Category: Strange Stories
There are mysteries that are so eerie and strange that they boggle the mind for days on end. The case of Elisa Lam is one of them. In February 2013, this 21-year-old student from Vancouver, Canada, was found dead inside…
The phenomenon of missing persons near National Parks in the U.S. is becoming more prominent of an issue as unexplained disappearances of children and adults increase in numbers. For decades, a big number of people have gone missing around the…
Mystery on the reef Americans Eileen and Tom Lonergan were keen divers, holidaying on Australia’s Gold Coast. On Sunday January 25, 1998 they set off on a dive trip to St. Crispin’s Reef, a popular site on the Great Barrier…
Described as the Leonardo da Vinci of mental manipulation, “guru” Thierry Tilly duped a reclusive French family out of more than $6 million, including their chateau. In 1999, Ghislaine was looking for someone to help her update her Paris-based secretarial…
Bigfoot evidence The Patterson-Gimlin film is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified bipedal creature that is said to have been filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin on the Klamath River outside of Orleans,…
The Legend of Hans Trap Hans Trapp, better known as one of Santa’s wicked sidekicks, is based on the real 15th-century German knight Hans von Trotha. After waging war against an abbey, he was excommunicated by the Pope. Legends of…
In the 1970’s, tales of strange and mysterious ghostly apparitions flew around the USA and the rest of the airline world. Passengers, Cabin Crew, Pilots, Flight Engineers, even top airline executives, all claimed to have seen ‘something’ onboard certain aircraft.…
In 1993, a prospector named Michael de Guzman walked out of the jungles of Borneo with extraordinary news: he found gold. For the next three years, de Guzman produced thousands of core samples riddled with gold. During that period, the…
Knoedler & Company Knoedler & Company art gallery, which had been around for 165 years, closed after allegations of selling fraudulent paintings surfaced. Investigators discovered that paintings supposedly done by classical artists were actually made by one person in Queens,…
The Jerusalem UFO Video Just a few weeks into 2011 a stunning UFO video circulated around the world. On Jan. 28, a mysterious glowing light hovered high above the Dome of the Rock, an ancient Islamic shrine in Jerusalem. It…
In Chihuahua, Mexico, there is a bridal shop with an exceptionally beautiful yet creepy-looking mannequin. Some believe that the mannequin is the preserved body of the old owner’s daughter, who died of a spider bite on her wedding day years…
Catch me if you can! Frank Abagnale is a former cheque con artist, forger and imposter who, for five years in the 1960s, passed bad cheques worth more than $2.5 million in 26 countries. The recent blockbuster film Catch Me…
