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Bennington Triangle: The Girl Who Walked Off

An 18-year-old went for a walk on a mountain trail in 1946 and the countryside decided to be mysterious about it.Read More

Mary Celeste: The Ship That Left Its Tea Behind

A perfectly seaworthy brigantine turned up off the Azores in 1872 with its crew gone and its cargo coyly intact - and the world still cannot agree on what happened.Read More

Those Two Chaps and the Lead Masks

Two suit-clad men on a lonely Brazilian hill, lead eye shields, a baffling notebook and an autopsy that shrugged-mystery served cold with a stiff upper lip.Read More

Dyatlov Pass: The Tent They Left Inside Out

Nine competent skiers peeled open their own tent in the middle of the Urals and the world's explanations have been politely useless ever since.Read More

The Boy in the Box That Keeps Knocking

A nameless little boy was found in a cardboard box in Philadelphia in 1957 and six decades later we still own the silence.Read More

It Rains Fish in Yoro - Yeah, Really

Every year a Honduran town wakes up to live fish on the pavement and calls it Lluvia de Peces; scientists shrug, priests bless, and everyone throws a party.Read More

DB Cooper: The Suit Who Skywalked Out of History

On Thanksgiving Eve 1971 a man bought a ticket, grabbed $200,000 and vanished off a Boeing like he'd left his coat behind-New Jersey, eat your heart out.Read More

Oak Island, That Persistent Money Hole

A damp, booby-trapped shaft in Nova Scotia has seduced treasure hunters for centuries and still refuses to cough up anything everyone agrees on.Read More

Devon's Phantom Hooves

In 1855 a cold snap left Devon with mysterious cloven-hoof prints crossing roofs, fields and chimneys - and nobody could name the culprit.Read More

That Bridge Where Dogs Keep Jumping and Nobody's Decided Why

There is a real Victorian bridge in Scotland that repeatedly sends perfectly ordinary dogs over the edge and the explanations are deliciously unconvincing.Read More
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