Nan Madol: The Ancient Stone City Built on a Coral Reef
Imagine building a billionaire's mega-mansion in the middle of the desert with no running water, then imagine doing it a thousand years ago. That is the bizarre contradiction at the heart of Nan Madol...
28 Jun 10min
The Vampire Squid: The Gentle Survivor of the Abyss
Its name promises a bloodthirsty monster lurking in the abyss, cape and all. But the vampire squid from hell sucks no blood, lives nowhere near hell, and is not even a true squid. Few creatures so com...
28 Jun 22min
The Baltic Sea Anomaly: A Sunken UFO or Just Ancient Ice?
In 2011, a team of Swedish treasure hunters stared at a sonar image of a 200-foot, perfectly circular object resting on the barren Baltic seabed. It looked suspiciously like a sunken UFO, and the worl...
28 Jun 21min
The Cock Lane Ghost: London's 1762 True-Crime Media Circus
London, 1762: crowds pay admission to cram into a tiny room and listen to an 11-year-old girl's bed frame scratch and knock in the dark. This is no campfire tale. The ghost is actively testifying in a...
28 Jun 21min
The Bombardier Beetle: Nature's Boiling Chemical Cannon
Imagine swallowing a tiny insect, only to have a 100-degree Celsius chemical bomb detonate inside your mouth. That is exactly what predators face when they try to eat the bombardier beetle, a creature...
28 Jun 22min
The Bell Witch: America's Deadliest Poltergeist Legend
December 1820, a freezing Tennessee graveyard, and as a prominent farmer's casket is lowered, an invisible entity shatters the silence by belting out a rowdy drinking song. Welcome to the Bell Witch, ...
28 Jun 19min
The Berners Street Hoax: 1810's Most Audacious Prank
At 5 a.m. on a freezing November morning in 1810, a chimney sweep knocks on Mrs. Tottenham's London door. Then bakers with wedding cakes, then 40 butchers with mutton, then a custom-made coffin, then ...
28 Jun 16min
Flor de la Mar: The 2.6 Billion Dollar Cursed Shipwreck
Somewhere at the bottom of the sea in Southeast Asia sits a 2.6 billion dollar mystery: a colossal Portuguese ship that survived mutinies, leaks, and epic battles for nearly a decade before vanishing ...
28 Jun 22min
