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Myths and legends

Did a UFO crash as Roswell?

The Roswell incident: Did the US Government cover up an alien crash in 1947? The real history that challenges the conspiracy

The Spartans: Everything You Wanted to Know

Aztec myths

Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know

A graphic of Queen Elizabeth I, with a night sky graphic

The Bisley Boy: was Queen Elizabeth I replaced by a man? The real history that debunks the conspiracy

Amelia Earhart in 1928, standing in front of her biplane 'Friendship'

Amelia Earhart's disappearance: who was American aviator, and what happened to her?

Slavic myths: vampires, werewolves – and cabbages

A warship explodes against a starry backdrop

Second World War

Did the US know that Pearl Harbor would be attacked? The real history that debunks the conspiracy

Video podcastConspiracy: legends of the Knights Templar

Templar knight standing and a Templar knight on a horse in space

ConspiracyDo the Knights Templar still exist today?

Mosaic of Neptune, Roman god of the sea carrying his trident and riding in a chariot pulled by horses with dolphin tails

General History

Water gods and sea goddesses: 17 water deities from world history

An illustration of a crow chasing a silhouette of a man running away in the distance

The supernatural signs that unmasked murderers in early modern England

Conspiracy: legends of the Knights Templar

King Arthur in The Winter King

The Winter King: the true story of the King Arthur drama

An illustration of King Arthur's coronation, from the 13th-century Flores Historiarum

Was King Arthur real? Discover the legend of the 'once and future king'

King Arthur and his knights return to Camelot (Photo by: Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Q&AWhere was Camelot?

Mordred duels King Arthur with swords as they stand over the bodies of fallen men

Who killed King Arthur?

Illustration of the Children's Crusade of 1212, from the Story of the British Nation, Volume 1, by Walter Hutchinson, c1920 (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

What was the Children’s Crusade, and did it actually happen?

A 1950s illustration imagines a group of mountaineers catching sight of a large Yeti in the Himalayas

General History

The hunt for the Abominable Snowman: what's the history of the Yeti legend?

A mermaid combing her hair

General Early Modern

Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories

Elsie Wright, who with her cousin Frances Griffiths took photos of sprites, gnomes and fairies, 1917 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Fake news: 8 of the most notorious photograph hoaxes, from fairies to UFOs

Illustration by Cat O'Neil

David Ingram: the Tudor sailor who hiked across pre-colonial America

Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

Second World War

Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

Perhaps the most charming idea about the origins of the festive tradition of kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Viking myth of Frigg, goddess of love and marriage, and her ill-fated son Balder. (Photo by Jurg Waldmeier/StockFood Creative/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AWhy do we kiss under the mistletoe?

A man goes into a village at night on the eve of Samhain

What is the history behind the Celtic festival of Samhain and what does it have to do with Halloween?

Troy: everything you wanted to know

Saint Michael and the DragonSaint Michael and the Dragon

DragonsFrom mythological beasts of history to the firebreathers of fantasy

Robin Hood: everything you wanted to know

Newspaper front page with headline 'Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer'

Why we should rememberThe Roswell Incident

The NorthmanHow the real Viking prince Amleth inspired Shakespeare