History's Mysteries

Are King Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, and the Knights of the Round Table real or legend?

In a mystery that still baffles historians 300 years after the event, French King Louis XIV orders a prisoner shut away for 34 years.

The execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1927 ignited worldwide protest. To those inspired by political philosophy of the left, they were martyrs. To conservatives, they were anarchists.

Is our image of Abraham Lincoln, an honest man of noble character, based on truth or myth? In the year Lincoln died.

They aren't police, and yet they can break down your door and yank you off to jail-if you're a bail jumper. Meet the elusive agents who track down those on the run.

Out of the Appalachian hills arose America's most famous family feud, which purportedly began in 1878 with the theft of a hog. We sort fact from fiction about the Hatfields and McCoys.