Knocking walls, a sliding chair, a gruff old man's voice coming from an 11-year-old girl. The Enfield case convinced some investigators and none of the magicians. Here is what was reported, what was recorded and what is still disputed.
Stairs that climb into ceilings, doors that open onto empty air, and a widow said to build for ghosts. Here is how Sarah Winchester's San Jose house really grew, what the record shows, and how the legend took over.
Peace, a tunnel, a light, a life flashing past. The near death experience has been described for centuries and studied in hospitals since the 1980s. Here is what survivors report, what the research found, and what is still unresolved.
From Halley's nested shells to Symmes' polar holes, Agartha and saucers rising from the Arctic: the strange history of the hollow earth theory, what its believers claimed, and the gravity and seismic evidence that buried it.
Kappa in the rivers, tengu on the mountains, foxes that wear human faces. Here is what yokai in Japanese folklore really are, what the word 妖怪 means, where the famous creatures came from, and which ones were invented by Edo-period artists.
The Bermuda Triangle sits in the western North Atlantic between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, but nobody official ever drew its lines. Here is where it is, who invented its borders, and what the shipping record says.
In July 1947 the Army announced it had captured a flying disc in New Mexico, then retracted the claim within a day. Here is what the ranch debris was, what the photos show, and how a secret balloon project became a lasting UFO legend.
Thousands of people remember Chick-fil-A without a K. The 'proof' they share, the brand's own odd spelling habits, and the memory science behind collective misremembering, all laid out so you can judge the missing letter yourself.
Three friends, a stolen badge and a camcorder in the Nevada desert. Here is the story of Oren Peli's long-delayed Area 51: the plot, the cast, the brutal reviews, and how its version of the base compares with the real one.
A woman in white weeps by the water, calling for her children. Where the tears of La Llorona come from, how the first written accounts describe her cry, and why weeping women haunt folklore from Mexico to Chile.