USS Cyclops Vanished With No Distress Call—Which Failure Best Fits the Evidence?
The last confirmed sighting of USS Cyclops was from the port of Bridgetown, Barbados, on March 4, 1918. She departed with a crew of 306 men, a…
Puma Punku’s Stonework Is Precise—Does It Require Lost Technology?
The blocks are still there, scattered across a high plateau in western Bolivia at nearly 12,500 feet above sea level. Some weigh several tons. Some fit together…
The Hills Look Like Pyramids—What Does the Geology of Visoko Show?
From the right angle, on the right morning, the hill above Visoko looks almost too perfect. Its slopes rise at nearly equal angles. Its peak is flat…
Britain Tested an Ice Aircraft Carrier—Why Was Project Habakkuk Abandoned?
In the winter of 1942, a British inventor handed the Royal Navy a block of material that looked like cloudy ice but behaved like wood. It could…
COINTELPRO Was Real—What Did the FBI’s Own Files Reveal?
The letter arrived without a return address. It was typed, unsigned, and designed to read like the work of a concerned citizen. The recipient was a prominent…
Spiders Nested in a Beehive Hairdo—When Did the Warning Tale Begin?
The story usually arrives secondhand. A friend of a friend, or someone’s cousin, or a girl from the next town over. She wore her hair up—high and…
A Night Walker Met the Smiling Man—Where Did the Story First Appear?
It is two in the morning. The street is empty except for one figure moving down the center of the road. Not walking the way people walk….
Kerala’s Rain Turned Red—What Were the Microscopic Particles?
On a July morning in 2001, residents of the Kottayam and Idukki districts of Kerala stepped outside to find red streaks running down white walls and collecting…
Two Princes Entered the Tower — What Is the Last Reliable Evidence of Them?
The Tower of London was not, in 1483, primarily a prison. It was a royal residence, a place where English kings stayed before their coronations and where…
The Fairy Photographs Fooled Conan Doyle—How Were They Made?
In the summer of 1917, two girls carried a borrowed camera down to the beck behind a house in Cottingley, West Yorkshire, and came back with a…