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There's a Secret Code Hiding on These Madrid Security Bollards
It took the power of the internet to crack it. By Juan Pablo Garnham.
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Love and Madness in the Jungle
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)
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Meet Janet, the Most Mysterious Airline in the World
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.
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A war hero returns to Germany to solve a mystery -- and meet an enemy
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?
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The Haunting Mystery of ‘Edwin Drood’ That Charles Dickens Left Behind
When Charles Dickens died, he left behind an unfinished book containing unresolved mysteries. In ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood,’ who killed Drood—and is Drood really dead?
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The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries
They've been discovered at Roman-era sites, but no one knows what they're for. By Tom Metcalfe.
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Selika, Mystery of the Belle Epoque
Selika Lazevski exists in six photographs and nowhere else. She was a black Amazon in Belle Epoque Paris, a horsewoman without a horse. By Susanna Forrest.
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Time Loop at Hanging Rock
While there was no actual disappearance of schoolgirls at Hanging Rock either around the turn of the century or in the 19-teens when Lindsay attended Clyde School, there was a traumatic disappearance in Lindsay’s near future when she wrote her manuscript: none other than the cutting of her final chapter, with its beauty and strangeness and its mathematical-physical musings. By Eric Wargo.
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Dozens heard Amelia Earhart’s final, chilling pleas for help, researchers say
A group of researchers believes Amelia Earhart made several attempts to reach civilization in her final days — and that her messages got through.
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The Mysterious Case of the Severed Feet in British Columbia
In the last eight years, 15 human feet have washed up on the shore. By Stacy Conradt.
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The West Chicago Tower Mystery
Shortwave Trading, Part I. By Alexandre Laumonier.
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There’s a Persistent Hum in This Canadian City, and No One Knows Why
Residents affected by the “Windsor Hum” complain of sleeplessness, depression and headaches. It is one of many mysterious sounds reported throughout the world.
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Jack the Ripper letter mystery solved by Manchester researcher
A forensic linguist from The University of Manchester who analysed letters supposedly signed by Jack the Ripper has concluded that two of the most famous examples were written by the same person. The Whitechapel murders that terrorised London in 1888 are still remembered thanks to the legend of Jack the Ripper, who was never caught.
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A second man goes up in flames in England, and police are stumped - again
A man died after he burst into flames on a street in Hull, England, on Wednesday, two weeks after London police issued a plea for witnesses of another similar incident. Daniel Lingwood, a resident of Hull, looked out of his window to see flames across the road, according to a local newspaper. He immediately rushed outside to help the victim, who has not been named.
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The mystery of the baby in the box
Robin was abandoned as a baby 74 years ago. Now thanks to DNA and his daughter's detective work he finally knows where he came from.
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Is Planet Nine Even Real?
A year and a half after it was proposed, astronomers are still debating whether the giant mystery planet actually exists. By Ramin Skibba.
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Jellyfish Have Superpowers–and Other Reasons They Don’t Deserve Their Bad Reputation
Despite making a poor first impression, jellyfish are among the most unusual animals on Earth and deserve a second chance to introduce themselves. By Philip Lamb.
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Into the woods: how an online bogeyman inspired children to kill
The long read: When two 12-year-old girls in Wisconsin invited their classmate for a game of hide-and-seek in the forest, they planned to murder her. They later claimed they were forced to act by the mythical Slender Man
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In Mexico, Not Dead. Not Alive. Just Gone
With the drug war’s “disappeared” numbering in the tens of thousands, some families take up the search for loved ones on their own. By Azam Ahmed.
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The Mysterious Death of a Tantric Sex Guru
Psalm Isadora escaped a Christian cult and grew to become a sex and healing guru to the masses. Then she was found dead. Many of her disciples aren’t convinced it was a suicide. By Dana Kennedy.
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