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One of the shoes found near the Salish Sea.

Exploration Mysteries: Human Feet of the Salish Sea

On Aug. 20, 2007, on Jedediah Island, just north...
emerald tablet

The Emerald Tablet of Alchemy: Hooey to Some, Key to Knowledge for Others

Do you want the secret to all knowledge? Look...
sea serpent illustration

Exploration Mysteries: HMS Daedalus and the Sea Serpent

For decades in the 19th and even early 20th...
An antler headdress with boreholes drilled in.

Star Carr: Mystery of the Mesolithic

In an unassuming farm field in Yorkshire, peat preserves...
An illustration showing the Beast of Gevaudan attacking a woman.

Exploration Mysteries: The Beast of Gévaudan

It is 1764, and France is licking its wounds...
An Oakville Blob

Exploration Mysteries: Oakville Blobs

On Aug. 7, 1994, the quaint town of Oakville,...
Portrait of Thomas Simpson

The Mysterious Death of Arctic Explorer Thomas Simpson

For a time, Thomas Simpson was considered the man...
A glacier in Kohistan, Pakistan.

Body of Man Missing For 28 Years Found on Pakistan Glacier

In the mountainous Kohistan district of northern Pakistan, the...
Antillia and nearby islands.

Exploration Mysteries: Antillia

Christian Spain was under assault. In 711 AD, invading...
map of Lake Parime in colour

Exploration Mysteries: Lake Parimé

We’ve all heard of El Dorado. The fabled lost...
dead astronaut

Exploration Mysteries: Lost Cosmonauts

“Listen! Listen! Talk to me! I am hot!…oxygen…oxygen…am I...
black goo

Natural Wonders: La Mancha Negra

Imagine you are a child in the 1980s and...
old map of America

Exploration Mysteries: Norumbega

“Now from the North Of Norumbega, and the Samoed...
ancient city

Exploration Mysteries: Nan Madol

It is the place “between the spaces” — a...
A ship in a storm

Exploration Mysteries: The Devil’s Sea

In 1980, 19-year-old Peter Lambert was working aboard the...
Underground tunnel.

Exploration Mysteries: Lizard City Beneath Los Angeles

At the height of the Great Depression, a crazy...
mushroom cloud

Exploration Mysteries: The Vela Incident

By 1979, the Cold War had dragged on for...
illustration of thule

Exploration Mysteries: Thule

I first encountered the word “Thule” in college while...
A U.S. Navy ship

Exploration Mysteries: The Philadelphia Experiment

It is a cheesy B-movie, an iconic X-Files episode,...
Vampire grave with a sickle across the neck.

Exploration Mysteries: Vampire Graves

Robert Eggers' film Nosferatu has renewed interest in vampires....
painting

Exploration Mysteries: Belovodye

Picture a land free of politics and persecution. The...
crystal skull

Before Indiana Jones, There Were Other Crystal Skulls

I am prepared to risk it all by admitting...
a composite image of newspaper clippings

The Mysterious Mad Gasser of Mattoon (and What We Can Learn From Him)

Fictional mystery stories are nice and tidy — all...
photo with black space below and the Earth above

Exploration Mysteries: Black Knight Satellite

My grandfather and I had a daily ritual when...

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