Disappearances
Ettore Majorana: The Physicist Who Decided to Disappear
In March 1938 one of Europe's most brilliant physicists withdrew all his money, boarded a night ferry, and vanished. In 2015 Italy ruled he had lived on.
17 min read·2026-11-14
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Ocean Depths
The Tully Monster: Why Can't Science Classify This Fossil?
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.
15 min read·2026-11-10
Space Anomalies
The Oh-My-God Particle: One Subatomic Blow From an Empty Sky
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.
15 min read·2026-11-07
UFOs & UAPs
The Westall UFO: 200 Witnesses and a School Told to Forget
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.
16 min read·2026-11-03
Cryptids
The Yeti: Did DNA Really Solve the Abominable Snowman?
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.
15 min read·2026-10-31
Disappearances
The Franklin Expedition: 129 Men Lost in the Arctic Ice
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.
18 min read·2026-10-27