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Flannan Isles Lighthouse

What do you think about this? In December 1900 three lighthouse keepers vanished from a rock off Scotland. Door shut, meal uneaten, clocks stopped, one oilskin still on its hook, so a man walked into a storm without it. No bodies found. Rogue wave, or something stranger on that island?

The Enfield Poltergeist

What do you think about this? In 1977 a police constable signed a statement saying she watched a chair lift and slide four feet across a room in Enfield, London, with nobody near it. The girls were later caught faking some of it. Hoax, or something real that two bored children embellished?

Beast of Gévaudan

What do you think about this? Between 1764 and 1767 something hunted people in the Gevaudan region of France, over a hundred killed, mostly children and shepherds. King Louis the Fifteenth sent hunters. They shot wolves, and the killings went on. A pack, or one creature no one named?

The Hessdalen Lights

What do you think about this? Since 1981, glowing orbs have hovered and shot across a Norwegian valley called Hessdalen. Scientists hauled in radar and spectrometers and caught them on instruments. Still no accepted explanation. Is it possible physics has not yet named what is lighting it?

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 […]