The Hippie Trail Back in the mid 1970’s the original hippie trail between Europe and South Asia, mainly through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal was in its hey day. Thousands of young “long hairs” would travel as cheaply…
Saint Wolfgang and the Devil, 1475 This work by a famous German Renaissance painter Michael Pacher in the 15th century is based around a legend that states Saint Wolfgang, the Bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria during the 10th century, tricked…
Aliens and Ancient Astronauts Digging deep into history as far as physical record and verbal legend allows, a great amount of astonishing literature and artifacts uncovered depict how ancient civilizations were much more technologically advanced than ever imagined. Piles of…
The story of William Cantelo and Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim remains an unexplained mystery, with possible evidence of teleportation, double lives, and corruption. William Cantelo and his odd inventions William Cantelo claimed he was born around 1838 in the…
One of the strangest attempts to climb Mount Everest was by Maurice Wilson (1898-1934), an eccentric Englishman, who tried to climb Everest after flying to the mountain–despite knowing nothing about mountaineering or flying. Wilson decided to climb Everest while recuperating…
Haunted Places: The Clovis Wolfe Manor Todd Wolfe came across the property in 1996 while looking for a creepy locale to host a Halloween-season haunted house attraction, eventually named “Scream If You Can.” At its peak, Wolfe saw…
Alien Abduction: Twenty-two-year-old policeman Herbert Schirmer would have a bizarre experience on December 3, 1976. While making his normal patrol rounds in Ashland, Nebraska, he saw what appeared to be red lights atop a large truck. He had checked…
In 1938, stories of a “killer ghost” began to be told in eastern Kentucky. Even though no one ever saw this malevolent apparition, it was said to have caused five very similar and unexplained deaths. The curse The story…
The true mystery surrounding the 5th Duke Of Portland and his seclusion. William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 – 6 December 1879), styled (named) Lord John Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess of Titchfield between 1824 and 1854,…
On 20 May 1916, Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley, and Tom Crean reached Stromness, a whaling station on the north coast of South Georgia. They had been walking for 36 hours, in life-threatening conditions, in an attempt to reach help…
Manubu Mabe was a Japanese-Brazilian painter. In the late 1950s, Mabe won the top award in São Paulo’s Contemporary Art Salon, the top award as Brazil’s best painter in the São Paulo Bienal, and the top honors for artists under 35…
This strange mystery from the heart of the USA The Dighton Rock, known for its puzzling petroglyphs, stands as one of the greatest mysteries in Massachusetts. The 40-ton boulder that once jutted out of the Taunton River, close to Dighton,…
