Exploration mysteries

a desert landscape with lights on the horizon

Exploration Mysteries: The Marfa Lights

There's something spooky happening way out in the desert,...
June 1, 2024
city underground

Exploration Mysteries: Agartha

We know the Earth is not hollow. While we...
April 7, 2024
formations in the desert

Exploration Mysteries: Works of the Old Men

Google Earth has done a lot more than show...
April 4, 2024
upright stone pillars

Exploration Mysteries: Newton Stone

Mysterious writing. No author. Enigmatic etchings that don't make...
March 23, 2024
African dance

The Spirits Known as ‘Zangbeto’ That Safeguard African Villages

Law and order runs a bit differently in Benin,...
March 17, 2024
letters and numbers

Exploration Mysteries: Beale Ciphers

Straight out of a National Treasure movie, the Beale...
March 1, 2024
close shot of the sole of Mallory's boot.

1924 Everest Anniversary Reignites Rumors: Did the Chinese Remove Irvine’s Body?

A hundred years ago this spring, George Mallory and...
February 23, 2024
Isles of Scilly from space.

Exploration Mysteries: Lyonesse

“And ever pushed Sir Mordred, league by league, back...
February 17, 2024
map

Exploration Mysteries: Doggerland

Did you ever wonder how Britain separated from the...
February 13, 2024
Plain of Jars

Exploration Mysteries: Plain of Jars

Once upon a time, giants roamed the foothills of...
February 1, 2024
La Pérouse and King Louis XVI.

Exploration Mysteries: Jean Francois de Galaup

The mutiny on HMS Bounty overshadowed an even stranger...
January 23, 2024
illustration of lost city under ocean

Exploration Mysteries: Lemuria

I first heard of the name Lemuria from Ray...
December 10, 2023
planets crashing

Exploration Mysteries: Theia Impact

Almost since the beginning of the solar system, Earth...
December 9, 2023
Shambhala

Exploration Mysteries: Shambhala

It has many names -- Shangri-La, Eden, The Land...
November 22, 2023
Noah's ark

Exploration Mysteries: Noah’s Ark

It was one of the first stories I ever...
November 14, 2023
valley and mountains

Exploration Mysteries: Parvati Valley Disappearances

With its natural beauty and Lost Horizon feel that...
October 30, 2023
bog body

Exploration Mysteries: Bocksten Man

The Bocksten Man is one of the world's oldest...
September 28, 2023
crater

Natural Wonders: Patomskiy Crater

Deep in the forests of southeastern Siberia, the Patomisky...
September 22, 2023
ai-generated painting of a medieval woman

Exploration Mysteries: Tea Tephi

Only 66,000 search results: Most are obscure genealogy websites...
September 7, 2023
Excalibur

Exploration Mysteries: Who Was King Arthur?

Glastonbury Abbey was everything I had imagined it to...
September 1, 2023
Overtoun Bridge and House.

Overtoun Bridge: Where Dogs Jump To Their Death

Since the 1950s, a small, picturesque village in Scotland...
August 30, 2023
north sentinel island

Exploration Mysteries: North Sentinel Island

In the Andaman archipelago, in the Bay of Bengal,...
August 25, 2023
gold bar pile

Exploration Mysteries: The Nazi Gold Train

Could one of Europe's largest treasure troves be hidden...
August 18, 2023
lonely whale in the sea

Exploration Mysteries: The World’s Loneliest Whale

Since the 1980s, a lonely call has echoed through...
July 3, 2023

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