Unsolved Mysteries (2024)

26/01/2024

As Michel Lotito finished the last morsel of food on his plate, he came to the end of a two-year challenge that had really put his name on the map. After all, how many people could say they’d just eaten an entire airplane? Meet the man who ate an entire plane...

While he’d made a career out of his unusual eating habits, Michel Lotito still raised eyebrows by consuming an entire airplane for a strange purpose.

23/01/2024

Axe murderer Lizzie Borden who supposedly killed her parents walked free. Did investigators miss something in this infamous murder case?

At the end of the 19th century, Lizzie Borden stood accused of murder – and many believe that she got away with it.

19/01/2024

Let’s look at the times humans have made predictions about the future than turned out to be eerily accurate.

From the moon landing to touch screen tablets, many people, including famous figures like Nikola Tesla, made predictions for the future that were so right, it's hard to wrap our heads around.

16/01/2024

American astronaut Frank Rubio and his two Russian cosmonaut colleagues, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin were stuck in space for a year after getting hit by space junk. Their ordeal must have been punctuated by moments of genuine fear and hopelessness, but at last these astronauts were ready to go home to their families.

After a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) went wrong, three astronauts were literally left stranded in space.

12/01/2024

A man from Florida used Google Earth to unravel a 22-year-old mystery. This one discovery would lead the police to eventually fish out the object and clear a 22-year-old case from their books.

It’s hard to imagine that Google Earth was created for the purpose of solving decades-old cold cases, but that’s exactly what happened in 2019.

09/01/2024

Since being abandoned by its citizens, the place has earned a dreaded reputation. Was it really home to murderous Satanists? Or how about deadly mutants? This is the perfect time to learn more about the aptly named Helltown.

After it had been abandoned, Ohio’s Helltown developed a reputation as one of America’s creepiest ghost towns. And the history behind it explains so much.

05/01/2024

Axe murderer Lizzie Borden who supposedly killed her parents walked free. Did investigators miss something in this infamous murder case?

At the end of the 19th century, Lizzie Borden stood accused of her parents' homicide, and many believe that she got away with it due to a grim set of circumstances.

02/01/2024

The open-water crossing from Cuba to Florida is 111 miles — or about five times the size of the English Channel. No one had ever swum across it. In 2013, 64-year-old Diana Nyad was desperate to conquer this major challenge despite the life-threatening danger from sharks, storms, and sea creatures. The story of her swim is incredible, and to many, she is a hero. Some people out there think there’s something fishy about Diana Nyad and her claims to fame.

Diana Nyad achieved legendary status for her feats in swimming, and at 64 years old, she accomplished her greatest achievement yet, but it came with some obstacles that the Hollywood version can't cover.

29/12/2023

On March 23, 1944, a throng of people crowded outside London’s Old Bailey criminal court. Helen Duncan was facing serious charges that had not been successfully brought against anybody in hundreds of years. The public wanted to know if she was guilty. Was she, as the accusations claim, actually a witch?

Helen Duncan was the last person to be sent to jail as a witch in Britain, and her strange tale is as bonkers as it is spellbinding.

26/12/2023

Here's the bizarre story of Frank Sinatra Jr.'s kidnapping.

In 1963, Frank Sinatra Jr. was abducted by two men demanding a ransom. But some experts have their doubts about the official version events.

22/12/2023

Nostradamus' predictions went all the way up to the year 4500, so what did he think might lie in store for us in the year ahead?

Nostradamus had some worrying prophecies for humankind in 2024 involving prominent figures from the Pope to King Charles.

19/12/2023

People have tried to solve the mystery behind this famous shipwreck for years...

From smuggling to mafia sabotage, theories abounded about the way the MV Panagiotis landed on “Shipwreck Beach,” but researchers recently made a breakthrough that explains it all.

15/12/2023

An eerie figure can be seen in a photo of Mary Todd Lincoln

In the 1870s, a photographer named William H. Mumler was making a unique brand of 'spiritual photographs' that included figures seemingly made of light in the background. These photographs impressed people at the time, many recognizing his talent as a form of clairvoyance. But perhaps his most famou...

12/12/2023

Eerie signals from a satellite that vanished 50 years ago started drifting back to Earth

A U.S. satellite from the Cold War called the LES-1 stopped transmitting in 1967, and then, 45 years later, it mysteriously came back to life. Not only are scientists perplexed, but it was only detected due to an eye-opening twist of fate.

08/12/2023

Spirits of the dead haunting the living is a tale as old as time. Every nation has its own frightening legends and stories, and the following 30 are among the most famous, or should we say infamous?

Not every ghost story is from long, long ago. In fact, some of the most unnerving stories are rather recent, featuring spirits that some say still haunt otherwise normal places, earning them quite a bit of fame. These 30 ghosts are some of the most infamous in the world, and their stories are truly....

05/12/2023

A Salvadorian fisherman washed up on a remote Pacific Island after surviving at sea for 438 days

When a lost, bedraggled man named José Alvarenga washed up on an island in the Pacific, he had an incredible tale to tell. This is the story of his astonishing ordeal.

01/12/2023

"3 Days of Peace & Music" — what could go wrong? People share their wild real stories from Woodstock.

"3 Days of Peace & Music" was the way the poster billed the first Woodstock Festival, but as these firsthand accounts demonstrate, the tagline doesn't quite capture the reality.

28/11/2023

In Germany, near a place called Eutin, singletons can turn to a mysterious matchmaker that’s been helping people to find love for the last hundred years or so. The catch? Well, this matchmaker is a tree.

A centuries-old tree in Eutin, Germany known as the "'Bridegroom's Oak" has an extraordinary reputation as an effective matchmaker for people looking for love, and the history behind this enigmatic oak suggests it might be more than a legend.

24/11/2023

Weighing in at more than 45 carats, the dazzling Hope Diamond is one of the most famous gems in the world. But while experts value it at around $250 million, it’s actually less desirable than you might imagine. This ‘cursed’ diamond has supposedly brought destruction to all of its owners.

Dazzling to look at, the Hope Diamond is one of the most famous gems in the world, but its history has an ominous side. In fact, rumors of the gem's 'curse' have been whispered for decades, as each of its owners—from Marie Antionette to Evalyn Walsh—have met their end in strange ways. Now, the j...

21/11/2023

Half a century before another famous Jack would terrorize the citizens of Whitechapel, the people of London lived in fear of a very different kind of monster: Spring-Heeled Jack. Read how victorian England was turned upside down by a prankster with supernatural powers.

With his sharp claws, glowing eyes, and supernatural ability to leap over buildings, the phantom known as the Spring-Heeled Jack stalked the streets of Victorian-Era London. But over 200 years later, experts are still puzzled over the menace’s real identity.

17/11/2023

For most of us, staying in a hotel is a great way to get away from it all and catch up on some much needed sleep. But if you choose to spend the night in any one of these spooky haunted hotels from around the world, sleep just might be the last thing on your mind.

From resorts still occupied by Hollywood spirits to the former Latvian prison converted into a place to stay, here are the world’s most haunted hotels and the uneasy stories of the ghosts guests claim to encounter there.

14/11/2023

From fascinating origins to bizarre, little-known rituals and traditions, these fascinating facts about the history of witches may have you waxing up those broomsticks and re-drawing those pentagrams!

Witches have gained all kinds of cultural popularity with the success of movies like 'Hocus Pocus' and 'The Craft', but most people aren't aware of the historically-accurate facts beyond the basics. From sidekicks to swimming tests, these 40 fascinating tidbits about the history of witchcraft have u...

10/11/2023

Five men disappeared driving home from a basketball game, and only four were ever found

A group of five friends left a basketball game one night in 1978 on what was supposed to be a routine trip home. But 45 years later, the subsequent events still have experts and true crime enthusiasts searching for an explanation and closure in a perplexing unsolved case.

07/11/2023

We’re all familiar with the heartbreaking romance that Jack and Rose shared in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic. But that was a glorious work of fiction; the true tale of the most famous shipwreck in history is even more thrilling. These stories from real passengers of the RMS Titanic shed new light on that doomed voyage.

Most people know the story of the Titanic, but who was actually on board? Turns out some exceedingly wealthy individuals lost their lives that changed the course of the business world for good.

03/11/2023

Read on to discover which industries the feared mobsters have reportedly got their hands on — at least in part — and have helped run in a clandestine manner.

From olive oil production to vinyl record manufacturing, the mob had or has been alleged to have had its fingers in many major American businesses, including many we wouldn't have guessed.

31/10/2023

Thousands of feet above the thick canopy of the Amazon jungle, a passenger plane hits trouble in stormy skies. Then, after lightning strikes the wing, the craft’s fuselage disintegrates, sending 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke hurtling down toward the ground below. This is her miraculous survival story.

Juliane Koepcke was only a teenager when the flight she was on crashed into the Amazon rainforest. Those that ultimately tracked her down were taken aback by the scene they uncovered and the state they found her in.

27/10/2023

As the sun rises over the ocean, a United States submarine approaches a pair of Japanese vessels. But before the crew can scupper their targets, an enemy aircraft appears overhead. In a desperate bid for survival, the vessel plunges deep beneath the waves — as bombs rain down from above. Seven decades later, an international team of divers find something hidden on the seabed, unraveling the final chapter in this incredible story.

In the middle of World War II's Pacific theater, a U.S. submarine called the USS Grenadier held its own against multiple incursions, even going so far as to sink multiple Japanese vessels. But a strange twist of fate left the vessel lost to radar, until divers located evidence of the sub decades lat...

24/10/2023

Before witches wore black robes and pointy hats, they wore nothing at all. The witchy aesthetic, with its strange and fascinating history, has evolved over centuries. So grab your cauldron, your cape, and your black cat; we’re going on a spooky journey through time...

We all know that witches wear pointy hats and ride broomsticks, but it turns out the history behind this famous appearance is more thorny than we ever suspected.

20/10/2023

Real Historical B***y Traps That Could Be Straight From An Indiana Jones Movie

From the collapsing stones within the Pyramid of Giza to the automatic crossbows that fired in a well-known Chinese tomb, many of the ancient sites were equipped with b***y traps that were not only ingenious, they were quite dangerous. Experts in the field recently broke down the most wild that we'v...

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