In July 1963, an orange light was seen over Wiltshire and a mysterious crater appeared in a farmer’s field. Here’s the story ...

Lynsey Shaw retraces Arbella Stuart's 17th-century journey from London to the Midlands, revealing why it is a story that ...

In 1962, four teenage divers vanished off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, and the sole survivor later blamed a sea monster.

Bradley Walsh talks UFOs, Rendlesham Forest and the search for Atlantis ahead of his new Sky HISTORY series Out of this World ...

Deep Water Secrets sets out to explore the unexplained and the never-before-seen, detailing encounters with history’s ...

The Carrington Event of 1859 packed a bigger punch than any other recorded geomagnetic storm. How did it cause chaos, and ...

Given the sinister codename 'Adolf Island', Alderney became a preoccupation for Hitler and was transformed into one of the most heavily fortified places on earth. Away from prying eyes, the Nazis also ...

Bonfire Night is the annual celebration that marks the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt by Catholic conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I. While ...

You got to spend money to make money and no one knows that better than the Pawn Stars guys. We count down the 10 biggest payouts ever on the history of the show. This custom guitar belonged to ...

The word ‘legend’ is thrown about too often and too whimsically these days, diluting the potency and impact of the term. If we could restore the word to its former glory, then very few people would ...

The stage is a natural home for things dark and ghostly. There were spirits in the plays of Ancient Greece, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth were famously haunted by ghosts, and even today some West ...

Could the 16th-century soothsayer Nostradamus really see the future? Given the vagaries of his written prophecies, we’ll probably never be able to tell for sure. Still, supporters have credited him ...