In December of 2015, 19-year-old Katelin Akens was back home in Virginia visiting her family. Her mother Lisa was hosting her while she visited her younger sister, Gabby, who had recently given birth to a baby. Katelin had spent the previous few days visiting her family and catching up with …
Read MoreThe Flannan Isles are a series of rocky, uninhabited islands located to the west of Scotland. They’re an ideal location for a lighthouse to guide boats entering the UK from the north, however, so a few lighthouse keepers historically live on one of the rocky isles to keep the beacon …
Read MoreIn the early 20th century, Alfred Lowenstein was one of the richest men in the world. Born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1877, Lowenstein rose to prominence in the world of international finance by shrewdly investing in various stocks and companies around the world. However, he met with a bizarre fate …
Read MoreBrandon Swanson was born on January 30, 1989. When he was only 19, he was a student at Minnesota West Community and Technical College, and, on May 14, 2008, he was driving home from a party celebrating the end of the Spring semester. The young man drove his car into …
Read MoreOn Valentine’s Day, 2000, early in the morning, something very unusual happened. Asha Degree, a young girl who was only 9 years old at the time, snuck out of her dad’s house. Her father had checked on her very early that morning, at 2:30 AM, and she appeared to be …
Read MoreIf you ask the average person “who invented the original motion picture camera?” their answer is to be Thomas Edison. After all, he’s remembered as the father of electricity, and he’s in the history books as the inventor of the modern motion picture camera. However, that’s not exactly true. In …
Read MoreYou know the story. Someone walks to their mailbox for a moment and they’re never heard from again. A person goes for a walk near their home and vanishes without a trace. A local goes to their favorite bar and surveillance footage shows them entering but never leaving. These kinds …
Read MoreIn the winter of 1999, it wasn’t cold in Mesa, Arizona. On January 9, Mikelle Biggs and her sister Kimber played outside, enjoying the mild Arizona winter. It was so mild that they were excited to hear the sounds of the nearby ice cream truck, and Mikelle suggested they wait …
Read MoreIn 1930, a New York judge vanished from the heart of Manhattan. Judge Joseph Crater, a prominent New York Democrat, was on his way to see a musical on Broadway when he got into a taxi cab, never to be seen again. The aftermath of his disappearance was felt profoundly …
Read MoreAgatha Christie was one of the most popular mystery writers in England in the early 20th Century. She wrote numerous novels about unsolved missing person’s cases, mysterious murders, and locked-room cases. As such, the eyes of the country were on a bizarre story centered on her disappearance in 1926. Suddenly, …
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