History's Mysteries

On August 13, 1906, unknown men shot up the streets of Brownsville, Texas, killing one man and hurting another. Soldiers of the all-Black 1st Battalion of the 25th Infantry were blamed.

In the 1930s, some 300 pro-Nazi and right wing groups were active in America, as well as a secret organization called the Black Legion that terrorized the Midwest for nearly a decade.

In March 2000, the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list turned 50. We examine some of the most interesting cases.

In 1944 in Brussels, the Gestapo loaded 1,500 prisoners on a train bound for Germany and almost certain death. Among them were Allied invaders and Resistance workers.

On November 13, 1942, all five Sullivan brothers from Iowa were serving aboard the USS Juneau when a Japanese torpedo hit. The survivors bobbed in shark-infested water. Explore the harrowing story.

The first recorded U.S. extrasensory event occurred in 1848, when two girls from New York were said to have communicated with spirits behind their bed. We'll reveal America's preternatural past.

Initially circulated in the 14th century, 'The Travels of Marco Polo' gave Europeans a glimpse into Far Eastern cultures. But was the famed Venetian explorer even real?

Are ships sailing without a crew really a thing? We travel the seven seas seeking answers and hear from witnesses to bizarre maritime events.

In 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, American Klansmen and Nazis fired into a crowd of protestors, killing 5 and wounding 11. Why did an all-white jury find the shooters not guilty?

The whaler Essex sailed from Nantucket in 1819 and met its doom in the middle of the Pacific in 1820, when a sperm whale attacked, causing the ship to sink-and inspiring 'Moby Dick.'

The heinous story of Africans forcibly enslaved and shipped to America is well-known; yet it is just one tragic episode in the 6,000-year saga of world slavery.

What do Abbot and Costello, John Lennon Jean Dixon, George Carlin and Frank Sinatra have in common? Each had an FBI file with his or her name on it. We explain why.