Compact Mysteries

In the 1930s, two gold prospectors reportedly blasted into a small chamber in Wyoming's San Pedro Mountains and discovered a tiny mummified body seated on a ledge. Measuring only a few inches tall, the strange figure...

At the end of the Bronze Age, cities burned, kingdoms disappeared and mysterious groups moved through the eastern Mediterranean. Egyptian inscriptions called them the Peleset, Sherden, Denyen and other names, but today...

For decades, cryptic handmade tiles have appeared embedded in roads across the United States and South America. Their message links Arnold J. Toynbee, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and a plan to resurrect the...

For generations, strange lights have been reported above the desert near Marfa, Texas. Witnesses describe glowing orbs that move, change colour, divide and disappear over Mitchell Flat. This episode examines the...

For generations, people across North America have reported encounters with an enormous, hair-covered figure roaming remote forests. In this episode of Compact Mysteries, we trace the story of Bigfoot from Indigenous...

Across the cracked surface of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, heavy stones have travelled hundreds of metres, leaving long trails through the desert mud. For decades, nobody witnessed them move. Were they driven by...

In eighteenth-century France, a young man named Tarrare became notorious for an appetite that appeared to have no limit. Despite remaining remarkably thin, he could consume meals intended for entire groups, swallow...

Göbekli Tepe is one of the most astonishing archaeological discoveries of the modern age. Built in south-eastern Turkey more than 11,000 years ago, its carved T-shaped pillars, animal reliefs, and mysterious enclosures...

In this episode of Compact Mysteries, we explore the strange and enduring story of the Our Lady of Fatima Miracle, the 1917 events in rural Portugal where three shepherd children claimed to see the Virgin Mary, and...

In this episode of Compact Mysteries, we investigate the strange case of the SS Ourang Medan, a reported ghost ship said to have sent a chilling distress call before being found with its entire crew dead and no obvious...

In this episode of Compact Mysteries, we explore The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery, the strange 1980 incident near RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk. Often called Britain's Roswell, the case involved American...

In this episode of Compact Mysteries, we explore the strange case of the Shugborough Inscription, a short sequence of carved letters hidden beneath a classical monument in Staffordshire. Is it a private memorial, a...

Between the age of twelve and the beginning of his public ministry at around thirty, the life of Jesus Christ falls largely silent in the Gospel accounts. These missing years have inspired centuries of questions...

<p >Where is the tomb of Genghis Khan? More than eight centuries after the Mongol conqueror's death in 1227, his final resting place remains one of history's most compelling unsolved mysteries. This episode of Compact...

<p >Area 51 is one of the most famous secretive locations in the world, a remote Nevada desert base linked to Cold War spy planes, classified aircraft testing, UFO sightings, alien rumours, and decades of official...