Unsolved Mysteries

Fresh off the Press

The Sodder Children: A Christmas Vanish

On Christmas Eve 1945 a West Virginia house burned and five of the Sodder kids never reappeared-no bones, no bodies, and a family left to run a private detective agency called stubbornness.Read More

Valentich: The Pilot Who Phoned the Night Sky

On October 21 1978 a small Cessna rang Melbourne approach to report a strange craft, emitted a gobsmacking last transmission and then simply vanished like a badly behaved piece of luggage.Read More

The Beaumont Children Who Vanished

Three kids disappeared from a packed Aussie beach on Australia Day 1966 and the country has been whispering ever since.Read More

The Ship That Ghosted Everyone

In March 1918 a US Navy collier went from 'on route' to full-on vanishing act with 306 people aboard and absolutely zero receipts.Read More

The Voynich Manuscript: The Codex That Mocked Scholars

A 15th-century book in an unmade-up language, full of daft plants and bath diagrams, that has spent six centuries laughing at everyone cleverer than you.Read More

Flannan Isles: The Lighthouse That Ate Three Men

Three lighthouse keepers vanished off a Scottish rock in late 1900 and the sea never sent the bill.Read More

Max Headroom's Midnight Broadcast Heist

In 1987 a masked prat in a Max Headroom costume booted into Chicago television twice, delivered a stream of daft rambling and rude gestures, and vanished like a very smug magician.Read More

Isdal Woman: The Unnamed Body That Stiffed Detectives

A burned body in a Bergen valley, clothes stripped of labels and passports gone, left Norway with a spy-sized question mark and zero answers.Read More

The Farm Where Silence Murdered Six

A tiny Bavarian farm in 1922 became a lockbox of horrors: footsteps came in from the woods, nobody left, and the killer vanished like a ghost with very poor manners.Read More

The Taos Hum Is Proper Peculiar

Some folk in Taos hear a constant low hum and the rest of the town acts like it's a mystery soap episode.Read More
Home