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From ghosts to UFO sightings to a Bigfoot-like creature, legends claim that the Bridgewater Triangle has long been home to a variety of unexplained occurrences. Public domain.Dighton Rock in the Bridgewater Triangle, photographed by Frank S. Davis on September 11, 1893. You may be familiar with the Bermuda Triangle, the mysterious region where, legend has it, all aircraft and ships disappear. But did you know there’s another triangular region known for supernatural activity in the United States?...

A few months ago, this sculpture, resembling an ancient cell phone with cuneiform lettering, set off a wave of theorizing across the Internet. Image Source: Art Replik / Facebook Last December, the Internet was abuzz with a story claiming that archaeologists in Austria had unearthed what looked like an 800-year-old cell phone with cuneiform script on its “buttons.” As you’d guess, amateur conspiracy theorists from around the web — not to mention a bevy of at least moderately respectable news sites — ran with the story....

See for yourself why this ancient Chinese stone forest known as Shilin draws tourists from around the world. Source: Amusing Planet There is an ancient forest in southern China where thousands of limestone rock formations press upward from the earth. Trees dot the stone landscape, adding bursts of greenery to an otherwise grey scene. Located about 50 miles from Kunming, the provincial capital of the Yunnan Province, China’s Stone Forest remains one of the country’s most visited locations–and it’s not hard to see why....

Cold War-era floppy disks for nuclear management finally retired, 1970s NASA revelations of life on Mars revealed, possibly ancient bear skull unearthed. After Decades, The U.S. Air Force Finally Retires Its Floppy Disk System For Managing Nuclear Weapons Seeker/YouTubeLt. Col. Jimmy Schlabach holds up one of the eight-inch floppy disks used by the SACC system. With the defense industry being a prominent pusher of advances in technology, one would think the U....

Just days after the school posted its new opt-out policy to a Facebook page, the decision was reversed on the urging of parents and a local branch of the NAACP. TwitterMaria Montessori Academy has a student body of 322 — with only three of those children being Black. Black History Month aims to provide students across the United States with an understanding of how vital people of color have been in building, shaping, and advancing the country....

While James Madison has often been called the “Father of the Constitution,” he wasn’t the only one who wrote the famous document in 1787. The easiest answer to the question of who wrote the Constitution is James Madison. After all, the Founding Father and future U.S. president famously drafted the document after the Constitutional Convention of 1787. But that, of course, oversimplifies things. While Madison is recognized as the chief architect of the finished product, the U....

As America’s opioid crisis affects millions, babies nationwide are born with harrowing inherited-withdrawals from their addicted mothers. Wikimedia CommonsAn intubated newborn in a neonatal unit, 2011. The opioid epidemic has become a national crisis. While most victims of this modern phenomenon are addicted adults, there are newborn babies born of those addicts who suffer from withdrawal the moment they enter the world. These babies end up in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) — an ICU for infants — and experience pain and suffering before they can experience anything else in their world....

From impalement to the blood eagle, these execution methods prove that they mastered the art of pain in the Middle Ages. Medieval execution was a horrifying and gruesome prospect. During the Middle Ages, the unspeakable cruelty of capital punishment was only matched by the creativity of the torture techniques. To put things into perspective, decapitation was seen as the least painful way to go. The Medieval period spanned about 1,000 years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance....

Infamous fake photos from a time before photoshop. Wikimedia Commons In our modern world of the internet and photoshop, where it’s second nature to double check almost every photo for legitimacy, it can be hard to imagine a time when people believed outlandish photos without any proof. Fake photos of monsters and flying humans would be published in newspapers without any verification, and it seemed that people would believe just about anything if it was captured on film....

From famous chiefs like Sitting Bull to fearless leaders like Geronimo, discover the real stories behind the most fabled Native American warriors. Much has been said about the courage of Union soldiers during the American Civil War and the “Greatest Generation” of American troops throughout World War II. Overlooked and forgotten, however, are a litany of Native American warriors who defied the westward expansion of white settlers — and fought to defend their unique and diverse cultures....

Virulently anti-Catholic and anti-Irish, William “Bill the Butcher” Poole led Manhattan’s Bowery Boys street gang in the 1850s. Bill “The Butcher” Poole (1821-1855). Bill “The Butcher” Poole was one of the most notorious anti-immigrant gangsters in American history. His bullying, violent temperament inspired the main antagonist in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York but it ultimately led to his murder at age 33. New York City was a very different place in the mid-1800s, the kind of place where a egotistical, knife-wielding pugilist could win a place in the hearts — and tabloids — of the city’s masses....

The rock groupie from Little Rock who never stopped rolling with the band. YoutubeGrand Funk Railroad, the band who mentions Hamzy in their song “We’re an American Band.” As long as there’s an American band around, Connie Hamzy will keep “doin’ her act.” Connie Hamzy, born Jan. 9, 1955, in Little Rock, Ark., has collected several nicknames over the years. Some call her Connie Flowers, “Sweet” Connie Hamzy, “Sweet Sweet” Connie, or just simply “Sweet Sweet....

The Bloody Benders lured in weary travelers who were hoping for a place to sleep — and got much more than they bargained for. In the 19th century, the American government had found itself in possession of a lot of land out west, but the land was relatively empty. To fix this problem, the government began offering plots of land to anyone who was willing to move out and farm it....

How Irma Grese went from being a troubled teen to becoming one of the most sadistic guards to ever work inside a Nazi concentration camp. From the deranged Dr. Josef Mengele to the cruel propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, the names of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi henchmen — and henchwomen — have become synonymous with evil. And of all the savage figures to emerge from Nazi Germany, one of the most beastly is that of Irma Grese....

The danger is that these fire ants will restart their colony wherever they reach dry land, which could easily be a person’s home. As Tropical Storm Harvey continues to rain down upon Texas causing heavy flooding across a large swath of the state, strange things have been seen floating in the floodwaters. In addition to inevitable personal items washed away from over-flooded homes, CBS Dallas Forth Worth brings us this odd, floating mass of fire ants just drifting along during the tempest....

There was a time when Korea was a free and united nation. Long before North Korea rose and the Korean War tore a nation apart, the people of north and south lived together in peace. Share Flipboard Email However, this free, united Korean Empire only existed for a short time. For a brief period starting in 1897, Korea was an independent nation, left alone by other world powers. The Korean people had gained their freedom from Russian rule, formed their own empire, and finally won the opportunity to develop and revel in their own culture....

Starting in 2008, Marc O’Leary stalked and raped at least six women in Colorado and Washington — and police refused to believe his first victim. A monstrous sexual predator, Marc O’Leary raped five women across two states over a three-year period — with a sixth victim narrowly escaping by leaping from her bedroom window. O’Leary was caught thanks to dogged work by two female detectives from different Colorado police forces combining their investigations....

Matthew Henson was part of the historic 1909 Arctic expedition that reached the North Pole, but because he had accompanied a white explorer, he wasn’t recognized for his feat until decades later. Many have laid claim to being the first human to set foot in the Arctic. But few of them have as strong a claim to the title as Matthew Henson — an orphaned descendant of slaves with a thirst for adventure....

They were caught in the bathroom, where they were waiting for smaller students to come in so that they could slit their throats, drink their blood, and eat their flesh. Bartow Police DepartmentA knife that the girls planned to use in carrying out their attacks. Two middle school girls in central Florida were recently caught before carrying out their plan to murder their fellow classmates, cut up their bodies, and drink their blood as well as eat their flesh....

“Please call the police … please don’t make it obvious.” The Chipper Truck Cafe/FacebookA screenshot of the message that the kidnapped woman added to GrubHub. When restaurant workers at the Chipper Truck Cafe in Yonkers, New York, received a GrubHub order at around 6 a.m. on June 19, they noticed an alarming additional request from the customer to “please call the police.” They did — and saved a woman being held hostage....