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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If you’ve ever seen horror movies with a sadistic doctor performing horrific experiments, that’s a… Read More How many of us as kids were told by our parents that carrots are good for our eyes? The… Read More Russian Marxist revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, rose to leadership during the Russian Revolution in… Read More Always on […]
Evidence over time has suggested that a number of the settlers may have ended up living with Natives, or at least in intimate contact with them. So, some have suggested the answer is simple, the colonists simply assimilated. But a good mystery analyst is always…well… forming strong theories and then shooting them down. Yes, finding […]
Painting depicting the baptism of Virginia Dare. Now, two independent teams have found archaeological remains suggesting that at least some of the Roanoke colonists might have survived and split into two groups, each of which assimilated itself into a different Native American community. One team is excavating a site near Cape Creek on Hatteras Island, […]
Investigations into the fate of the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke have continued over the centuries, but no one has come up with a satisfactory answer. “Croatoan” was the name of an island south of Roanoke that was home to a Native American tribe of the same name. Perhaps, then, the colonists were killed or abducted […]
The lost colony of Roanoke It seemed too good to be true. And it was. Nearly 20 years ago, excavators digging on North Carolina’s remote Hatteras Island uncovered a worn ring emblazoned with a prancing lion. A local jeweler declared it gold—but it came to be seen as more than mere buried treasure when a […]
We have an air-traffic control system because no individual pilot can be expected to see the whole… Read More The unfortunate disappearance, read murder, of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashogghi has been in the… Read More In a way it’s magical enough, being a mountainous island halfway between Ireland and the… Read More It isn’t quite […]
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We need to know – Featured this week… The case of Michelle O’Connell, from our Crime and Disappearance Section: Michelle’s case, a death on Sept. 2, 2010, was officially ruled a suicide by medical examiners but remains complex and controversial: 1. We need independent testing of the weapon used. What are the results of firing it […]