Exploration mysteries

sea serpent illustration

Exploration Mysteries: HMS Daedalus and the Sea Serpent

For decades in the 19th and even early 20th...
August 28, 2025
An antler headdress with boreholes drilled in.

Star Carr: Mystery of the Mesolithic

In an unassuming farm field in Yorkshire, peat preserves...
August 25, 2025
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...
August 16, 2025
An Oakville Blob

Exploration Mysteries: Oakville Blobs

On Aug. 7, 1994, the quaint town of Oakville,...
August 15, 2025
Portrait of Thomas Simpson

The Mysterious Death of Arctic Explorer Thomas Simpson

For a time, Thomas Simpson was considered the man...
August 10, 2025
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...
August 6, 2025
Antillia and nearby islands.

Exploration Mysteries: Antillia

Christian Spain was under assault. In 711 AD, invading...
July 31, 2025
map of Lake Parime in colour

Exploration Mysteries: Lake Parimé

We’ve all heard of El Dorado. The fabled lost...
July 22, 2025
dead astronaut

Exploration Mysteries: Lost Cosmonauts

“Listen! Listen! Talk to me! I am hot!…oxygen…oxygen…am I...
June 30, 2025
black goo

Natural Wonders: La Mancha Negra

Imagine you are a child in the 1980s and...
June 25, 2025
old map of America

Exploration Mysteries: Norumbega

“Now from the North Of Norumbega, and the Samoed...
June 18, 2025
ancient city

Exploration Mysteries: Nan Madol

It is the place “between the spaces” — a...
June 11, 2025
A ship in a storm

Exploration Mysteries: The Devil’s Sea

In 1980, 19-year-old Peter Lambert was working aboard the...
April 11, 2025
Underground tunnel.

Exploration Mysteries: Lizard City Beneath Los Angeles

At the height of the Great Depression, a crazy...
March 27, 2025
mushroom cloud

Exploration Mysteries: The Vela Incident

By 1979, the Cold War had dragged on for...
March 17, 2025
illustration of thule

Exploration Mysteries: Thule

I first encountered the word “Thule” in college while...
February 17, 2025
A U.S. Navy ship

Exploration Mysteries: The Philadelphia Experiment

It is a cheesy B-movie, an iconic X-Files episode,...
February 10, 2025
Vampire grave with a sickle across the neck.

Exploration Mysteries: Vampire Graves

Robert Eggers' film Nosferatu has renewed interest in vampires....
February 7, 2025
painting

Exploration Mysteries: Belovodye

Picture a land free of politics and persecution. The...
January 24, 2025
crystal skull

Before Indiana Jones, There Were Other Crystal Skulls

I am prepared to risk it all by admitting...
January 20, 2025
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...
January 13, 2025
photo with black space below and the Earth above

Exploration Mysteries: Black Knight Satellite

My grandfather and I had a daily ritual when...
January 6, 2025
Dighton Rock

Exploration Mysteries: Dighton Rock

Petroglyphs are hard puzzles to decipher. Despite a wealth...
December 14, 2024
a group of roman soldiers accost a black man in tribal garb

Exploration Mysteries: Did Romans Discover the Nile’s Source?

Ancient Greek historian Herodotus once called Egypt "the gift...
November 27, 2024

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