What Happened on the Ghost Plane?
Like something out of a horror novel, the real-life passengers of Helios Airways Flight 522 never made it from Cyprus to Prague in August...
Has Anyone Told the Bees?
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the official royal beekeeper was tasked with the job of informing the palace bee colonies that their...
The Farmers Who Tended Meteors
In the early 1900s, drought-stricken farmers in Kansas traded harvesting crops for digging up meteors to sell. The practice turned out to be so...
Diving into the Public Domain
In a post on ScreenCraft, Ken Miyamoto shares 101 story prompts inspired by public domain works. He includes twists and reimaginings of Dracula, Frankenstein's...
The Ancient Roman Gate to Hell
Archaeologists believe they've discovered the Roman Gate to Hell, a mythological cave where any person would die within a matter of minutes. Located in...
30 Magnificent MacGuffins
Does your Indiana Jones need an Ark of the Covenant? Does your Sam Spade need a Maltese Falcon? Your Darth Vader an R2D2? A post...
Who Made Dighton Rock?
In Berkeley, Massachusetts, by the Taunton River, construction workers found a giant rock covered in mysterious drawings and sigils. Named for the town that...
These Book Collectors Have Skin in the Game
Haunted Palace has a long essay examining the art of Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, the craft of making books out of human skin. A few examples...
We Welcome Our Octopi Overlords
A peer-reviewed research paper published in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, suggests that Earth's original octopi came from outer space.
Researchers posit that...
The Strange Story of the Tombstone Pterodactyl
In a post on Mysterious Universe, Brent Swancer shares the tale of a pterodactyl sighting in Tombstone, Arizona, in the 1800s, one of many...
