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Imagine digging in your backyard and finding a 90-foot ship where the wood has completely vanished, leaving only a ghostly impression in the sand. Inside is a king's ransom of gold and garnets, but at...

28 Jun 21min

On a warm summer night in July 2013, patrons on a bar terrace in Lac-Megantic, Quebec looked up to see a 10,000-ton freight train screaming around a curve with no lights, no driver, and no horn. What ...

28 Jun 19min

You are floating in a sunlit Caribbean reef when the seafloor simply vanishes, dropping over 400 feet straight down into a perfectly circular pitch-black abyss. It looks like a portal to another dimen...

28 Jun 19min

Picture bulldozers clearing a Costa Rican jungle for a banana plantation in the 1930s when metal screeches against rock. They have hit a massive, perfectly smooth, man-made stone sphere, some weighing...

28 Jun 20min

Imagine a perfectly gridded mega-city that housed 100,000 people and built the third-largest pyramid on Earth, then was burned from the inside out. Despite its monumental ruins, we don't know its real...

28 Jun 21min

Imagine a creature that lives its entire life in absolute darkness, can survive a decade without eating, lives over a century, and was once believed to be the literal offspring of dragons. It defies o...

28 Jun 23min

Imagine a perfectly intact, six-inch humanoid skeleton with a pointed cone-shaped skull and only ten pairs of ribs. For years it was paraded in documentaries as undeniable proof of extraterrestrial li...

28 Jun 17min

Imagine being at the pinnacle of your field when a nine-page letter arrives from an unknown clerk in a foreign country, filled with formulas so advanced they look like magic. That is exactly what happ...

28 Jun 22min