History

The Bible speaks of these forgotten gods, present in everything from palatial temples to secret household idols, as catalysts for some of its most significant spiritual clashes.

Royal weddings and Hollywood glamour hid toxic marriages. They were filled with affairs, violence, murder plots, and spectacularly messy endings.

The American frontier was a place where people could disappear, fortunes could vanish and the truth could quickly become tangled with legend.

Some men became legends not because they never faced fear or pain, but because of what they managed to endure when most people would have given up.

There were hundreds of unique nations throughout Native North America, and some of these nations became powerful militarily, politically, and economically, dominating vast regions and influencing neighbors for centuries.

Some of the most terrifying men in modern history gained enough power to turn their ideas, ambitions and paranoia into suffering on an enormous scale.

A screwdriver, radioactive notebooks, and a rocket pioneer killed by his own chemicals. Being a genius came with a nasty catch for these brilliant minds.

A cactus that fought back, a deadly radio contest, and a robot killing in 1979. Some deaths were stranger than fiction.

Helen Keller backed eugenics. Johnny Carson hid a side TV audiences rarely saw. Learn the facts that might change some famous reputations.

It's not the first time people have stared death in the face and walked away, and these unbelievable survival tales truly stretch the imagination.