Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Selection of coins and jewelry from Hezingen Nordic archeological site (Credit: Jan-Willem de Kort, et al.) An early medieval ...

Netflix’s new psychological thriller Unchosen might be a fictional tale about a young woman caught up in a reclusive cult.

The Dionysian fresco, dubbed the "house of Thiasos" by archaeologists, was unearthed from a banquet hall amid excavations to Insula 10 Regio IX in Pompeii. (all images courtesy Parco Archeologico di ...

The Orphic Cult of Ancient Greece offered a radical promise of afterlife salvation, reincarnation, and divine escape from the ...

A metal detectorist discovered ancient gold coins in the Netherlands that turned out to be a cult ritual offering. Experts believe the money left at the location was “devil’s money,” an offering to ...

It is almost impossible to imagine the realities endured by victims of ritual abuse: multiple abusers with systematic motives coordinated with the sole purpose of perpetrating and maintaining a cycle ...

Archaeologists have discovered a medieval underground tunnel running beneath a German village, which was the likely site of cult rituals. Researchers stumbled upon the tunnel during excavations that ...

Nearly a dozen people are on trial in Scotland for allegedly sexually abusing children and even reportedly involving the kids in "witchcraft." Seven men and four women are facing a combined 32 charges ...

Several new court filings from prosecutors in the Delphi murders case describe the latest claims from suspect Richard Allen's defense team as "fanciful," "colorful, dramatic and highly unprofessional.