Phenomena
Skyquakes, vanishing ships and events the record can't explain.
Files on record
Mysteries
Tunguska, 1908: The Morning the Sky Exploded Over Siberia
Just after seven in the morning, something detonated in the air above the Siberian taiga with the force of a large hydrogen bomb, flattening some eighty million trees. No crater was ever found, and no fragment of the object has ever been recovered.
Mysteries
The Bermuda Triangle: The Sea That Swallows Ships
A stretch of the western Atlantic has been blamed for vanishing ships and aircraft for nearly a century. The sea gives nothing back easily, and the legend has grown in the silence.
Phenomena
The Dancing Plague of 1518
In the summer of 1518, a woman in Strasbourg stepped into the street and began to dance. Within a week, dozens had joined her; within a month, hundreds. They could not stop. Some danced until they collapsed. Some, the chronicles say, danced until they died.
Phenomena
The Wow! Signal: 72 Seconds That Seti Has Never Explained
On the night of August 15, 1977, a radio telescope in a cornfield outside Delaware, Ohio, recorded a signal thirty times louder than the background noise of space. It rose, peaked and faded in exactly the pattern a deep-space source should. It sat beside the most famous frequency in astronomy. And then it was gone — forever.
Creepy Places
Why Do Dogs Keep Jumping Off This Scottish Bridge?
An ornamental Victorian bridge on a quiet estate above Dumbarton has a reputation no bridge should have: dogs walk onto it, spring over the parapet and fall around fifteen metres onto the rocks of the burn below. Owners describe the same thing again and again — no warning, no hesitation, no obvious cause. The behaviour is real and repeated. The explanation is still argued over.
Phenomena
Champ: Lake Champlain's Monster With 300 Years of Sightings
For two centuries, witnesses around Lake Champlain have described something long, dark and serpentine moving through the water. The stories now number in the hundreds. But the monster's oldest sighting is a modern misquotation, its most famous photograph has no negative, and every piece of evidence leaves room for something ordinary.
Phenomena
The Max Headroom Incident: Someone Hijacked Two Chicago TV Stations — and Was Never Caught
On a Sunday night in November 1987, viewers in Chicago watched their television screens glitch, roll, and resolve into something no station had scheduled: a figure in a rubber mask, swaying in front of a spinning sheet of corrugated metal. It happened twice, on two different stations, within two hours. The intruder was never found.
Unusual People
The Green Children of Woolpit: What the Medieval Chronicles Say
Two medieval chroniclers described green-skinned children in Suffolk. Their accounts preserve a remarkable story, not verified evidence of a supernatural arrival.
Phenomena
The Phoenix Lights: Two Events Beneath One Name
Arizona’s famous lights combine an early moving formation with later filmed lights consistent with military flares. The two records must be assessed separately.
Disappearances
Flight 19: The Lost Avengers and the Separate Rescue Disaster
Five Navy TBM Avengers disappeared with 14 men after a navigation crisis. A separate PBM search aircraft carrying 13 rescuers was probably destroyed by an explosion.
Mysteries
The Battle of Los Angeles: When a City Fired Into the Dark
Before dawn on February 25, 1942, antiaircraft batteries opened fire over Los Angeles. The barrage was real; the enemy aircraft were never established. War nerves, balloons and an altered newspaper photograph explain more than the later flying-saucer legend.
Phenomena
The Bélmez Faces: The Kitchen Floor That Became a Laboratory
In 1971, face-like marks on a Spanish kitchen floor became an international paranormal sensation. Photographs, disputed pigment tests and imperfect experiments left a durable controversy—but no reliable proof that the faces had a supernatural origin.