ASTONISHING CASES Toad in a stone. In 1761, Ambroise Pare, physician to Henry III of France, related the following account to the Annual Register: “Being at my seat near the village of Meudon, and overlooking a quarryman whom I had…
The Myth: A prop at a carnival was discovered not to be made of the usual combination of papier mache and carni spit, but human skin and bone. All the little kiddies at the haunted house had been poking and…
Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an incident known as the Philadelphia Experiment. Records in the Operational Archives Branch of the Naval Historical Center…
Photos from Shackleton’s expedition found in Antarctica ice Antarctic Heritage Trust conservators recently made a stunning discovery: a box of 22 exposed but unprocessed negatives, frozen in a block of ice for nearly one hundred years. The negatives were recovered…
The Spook Light Mystery On a road outside Joplin, Missouri, where the rolling Ozarks merge into the endless flatness of Oklahoma and Kansas, locals report seeing a light called the Spook Light The anomaly is variously described as a…
The Ghost of Flight 401 Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 left New York’s JFK airport, bound for Miami International Airport, on December 29, 1972. The Lockheed L-1011 carried 163 passengers and 13 crew members. The flight was under the…
Everyone loves the Internet. How else would we learn about dancing mortgage offers, the latest wardrobe slips and the deep insights provided by pictures of cats? Yes, this modern wonder is surely something any advanced civilization would undoubtedly cherish, just…
The best known public prank is the 1957 news show broadcast by Panorama. It was a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. This was apparently because of an unusually mild winter and the “virtual disappearance of…
An Iranian man faces a hefty fine after trying to enter Germany with a check worth about $70 million in his hand luggage. Customs officials at Duesseldorf airport say the man, who had arrived on a flight from Turkey, told…
The story: In 1950, a man with mutton chop sideburns and Victorian-era duds popped up in Times Square. Witnesses said he looked startled, and then a minute later, he was hit by a car and killed. The officials at the…
Many UFO researchers working on their research in the 1970s and 1980s died under mysterious circumstances, and may have been killed. This statement is true not so much for the chasers for unidentified flying objects, but the researchers trying to…
The high-tech craft hit the top of the Martian atmosphere at 13,000mph, and was then slowly lowered by a radical floating ‘sky crane’ before gently arriving in a massive crater. The news was greeted with cheers and shouts in…
