
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.
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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.

An 1885 pamphlet hid three codes pointing to a buried Virginia fortune. One cracked open with the Declaration of Independence. The other two never have.

Some people gain extraordinary skills after a brain injury, playing music or doing math they never learned. Savant syndrome remains largely unexplained.

For 400 years sailors reported seas that turned white to the horizon. Satellites finally proved them real, yet almost no one has ever sampled one.