For hundreds of years spooky noises have emanated from the wooded hills surrounding the village of Moodus, Connecticut. The deep rumblings and jarring cracks seem […]
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Yorkshire community to resurrect maypole dancing
A group of youngsters are determined to revive Maypole dancing – 25 years since the tradition has been taught in their community.The 12 girls from […]
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Intriguing tale of the gold collar found while ploughing
I’m always fascinated by the way experts can look at open countryside, work out the likely site of a longlost settlement, or whatever, and interpret […]
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I’m Not Dead Yet: Premature Burial
The fear of being buried alive is more than just a Victorian era pre-occupation. Premature burial, also known as vivisepulture, has been recorded as intentional […]
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What is cultural appropriation?
It’s about power, and context, and histories of persecution.The Native Americans had their land and livelihoods taken away, their cultural identity erased and derided, and […]
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Mysterious caves uncovered
48 ancient caves were found grouped together at a 3,000 square meter hilltop in Zhongxian county, Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality, news.xinhuanet.com reported. Read More: Mysterious […]
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Top 10 Most Famous Alien & UFO Pictures And the Stories Behind Them
The citizens of Earth have had to put up with a lot of extraterrestrial shenanigans over the years, or at least it seems that way. […]
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Community dig sheds new light on Wark Castle in Northumberland – The Journal
A community dig has shed new light on a castle which for centuries was in the front line of the conflict between England and Scotland.It […]
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That Time Subterranean Aliens Killed 60 People in New Mexico
Dulce, New Mexico is located right on the Colorado-New Mexico border. It’s a quaint town, with a population just under 3,000. It’s the tribal headquarters […]
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Titanic Letter Gives First-hand Account of Sinking Titanic
British passenger liner RMS Titanic was one of the greatest vessels the world had ever seen when it set sail in 1912, and its tragic […]
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LOCH NESS MONSTER: The Surgeon’s Photo Eighty Years On
It was eighty years to the day on the 21st April 1934 that the Daily Mail introduced the most iconic image of Nessie to the […]
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The spooky world of the ‘numbers stations’
This is the era of hyper-tech espionage, encrypted emails and mindboggling cryptography. But you can hear a very old-fashioned form of espionage on shortwave radio.It […]
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Archaeologists Uncover Tomb of Ancient Egyptian Writer
Egypt’s minister of antiquities Mohammed Ibrahim has announced the discovery by Egyptian and Spanish archaeologists of two tombs dating to roughly 600BC in the south […]
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Flirty Fishing: Evangelical Prostitution
The Children of God were a rather silly American Christian group, born in 1968, that went, however, almost immediately off the rails, rode down the […]
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The strange case of the “vampire” burial in Venice.
In 2006 in Venice, Italy, archaeologists excavating a plague cemetery found something quite unusual: a skeleton with a brick in its mouth. They determined that […]
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They reached for the sky but found death: The world’s greatest airplane mysteries
Hopes are now pinned on the robotic submersible scouring the sea 1,500 miles off Australia where experts believe the Boeing 777, with 239 passengers and […]
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New chapel found at site of ‘Easter’ abbey
Archaeologists have located a hidden chapel at the site of an abbey where the date of the country’s Easter celebrations were first set.A team from […]
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The world’s most haunted island is up for auction
Tourists are banned and it’s said to be the most haunted location in the world; the island of Poveglia is only minutes from where the […]
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Richard III controversy coming to Stow From Cotswold Journal
THE controversy surrounding the discovery of the skeleton of Richard III beneath a Leicester car park is now coming to Stow.When archaeologists from Leicester University […]
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The Earliest Flying Cars, Jetpacks, and Other Insane Retrofuture Inventions
This week, the esteemed British Pathé put its entire archive of historical film clips and newsreels online, a treasure trove of 85,000 clips amounting to […]
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Aurora UFO crash remains a Texas alien mystery
Aurora, Texas was Roswell before Roswell: a middle-of-nowhere town that suddenly became surrounded by legend when an alleged alien visitor crash-landed from outer space.On this […]
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Body Slam This! Ancient Wrestling Match Was Fixed
Who says only modern-day pro wrestling is fake?Researchers have deciphered a Greek document that shows an ancient wrestling match was fixed. The document, which has […]
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British Pathé uploads 85,000 historic films to YouTube
British Pathé, the newsreel maker which documented all walks of life on video during the 20th Century, has uploaded its entire collection of moving images […]
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The Disappearance of Jean Elizabeth Spangler
Jean Elizabeth Spangler was born in Seattle, Washington on September 2, 1923 and was an American dancer, model, and bit-part actress in Hollywood films and […]
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Treasure hunter strikes gold to find ring belonging to wealthy 17th-century money lender
A gold ring made by the wealthy money lender who founded the Grosvenor Estate has been found in a field by a treasure hunter.The 24-carat […]
