplished a unique mission: to map out an area of the Bahamas that has now been declared the world’s largest seagrass meadow.

The two men were spotted by a tanker crew 214 miles off the coast of Delaware after drifting for a week and a half.Crew of the Silver MunaWhen asked if they would try to sail from New Jersey to Florida again, Joe DiTomasso responded, “No… I’m staying in sight of land,” while Kevin Hyde said, “Sure, why not. I’m not dead yet.” When Joe DiTomasso, 76, and Kevin Hyde, 65, set out from New Jersey on a sailboat called Atrevida II with a dog named Minnie, they were looking forward to traveling south and enjoying the Florida sunshine.

When America was "discovered" by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, Viking navigators had already landed on the New World's shores centuries before.The question of who discovered America is a difficult one to answer. While many schoolchildren are taught that Christopher Columbus was responsible for the discovery of America in 1492, the true history of the continent’s exploration stretches back long before Columbus was even born. Library of CongressWhile Christopher Columbus is known as the man who discovered America in 1492, Norse explorers had actually reached Newfoundland circa 1000 C.