In the quiet Appalachian town of Beckley, West Virginia, one of the darkest mysteries in American mining history began on what seemed like a normal Thursday morning in 1955 when twenty-three coal miners…

In August of 1998, the Morrison family packed their yellow Honda Accord and left their Columbus, Ohio home for what was supposed to be a week-long camping trip to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, a…

For veteran fisherman Michael Brennan, July 17 started out like any other day along the rugged Maine coast, the kind of morning he had lived through thousands of times in his thirty-plus years…

It was supposed to be a pleasant afternoon, a simple chance for Deloris Jordan, the mother of basketball legend Michael Jordan, to treat herself after a lifetime of hard work and dedication, yet…

In 2015, images and videos spread rapidly across the internet showing an astonishing sight: ninety-six million black plastic balls floating across the surface of the Los Angeles Reservoir. At first glance, most people…

As people age, many begin to notice that everyday tasks which once felt effortless—like gardening, carrying groceries, climbing stairs, or even getting up from a chair—suddenly require more effort than before, and while…

In 2017, five adventurous young travelers disappeared deep in the thick and mysterious jungles of Ratanakiri Province in Cambodia, embarking on an expedition that was supposed to last only three weeks but instead…

In 2011, Sarah, 26, and Andrew, 28, a young couple from Colorado, set out on what was supposed to be a simple three-day camping trip to the Utah desert, but what began as…

A massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck parts of Asia early Monday morning, unleashing chaos and devastation across Myanmar, southern China, and northern Thailand. The violent tremor, which hit at 3:42 a.m. local time,…