Category: Modern Mysteries
This is the true story of “The Beale Papers.” It is set in the forested foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains where they cut through antebellum Virginia, and it is a tale of adventurers, farmers, newspapermen and treasure lost Thomas…
Historical vampires – The Background When did vampires begin? As with many legends, the exact date of origin is unknown; but evidence of the vampire tale can be found with the ancient Chaldeans in Mesopotamia, near the Tigris and…
Lost Treasure – The Fabergé Eggs Peter Carl Fabergé (also known as Karl Gustavovich Fabergé) and his brother Agathon were Russian jewellers of French descent based in St. Petersburg. They rapidly became famous for the extraordinary quality and beauty of…
The Taos Hum Some residents and visitors in the small city of Taos, New Mexico, have for years been annoyed and puzzled by a mysterious and faint low-frequency hum in the desert air. Oddly, only about 2 percent of Taos…
The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp is a humanoid cryptid which is said to inhabit areas of swampland in and around Lee County, South Carolina. He is described as being seven feet tall (over 2m), bipedal, and…
Help solve the mystery…. The public have been asked to help identify mystery British aerial photographs from the early 20th century. More than 15,000 images from one of the earliest and most significant collections of aerial photography are now…
Baltic UFO Mystery Object is raised about 10 to 13ft above seabed and curved at the sides like a mushroom World War II expert says object may be Nazi anti-submarine weapon Wire meshes could be used to baffle submarine radar…
“I believe he was taken by UFOs” THE official file on the mysterious disappearance of a plane off the Victorian coast has all but ruled out pilot Frederick Valentich staged an elaborate hoax. It has also revealed that government…
The Morrisonville Enigma. In 1891 there was an even more remarkable find. A woman in Morrisonville Illinois was shovelling coal when a piece broke open in front of her. To her astonishment she found it contained a beautiful gold chain…
The Coso Artifact. In 1961 a strange stone was found in the Coso Mountains of California. Strange, because when it was sawed open it was found to contain a bizarre mechanical device. This comprised of an hexagonal layer of some…
On January 31, 1921, the schooner Carroll A. Deering was spotted having run aground off the coast of North Carolina. When rescue ships finally reached her, they found nothing short of a ghost ship to rival the Mary Celeste,…
A strange tangle of white lines in the Chinese desert has people scratching their heads and wondering who made them—and why. According to a Gizmodo post “Why Is China Building These Gigantic Structures In the Middle of the Desert?”…
