The H.L. Hunley: South Carolina's Lost Submarine Mystery
Eight men, a hand crank and a bomb on a pole sank a warship in 1864, then vanished. The wreck was found and raised, yet how the crew died is still argued over.
Troops, cavalry and the war chests, payrolls and legends they left behind.
Eight men, a hand crank and a bomb on a pole sank a warship in 1864, then vanished. The wreck was found and raised, yet how the crew died is still argued over.
Three days in July 1863, thousands of casualties and a reputation as America's most haunted town. Here's what Gettysburg's ghost lore rests on, and what it doesn't.
A bomber radar return that wouldn't go away, lights over missile sites and an Air Force verdict of "stars". Here's what the records show about Minot's strangest night.
Ten French soldiers, a string of packhorses and a payroll buried in a hurry. Here's what Ohio's Minerva legend says, what history backs up, and why the gold has never turned up.
Ten nuclear missiles went dark in under a minute in Montana in 1967. The Air Force has the shutdown on paper; a retired lieutenant says a glowing red object was at the gate.
A wagon of Confederate gold, a cavalry corps laying down its arms and a cotton town on the Tombigbee. The Gainesville legend, and the real last days of the war around it.
A wagon of Confederate gold, the legend says, vanished into the hills around Blue Mountain, Alabama, in 1865. The depot, the camp and the raid were real. The gold? Not one record.