In 1909 a wireless operator named T.D. Haubner sent the first SOS call from an American steamship. The incident happened off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

In 1991, Mari Huff and some fellow members of the Ghost Research Society were in the Bachelor's Grove Cemetery in Illinois when they captured an eerie image of someone or something sitting on a tombstone.

Otto Lilienthal, the aviation pioneer, was the first person to successfully design, build and fly a working hang glider.

Josef Carl Engressia, Jr made a huge name for himself as one of the pioneers in the world of Phone Phreaks.

Sandinista rebels were on the cusp of taking control of Nicaragua’s capital city, Managua. Bill Stewart was a 37-year-old reporter covering the civil war for ABC.

97 British troops were gunned down in cold blood after they surrendered to German forces.

A massive migration of frogs closed off a major Greek highway as "millions" of the amphibians massed on the roadway.

The sub plummeted 243 feet and slammed into the ocean floor.

Stranded in Jamaica and on the brink of starvation, Christopher Columbus hatched an ingenious plan.

This amazingly large leatherback measured 9 feet from snout to tail and he weighed over 2000 pounds.

A U.S. Postal worker named Patrick Sherrill shot and killed 14 of his fellow employees.

Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal went on a killing spree during a royal family get together.

A crowded dance floor at a wedding celebration collapsed and pancaked through 3 floors of a poorly constructed building. 23 people died and 380 were injured.