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Lizzie Borden and the Fall River Murders: Two Bodies, One Morning, and No Answer

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Lizzie Borden and the Fall River Murders: Two Bodies, One Morning, and No Answer

2026-10-13 · Unsolved Crimes

On a hot morning in August 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet inside their own home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Their daughter Lizzie Borden was arrested, tried and acquitted - and the case was never solved.

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The City Under the Cellar: 85 Metres of Tunnels Nobody Can Date

Enigmatic PlacesDocumented

The City Under the Cellar: 85 Metres of Tunnels Nobody Can Date

A man knocked down a wall in his basement in 1963 and opened a hidden city cut 85 m into volcanic rock, big enough for 20,000 people. Sixty years later, archaeologists still cannot say who dug the first tunnels.

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We Are Holding Our Own: The Last 10 Minutes of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Ghost ShipsDisputed

We Are Holding Our Own: The Last 10 Minutes of the Edmund Fitzgerald

A 222 metre ship with 29 men aboard vanished from another vessel's radar in a November storm. There was no distress call and no survivor. Fifty years and two official inquiries later, nobody agrees on what sank her.

The Woman Who Was Never There: 16 Years Hunting a Killer Who Did Not Exist

The Gravest Crimes, SolvedSolved

The Woman Who Was Never There: 16 Years Hunting a Killer Who Did Not Exist

The same female DNA turned up at 40 crime scenes in three countries, including the murder of a young policewoman. Hundreds of officers hunted her for years. Then one impossible test result revealed where she had really come from.

Eighteen Months at 284 Green Street: The Enfield Case Britain Never Settled

The Supernatural, DocumentedDisputed

Eighteen Months at 284 Green Street: The Enfield Case Britain Never Settled

A police constable signed a statement saying she watched a chair slide across a council house floor with nobody near it. What followed was the most heavily recorded haunting in British history, and the most heavily disputed.

The Stranger Who Paid Cash for a Monument: Who Built the Georgia Guidestones?

Impossible ObjectsDisputed

The Stranger Who Paid Cash for a Monument: Who Built the Georgia Guidestones?

A man calling himself R.C. Christian walked into a Georgia granite yard in 1979, ordered a 108 tonne monument in eight languages, and vanished. In 2022 somebody blew it up. Both men are still unidentified.

Three Men, a Raincoat Raft and a Cold Bay: The Night Alcatraz Was Beaten

Vanished Without a TraceDisputed

Three Men, a Raincoat Raft and a Cold Bay: The Night Alcatraz Was Beaten

On 11 June 1962 three prisoners left dummy heads in their beds and paddled into San Francisco Bay on a raft made of stolen raincoats. Sixty-four years later nobody can say whether they drowned or landed.

Seventy Pieces in a Scottish Ravine: The Case That Made Forensic Science Believable

The Gravest Crimes, SolvedSolved

Seventy Pieces in a Scottish Ravine: The Case That Made Forensic Science Believable

Two women left a house in Lancaster in September 1935 and were next seen as parcels in a Dumfriesshire stream. The killer had removed everything that identifies a body. Then a team of anatomists put the bodies back together.

Mothman: Thirteen Months at Point Pleasant

The Supernatural, DocumentedDisputed

Mothman: Thirteen Months at Point Pleasant

Four young people drove to an abandoned munitions plant in West Virginia in November 1966 and came back to town badly frightened. More than a hundred sightings followed. Then a bridge fell, and the story changed shape forever.

The Chair, the Slipper and the Ashes: The Death of Mary Reeser

Unexplained DeathsDisputed

The Chair, the Slipper and the Ashes: The Death of Mary Reeser

A landlady in Florida found the doorknob too hot to hold. Inside, a 67-year-old woman had been reduced to ash in an armchair, while the room around her was barely touched. The police chief wrote to J. Edgar Hoover for help.

Twelve Witnesses and Four Hours of Gunfire: The Night at the Kelly Farmhouse

Mysterious CreaturesDisputed

Twelve Witnesses and Four Hours of Gunfire: The Night at the Kelly Farmhouse

In August 1955, eleven people fled a Kentucky farmhouse and told the police that small silver figures had besieged them all evening. Twenty officers searched the property. They found bullet holes, torn screens and no explanation.

Four People in Two Barrels: The Forty Years It Took to Learn Their Names

The Gravest Crimes, SolvedSolved

Four People in Two Barrels: The Forty Years It Took to Learn Their Names

A hunter found a steel drum in the New Hampshire woods in 1985. Inside were a woman and a child. It took four decades, a new science and a librarian's hunch to give all four victims their names back.

The Blood Under the Paint: Fifteen Years to Find Who Killed Lynette White

The Gravest Crimes, SolvedSolved

The Blood Under the Paint: Fifteen Years to Find Who Killed Lynette White

On Valentine's night 1988 a twenty-year-old woman was stabbed to death in a flat above a Cardiff betting shop. Three innocent men went to prison for it. The man who did it lived quietly two miles away for fifteen years, until a scientist scraped back the layers of paint on a skirting board.

Fifty Minutes Into the Fog: The Vanishing of Glenn Miller

Vanished Without a TraceDocumented

Fifty Minutes Into the Fog: The Vanishing of Glenn Miller

On a freezing December afternoon in 1944 the most famous bandleader in the world climbed into a small single-engine aircraft at a Bedfordshire airfield and flew towards France. No wreckage, no bodies and no crash site have ever been found, and the argument over why is still running eighty years later.

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