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The replica boat ‘Orca II’ was the unsung star of 1975's ‘Jaws.’ But what happened after filming ended was worse than any shark attack.

Geraldo Rivera promised to dig deep in Al Capone’s hotel hideout on Chicago’s South Side back in 1986—here’s the oral history of how it all really went down.

Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to destroy the industry.

The cartoon-inspired replica was given away in 1997—and was, as the eventual owner put it, “like living in a Crayola box.”

A Mormon teenager traveling through the American Southwest in the mid-19th century was abducted by Native Americans. Her life was never the same.

On January 30, 1925, Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins went underground—and didn’t come out. The epic effort to rescue him gripped national headlines and transformed into a battle between heroism and folly, selflessness and selfishness, life and death.

Each December, "Baby, It’s Cold Outside"—a ’40s-era American standard that some modern listeners hear as a depiction of sexual misconduct—invites a barrage of controversies, radio bans, and think pieces.

What began as a routine renovation revealed Harvard's history of body snatching.

In 1908, a playboy made a bet he could walk around the world without being identified. Then things got weird.

The groundbreaking artist made history in 1999 with his album ‘Hours’ when he sold it as an internet download before it hit stores: “Mark my words … we are not going back to record companies and through shops.”

The distinctive wear patterns on your Levi's could put you behind bars.

The Pattersons said they were merely going on vacation. That was nearly 70 years ago.