The archive
Documented history, competing explanations and the questions that remain.
For nearly twenty-six centuries, no one has verified where the Ark of the Covenant actually went. This is the historical record of its disappear…
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…
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…
In 1922, an entire family and their maid were slaughtered on an isolated Bavarian farm—and someone stayed behind afterward, feeding the animals…
In 1900, storm-stranded sponge divers stumbled onto a Roman-era shipwreck that hid a corroded lump of bronze — and inside it, an analog computer…
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…
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…
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished from radar with 239 people aboard. More than a decade later, satellite math and scattere…
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…
In 1970, a burned body was found in a Norwegian ravine with no identification at all. What investigators found next — false names, coded travel…
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…
In February 1959, nine experienced hikers cut their way out of their own tent in the freezing Ural Mountains and never returned. Decades of fore…