Category: Weird World
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…
In the late 1970’s The Circle of Gold was all the rage. It was a pyramid scheme touting the possibility of turning a mere $100 investment into a cool $200,000 and it swept through the fashionable homes of Washington like…
Born in Badiraguato, Mexico, Joaquín Guzmán Loera entered the drug trade as a teenager. Nicknamed “El Chapo,” he founded the Sinaloa cartel in 1989, over time building it into an immensely profitable global drug-trafficking operation. Known for his violent actions…
CEO Gerald Cotten reportedly died very suddenly from Crohn’s disease in December 2018 while opening an orphanage in Rajasthan, India. According to his recently new wife, Jennifer Robertson, only Cotten could access QuadrigaCX’s digital wallets, and died without sharing the…
200km east of Istanbul, Turkey, near the roman spa town of Mudurnu, lies the surreally haunting village of Burj Al Babas. Dreamed up by a pair of Turkish property-developing brothers with the intention of being a luxurious European style…
AUTEC, the Caribbean officially known as the Atlantic Underwater Testing & Evaluation Center. Many UFOs as well as of USOs (Unidentified Submerged Objects) have been reported in its vicinity over the years. (The Navy denies all this, of course.)…
Built in 1868, the Lemp Mansion in Benton Park, St. Louis, Missouri, boasted a cave where the Lamp family brewed their own beer. In 1901, William J. Lemp was left devastated when his fourth son Frederick Lemp died of ill…
What is the best evidence of time travel? Rumours that a time traveller by the name of Alexandria Alexis travelled back to the Victoria Era only to go missing on New Year’s Eve 1899 have been popular on the Internet…
The May Day Mystery refers to a series of cryptic ads which have been placed in the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the newspaper of the University of Arizona, every May 1 since 1981. The mysterious ads have appeared on other dates…
In March 1867, passengers and crew including Captain Reeks aboard the Royal Mail steamer Danube were startled to hear strange, baffling noises at sea while the ship was anchored near Greytown (also known as San Juan de Nicaragua) off the…
