Exploration mysteries

The White Bird.

L’Oiseau Blanc: A Coveted Prize, a Transatlantic Flight, Two Missing Aviators

When you Google L’Oiseau Blanc (The White Bird), the...
Amelia Earhart in a cockpit

Search for Amelia Earhart’s Plane Delayed

A team of scientists who want to search for...
black hole in the ground

Mel’s Hole: The Mysterious, Bottomless Pit in Washington State

In the 1990s, Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM...
image of jersey devil

The Creature That Allegedly Stalks New Jersey’s Pine Barrens

Driving through a tunnel of darkness with nothing but...
The Baltic Sea anomaly.

Is the Baltic Sea Anomaly Natural? Man-Made? A Hoax? We Explore the Possibilities

"It’s sad, one minute you're making the Kessel Run...
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...

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