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London’s Notorious Female Gangsters: The 40 Elephants
The end of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century were a rough time for many inner-city areas. The population boom driven by the…
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Lonnie Zamora: A Credible UFO Sighting?
Almost all UFO sightings can be explained by either errors in observation or hoaxes, but some defy explanation. One of the most well-documented examples…
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That Time Sigmund Freud Spent Four Weeks Chopping Up Eels
Sigmund Freud, renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to psychology, was a complex and multifaceted man. He was also possessed of some strange…
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The Mystery of the Pleiades: Where is the Seventh Sister?
The Pleiades, a bright cluster of stars, forms one of the most familiar objects in the night sky. Known to the ancients across the world wherever the…
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What happened to Lamont Young? The Mystery of the Bermagui Five
In 1851, a prospector and homesteader in New South Wales in Australia noticed something interesting in a waterhole near where he was working.
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Rock Apes of Vietnam: Jungle Cryptid of the Vietnam War?
Many United States soldiers returned from the Vietman War shaken, with stories that it was not just the enemy Viet Cong who were attacking them out…
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June 2025

Ten Lesser-Known Lost Treasures of the World That Still Could Be Found
It can be said with near certainty that there are still great treasures out there, hidden or abandoned, waiting to be found. So dust off your fedora and…
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The Magician Who Never Was: The Great Bottle Conjuror of 1749
Magic shows were already massively popular by the 18th century. So why, in this case, were so many people incensed by it that in London in 1749, they…
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Why is there an Elephant Buried Beneath the Vatican?
In February 1962, a group of Italian workers were digging up the Belvedere Courtyard of the Vatican to modernize a cooling and heating system when they…
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Prankster or Assassin? How Richard Roose Made Henry VIII Change the Law
Richard Roose may just have been the unluckiest cook in English history. When in 1531 Roose attempted to pull a prank by spiking his master’s food it…
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Nazino: Stalin’s Cannibal Island of Despair
During Josef Stalin’s time as the leader of the Soviet Union, from 1928 -1953, there were many “internal exiles”.
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Vladimir Komarov: The Man who Fell to Earth
Few people are familiar with the Soviet side of the space race story however, or how close they came to beating the United States in the space race. Or…
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