unsolved mysteries

In the early twentieth century, stories of literary prodigies were rare enough to capture national attention, but few were as…

London in the late eighteenth century was a city bursting with life, opportunity, and noise. By the 1780s, it had…

In the summer of 1971, a routine bit of gardening in the market town of Hexham took an unexpected turn.…

On the evening of 3 December 1926, Agatha Christie did something that, at the time, seemed entirely unremarkable. She left…

In the mid-1970s, the small town of Circleville was not the sort of place where mysteries were supposed to happen.…

In the spring of 1952, archaeologists working in the caves near Qumran made a discovery that immediately set one artefact…

In the late 1920s, few men embodied wealth and modern ambition quite like Alfred Loewenstein. Born in Brussels in 1877,…

More than four thousand years ago, long before the Roman Empire rose and about the same time as the pyramids…

It sounds like the premise of a maritime ghost story. A quiet coastline, a stray trainer washed ashore, and inside…

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24 June 1842, in a log cabin in Meigs County, Ohio. He was one…