Lost Treasures
The Atocha: The $400 Million Shipwreck That Took 16 Years to Find
In 1985, a diver off the Florida Keys found a wall of silver bars that ended a sixteen-year search. This is the story of the Atocha: a 1622 hurr…
Incredible True Stories
17 stories in this collection.
Unsolved Mysteries
Project Azorian: The CIA Mission to Steal a Sunken Soviet Sub
In 1968 a Soviet missile submarine vanished in the North Pacific. The CIA built a ship, borrowed Howard Hughes's name, and tried to lift the wre…
Unsolved Mysteries
The Pollock Twins: The Reincarnation Case That Baffled a Skeptical Scientist
In 1957 two sisters died in a road accident in Hexham, England. A year later their mother gave birth to twins, and one of them seemed to remembe…
Unsolved Mysteries
The Enfield Poltergeist: What Really Happened on Green Street (1977)
In 1977, an ordinary council house on Green Street in Enfield became the center of one of the most documented and most argued-over poltergeist c…
Strange History
Victor Lustig: The Con Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower Twice
In 1925, a stranger checked into a Paris hotel and convinced six businessmen he had the authority to sell the Eiffel Tower for scrap. This is th…
Unsolved Mysteries
The Bell Witch: America's Only Haunting That Allegedly Killed a Man
Between 1817 and 1821, a Tennessee farm family endured four years of scratching walls, disembodied voices, and physical torment that neighbors…
Strange History
Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Discovery, the Death, and the Curse Debunked
In 1922, Howard Carter uncovered the most intact royal tomb in Egyptian history. Months later, his financier was dead, and a legend was born. He…
Unsolved Mysteries
Al Capone's Hidden Fortune: The Millions No One Has Ever Found
A dying gangster claimed he buried millions before his death in 1947. Seventy-five years later, no one has ever found it. Here's what the eviden…
Unsolved Mysteries
Amelia Earhart: Vanished Without a Trace
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart's voice crackled over the radio, tense and running low on fuel, then vanished. Eighty-plus years later, the fate…
Unsolved Mysteries
The Bermuda Triangle: What Really Happened to the Missing Planes?
Fourteen men vanished into clear skies during a routine 1945 training flight, and not one scrap of wreckage was ever found. Nearly eighty years…
Strange History
Operation Mincemeat: The Dead Man Who Fooled Hitler
A homeless man's corpse became one of the most audacious spies of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat used a fabricated identity, a chaine…
Unsolved Mysteries
The Franklin Expedition: 129 Men Vanished Into the Arctic
In 1845, two of the Royal Navy's finest ships sailed into the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. All 129 men aboard vanished. N…
Unsolved Mysteries
Hinterkaifeck: The Unsolved Murders at Germany's Most Mysterious Farm
In 1922, an entire family and their maid were slaughtered on an isolated Bavarian farm—and someone stayed behind afterward, feeding the animals…
Unsolved Mysteries
Roanoke: The Colony That Vanished Without a Trace
In August 1590, a relief ship reached Roanoke Island to find an entire English colony gone—no bodies, no battle, just one carved word left behin…
Unsolved Mysteries
D.B. Cooper: The Hijacker Who Jumped From a Plane and Vanished
On the night before Thanksgiving 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727, collected $200,000 in ransom, and vanished into t…
Unsolved Mysteries
The Mary Celeste: Why 10 People Abandoned a Perfectly Safe Ship
In December 1872, a ship was found drifting in the Atlantic with sails up, cargo intact, and not a single person aboard. Here's what the evidenc…
Haunted & Paranormal
The Stanley Hotel: The Real History Behind America's Most Haunted Hotel
Room 427 has hosted decades of guest reports about presences that shouldn't be there. Behind the Stanley Hotel's haunted reputation lies a docum…