A woman’s body is found in London. DNA turns up a hit, yet the suspect apparently died weeks before the alleged victim. Here, forensic scientist Dr Mike Silverman tells the story of one of the strangest cases of his career.…
Phobos program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. Only one of the probes made it to Mars, and just days before…
The missing Nina In May 2013 Nina set off from New Zealand heading towards Sydney. It vanished after sailing into a severe storm in June. A text message sent shortly afterwards suggested that the storm had been weathered. However no…
The sad case of missing baby Azaria was once one of the most shocking crime mysteries of all time. A dingo took my baby! On 13 August 1980 the Chamberlain family left home in their yellow, hatchback, Torana motorcar for…
July 1st 1951, 67 yr old widow, Mary Reeser (1881-1951) (‘The Cinder Lady’) from St Petersburg, Florida apparently spontaneously human combusted (SHC). The last time Mary had been seen alive was at 9pm on the night of the fire. Her…
A bizarre legend and unsolved mystery which has haunted a small Iowa town for more than 100 years is the subject of a new book called The Van Meter Visitor. For several nights in 1903, the small town of Van…
Over the Easter weekend in 2015 daring thieves made away with an estimated £200m haul of diamonds and other jewellery after robbing safe deposit boxes at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd in London’s famous diamond quarter district of Hatton Garden.…
The Mysterious Case of Gil Pérez, Gil Pérez was a Spanish soldier of the Filipino Guardia Civil who allegedly suddenly appeared in the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City (more than 9,000 nautical miles from Manila, across the Pacific) on October…
Marilyn Sheppard was the wife of osteopathic physician Doctor Sam Sheppard, a prominent Cleveland-area doctor who was convicted of the 1954 murder of his pregnant spouse. Doctor Sheppard claimed he was asleep on the couch on the lower level of…
8 people vanish without a trace! Ireland’s strangest modern mystery concerns the sudden and unexplained disappearance of 8 people. The island nation was gripped with fear, curiosity and paranoia in the 1990s when women began to disappear. The case, unsolved…
On 10th June 2011, Jack Froese suffered a fatal arrhythmia that left all of his friends and family devastated by his sudden and unexpected passing. He was just 32 years of age. The First Email Tim Hart considered himself…
What was the Markovian Parallax Denigrate? It’s been called the “Internet’s oldest and weirdest mystery,” and it all started with a series of enigmatic early internet posts from the mid-1990s, the full meaning of which remains unsolved over 20…
