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

Do mermaids exist? Probably not, but there have been plenty of hoaxes. From the Fiji mermaid to a TV mockumentary, here are four of the best fakes.

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 ...

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

Ross Kemp lifts the lid on one of the most shocking secrets in British history: how Nazis became our neighbours.

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

The mystery of the Amber Room During WWII, Adolf Hitler’s Nazis stole some 600,000 pieces of art from across Europe. By the end of the war, billions of pounds worth of artwork had been scattered to ...

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 ...

Gunpowder Siege dramatically reimagines the most infamous rebellion plot in British history, shattering the myths to reveal the largely forgotten, gripping truth behind the Gunpowder Plot. Prepare to ...

Roman forces conquered much of Britain in the first century AD, but not quite all of it. In fact, much of what is now Scotland eluded Roman military occupation entirely. This was due to the stubborn ...

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 ...