U.S. History
All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day.
World History
History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world’s major wars.
Eras & Ages
From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history’s biggest chapters.
Culture & Tradition
The stories behind the faiths, food, entertainment and holidays that shape our world.
Science & Innovation
The pivotal discoveries, visionary inventors and natural phenomena that impacted history.
High above Big Sur's rugged coastline, the Dark Watchers stand as silhouettes born of Indigenous belief, Spanish encounter, and literary legend-blurring illusion and folklore while reflecting back the shadows we struggle to confront.
While sweeping the Atlantic Ocean floor with sonar, researchers detect something massive: a 60-foot, shark-like creature of unimaginable proportions that may be a living megalodon, long thought to be extinct.
Learn how true darkness surrounded the cast and crew of the first-ever vampire film, "Nosferatu".
Where blue mist clings to the ridgelines of the Smoky Mountains and forests remember what people forget, the legend of the Boojum stalks the borderlands between fear and folklore.
In the shadowed bayous of Louisiana's Tickfaw State Park, the legend of the Rougarou blurs the line between folklore and fear.