Still Unexplained

In 1822, a man calling himself Thomas Beale walked out of a Lynchburg, Virginia hotel and disappeared, leaving behind a locked iron box and a promise of buried treasure worth over sixty million dollars today. Inside...

Overtoun Bridge sits outside Dumbarton, Scotland, a quiet Victorian crossing built in 1895 that earned a very different reputation starting in the 1950s. Dogs have leapt from the same stretch of wall for decades, and...

The Oakville Blobs are one of the strangest unsolved cases in Washington state history. In August 1994, the small logging town of Oakville was hit by six separate storms of translucent, gelatinous goo that smeared...

On Australia Day 1966, Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont walked off Glenelg Beach in Adelaide and never came home, and their disappearance remains the country's longest-running missing persons mystery. The strangest piece...

A police officer watches a chair slide across an empty room and can't explain it. An eleven-year-old girl starts speaking in a dead man's voice, describing his death in specific detail she had no way of knowing, and...

A locked hotel room on the twenty-eighth floor. A gunshot, and fifteen minutes before anyone opens the door. Inside, a woman with every label cut from her clothes, an acid-etched pistol, and a military-grade dive watch...

On the night of August 28, 1979, a Virginia truck driver named Harry Joe Turner fired eight hollow-point rounds at something on a dark mountain highway, and the bullets passed straight through. He woke up four hours...

A mother opens a box of forgotten toys in front of her twin daughters, and one of them calls a doll by a name no living person taught her. The Pollock Twins case out of Hexham, England has haunted reincarnation...

In August 1993, a group of seven experienced Russian hikers set out into the Khamar Daban mountains of Siberia, led by one of the most respected wilderness guides in the country. Within minutes of beginning their...

In 1971, a woman in a tiny Spanish village found a human face staring up at her from the concrete floor of her kitchen. Her family destroyed it. It came back sharper. Then came the crowds, the excavation, the medieval...

In August 2010, a British intelligence analyst was found dead, naked, and padlocked inside a red duffel bag in his own bathtub, with the keys to the lock tucked beneath his body. Two escapology experts made 400 attempts...

On May 20, 1967, a World War II veteran and amateur geologist walked toward an unknown craft sitting on a rock in the Canadian wilderness and shouted at the people inside in six different languages. What happened next...

In September 1982, seven people in the Chicago suburbs died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with potassium cyanide, and whoever did it was never caught. The case rewrote American consumer safety...

On March 10, 1928, Christine Collins gave her nine-year-old son a dime for the movies and he never came home. Five months later, the LAPD called with good news: they'd found Walter. But the boy they brought her wasn't...

<p>Two Brazilian electronics technicians were found dead on a remote hilltop in 1966, dressed in matching suits and raincoats, their eyes covered with crude shields cut from sheets of lead. A cryptic handwritten note...