Mysteries

Over the last several weeks, the story that has dominated headlines has been the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which departed from Kuala Lumpur and began making its way to Beijing, only to drop completely off the radar and vanish 40 minutes into the flight. Naturally, conspiracy theories and tales of potential hijackings gone awry have sprung up all around the internet. Some of th

Where do cryptids come from? Is it merely mistaken identity? Out-right hoaxes? Misunderstanding nature? Those are the most common answers, but despite this belief continues around the world in animals that never existed. Here's a list of ten and where their mistaken origins come from.

Traditional Japanese beliefs state that every human being has a soul called reikon. After death, the reikon exits the body and enters a state of purgatory,

Spooks. Phantoms. Ghosts. Spirits. Why there are dozens of names for unearthly apparitions that have evidently been seen for thousands of years without a shred of hard evidence. And when it comes to ghost sightings, America (much like in warfare and obesity statistics) is leading the way.

The great Christopher Columbus once claimed that a person who owned something made of gold actually possessed a substance which could help take souls to paradise. Since ancient times, gold was frequently given as a reward for great achievements and was known as a symbol of the divine, and a symbol of wealth and power. Various gold artifacts from the past are still a mystery to many researchers and

The use of encrypted messages as a means of protecting classified information has been around for centuries. Codes, ciphers and complicated puzzles were made to confuse anyone who tried to break them and uncover their hidden messages. Even though cryptologists from around the world work hard to uncover the secrets of these messages, there are some codes that seem to have succeeded in their purpose

It seems to be split more or less down the middle when you ask a group of people about whether they believe in ghosts. Even if you don’t believe such a thing is possible, there’s no denying that the very notion of ghosts is remarkably prevalent throughout modern culture. You’ve got television shows about hunting ghosts and, of course, movies like Ghostbusters about, well, busting ghosts.

Every nation and culture has its own mythical creatures, some of which are benevolent and kind whereas others can be quite ferocious. We are all familiar with the creatures from Greek or Roman mythology who were annihilated by brave heroes. However, the mythology of Native American tribes is quite different and more horrific, especially when it comes to evil forces or creatures. Usually, those cre

The world is full of strange objects and artifacts from the past that took a long time to find but were seemingly right in front of us. A lot of secret messages were hidden in plain view and when they were discovered after hundreds or even thousands of years, researchers could sometimes decipher them and sometimes, the secret messages remained a mystery forever. Here are some bizarre secret messag

Sad fact of life: people go missing all the time and they're never seen alive again. Sadder fact of life: people go missing all the time and they're never seen