The Colossal Squid: Hunting the Real Kraken of the Deep
The colossal squid is the heaviest living invertebrate on Earth, reaching up to 495 kilograms with beak remnants suggesting even larger individuals exist. Equipped with three-pointed swiveling hooks a...
30 Juni 18min
Audie Murphy: The Most Decorated Soldier's Hidden Battle
Rejected by the Marines, Navy, and Army for being too small, Audie Murphy lied about his age to enlist and went on to become the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II. From the grindi...
30 Juni 21min
Vanished on Fifth Avenue: The Dorothy Arnold Mystery
On December 12, 1910, a 25-year-old heiress named Dorothy Arnold went shopping on Fifth Avenue, chatted briefly with a friend, waved goodbye, and was never seen again. Her disappearance opens a window...
30 Juni 19min
Hang Son Doong: The Lost World's Largest Cave
Imagine flying a Boeing 747 through a subterranean cavern without the wings scraping the sides, or dropping an entire New York City block of 60-story skyscrapers into a hole in the earth with room to ...
30 Juni 19min
Inside the Wikipedia Void: Anatomy of a Page Not Found
Search the world's largest open encyclopedia for an obscure topic like the L-8 airship and you might hit a wall: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. But that dead end is not a bla...
30 Juni 20min
The Hai Aim 6: A Modern Ghost Ship's Dark Secret
In early 2003, an 80-foot Taiwanese fishing vessel was found drifting in the Pacific with its engine recently running, fuel in the tank, personal belongings untouched, and the cargo hold full, but not...
30 Juni 18min
The Great Escape: Engineering the Impossible Breakout
Stalag Luft III was engineered to be inescapable, with bright yellow subsoil to betray any digging, raised huts, and seismograph microphones buried along the fences. Yet this German POW camp, run by t...
30 Juni 24min
Rosa Shanina: The Kindergarten Teacher Turned Sniper
At 20, Rosa Shanina was a kindergarten teacher who sang romantic folk songs and worried about unrequited love. She was also known to the international press as the unseen terror of East Prussia, a let...
30 Juni 19min
