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The Squadron That Flew Into Nowhere: The Last Flight of Flight 19
On a December afternoon in 1945, five US Navy bombers took off from Florida on a routine training run. Six aircraft and 27 men never came back.
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The Hum: The Sound Only 2% of People Can Hear
In Taos, Bristol, Windsor and dozens of other places, a low, relentless drone torments a small minority of residents — and decades of scientific investigation have never found a single source.
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Caught on Camera After 400 Years: The Enduring Riddle of Ball Lightning
In 1963 a glowing sphere drifted down an airliner's aisle, past a physicist. In 2012, spectrographs finally caught one in the wild — by accident. No one can yet say what it is.
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The Feet the Sea Gives Back: Inside the Salish Sea Sneaker Mystery
Since 2007, more than twenty human feet in sneakers have washed ashore on one stretch of Pacific coastline. Science has explained how — but not every who, and not entirely why here.
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The Waterfall That Swallowed Half a River — and How Two Numbers Solved It
Half of Minnesota's Brule River plunges into a hole in the rock and vanishes. For a century, everything thrown in disappeared without a trace — until two hydrologists tried the simplest test of all. One question, though, was never fully answered.
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The Shroud of Turin: The Cloth That Refuses to Give Up Its Age
A fourteen-foot linen bears the ghostly image of a crucified man. Radiocarbon dating says the Middle Ages; a newer X-ray method says two thousand years. The science is still fighting.
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Dinner on the Stove, Nobody Aboard: The Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals
January 1921: a five-masted schooner hard aground on Diamond Shoals, sails set, dinner mid-preparation — and eleven men gone without a trace. Five federal departments investigated. None could explain it.
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The Man Who Invented the Movies — Then Vanished from a Moving Train
In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the first moving pictures in history - years before Edison or the Lumieres. Two years later he boarded a train from Dijon to Paris and vanished from it: no body, no luggage, no trace. Cinema's inventor became its own first unsolved mystery.
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The Laughter That Closed the Schools: Tanganyika, 1962
It began with three schoolgirls giggling in class. Within months, an unstoppable wave of laughing, crying and fainting had shut down schools across an entire region — and doctors could find nothing wrong.
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Vanished in the Flames: The Sodder Children and the Fire That Left No Trace
Five children went missing in a Christmas Eve house fire in 1945 — yet the ashes held no remains, and 23 years later a photograph arrived in the mail.
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The Lead Masks Case: Two Men, a Hilltop, and a Note No One Can Explain
In 1966, two Brazilian technicians were found dead on a hill near Rio de Janeiro, wearing suits, raincoats and lead masks over their eyes — beside a note about capsules and a signal that never came.
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The Yuba County Five: Five Men Drove Into the Mountains and Never Came Home
In February 1978, five friends left a college basketball game in California and were found months later, 110 kilometres off course on a frozen mountain. One of the Yuba County 5 had survived for weeks inside a shelter stocked with food he never touched, and a sixth question has haunted the case ever since: what became of Gary Mathias?