All Mysteries
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- Conspiracy
Area 51
Groom Lake, Nevada Test and Training Range, United States · 1955
A highly classified US Air Force facility at the center of UFO and reverse-engineering conspiracy theories.
- Unsolved Crime
Bible John
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom · 1969
A serial killer murdered three women after meeting them at the Barrowland Ballroom; he quoted the Bible.
- Aviation
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739
Western Pacific Ocean, near Guam, International Waters · 1962
A military charter vanished with 107 aboard; a tanker crew reported a mid-air explosion.
- Maritime
Franklin's Lost Expedition
King William Island, Canadian Arctic, Canada · 1845
Two Royal Navy ships and 129 men vanished searching for the Northwest Passage; wrecks found with signs of cannibalism.
- Unsolved Crime
Jack the Ripper
Whitechapel District, London, United Kingdom · 1888
An unidentified serial killer who terrorized the East End of London in 1888, establishing the blueprint for modern criminal profiling.
- Aviation
Japanese Airlines Flight 1628
Alaska airspace, near Anchorage, United States · 1986
A cargo jet crew reported two craft pacing their 747, confirmed on ground and airborne radar.
- Aviation
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Southern Indian Ocean, International Waters · 2014
A commercial Boeing 777 that completely vanished from radar after executing an unexplained tactical U-turn over the South China Sea.
- Cryptid
Mokele-Mbembe
Likouala Swamp, Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo · 1909
A reputed sauropod-like creature reported in Central African swamps for over a century.
- Aviation
Northwest Orient Flight 2501
Lake Michigan, off Benton Harbor, United States · 1950
A DC-4 vanished over Lake Michigan with 58 aboard—the worst US commercial air disaster of its time.
- Cryptid
Orang Pendek
Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia · 1918
A reputed short, upright ape-man reported by locals and explorers in Sumatran rainforests.
- Archaeological
Roopkund Skeleton Lake
Roopkund Lake, Uttarakhand, India · 850
A glacial lake containing hundreds of ancient human skeletons visible when the ice melts.
- Cryptid
Sasquatch (Bigfoot)
Bluff Creek, Six Rivers National Forest, California, United States · 1958
A towering ape-like creature reported across North American forests for centuries, most famously in the Pacific Northwest.
- Maritime
The Abandonment of the Mary Celeste
400 miles east of the Azores, Mid-Atlantic Ocean, International Waters · 1872
An American brigantine discovered floating completely deserted in the Atlantic Ocean with intact cargo and provisions.
- Cryptid
The Ahool
Salak Mountain, Java, Indonesia · 1925
A reported giant bat or flying primate with a distinctive 'ah-ool' call in Javan rainforests.
- Unsolved Crime
The Alcàsser Girls Murders
Alcàsser, Valencia, Spain · 1992
Three teenage girls were abducted, tortured, and murdered; the case became Spain's most controversial crime.
- Conspiracy
The Amber Room
Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Russia · 1945
An entire chamber of gold and amber panels looted by the Nazis and never seen again.
- Archaeological
The Antikythera Mechanism
Antikythera, Aegean Sea, Greece · 100 BCE
A 2,000-year-old bronze gearwork device recovered from a shipwreck, far ahead of its time.
- Phenomenon
The Ariel School Encounter
Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe · 1994
Over 60 schoolchildren reported a craft and figures with large eyes land near their playground.
- Unsolved Crime
The Axeman of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · 1918
A serial killer who broke into homes and attacked victims with axes, taunting the city in newspapers.
- Conspiracy
The Babushka Lady
Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, United States · 1963
An unidentified woman filmed the JFK assassination and was never found by investigators.
- Phenomenon
The Baigish Radar Anomaly
Baigish Testing Range, Kazan Region, Russia · 1991
A highly controlled military radar calibration test that registered persistent, fast-moving structural echoes without a physical target.
- Archaeological
The Baigong Pipes
Mount Baigong, Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province, China · 50000 BCE
An ancient network of highly organized, metallic-looking tubular pipes embedded inside a mountain cave and lake bed.
- Phenomenon
The Baltic Sea Anomaly
Baltic Sea, between Sweden and Finland, International Waters · 2011
A sonar image of a 60-meter disc-like object on the Baltic seabed sparked UFO and archaeological debate.
- Phenomenon
The Battle of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States · 1942
Anti-aircraft guns fired for hours at unknown objects over LA weeks after Pearl Harbor.
- Unsolved Crime
The Bear Brook Murders
Bear Brook State Park, New Hampshire, United States · 1985
Four unidentified bodies in barrels were found in the woods; victims were ID'd but the killer wasn't.
- Cryptid
The Beast of Gévaudan
Gévaudan, Margeride Mountains, France · 1764
A creature or wolf pack killed an estimated 100 people in 18th-century France.
- Disappearance
The Beaumont Children
Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, Australia · 1966
Three siblings aged 4, 7, and 9 vanished from an Adelaide beach on a summer day.
- Phenomenon
The Belgian UFO Wave
Brussels and eastern Belgium, Belgium · 1990
Thousands reported black triangles over Belgium; F-16s obtained radar lock-ons twice.
- Phenomenon
The Bélmez Faces
Bélmez de la Moraleda, Andalusia, Spain · 1971
The spontaneous appearance and shifting of detailed human facial images within a concrete kitchen floor in Spain.
- Maritime
The Bermuda Triangle
Atlantic Ocean region bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, International Waters · 1945
An iconic maritime region famous for a high volume of alleged disappearances of aircraft and ships, later analyzed as statistically normal.
- Unsolved Crime
The Black Dahlia Murder
Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California, United States · 1947
The mutilation murder of Elizabeth Short, whose severed body was found in a vacant lot in 1947.
- Phenomenon
The Bloop Acoustic Anomaly
Remote Southern Pacific Ocean, Southwest of Chile, International Waters · 1997
An ultra-low-frequency, exceptionally powerful underwater sound detected across thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean.
- Unsolved Crime
The Boy in the Box
Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · 1957
A young boy's body was found in a cardboard box; his identity has remained unknown for decades.
- Maritime
The Carroll A. Deering
Diamond Shoals, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States · 1921
A five-masted schooner ran aground with sails set but no crew aboard.
- Unsolved Crime
The Circleville Letters
Circleville, Ohio, United States · 1976
Anonymous letters accusing a school superintendent of an affair escalated into a decades-long harassment campaign.
- Unsolved Crime
The Cleveland Torso Murderer
Cleveland, Ohio (Kingsbury Run), United States · 1936
A serial killer dismembered at least twelve victims; Eliot Ness investigated but never made an arrest.
- Unsolved Crime
The Colonial Parkway Murders
Colonial Parkway, Virginia, United States · 1986
Four couples were attacked while parked on a scenic parkway; three double homicides remain unsolved.
- Unsolved Crime
The D.B. Cooper Hijacking
Aviation corridor between Seattle and Reno, over Ariel, Washington, United States · 1971
The only unsolved commercial skyjacking in aviation history, where a man extorted $200,000 and parachuted into a freezing rainstorm.
- Phenomenon
The Dancing Plague of 1518
Strasbourg, Alsace, France · 1518
Dozens of people danced uncontrollably for days in the streets, some until death from exhaustion.
- Unsolved Crime
The Death of Elisa Lam
Cecil Hotel, Los Angeles, California, United States · 2013
A Canadian student was found dead in a rooftop water tank after bizarre elevator footage went viral.
- Unsolved Crime
The Delphi Murders
Monon High Bridge Trail, Delphi, Indiana, United States · 2017
Two teenage girls were killed on a hiking trail; photos and audio of the killer were recovered from a phone.
- Phenomenon
The Devil's Kettle
Judge C.R. Magney State Park, Minnesota, United States · 1960
Half a waterfall vanishes into a pothole whose underground outlet has never been found.
- Disappearance
The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Howland Island vicinity, Pacific Ocean, International Waters · 1937
The pioneering aviator vanished during her round-the-world flight near Howland Island.
- Disappearance
The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
Bloomfield Township, Michigan, United States · 1975
The powerful Teamsters union leader vanished from a restaurant parking lot and was never found.
- Disappearance
The Disappearance of Lars Mittank
Varna Airport, Bulgaria, Bulgaria · 2014
A German tourist fled an airport in panic and vanished—captured on the last known video of a missing person.
- Disappearance
The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Praia da Luz, Algarve, Portugal · 2007
A three-year-old British girl vanished from a holiday apartment while her parents dined nearby.
- Disappearance
The Disappearance of Michael Rockefeller
Asmat region, Southwest Papua, Indonesia · 1961
A Rockefeller heir vanished off the coast of New Guinea during an art-collecting expedition.
- Disappearance
The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett
Mato Grosso, Amazon Basin, Brazil · 1925
A British explorer vanished searching for a fabled lost city in the Amazon jungle.
- Maritime
The Disappearance of USS Cyclops
Bermuda Triangle, Atlantic Ocean, International Waters · 1918
A 542-foot Navy collier vanished with 309 crew—the largest non-combat US naval loss.
- Unsolved Crime
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Kholat Syakhl, Ural Mountains, Russia · 1559
Nine Soviet hikers fled their tent cut open from the inside during a freezing night, dying under highly anomalous circumstances.
- Disappearance
The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Disappearance
Eilean Mòr, Flannan Isles, United Kingdom · 1900
Three experienced lighthouse keepers vanished simultaneously from a remote Scottish island, leaving behind intact gear and an empty tower.
- Unsolved Crime
The Floral Mystery of Caroline Walter
Alter Friedhof, Freiburg, Germany · 1867
Fresh flowers have mysteriously appeared daily on a young woman's grave since her sudden death in 1867, surviving across generations.
- Aviation
The Frederick Valentich Disappearance
Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia · 1978
A pilot reported a UFO hovering over him minutes before vanishing over the Bass Strait.
- Conspiracy
The Georgia Guidestones Monument
Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia, United States · 1980
A massive granite monument inscribed with ten post-apocalyptic guidelines for humanity, commissioned under a fake identity and destroyed in 2022.
- Archaeological
The Great Pyramid Cosmic-Ray Void
Giza Plateau, Cairo, Egypt · 2017
A massive, hidden internal chamber discovered inside the Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic-ray muon radiography.
- Phenomenon
The Hessdalen Lights
Hessdalen Valley, Holtålen Municipality, Norway · 1981
Persistent, highly anomalous luminous atmospheric orbs observed and tracked by radar in a rural Norwegian valley.
- Unsolved Crime
The Highway of Tears
Highway 16, British Columbia, Canada · 1989
Dozens of women and girls vanished or were murdered along a remote Canadian highway corridor.
- Unsolved Crime
The Hinterkaifeck Murders
Hinterkaifeck, Bavaria, Germany · 1922
Six people were killed with a mattock on an isolated Bavarian farm, possibly after the killer lived on the property.
- Conspiracy
The Identity of Satoshi Nakamoto
Unknown (Bitcoin whitepaper published online), Unknown · 2008
The pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin whose true identity has never been confirmed.
- Archaeological
The Intentional Burial of Göbekli Tepe
Örencik, Sanlıurfa Province, Turkey · 8000 BCE
A massive, ultra-ancient megalithic temple complex that was systematically and deliberately buried under thousands of tons of earth by its creators.
- Unsolved Crime
The Isdal Woman
Isdalen Valley, Bergen, Norway · 1970
An unidentified woman found burned in a remote valley with all identifying labels removed from her belongings.
- Unsolved Crime
The Jamison Family Deaths
Red Oak, Oklahoma, United States · 2009
A family vanished with $32,000 in cash; their bodies were found four years later in the woods.
- Conspiracy
The JFK Assassination
Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, United States · 1963
President Kennedy was shot in Dallas; the Warren Commission blamed Oswald alone, but doubt persists.
- Maritime
The Kaz II
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia · 2007
A catamaran found drifting with table set for dinner and three crewmen vanished.
- Phenomenon
The Kecksburg UFO Incident
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, United States · 1965
Residents reported a fiery object crash in the woods; military cordoned the area and removed something on a flatbed.
- Unsolved Crime
The Keddie Murders
Keddie, California (Cabin 28), United States · 1981
Four people were bludgeoned and stabbed in a resort cabin while three children slept in the next room.
- Phenomenon
The Kenneth Arnold Sighting
Mount Rainier, Washington, United States · 1947
A private pilot's report of nine crescent-shaped craft gave birth to the term flying saucers.
- Archaeological
The Kensington Runestone
Kensington, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States · 1898
A large slab of stone covered in Scandinavian runes discovered in Minnesota, claiming a Nordic expedition reached the American Midwest in 1362.
- Disappearance
The Lake Anjikuni Mystery
Lake Anjikuni, Kivalliq Region, Canada · 1930
An early 20th-century investigation into reports of an entire Inuit settlement abandoning its camp overnight, leaving food and equipment behind.
- Unsolved Crime
The Lead Masks Case
Vintém Hill, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · 1966
Two electronics technicians were found dead wearing homemade lead masks with no clear cause of death.
- Archaeological
The Liquid Mercury of Teotihuacán
Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacán, Mexico · 250
Large deposits of toxic liquid mercury discovered pooled inside a sealed, sacred subterranean tunnel system beneath a pyramid.
- Cryptid
The Loch Ness Cryptid
Loch Ness, Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom · 1933
A world-famous aquatic cryptid legend that has been systematically debunked by modern environmental DNA sampling and photographic forensic audits.
- Archaeological
The Longyou Caves
Longyou County, Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, China · 212 BCE
Massive man-made underground caverns carved from solid rock with no surviving record of their construction.
- Phenomenon
The Lonnie Zamora Incident
Socorro, New Mexico, United States · 1964
A police officer reported a landed oval craft with two figures that took off leaving burned ground marks.
- Disappearance
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Roanoke Island, Dare County, North Carolina, United States · 1590
An entire English settlement of 115 colonists vanished from an island outpost, leaving behind a single cryptic word carved into a wooden post.
- Phenomenon
The Malmstrom AFB Incident
Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, United States · 1967
An orange disc reportedly hovered over a missile silo as ten ICBMs went offline simultaneously.
- Conspiracy
The Man in the Iron Mask
Île Sainte-Marguerite and Bastille, France, France · 1698
A masked prisoner held in royal custody for decades whose identity was never revealed.
- Phenomenon
The Marfa Lights
Mitchell Flat, Marfa, Texas, United States · 1943
Mysterious, glowing orbs that appear floating, merging, and splitting over the high-desert plains of West Texas.
- Unsolved Crime
The McStay Family Murders
Victorville, California, United States · 2010
A family of four vanished from their home; their bodies were found in the desert years later.
- Phenomenon
The Menger Sponge Acoustic Anomaly
MIT Department of Materials Science, Cambridge, United States · 2018
A 3D-printed fractal structure that exhibited unexpected, near-perfect acoustic absorption and structural resonance anomalies during sonic stress testing.
- Phenomenon
The Min Min Lights
Boulia Shire, Outback Queensland, Australia · 1918
Floating luminous orbs that appear, follow travelers, and vanish in the Australian outback.
- Archaeological
The Moai Transport Mystery
Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Chile · 1250
How Rapa Nui islanders moved multi-ton stone statues miles across rugged terrain remains debated.
- Cryptid
The Mongolian Death Worm
Southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia, Mongolia · 1926
A reputed venom-spitting red worm said to kill from a distance in the Gobi Desert.
- Unsolved Crime
The Monster of Florence
Florence and Mugello countryside, Italy · 1985
A serial killer murdered couples in the Tuscan countryside, mutilating female victims over two decades.
- Cryptid
The Mothman
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States · 1966
A winged red-eyed creature reported before the 1967 Silver Bridge collapse in West Virginia.
- Unsolved Crime
The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey
Boulder, Colorado, United States · 1996
A six-year-old beauty pageant contestant was found strangled in her home after a ransom note appeared.
- Maritime
The MV Joyita
South Pacific Ocean, north of Vanua Levu, Fiji, International Waters · 1955
A merchant vessel found adrift and partially submerged with 25 people missing.
- Phenomenon
The Naga Fireballs
Mekong River, Nong Khai Province, Thailand · 1984
Glowing orbs rise from the Mekong River each October, witnessed by thousands.
- Phenomenon
The Namibian Fairy Circles
Namib Desert, Namibia, Namibia · 1970
Millions of perfect circular bare patches dot the desert in hexagonal patterns with no settled explanation.
- Archaeological
The Nazca Lines Geoglyphs
Nazca Desert, Ica Region, Peru · 200
Massive geometric and zoomorphic designs carved into the Peruvian desert floor that are only fully discernible from high altitudes.
- Phenomenon
The Nimitz UAP "Tic Tac" Encounter
Pacific Ocean, off San Diego, International Waters · 2004
Navy pilots tracked a white oval craft that outmaneuvered fighter jets during carrier group exercises.
- Phenomenon
The O'Hare Airport UFO
O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, United States · 2006
United Airlines employees reported a disc hovering over Gate C17 before shooting upward through clouds.
- Archaeological
The Oak Island Money Pit
Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada · 1795
An incredibly elaborate, deep subterranean shaft protected by sophisticated, ocean-fed flood tunnels designed to prevent excavation.
- Unsolved Crime
The Oakland County Child Killer
Oakland County, Michigan, United States · 1977
Four children were abducted and murdered near Detroit between 1976 and 1977; new DNA leads persist.
- Phenomenon
The Oakville Blobs
Oakville, Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States · 1994
A highly unusual meteorological event where gelatinous, translucent material rained down over a town, followed by widespread illness.
- Archaeological
The Palpa Lines Geoglyphs
Palpa Desert, Ica Region, Peru · 350 BCE
Massive, ancient geometric figures carved directly into flattened mountain peaks that predate the neighboring Nazca Lines.
- Archaeological
The Phaistos Disc
Phaistos, Crete, Greece · 1700 BCE
A fired clay disc stamped with spiral text in an unknown script that has never been deciphered.
- Phenomenon
The Phoenix Lights
Phoenix, Arizona, United States · 1997
Thousands witnessed a massive V-shaped formation of lights moving silently over Arizona.
- Archaeological
The Plain of Jars
Xieng Khouang Province, Laos · 500 BCE
Thousands of massive stone jars scattered across a plateau with unknown makers and purpose.
- Conspiracy
The Princes in the Tower
Tower of London, United Kingdom · 1483
Two young royal heirs vanished in the Tower of London; their fate remains one of history's great mysteries.
- Phenomenon
The Rendlesham Forest Incident
Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk (near RAF Woodbridge), United Kingdom · 1980
US Air Force personnel reported structured craft with lights in a forest near NATO bases.
- Archaeological
The Roman Dodecahedrons
Gaul and the Rhineland (multiple find sites), Belgium · 200
Over a hundred hollow bronze dodecahedrons from Roman Gaul whose function is entirely unknown.
- Conspiracy
The Roswell Incident
J.B. Foster Ranch, Corona, United States · 1947
The archetypal UFO crash story that was later revealed to be the debris of a top-secret Cold War nuclear surveillance project.
- Phenomenon
The Sailing Stones of Racetrack Playa
Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, United States · 1948
Heavy limestone rocks that move across a dry lake bed completely unaided, carving long, geometric tracks into the sediment.
- Unsolved Crime
The Setagaya Family Murders
Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan · 2000
An entire family of four was killed in their Tokyo home; the killer left behind food, clothing, and DNA.
- Phenomenon
The Shag Harbour UFO Incident
Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada · 1967
Multiple witnesses saw a low-flying object crash into the harbor; a Canadian government search found nothing on the surface.
- Archaeological
The Shugborough Inscription
Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, United Kingdom · 1848
A cryptic ten-letter sequence carved into an 18th-century monument that has defied decryption by world-class cryptographers.
- Maritime
The Sinking of the USS Scorpion
400 miles southwest of the Azores, Atlantic Ocean, International Waters · 1968
A nuclear-powered US submarine that abruptly vanished with 99 crew members, tracked via secret underwater acoustic networks.
- Disappearance
The Sodder Children
Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States · 1945
Five siblings vanished after a suspicious house fire that left no remains.
- Unsolved Crime
The Somerton Man (Carl Webb)
Somerton Beach, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia · 1948
An unidentified man found dead on an Australian beach, carrying a secret code and a scrap of paper reading 'Tamám Shud'.
- Disappearance
The Springfield Three
1717 East Delmar Boulevard, Springfield, Missouri, United States · 1992
Two women and a teenager vanished from a home overnight with belongings left behind.
- Maritime
The SS Baychimo
Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean, International Waters · 1931
An abandoned Arctic cargo steamer that sailed crewless for decades after being trapped in ice.
- Maritime
The SS Ourang Medan Enigma
Straits of Malacca, International Waters · 1948
An elusive merchant vessel that allegedly broadcast a terrifying distress call before its entire crew was found dead with expressions of horror.
- Maritime
The SS Waratah
Indian Ocean, off Durban, South Africa, International Waters · 1909
A luxury passenger liner vanished with 211 aboard—called Australia's Titanic.
- Aviation
The Star Ariel (BSAA Flight 283)
Atlantic Ocean, Bermuda Triangle, International Waters · 1949
A sister ship to Star Tiger vanished one year later on the Bermuda–Jamaica route.
- Aviation
The Star Dust (BSAA Flight CS59)
Mount Tupungato, Andes Mountains, Argentina · 1947
A British airliner vanished over the Andes; wreckage was not found for over 50 years.
- Aviation
The Star Tiger (BSAA Flight 239)
Atlantic Ocean, Bermuda Triangle, International Waters · 1948
A Tudor IV airliner vanished without distress between the Azores and Bermuda with 31 aboard.
- Phenomenon
The Stephenville Lights
Stephenville, Texas, United States · 2008
Dozens witnessed a massive silent craft over Texas; radar data later confirmed unknown traffic.
- Archaeological
The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica
Diquís Delta, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica · 600
Perfectly rounded stone balls up to two meters across, carved by a vanished pre-Columbian culture.
- Archaeological
The Structural Engineering of Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu, Cusco Region, Peru · 1450
An exquisite, high-altitude citadel constructed without mortar, iron tools, or wheels, engineered to withstand intense seismic activity.
- Disappearance
The Superstition Mountains Disappearances
Superstition Mountains, Arizona, United States · 1931
A treacherous mountain range famous for an elusive gold mine and a century-long pattern of unexplained disappearances and deaths.
- Phenomenon
The Taos Hum
Taos, New Mexico, United States · 1993
A persistent, low-frequency humming sound heard by a small percentage of residents that has resisted all acoustic filtering and detection.
- Phenomenon
The Travis Walton Abduction
Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona, United States · 1975
A forestry worker vanished for five days after his crew reported a UFO; he returned with abduction memories.
- Phenomenon
The Tunguska Event
Stony Tunguska River, Siberia, Russia · 1908
A colossal 12-megaton explosion that flattened 80 million trees across the Siberian wilderness without leaving an impact crater.
- Unsolved Crime
The Tylenol Murders
Chicago metropolitan area, United States · 1982
Seven people died after cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules appeared on store shelves in Chicago.
- Phenomenon
The Varginha Incident
Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil · 1996
Residents reported creatures and a crashed craft; military trucks and hospital lockdown followed.
- Unsolved Crime
The Villisca Axe Murders
Villisca, Iowa, United States · 1912
Eight people, including six children, were bludgeoned to death with an axe while sleeping in Iowa.
- Archaeological
The Voynich Manuscript
Yale University Beinecke Library (origin unknown), United States · 1404
A lavishly illustrated medieval codex written in an unknown script that has defied every decryption attempt for centuries.
- Unsolved Crime
The Watcher of 657 Boulevard
657 Boulevard, Westfield, New Jersey, United States · 2014
A family received threatening letters from someone claiming to watch their newly purchased home.
- Unsolved Crime
The West Mesa Bone Collector
West Mesa, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States · 2009
Eleven women were found buried on a desert mesa; a serial killer has never been identified.
- Phenomenon
The Westall UFO Incident
Westall High School, Clayton South, Melbourne, Australia · 1966
Over 200 students and teachers watched a grey saucer land in a school field before departing.
- Phenomenon
The Wow! Signal
Big Ear Radio Observatory, Delaware, Ohio, United States · 1977
A powerful, narrow-band radio signal detected by a SETI project that matched the exact expected signature of an interstellar broadcast.
- Cryptid
The Yeti (Abominable Snowman)
Khumbu Region, Himalayas, Nepal · 1921
A white or brown ape-man reported by Sherpa guides and mountaineers in the world's highest mountains.
- Unsolved Crime
The Yogurt Shop Murders
I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!, Austin, Texas, United States · 1991
Four teenage girls were bound, gagged, and killed in an Austin shop; convictions were overturned.
- Archaeological
The Yonaguni Monument
Off Yonaguni Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan · 8000 BCE
A massive submerged rock formation with terraced steps and angular platforms debated as natural or man-made.
- Cryptid
The Yowie
Eastern Australia, Great Dividing Range, Australia · 1795
Australia's answer to Bigfoot—an ape-like creature reported in bushland for over two centuries.
- Disappearance
The Yuba County Five
Plumas National Forest, Sierra Nevada, United States · 1978
Four mentally disabled men drove into a remote forest and died under circumstances that make no sense.
- Unsolved Crime
The Zodiac Killer
Benicia–Vallejo–San Francisco Bay Area, United States · 1969
A serial killer who murdered at least five people and taunted police with coded letters in Northern California.
- Aviation
Varig Flight 967
Pacific Ocean, ~200 km east-northeast of Tokyo, International Waters · 1979
A cargo flight carrying $240 million in artwork vanished with no trace.