Category: Mystery

Ghost Ships

I’m scared of large bodies of water. What terribly scares me about large bodies of water is being near them, at night. There’s something quite […]

Airships and Invaders: Background to a Social Panic

  • May 7, 2014
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The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the invasion and spy scares which were prevalent in conjunction with the British 1909 and 1913 airship […]

Joyita — the ghost ship mystery

It was built in Los Angeles, US, in 1931 as a luxury yacht for movie director Roland West. Naming it Joyita, meaning “little jewel” in […]

Big Bird’s Last Stand

No animal has had more speculation heaped upon it than the Moa. These birds evolved around 85 million years ago on the southern Super-continent called […]

The Bennington Triangle and the Man-Eating Stone of Glastonbury Mountain

There’s been a lot of focus lately, on weird happenings in faraway lands. The middle-east, Russia, Asia, even Australia, which from a Can-Am-centric worldview I’m […]

DNA sought to close 1926 missing-person case

Marvin A. Clark vanished during a short trip to Portland on Halloween weekend 1926, but the search to find out what happened to him may […]

Mystery of 1918 Flu That Killed 50 Million Solved?

  • April 30, 2014
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Scientists announced Monday that they may have solved one of history’s biggest biomedical mysteries—why the deadly 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic, which killed perhaps 50 million […]

The strange case of the ‘time travel’ murder

A woman’s body is found in London. DNA turns up a hit, yet the suspect apparently died weeks before the alleged victim. Here, forensic scientist […]

More mystery ‘explosions’ in Highgate baffle experts

Noise experts are scratching their heads over mysterious “explosions” in Highgate – after dozens of residents reported hearing 
another loud bang this week. read more: […]

Loch Ness monster a serpentine water deity, according to Buddhist leader

The Loch Ness Monster could be confirmed as a “spiritual entity” when a new Buddhist centre opens in the Highlands, it was revealed today.Britain’s first […]

Scottish fact of the week: The Loch Morar Monster

NOPE, that’s not a typo. This week’s Scottish fact focuses on Morag, the lesser-known monster inhabiting Loch Morar, in the Lochaber region. read more: Scottish […]

Nessie as Biker and the Exorcism of the Loch

Ted Holiday was a Fortean researcher who died in 1979 and who was particularly associated with research into Nessie. His intellectual development or regression from […]

1888 “City of Chester” Shipwreck Rediscovered in Under Golden Gate Bridge

A steamship that sank with 16 passengers aboard in 1888 has been located again under the Golden Gate Bridge, leading to the release of new […]

Stonehenge Rock Source Identified

Scientists have found the exact source of Stonehenge’s smaller bluestones, new research suggests.The stones’ rock composition revealed they come from a nearby outcropping, located about […]

Mystery of ‘ocean quack sound’ solved

  • April 23, 2014
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The mystery of a bizarre quacking sound heard in the ocean has finally been solved, scientists report.The noise – nicknamed “the bio-duck” – appears in […]

Vortex at Thompson Park among 50 paranormal destinations highlighted by tourism website

A source of intrigue for more than a century, the so-called vortex at Thompson Park is among 50 paranormal destinations on a “haunted trail” across […]

Mysterious caves uncovered

  • April 22, 2014
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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 […]

Meet the creature found by divers in Russia’s Loch Ness, famed for legends of monsters

Reports of a ‘Devil’ in Siberia’s Lake Labynkyr date from the 19th century, and have intrigued scientists for many decades. The inaccessible lake, in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mysteries and pranks are the stuff of British country life

There’s a mystery afoot in Essex. Don’t call for Scotland Yard. Nobody’s car has been spray-painted, yobs aren’t congregating around the village cross, the fields […]

Car accident killed SD girls missing since 1971

Two South Dakota girls on their way to an end-of-school-year party at a gravel pit in May 1971 drove off a country road and into […]