2021

James Derham was born a slave in 1762 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At eleven years old, he was…

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On the evening before Halloween in 1938, American radio listeners heard alarming news of strange…

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As one of the wealthiest people of his time, Howard Hughes was born in 1905 to an American family…

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At least 140 people died attempting to cross the nearly 12-foot high, 27-mile long Berlin Wall…

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What do iPads, computer hackers, bionic limbs, mass surveillance, and the moons of Mars have in…

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According to legend, in 1776 when America was on the brink of declaring its independence, George…

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It was 1933 and the Nazis were on a steady rise to power in Germany, but not without government…

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The series is really called “Turn” but the subtitle that makes clear the focus on…

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Not far from the world headquarters of Mind Over Mystery, a man runs for the Arizona State Senate….

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A kind of standard article, really, one we’ve seen a hundred times, a thousand times,…

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All the history books say the same thing, accurate enough, that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot…

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We have an air-traffic control system because no individual pilot can be expected to see the whole…

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The unfortunate disappearance, read murder, of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashogghi has been in the…

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In a way it’s magical enough, being a mountainous island halfway between Ireland and the…

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It isn’t quite a mystery bite, more of a mystery morsel. Dr. Joshua Hull. He hasn’t…

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If you’ve ever seen horror movies with a sadistic doctor performing horrific experiments, that’s a…

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How many of us as kids were told by our parents that carrots are good for our eyes? The…

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Russian Marxist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, rose to leadership during the Russian Revolution in…

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Always on the cutting edge of the 1960’s counterculture movement, The Rolling Stones were one of…

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Often at Mind Over Mystery we encounter a tantalizing story that’s just popped in the news….

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It’s like the old jokes that started as soon as the commercials aired–…

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It’s been in the news as we write this, someone supposedly with high White House status…

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Agatha Christie “Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, author Agatha Christie left readers…

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Intro Artist, Carl Andre, made a 911 call at 5:26 a.m. in New York City on Sept. 8,1985. His voice…

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Often, interviews with and debates between Mystery Masters will enliven our study of mystery. But…

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We need to know – Featured this week… The case of Michelle O’Connell, from our Crime and…

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Aaron Feis acted with extraordinary heroism. He draped himself over students as a school shooter…

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Propaganda, that’s what we call it, that’s what we remember. But so many questions are…

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It seems to happen with a depressing regularity: Some mole seems to be at work, comprising U.S….

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No, not a lot of mystery about who shot Abraham Lincoln, and when. On April 14, 1865, the…

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It was stunning television in all senses of the word, the on-air suicide of WXLT-TV reporter…

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Imagine being accused of treason, and executed based on very limited evidence. Julius Rosenberg…

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It was August 6th, 1945, on a clear-skied morning as the citizens of Hiroshima, Japan went about…

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Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker by cyanide capsule, then shooting himself in the head…

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After the brutal, infamous white colonial regime of South Africa gave way in 1994 to a government…

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Edward Snowden is someone most of us have heard of, but think about little if at all. Name sounds…

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The best estimates are that some 20 million Coptic Christians live in Egypt, with another million…

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A wise old psychologist who lived throughout most of the twentieth century noted the psychic…

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Since there have been trains, there have been dogs, from time to time, that wait for them. Not for…

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The red “spot” is only a spot in relation to the surface of largest planet that…

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The lead to the story below shares an astounding fact, but also leads to the ever powerful…

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Joe Bryan wasn’t killed in 1985, his wife Mickey was, found brutally murdered in their home…

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Silly video clips have exploded in number the last twenty years, and most are really not bothering…

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Even the message in a bottle that doesn’t leave much mystery behind can be intriguing.. A…

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