Officials say that debris found on the coast of Mozambique likely belongs to missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

Back in March, a few of us here at the magazine got e-mails from friends who had seen an intriguing item listed on eBay. “1930s stripper/dancer scrapbook—Cincinnati,” the posting announced, “Jean Harlow’s double.” So we bought it. But who was she? By RJ Smith.

The group is called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an exclusive all-male group dating back to the 1600s. By Amy Brittain and Sari Horwitz.

In December 2014, chlorine gas sent 19 people at the Midwest FurFest convention to the hospital. But investigators and the furry community are still trying to piece together what exactly happened that night. By Jennifer Swann.

One year after a young pilot plunged a German airliner into the remote French Alps—a suicide that transfixed and horrified the world—Joshua Hammer investigates what really happened that day

In death, the Supreme Court justice was treated as an ordinary citizen, equal before the law. By Nora Kelly.

It’s New Year’s Day, 2016, and I’m standing in my bathroom trying to explain to the fire chief that I bought this selfie stick for the sole purpose of rescuing my cat... By Jake Knapp.

A 16th dismembered foot in a shoe was discovered in Vancouver this week. By Yanan Wang. (Feb. 11)

Three months ago, news broke that a giant "alien megastructure" could exist around a bizarre-looking star 1,500 light-years away. While the prospect of aliens was first launched by Penn State astronomer Jason Wright, almost everyone in the astronomy community agreed that the chances that this was the case were "very low." Now, the latest investigations into this strange star by Louisiana State University astronomer Bradley Schaefer have reignited...

A young woman fooled the governments of three countries. What does her con reveal about how we see the world? By Maria Konnikova.

An autopsy ruled that Phoebe Jonchuck drowned. But that doesn’t explain why she died. By Lane DeGregory,

A beautiful young mother, a dark family secret, and a new suspect in a 45-year-old mystery. By Michael J. Mooney.

In 1987, my father went missing. Twenty years later, I tried to do something about it. By Kate Crane.

Millionaire Forrest Fenn launched a thousand trips when he announced in 2010 that he had filled a chest with gold, rubies, and diamonds, and hidden it somewhere north of Santa Fe. By: Peter Frick-Wright. (Aug. 11)

In 2009, a man calling himself Peter Bergmann arrived in an Irish town with a plan to disappear forever. By Ciaran Cassidy and Morgan Bushe.

Elena Ferrante is in good company among women novelists hiding their identities.

Seventy years after the disappearance of five planes in the Atlantic, Giles Milton investigates one of the world’s most enduring aviation mysteries. By Giles Milton.

The Dei Gratia, a small British brig under Captain David Morehouse, spots the Mary Celeste, an American vessel, sailing erratically but at full sail near the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was seaworthy, its stores and supplies were untouched, but not a soul was onboard.

‘A few years ago I helped push a beached humpback whale back out into the sea, only to witness it return and expire under its own weight on the sand...‘ By Rebecca Giggs.

Was the hijacker who leapt from plane with $200,000 in 1971 a missing grocery store manager? His daughter wants to know. By Rob Crilly.