May 13, 2012

Jack the Ripper is the most famous serial killer of all time. For over a century, scholars have searched for his true identity. But were they searching for the wrong type of person? Was Jack the Ripper really…Jill the Ripper? Who was Jack the Ripper? The true extent of Jack the Ripper’s murder spree remains…

May 12, 2012

On October 29, 1933, the London Sunday Referee published a report that a man named Otto Fischer had flown a 24-foot long rocket six miles above Earth. Did Space Nazis really exist? Did Space Nazis Exist? This story comes to you straight from io9. And it’s a wild one. No, the Nazis didn’t really send…

May 11, 2012

In 1912, antique book dealer Wilfrid M. Voynich purchased a strange unreadable manuscript near Rome. Despite a century of efforts, it has defied all code-breaking attempts. What is the Voynich Manuscript? The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript? At this very moment, a conference is underway in Rome, a sort of 100-year celebration of Voynich’s purchase. Various experts…

May 10, 2012

Algol, also known as the Demon Star, is a binary system, meaning it contains two stars rotating around each other. Until recently, it was believed this unique feature was discovered by John Goodricke in 1783. Now, we have reason to believe it was detected thousands of years earlier. Did ancient Egyptian astronomers discover and understand…

May 9, 2012

In 1915, construction workers made a startling discovery in Vero Beach, Florida. Did ancient Americans live alongside mammoths? Did they hunt these and other giant extinct creatures from the Pleistocene epoch? When did Ancient Americans reach the Americas? According to the International Union of Geological Sciences, the Pleistocene epoch started 2,588,000 years ago and ended…

May 8, 2012

Around 1480, Topa Inca Yupanqui embarked on a mysterious voyage. Did the Incas travel clear across the Pacific Ocean…prior to the Europeans? Pre-Columbian Mystery: Did the Incas visit the Old World? In 1572, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa wrote a famous book entitled, The History of the Incas. He wrote it while in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire,…

May 7, 2012

In 1590, John White led an expedition to the New World to resupply the English colony on Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina. But to his surprise, he found the area deserted. What happened to the Lost Colony? The Lost Colony of Roanoke? The disappearance of the 119 colonists (including Virginia Dare, the…

May 6, 2012

On May 6, 1937, a German zeppelin named the Hindenburg attempted to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Suddenly, the 803-foot long airship burst into flames. 35 people died and the era of the zeppelin came to a crashing halt. The Hindenburg Disaster! We’re not going to speculate on the conspiracies surrounding the Hindenburg Disaster today…that’s…