Chaco Canyon Sun Dagger

What do you think about this? In 1977 an artist climbed Fajada Butte in New Mexico and found three stone slabs throwing a blade of light straight through a carved spiral, exactly at the solstice. No writing, no metal tools, a thousand years ago. Falling rock luck, or a deliberate calendar?
The Dendera Light

What do you think about this? In a crypt beneath the temple at Dendera in Egypt, a carving shows what looks exactly like a giant lightbulb, serpent inside, cable running to a box. Egyptologists say it is a lotus and a creation myth. Ancient technology, or us reading in our own inventions?
Longyou Caves

What do you think about this? In 1992, Chinese farmers pumped out a pond they thought was bottomless and found 24 hand carved caverns, cathedral sized, cut from solid sandstone. Not one line about them survives in China’s records. Could a whole civilization forget what it built?
Lost City of Z / Percy Fawcett

What do you think about this? In April 1925, explorer Percy Fawcett walked into the Amazon hunting a lost city he called Z, and never walked out. No bodies, no camp, no trace. Over a hundred searchers have died looking since. Doomed obsession, or a man one step from proof?
Cocos Island / Treasure of Lima

What do you think about this? In 1820, as revolution swept toward the city of Lima in Peru, the Spanish authorities panicked. To keep their vast church treasure out of […]
Mojave / Giant Rock

What do you think about this? Out in the California desert, in the vast emptiness of the Mojave, sits one of the largest free standing boulders on Earth, a seven […]
Dybbuk Box

What do you think about this? In 2003, a man named Kevin Mannis listed an old wine cabinet for sale on eBay, and included with it one of the strangest […]
Dover Demon 1977

What do you think about this? Over roughly twenty five hours in April 1977, in the quiet town of Dover, Massachusetts, three teenagers on separate occasions reported seeing the same […]
Lonnie Zamora / Socorro 1964

What do you think about this? On the afternoon of April 24, 1964, a police officer named Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeding car through the desert outside Socorro, New […]
Hindenburg 1937

What do you think about this? On the evening of May 6, 1937, the great German airship Hindenburg approached its mooring mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey, at the end of […]