Category: Mysteries

Or have they? Mostly, yes. Yes, they have. People love a good puzzle—take a jigsaw. A few hours spent pawing through various pieces, locating all the corners, and matching up colors and figures, all culminating in a completed picture. Very satisfying. Even if the jigsaw is particularly large or difficult, taking longer than a few… Continue reading Top 10 Mysteries, Cold Cases & Puzzles That Were Finally Solved

We all have our guilty online pleasures. Be it cute cat videos, makeup tutorials, recipes you’ll never cook, celebrity gossip, and such. For me, I went down the internet rabbit hole and found myself hooked on YouTube videos of volunteer divers solving missing persons’ cold cases. Using fairly basic equipment like fish finders, they are… Continue reading 10 Missing Persons Cases Solved by YouTube Divers

Local legends have a certain charm. They’re part of a town’s flavor, along with local businesses and food. They add a bit of spice to the area, a spooky undertone to an otherwise unassuming area. In this list, we look at ten urban legends that are localized in U.S. towns. Please enjoy, and if you… Continue reading 10 U.S. Towns with Terrifying Local Legends

There is a company so large it controls assets worth half of the U.S. GDP, but no matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t find its true owners even after scouring the nooks and cranny of the internet. This is not so surprising considering what we found out about it. That company is BlackRock, and… Continue reading 10 Shadowy Facts About the Secret Company That Runs the World

People are reported missing all the time, leaving authorities and loved ones to piece together clues and come up with theories. Sometimes, there are logical explanations, But other times, there are no clear theories, and the mystery remains unsolved. Not all these disappearances were of the forever kind, but they definitely are all strange and… Continue reading Ten Famous Writers Who Have Mysteriously Disappeared

There are still some mysteries in the world, despite vigorous debunking, ongoing investigations, plain old skepticism, and in some cases, a scary lack of clues or information. On this list are just some of these. Related: Top 10 Mysteries And Crimes Solved By The Internet 10 The Child Eater of Bern Switzerland is a popular… Continue reading 10 More Mysteries That Have Yet to Be Solved

Nothing else compares to the terrifying idea that the human body can burn itself without external causes. This phenomenon is known as spontaneous human combustion. Spontaneous human combustion is when a human body supposedly catches fire due to heat created by internal chemical activity but without proof of an external ignition source. The scientific community… Continue reading Top 10 Best Internal Combustion Stories

Who doesn’t love a good mystery? Some have logical explanations, of course, but others defy any attempt to explain them away. Even a small island nation like New Zealand (home to myself as well as some guy named Jamie Frater), roughly the size of the state of Colorado, seemingly has more than its fair share… Continue reading Top Ten Unsolved Mysteries from New Zealand

On April 20, 2010, the first episode of Ancient Aliens aired and changed our lives forever. Apart from mysterious and intriguing hairstyles and a bunch of funny memes, the series introduced the greater public to, among other things, pseudohistory, pseudoarchaeology, and pseudoscience. It brought out all the crazies and even pointed the way to those… Continue reading 10 More Crazy Ancient Aliens Theories

A series of portraits, dubbed the Crying Boy paintings, features a young ragamuffin with large eyes that meet the viewers to establish an instant connection. Complete with fresh tears streaming down his face, the perfectly captured expression of despair evokes a strong emotional reaction. The image was designed to pull at the heartstrings of its… Continue reading 10 Unsettling Truths About the Crying Boy Paintings Curse