Tales of odd phenomena stoke our imagination even as they tease us.

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In 1942, an Indian forest ranger discovered a remote lake, high in the Himalayas, full of human skeletons. Who were they?

The Tully Monster, an ancient creature at the top of the scale of weirdness, has defied scientists’ attempts to categorize it for more than half a century. But a new analysis of the molecules in its fossils suggests it was a vertebrate.

The Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson has been described as “the most influential public intellectual in the Western world.” He is an exponent of the Jungian concept of the hero’s journey, in which an ordinary person heeds a call to adventure and goes out into the world to struggle and suffer, only to return with heightened self-knowledge.

The guitarist vanished on 1 February 1995 and is widely presumed to have taken his own life, but a body was never found and there is no definitive proof that he died by suicide. A quarter of a century later, Ed Power reflects on the rock star whose legacy is one of tragedy and conspiracy.

The mysterious drone sightings that captured national attention were a classic case of mass hysteria.

The critic and author of the Charles Lenox series advises doing what Michelangelo did, but backward.

Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, were convicted in the 2005 death, but have maintained their innocence.

Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, and a new study overturns a leading theory about how they got there.

A growing band of hobbyists are buying rolls of undeveloped film, getting them developed and looking at strangers’ lives from many years ago. Amelia Tait tries her luck

Free murder mystery games that are perfect for a murder mystery party or dinner. Includes printable scripts, biographies, evidence, and clues.

During an excavation of an ancient temple to Vishnu in the city of Singuali, Madhya Pradesh, Indian archaeologists found something quite strange. By Sequoyah Kennedy.

April Fabb, 13, vanished while riding her bike 50 years ago - nothing has been heard of her since.

For years, novelty phones appear on Brittany's beaches - but the source is finally found.

How Do we learn to Embrace the Mystery in Worship?

It took the power of the internet to crack it. By Juan Pablo Garnham.

A brilliant American financier and his exotic wife build a lavish mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a compelling mystery. By Ned Zeman. (May 7, 2013)

When flying in and out of Las Vegas, keep your eyes open for the white 737s with the red stripe. They are ferrying unnamed people to very secret locations, doing very secret things. By Howard Slutsken.

He was a legendary tank commander in WWII who returned to the scene of a battle 68 years later to meet a former enemy and answer one question about a woman he encountered in a battle: Did she live?