The Black Dahlia Murder
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 On the morning of 15 January 1947, a young mother named Betty Bersinger walked her child along South Norton Avenue in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles and saw what she first took for a discarded department-store mannequin lying in a […]
The Great Pyramid’s Construction Theory
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 How Was the Great Pyramid of Giza Actually Built? The Great Pyramid of Giza was built in roughly 23 years for the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, beginning around 2580 BCE and finished by his death around 2560 BCE. It contains an estimated […]
The Man in the Iron Mask
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 A masked prisoner died inside the Bastille on the night of 19 November 1703, and the parish register of Saint Paul recorded his burial under the name Marchioly. He had been moved through four French fortresses across thirty four years, always in […]
The Georgia Guidestones Mystery
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 7, 2026. What the Georgia Guidestones Were The Georgia Guidestones were a granite monument that stood in a cow pasture seven miles north of Elberton, Georgia, from March 1980 until July 2022. Six slabs, twenty feet tall together, weighing […]
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
By Iris Kowalczyk · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 On the night of February 1-2, 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers cut open the inside of their tent on the eastern slope of a mountain the Mansi people called Kholat Syakhl, “Dead Mountain,” and walked downhill in subzero temperatures, most of them […]
The Curse of the Pharaohs
By Linnea Voss · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What the Curse of the Pharaohs Actually Was The Curse of the Pharaohs is a folkloric tradition rather than an ancient Egyptian one. It names the cluster of stories, headlines, and warnings that gathered around the opening of Tutankhamun’s tomb in November […]
The Hollow Earth Theory
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 The Hollow Earth Theory is a clearly falsified hypothesis that nevertheless built one of the most durable storylines in modern Western thought. Modern seismology and satellite gravimetry have closed the geophysical question: the Earth is a stratified solid with a thin crust, […]
The Paul Is Dead Beatles Theory
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Is the Paul Is Dead Beatles Theory? The Paul is Dead Beatles theory is a 1969 American folk legend claiming that Paul McCartney secretly died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike, with the surviving Beatles encoding clues in their […]
Jack the Ripper’s Identity
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 6, 2026. Why Jack the Ripper’s Identity Is Still Open Jack the Ripper is the unidentified killer of at least five women in Whitechapel, East London, between 31 August and 9 November 1888. Police never charged anyone. The principal […]
Area 51 and Alien Technology
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 6, 2026. A dry lakebed in southern Nevada has carried more legend per square mile than almost any patch of American ground. Locals knew it as Groom Lake. Workers nicknamed it the Ranch. The CIA wrote it into memos […]