The World’s 10 Deadliest Terrorist Attacks
Terrorist attacks are often remembered through images: smoke rising above Manhattan, a school gymnasium in Beslan filled with hostages, a burning shopping district in Baghdad, or a field of wreckage outside the Scottish town of Lockerbie. Behind those…
Police Say Texas Woman Was Targeted in a Revenge Plot
When MaryJayne Collins began dating Dawayland Hurst in June 2024, the relationship reportedly appeared ordinary from the outside. Hurst was twenty-two years old and, according to people familiar with the couple, became involved in Collins’ life and the…
The Teenager Who Stole a Plane and Hit a Skyscraper
On January 5, 2002, fifteen-year-old Charles J. Bishop took a single-engine airplane from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport in Florida and flew it toward downtown Tampa. Minutes later, the Cessna 172 struck the Bank of America Plaza, a…
The Sleeper of Oknö
The Unsolved Case of Karolina Olsson For more than three decades, Karolina Olsson was said to have remained in bed on the Swedish island of Oknö, apparently asleep and almost entirely unresponsive. She reportedly went to bed in February 1876, when she…
The Boy Who Never Came Home
The Unsolved Disappearance of Kyron Horman On June 4, 2010, seven-year-old Kyron Horman arrived at Skyline Elementary School in the hills west of Portland, Oregon, carrying a science-fair project about horned lizards. Photographs taken that morning show…
The Hidden History of Child Soldiers in WWII
World War II is usually remembered through the actions of adult soldiers, political leaders, and generals. Yet children were also drawn into the conflict in many different ways. Some were recruited or conscripted into military organizations. Others…
Mercy Dogs: The Four-Legged Medics of the World Wars
Before helicopters, satellite communication, and modern search-and-rescue teams, finding wounded soldiers on a battlefield was slow, dangerous, and often nearly impossible. Men could be trapped in shell holes, hidden beneath rubble, or too weak to call…
