History's Mysteries

On August 13, 1906, unknown men shot up the streets of Brownsville, Texas, killing one man and hurting another.

Did the sinful biblical cities Sodom and Gomorrah exist or was the story of their destruction crafted for other purposes?

In March 2000, the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list turned 50. Shortly after a reporter wrote an article on fugitives.

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.

It has been called the most brutal land war in history: the clash in World War II between the armies of Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Josef Stalin.

On Friday, November 13, 1942, all five Sullivan brothers from Iowa were serving aboard the USS Juneau when a Japanese torpedo hit.

The first recorded U.S. extrasensory event occurred in 1848, when two girls from New York communicated with spirits behind their bed.

In 1857, en route to New York from California, the steamship Central America vanished in a killer storm off North Carolina's coast.

Ships sailing without a crew? Phantom destroyers? Boats that disappear, then reappear? Ships sailing without a crew? Phantom destroyers? Boats that disappear, then reappear?

In 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, while TV news cameras captured members of the Communist Worker's Party preparing for a "Death to the Klan" rally.

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.

Though ruled a "probable suicide" by LA County Coroner Thomas Noguchi, Marilyn Monroe's 1962 death by drug overdose remains a source of controversy.