Cicada 3301: The Internet Puzzle That Looked Like a Recruitment Test

The Black Knight satellite is often described as an ancient alien object that has watched Earth for thousands of years. The story links Nikola Tesla’s reports of unusual signals in eighteen ninety-nin...

11 Okt 20min

In medieval Suffolk, two children were reportedly found near the village of Woolpit during the reign of King Stephen. They were said to have green skin, unfamiliar clothing, and speech no one could un...

4 Okt 21min

North Korea is often viewed through military parades, nuclear tests, sealed borders, and curated images of Pyongyang. Those images reveal far less about how households obtain food, earn money, attend ...

19 Sep 21min

In August 1590, Governor John White returned to Roanoke Island after nearly three years away. He had come to find more than one hundred English colonists, including his daughter Eleanor Dare, her husb...

12 Sep 20min

In 1885, a small pamphlet published in Lynchburg, Virginia, offered readers three pages of numbers and an extraordinary claim. Decipher them, it said, and they would reveal the location, contents, and...

7 Sep 21min

In 1845, Sir John Franklin led one of the Royal Navy’s best-equipped Arctic expeditions into the Canadian North. His two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, carried 129 officers and men, reinforced hull...

23 Aug 21min

The Voynich Manuscript, cataloged as Beinecke MS 408 at Yale University, is a real medieval codex filled with unidentified writing and unusual illustrations. Radiocarbon testing dates the parchment to...

16 Aug 28min

On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific while trying to reach Howland Island in a Lockheed Electra 10E. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca received se...

9 Aug 23min