Evidence-based exploration of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries. No sensationalism. Just curiosity, research, and the facts as we know them.
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For sixty years, a soft-bodied fossil from an ancient Illinois sea has defied every attempt to place it on the tree of life. Each time science solves it, it slips away.
In 1991 a single particle hit Utah with the energy of a thrown baseball. It should not exist, and when we trace it back, the sky is empty.
On a 1966 morning, hundreds of students and staff at a Melbourne school watched a silver object drop behind the trees. Sixty years on, nobody has explained it.
Scientists say DNA proved the abominable snowman is only a bear. But the tests never touched what makes the yeti a mystery, and the bear is a mystery too.
In 1845, two British ships and 129 men sailed to find the Northwest Passage and vanished. The Inuit said what happened. Nobody believed them for 150 years.
A wooden script covered the most isolated island on Earth, then the island fell silent. The last people who could read rongorongo died without teaching anyone.