James Derham was born a slave in 1762 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At eleven years old, he was… Read More On the evening before Halloween in 1938, American radio listeners heard alarming news of strange… Read More As one of the wealthiest people of his time, Howard Hughes was born in 1905 to an American family… Read […]
The series is really called “Turn” but the subtitle that makes clear the focus on… Read More Not far from the world headquarters of Mind Over Mystery, a man runs for the Arizona State Senate…. Read More A kind of standard article, really, one we’ve seen a hundred times, a thousand times,… Read More All […]
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Agatha Christie “Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, author Agatha Christie left readers… Read More Intro Artist, Carl Andre, made a 911 call at 5:26 a.m. in New York City on Sept. 8,1985. His voice… Read More
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Aaron Feis acted with extraordinary heroism. He draped himself over students as a school shooter… Read More Propaganda, that’s what we call it, that’s what we remember. But so many questions are… Read More It seems to happen with a depressing regularity: Some mole seems to be at work, comprising U.S…. Read More No, not […]
Imagine being accused of treason, and executed based on very limited evidence. Julius Rosenberg… Read More It was August 6th, 1945, on a clear-skied morning as the citizens of Hiroshima, Japan went about… Read More Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker by cyanide capsule, then shooting himself in the head… Read More
After the brutal, infamous white colonial regime of South Africa gave way in 1994 to a government… Read More Edward Snowden is someone most of us have heard of, but think about little if at all. Name sounds… Read More The best estimates are that some 20 million Coptic Christians live in Egypt, with another […]
The highest paid spy in American history managed to pass polygraphs and keep under the radar, even… Read More “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.” Just what was Ernest Hemingway trying to tell us, or to get us… Read More Robert Leroy Johnson is ranked as the fifth best guitarist of all time by Rolling […]
This game takes less than 2 minutes to learn, but more than 2 lifetimes to fully explore! Most of the TRUE MYSTERY cases are classics – The Sinking of the Titanic, the fate of The Lost Colony of Roanoke or D.B Cooper’s leap from a jetliner – and we challenge you to think about them […]
Iceland is also isolated, and in the cold what grows there is pretty limited. So controlling the… Read More The year was 1967. Ferment and experimentation were rife, and nowhere more than the world of… Read More Those looking for a bit of mystery to pursue can even look in the business world, at sheer… […]
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