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Oliver the “Humanzee”: The Chimp Who Walked Like Us - and What Science Finally Proved
For a century, whispers of a human–ape hybrid have flickered at the edges of science and spectacle.
4 hrs ago • Historic Mysteries
No Patches, No Dog Tags: Inside MACV-SOG’s Secret War in Vietnam
They wore tiger stripes without insignia, carried rifles with the serial numbers filed off, and crossed borders Washington swore it never did.
Jan 27 • Historic Mysteries
Grounding the Bible: 10 Old Testament Figures That We Know Existed, With the Evidence That Proves It
Between royal boast-inscriptions, shattered stelae, and clay bullae stamped into wet earth nearly 3,000 years ago, the Bible’s world occasionally snaps…
Jan 25 • Historic Mysteries
Alone in the Jungle: The Remarkable Juliane Koepcke
Surviving a plane crash is lucky.
Jan 23 • Historic Mysteries
Unsolved Mystery of the Keddie Cabin Murders
In the rural town of Keddie, California, a mother and three children were attacked on Saturday, April 11, 1981. Despite much evidence, the horrific…
Jan 20 • Historic Mysteries
Supernatural Sunday Series:
Something is lurking in the secluded woodlands of Vermont. Whispers of an otherworldly being known (perhaps a little prosaically) only as “The Awful…
Jan 18 • Historic Mysteries
The Montauk Project and the Outer Limits of US Classified Research
Few conspiracy theories are as shrouded in secrecy as those surrounding the Montauk Project. According to some, deep within the confines of the Montauk…
Jan 16 • Historic Mysteries
Mysteries of Surt’s Cave: Bandits, Mutilations, and the Fire Giant
Beneath the basalt skin of a 10th-century lava flow lies Surtshellir, a black tube named for the fire-giant Surtr where Vikings seem to have bargained…
Jan 14 • Historic Mysteries
The Mystery of Germany’s Hinterkaifeck Farmhouse Murders
Lorenz Schlittenbauer and his friends met with a grisly scene when they entered the barn on the Hinterkaifeck farmstead in Grobern, just outside the…
Jan 11 • Historic Mysteries
When a 9-Year-Old’s Words Became a Noose: Inside the 1612 Lancashire Witch Trials
Pendle Hill, a brooding rise in Lancashire, became, in 1612, a crucible where faith, fear, and factional politics ignited.
Jan 9 • Historic Mysteries
Canaanite Ba’al: Who Ruled in the Holy Land Before the Hebrew God?
The key to early Hebrew history is that they were immigrants.
Jan 7 • Historic Mysteries
The Power to Resist: How Hermann Balck Navigated Power with Hitler
‘Fridolin von Spaun met Hitler at a dinner for Nazi supporters in the early 1930’s.
Jan 3 • Historic Mysteries
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